H GSEE and the Confederation’s Information Center for Workers and the Unemployed (KEPEA/GSEE), are informing salaried employees in the private sector about how their pay is calculated Clean Monday, which falls on March 7 this year. As the announcement states, Clean Monday is not included among the official holidays established by law for private-sector employees.
However, private companies in our country remain open on Clean Monday if it has been designated a holiday by a provision of a collective bargaining agreement, the company’s work regulations, or established business practice and custom, under which the company remains closed on that day.
In the event that salaried employees do not work in accordance with the above, they will not see any reduction in their salary, while those who are paid a daily wage are entitled to receive their daily wage (Article 2, paragraph 3, of Legislative Decree 3755/1955).
If a company operates this year on an exceptional basis (whereas in previous years it did not operate under a collective bargaining agreement, work regulations, company practice, or custom), then for their full-time employment, employees are entitled to a 1/25 wage increase, and those paid by the day are entitled to an additional day’s pay, on top of which the 75% premium for work on holidays will be calculated based on their hourly wage.
