Payroll Arrangements & Office Opening/Closing Times

Payroll to be emailed to payroll@royalcanalfcs.ie to ensure it is processed no later than time stated on the due dates in the table below.

Some Important Reminders
Minimum wage increases to €11.30 from 1^st January, contracts do not need to be amended.

Public holidays are on these dates and in retail they do not move;

Xmas Day, Sunday, 25th December 2022
St. Stephens Day, Monday, 26th December 2022
New Years Day, Sunday 1st January 2023

These days attract the Public Holiday entitlement, a link for full details on the entitlements here

Again note they do not move to the “Bank Holiday” date. Please ensure you apply this in your payroll and time planning to save confusion when we are preparing your payroll.

Our payroll manager, Patrick has put together some short informational videos, including on the sick pay in effect from 1st January 2023, so please visit this link to check them out you will need a password and it is Royalcanalclient2022! and the link is https://vimeo.com/showcase/client-royal-canal

Annual HR ‘tune-up’
We would like to remind you of the following responsibilities as the employer and ask you to ensure you have the following in place.

* Employment contracts,
* Clocking’s and records of when breaks are taken
* Work permits and copy of GNIB cards kept for full course of employment not just the latest
* Sunday rates of pay being time plus a premium, but what is stated in contract prevails unless agreed between employee and employer

Also we have a HR Firm that we use for our own HR and some of our clients have reached out for their support. To set up an introduction please contact Joe, Ronan or Patrick here and we will arrange same for you.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and the very best for 2023!

For full banking days over Christmas 2022 here is a link to Bank of Ireland’s page here Christmas Payments – Bank of Ireland Business Banking