an extra bank holiday next year

COOLTRIKERCHICK

looks as though there is another bank holiday next year due to the royal wedding...

I know my accountant will tell me...lol... but how do i stand as an employer reagrding this extra bank holiday?

Will I be out of pocket?

does this mean shops wil be shut?

or will it be bank holiday hours?

I havent got a shop.... its a factory type enviroment....

will this extra bank holiday effect your business? good or bad especially with these hard times....

Mudd14

It depends on your employment contracts. The statutory minimum holidays state 28 and the employer can choose to include the 8 bank holidays in this. There is no right to time off for bank holidays and it is now generally classed as a normal day.

So does your contract state 20 days + bank holidays or something along those lines? If so you will have to allow the extra day off. Or, does your employment contract state 5.6 weeks holidayfor full time employees of which 8 must be taken on bank holidays? If so they would not be entitled to pay unless choosing this as one of their 8.

Have you also thought about the queens jubilee? So there are 10 bank holidays next year! Then we get onto Scotland which has more than England....

lincroft1710

Queen's Diamond Jubilee will be in 2012.

pelirocco

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

looks as though there is another bank holiday next year due to the royal wedding...

I know my accountant will tell me...lol... but how do i stand as an employer reagrding this extra bank holiday?

Will I be out of pocket?

does this mean shops wil be shut?

or will it be bank holiday hours?

I havent got a shop.... its a factory type enviroment....

will this extra bank holiday effect your business? good or bad especially with these hard times....

yes you will be out of pocket, one less day to ''earn'' money to cover your overheads

Savvy_Sue

remembering previous RWs, everything stops, so we can all sit at home and gawp.

I'd sooner do a jigsaw puzzle. and I hate jigsaws. :rotfl:

jm2926

Mudd14 wrote: »

Then we get onto Scotland which has more than England....

Not necessarily, I'm in Scotland and have only ever had 8. We tend to not get Easter Friday.

lincroft1710

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Queen's Diamond Jubilee will be in 2012.

Talking of jubilees, for anyone old enough to remember Silver Jubilee in 1977, do you think a lot more effort went into this than into the Golden Jubilee of 2002.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I tell my staff they have got 28 days, which include bank holidays..

so basically its either me paying them, and them having a day off:mad:, or if they want the day off its got to come out of their holidays..

am I right ?

GalDriver

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Talking of jubilees, for anyone old enough to remember Silver Jubilee in 1977, do you think a lot more effort went into this than into the Golden Jubilee of 2002.

oh yes and yes. Was there more effort (seemed it) or was it just that we were younger and got involved with more of what was going on? I work shifts now and seem to miss most of what's happening in the world!

Googlewhacker

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I tell my staff they have got 28 days, which include bank holidays..

so basically its either me paying them, and them having a day off:mad:, or if they want the day off its got to come out of their holidays..

am I right ?

If that is what is in your contract then yes as far as I can see you can force them to use a days holiday.

Savvy_Sue

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Talking of jubilees, for anyone old enough to remember Silver Jubilee in 1977, do you think a lot more effort went into this than into the Golden Jubilee of 2002.

yes and yes - remember the beacons?

I was v grateful that HM gave me a 4 day weekend to celebrate my 21st!