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!!!

[ABerrant]

The statutory minimum did not jump from 20 to 28... it increased in 2 stages: 20 to 24 then 24 to 28 over a couple of years.

Here is the current situation as explained by Chris...

http://www.direct.gov...dholidays/DG_10029788

[dotty.]

well I'm taking it as an extra paid holiday on top of my usual 4 weeks plus 8 BH days, which makes it 29 days

[Buenchico]

Mike:
The statutory holiday entitlement (for someone who works 5 days per week) was originally 20 days. Some employers chose to take that as meaning 'in addition to public holidays', while others chose to take it as 'including public holidays'. The Government decided to act to create uniformity and (in a two stage process) changed the entitlement to '5.6 times the number of days worked per week, subject to a maximum of 28 days', with the understanding that such entitlement should include all 'enforced holidays' (when the business was closed), irrespective of whether such days were actually public holidays.

The DirectGov website quotes those rules and specifically states:
"You do not have a statutory right to paid leave on bank and public holidays. If your employer gives paid leave on a bank or public holiday, this can count towards your minimum holiday entitlement".
http://www.direct.gov...dholidays/DG_10029788

Chris

[boxtops]

My NHS employers haven't yet decided whether to give it us as a public holiday, or whether we will have to take annual leave if we want the day off. That'll mess up those people who have already booked three days off that week to cover both long weekends!

[mike11111]

This is my whole point. The extra 8 days compensate for the public holidays, so no-one loses out.

[Buenchico]

But my point (and, if I read it correctly, that of ABerrant as well) is that, while the current rules were brought in to compensate employees whose employers weren't adding the 8 days on, they don't state WHICH 8 days have been added on.

i.e. as long as an employee receives 28 days holiday per year, the employer has complied with his statutory duty. It's completely irrelevant as to where the employer chooses to allocate those days. There is no statutory obligation for him to even know when public holidays occur, yet alone to have any regard to them.

[Hopkirk]

I work a 4 on 4 off roster, and get 20 days leave per year.

If our duty falls on a bank holiday, then that is tough - we work it at standard rate, with no lieu days or anything.

It is tough and we don't like it, but it is legal.