easter pay

[juicylucy040]

is it true that on easter sunday your employer has to pay you double time or give you a day off in luie? I have heard conflicting opinions on this matter but am unsure as to which one is true. Can you help?

[Buenchico]

Sundays and public holidays have no special status in employment law. If you normally work on a Sunday, Easter Sunday will count just like any other Sunday unless your employer decides otherwise (or unless, for example, you work in a large retail store which is obliged, by law, to close on Easter Sunday).

Their is no obligation upon an emplyer to give staff the day off on Easter Sunday. Further, there is no obligation for an employer to give any extra pay or to give a day off in lieu.

Although I'm now self-employed, my last employed position was within the rail industry. Every day was paid at exactly the same hourly rate, irrespective of whether it was a weekday, a normal Sunday, Easter Suday or a public holiday, and there was no time off 'in lieu' for any of these 'special' days. All perfectly legal.

Chris

[CheekyChops]

I also worked easter sunday for normal pay and no day off in lieu :-(

[ugly_bob]

Yeah, all depends on your contract of employment. I think, but don't quote me, that before 1986 there used to be a requirement in law reagrading extra pay and/or days off in lieu for sat/sun/bank holiday working. So, only if your contract has been around since before then you will be legally entitled to these.

Think the only legal thing on easter sunday now is that shops over a certain size can't open - hence B&Q selling stuff from the carpark