Taking advantage of the extra Royal Bank Holiday plus Easter occuring together

Murphy_The_Cat

Owenmclove wrote: »

I don't even know if they'll give us it/ the time for it. Is that legal? Has it been made 'official' yet? I don't know how it works!

Alan_Bowen wrote: »

The Wedding Day is indeed an official Bank Holiday which makes 4 in the space of 10 days but the travel industry has already worked out that this may be boom time and prices have risen. If you want to book, do it soon

boots_babe wrote: »

Yes it's offical, see here : http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/LivingintheUK/DG_073741

This is a biggie, so big in fact that I'm going to put into in BOLD and big print (:D)

Time off for employees

You don't have an automatic right to paid leave on bank and public holidays, though many people receive the day off work. Any right to time off or extra pay for working on a bank holiday depends on the terms of your contract of employment.


Just because theGovernment (in its wisdom) has declared a Public Holiday, don't take it for granted that your employe has done as well - plus, bear in mind that if you do take the day off, you ar not entitled to any pay for doing so.
Your contract of employemt and the Law trumps the Governments declaration of an additional days public holiday.

Mat_Lock

I booked my trip to South America completely oblivious to Easter dates or this Royal wedding. It's a bonus as it means I won't use up as many holiday days as I had previously thought. The only backdraw is I miss 4 BH of double time money. I'd rather be in S America than at work though hahaha

alanrowell

HXDave wrote: »

I guess it depends on each individual school, as loads of schools in my area (West Yorkshire) are closed the full week before easter and the full week after easter.

Quite a few schools and colleges have gone to fixed length terms rather than trying to cope with the wandering date of Easter - which generally means having the "Easter" holidays around the start of April.

It means that this year the kids (and teachers) will get another 3 days holiday as they'll get Good Friday, Easter Monday & Wedding Day.

As for me, I'm going to be at work then - let some other mug pay the higher prices and as most people will be away there won't be the incessant phone calls