Working bank holidays

[funkyrich]

Is anyone else as cheesed off as I am at having no bank holidays to look forward to?I am also concerned about some companies trying to 'squeeze out' statutory holidays. I can book them off manually as a personal holiday but no longer get them automatically.

[apricot]

The right to paid leave for Bank Holidays is contractual and not statutory. The only way to effect change is to refuse to accept a contract of employment which does not include paid Bank Holidays. Always remember to ask the direct question at interview although I appreciate it may appear grasping. Though about changing your employer?

[funkyrich]

Thank you for your answer Apricot. I have worked in a food factory for a number of years and have seen several contractual changes which have included unpleasant ones like the above.These changes were as good as enforced! Sadly I can't pick and choose jobs as I don't have very good qualifications.

[gnasher]

no

[Hippy]

The Transport Industry (trains, planes, buses, taxis, rickshaws &c.) have always had their busiest times when most folk want to have time off and enjoy themselves. Also Public Houses, Hotels, Cinemas, Theatres, Holiday Camps, Swimming Pools, Adventure Parks, Blackpool Tower Lifts &c. are all active at these times and employ loads of people.

Since recent changes, large stores and retail parks open on Sundays and Holiday Mondays meaning that even more workers do not take a holiday on these days. I have been involved somewhere in this overflowing list of enterprises that cater for others at times when they want the goods and services almost since leaving Uni. It seems to me that it is a curious minority that can expect to have holidays on these so called special days. I am happy to take my time off at times when there is less crush and clamour and prices are a bit more realistic.

Someone else will probably wax lyrical about the introduction of "Bank Holidays" being an enlightened social reform when employees only got time off for death (their own!).