holiday pay - bank holidays

jakemuk

If you are on holiday, and the day is a bank holiday and its been authorised, Do i assume that you get paid time and a half asif you had been working that day ?

Torry_Quine

Thers is no legal right to be paid extra for working a bank holiday. An individual employer may decide to pay extra but that is up to them and will be in your contract. If you aren't working why on earth would you get paid extra?

rapunzelz86

I think the OP means if they would normally be paid time and a half for bank holidays, as company policy, then shouldnt they get that if they are off on leave, as that is the wage set for that day. I dont actually know the answer OP, but I understand where you are coming from.
I only wish I got paid time and half for actually being there, as im working every bank holiday we get!

Googlewhacker

my gut instinct is to say no and that you would only get a normal days pay because the extra pay for a bank holiday is there to work the inconveniant day...by taking holiday you are not being inconvenianced timewise.

However your contract may say differant.

getmore4less

Also if you work the BH and your holiday allowance includs bank holidays they need to give a different day off paid.

FOURCANDLES_2

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Thers is no legal right to be paid extra for working a bank holiday. An individual employer may decide to pay extra but that is up to them and will be in your contract. If you aren't working why on earth would you get paid extra?

No but a decent employer would let you have the bank holiday as part of your holiday enabling you to save 1 day of your 20-30 days you get per year.As said no employer has to pay/give Bank holidays . I have 3 employees all have and will work bank holidays depends what you have written in your contract and depends what type of staff the employer wants also.

DCFC79

jakemuk wrote: »

If you are on holiday, and the day is a bank holiday and its been authorised, Do i assume that you get paid time and a half asif you had been working that day ?

no you wouldnt get extra pay if you booked a BH off as holiday,

podperson

No you won't get extra holiday pay. If you do get paid extra for working bank holidays (and count yourself lucky your employer has no obligation to do this) then the extra pay is for working unsociable/inconvienent hours - you're not working so why would you get the extra money?

McKneff

I thought it would be normal for say you have a week off, one of the days is a BH then you are only actually booking 4 days off.
Thats the way its always been with any company I have worked for.

Googlewhacker

McKneff wrote: »

I thought it would be normal for say you have a week off, one of the days is a BH then you are only actually booking 4 days off.
Thats the way its always been with any company I have worked for.

Depends if you work bank holidays or not, if the company as a rule doesn't then you would only take 4 days of your flexible holidays but actually you will be taking 5 days of as one is your fixed bank holidays

anamenottaken

McKneff wrote: »

I thought it would be normal for say you have a week off, one of the days is a BH then you are only actually booking 4 days off.
Thats the way its always been with any company I have worked for.

Since the introduction of the WTR it has become more usual to quote holiday entitlement as including BHs.

Where BHs are included (or where they were always given) then there is (and was) no need to book the bank holiday.

Where BHs are part of meeting the statutory minimum entitlement, they can therefore be specified by the employer as holiday and do not require booking separately. Alternatively, where there is the possibility that employees may be required to work on a BH, they do need to be booked if the days are to be taken as holiday.