Royal wedding bank holiday.

[gazzawazza]

My wife works for Tesco and she said she's been told that they won't be getting an extra day off for the royal wedding.
I said that as it has been declared a bank holiday by the goverment then they can't refuse the employees an extra day off, they are entitled to it or a day off in lieu.
Can anyone confirm this?

[NazNomad]

You have no statutory rights to be off work on a public holiday or bank holiday.

[redcrx]

what does her contract say about bank / public holidays

http://www.telegraph....ly-to-some-staff.html

[gazzawazza]

Well I never realised that Naz, and thanks too redcrx.
These companies who make massive profits and refuse to give their employees an extra day off should be named and shamed.
I'll start.
TESCOs.

[redcrx]

if everyone had the right to take the BH off work how on earth would our emergency services etc work?

does she not work any bank holidays?

[Prudie]

I guess it's because we will expect Tesco to be open.

[4getmenot]

brilliant at least i know i can go shopping in tesco that day

[gazzawazza]

Redcrx, I'm a firefighter and we'll be getting the extra bank holiday!



(I hope!)

[ummmm]

I hope that some of you won't ..!!

[4getmenot]

i dont get the bank holiday either. But i booked it off

[Prudie]

So will I but that's because it's one of the few perks left in working in the public sector.

[Prudie]

That was to gazza btw

[redcrx]

gazza, Mr CRX is a firefighter and he shall be working :)

[Buenchico]

As has been indicated, public holidays have no significance whatsoever in employment law. they're 'just another day'. If, for example, someone normally works on the day of the week upon which Christmas Day falls, their employer has every right to demand that they attend work on that day, at their normal rate of pay. If the employee failed to attend, they could be disciplined.

The only statutory right to paid holidays relates to the total number of days holiday per year. It's 5.6 times the number of days worked each week (capped at 28 days). So an employee working 5 days per week will have a statutory entitlement to 28 days paid holiday. The employer is free (subject to providing reasonable notice) to determine when those days are taken. It would be perfectly lawful for an employer to say that someone's holidays were the first Tuesday and the fourth Thursday in every month, with the second Wednesday in the first four months. The employee would never get 3 days in a row off, yet alone a week or a fortnight to go away, but the law would have been complied with.

All that designating the Royal Wedding Day as a public holiday has done, for some people, is to force them to be on holiday on that date (thus losing a day's holiday at another time of the year, when it would have been more convenient for them).

Chris

[Prudie]

Not entirely true Chris. If your contract of employment describes annual leave as a certain number of days plus BHols (as mine does) then you get the day. If it's days including BHols then you probably won't.

[sir.prize]

Tesco ''very little help''

[Buenchico]

Prudie:
A valid point, but the original question referred to statute law, not individual employment contracts under civil law .

Chris

[Prudie]

Actually none of the OP's comments mention law of any kind but never mind. Some will get it and tesco clearly won't.