Until Good Wednesday, the payment of the Easter gift – At 458 euros, the gift for those paid with the minimum wage

Up to and including Good Wednesday, April 8, 2026, backstage assemblage employees indispensable beryllium paid an Easter bonus.

This year’s acquisition volition beryllium paid without including the caller minimum wage increase, which was announced connected 26 March. Although the caller minimum came into unit connected 1 April, the acquisition calculation is based connected the regular wage successful spot conscionable earlier Easter, which efficaciously leaves retired that increase. Therefore, employees volition spot the benefits of the summation successful consequent wage and benefits, but not successful this year’s Easter gift.

Thus, this year’s acquisition for those paid the minimum wage volition beryllium €458.33, portion those who person served 1 three-year play volition person €504.17, 2 three-year periods €550.00, and 3 three-year periods €595.83.

The Labour Inspectorate informs that the outgo of the Bonus wrong a definite play of clip results from the applicable authorities and is successful nary mode astatine the discretion of each employer!

All employees who are paid a wage oregon a regular wage and enactment either full-time oregon part-time and person an employment declaration of either fixed oregon indefinite duration are entitled to an Easter acquisition from their employers, adjacent to fractional a monthly wage for those paid a wage and 15 regular wages for those paid a regular wage. In each cases, the duration of the employment narration is important successful bid to cipher the last amount.

Employers are required to wage employees’ wages exclusively into the slope outgo accounts of the eligible employees, indicating for each outgo the crushed and the play of clip involved. Payment of remuneration into the accounts of eligible employees shall beryllium made by immoderate means, including the usage of physics means of outgo oregon outgo work providers.

The Easter acquisition whitethorn not beryllium paid successful kind, but lone successful cash. The information for its outgo is the beingness of employment (employment relationship) of the backstage assemblage worker wrong the play from 01-01-2025 to 30-04-2025. The ground for calculating the bonus is the regular wage paid connected the 15th time earlier Easter. For employees whose employment narration was terminated earlier that day, either owed to dismissal oregon voluntary departure, but wrong the play for calculating the Gift, the remuneration of the time of termination of the narration shall beryllium taken into account. This means that a dismissed worker successful the backstage assemblage who is paid a wage (daily oregon hourly wage) tin cipher the Easter bonus to beryllium paid to him/her arsenic follows:

– 1/15 of fractional of the monthly wage for each 8 calendar days of the duration of the employment relationship, if the worker is simply a salaried employee.

– One day’s wage for each 8 calendar days of the duration of the employment relationship, if the worker is paid connected a regular wage.

Employees who worked for a play of little than 8 days and were subsequently dismissed are entitled to a proportional fraction of the Easter bonus.

If the Easter bonus is not paid successful time, employees and/or unions tin and should entreaty to the applicable labour inspectorate to record a complaint. The ailment is forwarded to the nationalist authoritative for idiosyncratic prosecution against the employer. At the aforesaid time, it is besides forwarded to the applicable constabulary presumption for the initiation of the auto-procedure. Employees and/or their commercialized unions person the close to record a ailment straight with the applicable constabulary presumption and petition the exertion of the automatic procedure.

In addition, employees and unions tin record applicable complaints, anonymously oregon non-anonymously, via the 1555 ailment hotline oregon online via the Complaint – Labour Inspectorate.