Double Time On Xmas Day

[trt]

My friend is a carer and dosent get any extra for the above or any Xmas holidays or New Year, Easter etc.

Her Care Company say, that because the Social Department don't pay them extra, they cant pay their employees.

[New Judge]

And the question is....?

[Buenchico]

Public holidays have no special status in employment legislation. If an employee normally works on a Thursday their employer has every right to expect them to work on Christmas Day at their regular rate of pay.

I've worked on Christmas Day several times (in a pub) and only ever received the normal rate of pay.

[trt]

I thought that was obvious, is she entitled to extra?

[trt]

Thanks, Buenchico again

[janbee]

My friend is a Care worker and she always works on Christmas Day. She doesn't get extra and she doesn't expect extra. It's just her job.

[carrust]

When I was a steel worker the normal rate of pay for Xmas day and Easter Sunday was triple time. Double time for Sundays and time and a half for Saturdays. How times have changed.

[solvitquick]

trt,
You start by saying your friend is a carer which sounds admirable. However she seems to have a complaint about the pay. If she is unappy about her working conditions then she should seek different job.
Her private(?) company must be hard-pushed if their only reason is that tax-payers won't stump up any more cash to pay her.
SIQ.

[Peter Pedant]

// When I was a steel worker.....//

the steel industry went down the tube by the way

NHS/care industry have moved largely onto continental shifts - xc the administrators of course ! and so unless their contract says they will get extra - they wont

[but you really knew that didnt you ? ]

[buildersmate]

Could always book Xmas Day as one of her holidays - provided others haven't got there first to do it.

[lcg]

if she doesn't like their rates of pay.....then she needs to get a new job. it really is as simple as that.

[trt]

## [but you really knew that didnt you ? ] ##

If I did Peter, I wouldn't have wasted my time to ask!

When I worked, I always got extra on Bank Holidays.

[BlackadderV]

It used to be double time or a day in lieu for public/bank holidays.

[trt]

Thanks black adder

[paddywak]

At BC, which has also gone down the tube, all Bank Holidays were double time PLUS a shift in lieu.

[BlackadderV]

I would add that although she is not legally entitled to extra pay she is entitled to an extra day's holiday, as fairly recent legislation sets the minimum holiday allowance at 28 days (to include the 8 days public holiday).

[BlackadderV]

I remember working 31/12/1999, 1/1/2000. We were paid x5 the hourly rate.
People were literally fighting to work shifts on those days.

[buildersmate]

"fairly recent legislation......"
Been that way in the UK since April 2009.

[Slapshot]

Whether you get extra emoluments for PHs is down to your T&C's of employment, employers are not forced by law to pay you anything extra for any public holiday other than a day off in lieu.

[pixie373]

Care homes and agencies here are double on Christmas day and bank holidays. Social services pay extra on bank holidays- but if Christmas day is at a weekend, it isn't a bank holiday, so the homes lose out. It depends what it says in her contract.