What does retain a day mean?

VEGPIP

In my contract it says 'you are obliged to retain one day for the Christmas day close'
Does this mean I'm owed a day? If so I had two days off christmas week as well as Christmas day off, am i still owed another day?

I can't ask employer yet as she is on holiday and i'd love an answer soon
thanks

jackomdj

It means "keep" so if you have 28 days holiday over the year you should save one of those to use over Xmas as your company will be closed but you will need to take it as a days holiday rather than just given it.

HTH
Nicky

rupee99

Probably that you must keep one day of your holiday entitlement for the compulsory day off at Christmas, e.g. if you are entitled to 20 days a year, in a full year you can take 19 when you want them but must keep one back to use when the business is closed at Christmas.

For most people this does not include the public, bank or statutory holidays (25, 26 December and 1 January in England and Wales)

VEGPIP

Thanks Nicky, I take it I wont be having this sunday off then

VEGPIP

I have 30 days holiday 8 are bank holidays so i keep one out of that for christmas day. So what what i did correct? Christmas week i had my two days off as well as christmas day?

rupee99

VEGPIP wrote: »

I have 30 days holiday 8 are bank holidays so i keep one out of that for christmas day. So what what i did correct? Christmas week i had my two days off as well as christmas day?

No Christmas Day is yours by right, it is a public holiday, Boxing Day is a Bank Holiday and 1 January is a Statutory Holiday. For all intents and purposes each one is classified in your "8 bank holidays." Therefore if you took one of the other 22 for Christmas Day then you still have one due.

Different rules apply for jobs where it is normal custom and practise to work on "bank" holidays or weekends, but they are usually detailled in the contract of employment.

VEGPIP

Christmas week i had christmas day off, boxing day and for some reason i used the sunday 27th as a holiday day, so am i owed one day?
sorry to bother you but it confuses me

dmg24

rupee99 wrote: »

No Christmas Day is yours by right, it is a public holiday, Boxing Day is a Bank Holiday and 1 January is a Statutory Holiday. For all intents and purposes each one is classified in your "8 bank holidays." Therefore if you took one of the other 22 for Christmas Day then you still have one due.

Different rules apply for jobs where it is normal custom and practise to work on "bank" holidays or weekends, but they are usually detailled in the contract of employment.

Your post does not make sense. VEGPIP is correct, they have used one of their eight bank holidays for Christmas Day.

rupee99

VEGPIP wrote: »

Christmas week i had christmas day off, boxing day and for some reason i used the sunday 27th as a holiday day, so am i owed one day?
sorry to bother you but it confuses me

It appears that you are entitled to 30 days leave a year, 8 of which are "bank" holidays, one for the Christmas close down and 21 when you choose.

If you took Christmas Day as the "Christmas close down" day then you have used two days for it.

It seems that you do not have a Monday to Friday work pattern but on the assumption you have a five day working week. 25 & 26 were bank holidays and 27 was from your other 22 days entitlement, you haven't actually said that you had to take that off.

flea72

i take it the company you work for is open 7 days a week?

christmas day fell on a friday, so that will have been included in your B/H allowance, as would the monday, as that was a B/H too - your employer then made you use 1 of your retained holidays dates to cover either the saturday or sunday (with you either having to use another days holiday to get the whole weekend off, or go into work for one of the days)

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tigtag02

rupee99 wrote: »

No Christmas Day is yours by right, it is a public holiday, Boxing Day is a Bank Holiday and 1 January is a Statutory Holiday. For all intents and purposes each one is classified in your "8 bank holidays." Therefore if you took one of the other 22 for Christmas Day then you still have one due.

Different rules apply for jobs where it is normal custom and practise to work on "bank" holidays or weekends, but they are usually detailled in the contract of employment.

this is NOT correct

other poster are right by advising you that 'retain a day' means you must keep a day from your full entitlement for Christmas Day.

tt