Practical leave management guides for Irish teams. Built around current Citizens Information and WRC guidance, refreshed as the rules change, written without the marketing fluff.
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Set a deadline, cap how many can be off, sort the St Stephen's Day question and send one clear email. The Christmas plan from owners who've had every clash going.
St Stephen's Day is on a Saturday and doesn't move to the Monday. What staff get instead, part-timers, Christmas Eve and the 16-days-off leave hack.
What small businesses tend to do, who stays open, what closing costs in annual leave this year and our honest take.
Yes. The one-month rule, family responsibilities, staff who've run out of leave and why public holidays never come out of annual leave.
Six ready-to-send Christmas emails for Irish teams (the plan, closure, opening hours, deadline, payday and back in January) and a downloadable Word template with all six.
First come first served, a rota or a ballot. Why "parents first" is riskier in Ireland, the one we'd pick and how to say no.
Yes, with a genuine reason. Cancelling leave you've already agreed, good reasons to say no and how to do it fairly.
A public holiday benefit on top of their normal pay. What it is, who picks it, double time, part-timers and custom and practice.
Paying early in December, Revenue's pay date rule, the long wait to January and tax-free Christmas gifts under the small benefit exemption.
Your call for a few days, the right to request remote work for longer, keeping it fair and seeing who's where.
The April to March leave year, the six-month carry-over, sick leave, why you can't pay it off and stopping the year-end rush.
Make requesting and approving annual leave easy with a proper form · free to download, ready to use, built for Irish teams.
A practical guide to Ireland's statutory annual leave entitlement, carry-over window, expiry rules and the important exception for sick leave.
A free, ready-to-use annual leave request form for Irish teams. Download the Word template, or try the app and skip the paperwork altogether.
Five ways to track staff holidays compared, from a shared calendar to Teams or Slack, spreadsheets, dedicated software and a full HR suite, with the best fit for your team size.
Every Irish public holiday for 2026, 2027 and 2028 with dates and weekdays, how they work with annual leave, part-time rules and a free calendar download.
A free, formulae-driven leave tracker for Excel and Google Sheets with all ten Irish public holidays built in, pro-rating for joiners and leavers, and honest notes on where a spreadsheet stops being enough.
Where holiday spreadsheets genuinely work, where they fall apart, a free Excel tracker with Ireland's public holidays already filled in, and the honest side-by-side with an online leave tracker once your team outgrows the sheet.