Bank holiday

[richb14]

If your working day is a Monday, in which a bank holiday falls, what pay/holiday am I entitled to?

[SaxyJag]

Then you'd be entitled to a day's paid leave at the normal daily rate. The time would come out of your statutory bank holiday allocation (something like eight days), which should be in addition to your annual leave entitlement.

This probably won't apply, however, if you're paid on a casual or sessional basis.

[undercovers]

no employee has a right to day off on a bank holiday - see your terms of contract to see if your employer has given you these as part of your annual holiday OR if you are very lucky in addition to your normal holiday (not very likely these days)... for more info see http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankfaq.htm

[SaxyJag]

Undercovers is correct. If you're in a job where the workplace has to be covered over a bank holiday - a hospital, pub or some essential service, for instance, then you can expect to be asked to work some or all bank holidays. Depending on the terms of your contract, you may get paid extra for that, or you may be able to take the day at another time.

I work for a local authority and we're all given a set number of days' annual leave (currently 30 for me), but that includes 8 days that are classed as bank holiday leave, so my actual entitlement is 22, effectively. Our section doesn't have to open on bank holidays as it's not an essential service. However, colleagues in, say, parks or social services may be expected to work.

[Sparkles3]

Even if you are entitled to bank holidays through your contract, it also depends how many hours you work as to whether you are entitled to all bank holidays. For example, when I was working 22.5 hours of a 37 hours full-time job, I was entitled to that proportion of bank holidays, in the same way as my normal annual leave was split proportionately.