Can you refuse to work on Boxing Day?

N20Y1D

My wife works a few days a week in asda, this year for the first time they are opening on Boxing Day, as it falls on a saturday is it classed as a national holiday? I work in an office so it carries over onto the Monday?

I just wondered if she can refuse to work or not?

SomeBozo

Its nothing to do with familes or holidays, its to do whats wrote on her contract.

What does her contract state about holdays / working extra hours etc.

Bozo

dmg24

Does she normally work on a Saturday? If so, she has no right to refuse.

Many people work on bank holidays. You just adapt your plans accordingly.

withabix

You can't refuse to work on a public holiday, unless your Contract of Employment specifically states otherwise (for a supermarket, it won't).

Info on the CAB website:

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/employment/bank_and_public_holidays.htm

sporedude

Last year I worked Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve and New years Day. Aint all that bad.

Heath84

Boxing Day is classed as a bank holiday isnt it? Is she contracted to a monday as well? If she is and has already worked two this year then she doesnt have to work it - only has to work two of them and can get paid for the rest as far as I understand.

dmg24

Heath84 wrote: »

Boxing Day is classed as a bank holiday isnt it? Is she contracted to a monday as well? If she is and has already worked two this year then she doesnt have to work it - only has to work two of them and can get paid for the rest as far as I understand.

Is that a rule specific to Asda?

littlemissfrugal

I work for Tesco and they opened on Boxing Day last year - no-one was forced to work and not many volunteered, it was then down to the managers to fill in so they had little choice.

At Tesco everyone is on different T & Cs dependant on when they started their employment best thing would be to speak to the union rep if she has one and see what the score is

Tarry

I would work boxing day as working on a bank holiday means a day in lieu. I wouldn't be able to refuse to work it at my place of work.

N20Y1D

Heath84 wrote: »

Boxing Day is classed as a bank holiday isnt it? Is she contracted to a monday as well? If she is and has already worked two this year then she doesnt have to work it - only has to work two of them and can get paid for the rest as far as I understand.

Yes, she works mondays as well, however she has already done 2 bank holidays this year.

Meepster

But Boxing Day (the 26th) ISN'T a bank holiday, (you can't have bank holidays on a weekend) Monday the 28th is the bank holiday instead. So if the Saturday is one of her contracted days, then there is no legal (or moral) requirement to get the day off or even get time in lieu for it...