bank holiday blues

[lincolnbrist]

if I am not contracted do i have the right to refuse not to come in on a bank holiday?

[Oneeyedvic]

I am afraid not - bank holidays are not a statutory holiday - when you have 4 weeks paid holiday a year, bank holidays do not have to be a part of them. If on the other hand you have traditionally not worked bank holidays, a company can not enforce you to start working them later.

 

Hope this helps.

[apricot2]

You need to know the difference between a statutory right and a contractual right.  The right to paid Bank Holidays in the UK is contractual.  Read your contract of employment, this will say whether or not you have to right to paid  Bank Holiday.  Even if you can have Bank Holidays with pay that doesn't mean that you have the right not to work.  You may be required to work and some incentive will be paid, ie time and a half.