Síobhra Rush

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · Employers have obligations to seasonal employees · 20 Nov 2025 podcast

Morning, Joe.

Thank you very much for asking me on.

Yeah, I think it's important.

And you got it bang on when you referred to the casual or seasonal employee, which is what, you know, short term engagements might be referred to.

But actually, there's no real legal concept of it.

fixed term employees or employees who are engaged for short terms or short projects are protected under the Fixed Term Workers Act in 2003.

So, you know, and that basically governs what happens where an employer engages somebody on a short term contract.

And it says that employees who are engaged for fixed term can't be treated less favourably than their permanent counterparts.

So, for instance, if permanent employees are paid overtime pay over the Christmas period, then fixed term employees are also entitled to that same rate.

It also governs then just, you know, if there are successive fixed term contracts, but that's unlikely to happen in a seasonal context.

It basically says that, you know, you must provide objective justification for

where you're offering a fixed-term contract and not a permanent one.

They do.

So holidays are governed by the Organisation of Working Time Act here, and that basically calculates holidays based on time worked.

So it depends on if the employee is full-time, part-time or, again, if seasonal.

Generally, the very basic calculation is that they're entitled to 8% of the hours worked by way of annual leave.

So there is a provision whereby employees can be paid out their annual leave on termination and that might be the easiest one for the more seasonal engagement.

They could, or they could, you know, if the contract expires and terminates at the end of the fixed term, then they're entitled to be paid out whatever accrued annual leave they have that hasn't been taken.

Indeed, yeah.

There's Christmas Day, Stephen's Day and New Year's Day.

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