The Royal Wedding Bank Holiday

[echokilo]

If I am contracted to work Mon, Tues and Wed each week do I get an extra days leave to cover the above which is on a Friday? Confused!!!

[MarkRae]

You won't be confused if you ask your employer...

[tony_mc]

Check with your HR department - they will have an answer

[mike11111]

I would have thought not as you are not contracted to work that day and you are not a full-time employee. However I could be wrong, so best check with HR.

[dotty.]

Do you get an extra days holiday for the other holidays? Good Friday, Easter Monday , etc?

[echokilo]

No HOUR dept Small company

[tony_mc]

take your point HR think they run companies - the reality is they make it more difficult to run companies

[Buenchico]

No, but you probably wouldn't want it anyway. The additional public holiday doesn't add anything to anyone's holiday entitlement for this year. For many people it will simply remove an element of choice within their holiday arrangements.

For example, someone who works 5 days per week (and who only receives the statutory minimum holiday allowance) will get 28 days holiday. If, in a normal year, the employer closes the business on all public holidays (but not at other times) that would mean that the employee would have 8 days of their entitlement pinned to fixed dates which they can't change but (subject to the company's internal agreements on taking leave) 20 days which they were free to take at other times (when it suited them better).

All that having an extra day designated as a public holiday will mean for such an employee is that there will now be 9 'fixed' days and only 19 'free choice' days, so that employee will be worse off.

Chris

[echokilo]

Days back for BH Mondays\Tuesdays yes but my company takes Mon and Tues for Easter so no Friday B H to compare with ...

[factor-fiction]

You need to ask at work.
But it should be treated the same as other bank holidays I think. You may get a prorata entitlement to bank holidays- say 3/5ths of 8 days (nine this year) added to your other annual entitlement. So in effect you'll get an extra 3/5ths of a day this year you can take sometime.
But the best thing is to ask.
If you don't get anything you haven't really lost out.

[squarebear]

I don't understand. If you don't work Fridays, why would you need an extra days leave to cover it?

[dotty.]

yes but it's only the same as bank workers, they don't work saturdays and sundays (on most cases) yet if Christmas Day falls on a saturday or a sunday they get an extra day.

[chelle7272]

i agree with factor. i do HR for asmall company and part time staff have pro rata allowance for BH's which don't fall on their usual working days, in order that time off is fair throughout the organisation.
You will need to check with your work as you've been advised, as it will depend on their allowances and policies / procedures.

[factor-fiction]

Buenchico's answer is right if the employer only gives the statutory minimum (which it seems stays at 28 days including bank hols) but if the employer chooses to exceed the statutory minimum it depends on whether the employers adds the extra day to entitlements.

[heathfield]

Time off in lieu? Do we have it easy, or what?. I can remember when the jute mills in Dundee would be fully working on Christmas Day. The only time off employees had over Christmas and the New Year was New Year's Day.

[mike11111]

I'm not too sure about this. The statutory minimum consists of 20 days plus the 8 public holidays which occur each year. If the government declares an extra public holiday, then that would put the statutory minimum up to 29 days for that particular year. I remember in 2002 an extra day was declared for the Golden Jubilee. If there was nay way that my employer at the time could have taken that out of my annual allowance they would have done so but they didn't, which suggests to me that even those on the statutory minimum will benefit from an extra day this year. I am, of course, referring to full-time workers.

[Hopkirk]

The statutory minimum does not include bank holidays surely, as there is no law that says an employer has to give you the day off on a bank holiday.

[mike11111]

It does, 20 days + 8 public holidays or days in lieu. This was introduced not so long ago because unscrupulous employers in businesses which employed full-time workers 24/7 were not paying for public holidays for those who were rostered off that day. My days off used to be Sunday and Monday so I missed out on 4 bank holidays per year, 5 if Boxing day fell on one of those days and 6 if Xmas and New Year coincided with my rostered days off. They had to stop this when the law changed.

[Buenchico]

Mike:
Public holidays have no significance whatsoever in employment law. The statutory minimum holiday entitlement (for someone who works 5 days per week) is 28 days (and NOT '20 days plus public holidays'). The employer is free to choose when those holidays are taken and is not obliged to take any notice whatsoever of when public holidays occur. (If, for example, an employee normally works on the day of the week when Christmas Day occurs, his employer has every right to designate that day as a normal working day, paid at normal time, and to discipline the employee if he fails to attend).

Thus having an extra public holiday added to the year adds nothing at all to an employee's statutory holiday entitlement. If (as illustrated in my post above) the employer decides to close his business on that day, it may well disadvantage employees by reducing their options as to when they can take days off.

Chris

[annie0000]

I think it depends on your company policy - People in our company who normally don't work on one of the usual public holidays get it added to their entitlement and pro rated - the same as people wwho work 5 days get another day off for Christmas if it falls on a Saturday etc. However, fr this holiday they have been told that the extra day is being given only to those who are actually scheduled to work on the day of the holiday as it is meant so that we can all celebrate with the the rest of the country (or something like that!!) so essentially it is not that clear so you need to check what your employer is offering if anything - at the end of the day, they dont have to give anyone the day off, it is at their discretion.

[mike11111]

In that case why did the statutory minimum suddenly leap from 20 to 28 days? Bit of a coincidence. I agree that an employer can insist that an employee works a public holiday, but I am sure that recent legislation requires that he is either paid double time or given another day's holiday in lieu.