Holiday Entitlement

Googlewhacker

DVardysShadow wrote: »

If you lose your job over asking for your legal rights, you are better off out of it! The more people become timid about asking for what is theirs, the more the people who do still ask will stand out. While you may help protect the one poster, I think that this meme of 'the current climate' does lasting damage to noobs in jobs - throighout the whole of my working life there has been a 'current climate'. You use the term as though there may be a day when there is not a current climate and it will be OK to ask for your legal rights again. But if people stop asking for their legal rights, this will herald a long winter of years or even decades where the 'current climate' is never right for asking for your legal rights.

I agree but at the end of the day most individuals don't give a flying fig about other people, most people want a job whatever and most people will look for another job and move on rather than just quit.

Googlewhacker

getmore4less wrote: »

Altough proving it may not be easy,

One of the employment protections you do have in the first year is dismisal for insisting on a satutory right of employment.

Very hard, the company would just say 'yes thats fine to the statutory right' and then a few weeks later 'Sorry here is your notice, your work is not upto scratch'

ryantcb

Im interested to see if we get the extra days for the Princes wedding and the Queens diamond jubilee next year.

Googlewhacker

ryantcb wrote: »

Im interested to see if we get the extra days for the Princes wedding and the Queens diamond jubilee next year.

Most employers will allow it but the legal side of things are as far as I can see are that

1) If your contract states 20 days plus bank holidays then they must give you the day.

2) if it says you are entitled to 5.6 weeks or 28 days and this maybe inlcusive of bank holidays then you may not get an extra days holiday.

Either way there is not a statutory right to have the day of and they may make you work it and give you the day in lieu.

tizerbelle

Googlewhacker wrote: »

If your contract states 20 days plus bank holidays then they must give you the day.

I know of contracts where holiday entitlement is written as

"20 days plus all bank holidays that the employer recognises/observes"

so as long as the employer "observes" 8 bank holidays (in this example) they can decide not to observe the additional 9th this year and next for the wedding and jubilee and treat them as just another normal working day.

iceicebaby

EagleeyeHoliday wrote: »

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Reprted as spam :mad:

DVardysShadow

iceicebaby wrote: »

Reprted as spam :mad:

And if the spam gets taken out, it lives forever in your quote. No offence, but I'm marking yours as spam :rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

tizerbelle wrote: »

I know of contracts where holiday entitlement is written as

"20 days plus all bank holidays that the employer recognises/observes"

so as long as the employer "observes" 8 bank holidays (in this example) they can decide not to observe the additional 9th this year and next for the wedding and jubilee and treat them as just another normal working day.

so if an employer from a non-Christian or of no faith neither recognises nor observes Christmas bank holidays that's OK is it? ???

Googlewhacker

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

so if an employer from a non-Christian or of no faith neither recognises nor observes Christmas bank holidays that's OK is it? ???

ummm yes surely? People still work Christmas day?

Am I missing something here?

Savvy_Sue

Googlewhacker wrote: »

ummm yes surely? People still work Christmas day?

Am I missing something here?

my point was more that if the contract is 20 days PLUS the BHs which the employer recognises, and the employer chooses NOT to recognise Christmas - or even the Red one at the start of May, say - well, surely that's illegal? because it wouldn't be 5.6 weeks if they did NOT recognise all the 'normal' BHs.

I didn't think employers could pick and choose what was or was not a BH. of course you can be required to work on one, at no extra pay, but you would have to get a day's leave in lieu.