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If the B&B is open (and one would assume most hotels etc are) then as a business they need their scheduled staff to work. How else can they deliver the service to their customers? Being Xmas day it's very unlikely anyone else would be up for covering your wife's shift so they would be left short.
Whilst the reason for her wishing to be off is admirable charity work it really doesn't matter. It's her day to work. She had not booked the day off she should be working. To resent the employer for expecting her to work is very short sighted. They may not be perfect (no written contract etc) but they pay her wages. She doesn't work as a favour.
Given that she has by the sounds of it done a super job arranging the charity event I am sure everyone will understand if she had to work and missed the delivery. Perhaps you could help (unless you have children that need you) or put a call out for a helper or two for a few hours Xmas morning. I'd do it with my children if they were old enough so I am sure orhers would feel the same.MTC NMP Membership #62 - made it back to size 12 after my children & I'm staying here!0 -
leveller2911 wrote: »I'm afraid he is a cantankerous old man who rarely even talks to the staff. .
You could dry dressing up as ghosts and playing the "a christmas carol" move on him?0 -
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No it isn't. There is no automatic right to time off in lieu or enhanced pay.
The poster was talking about public holidays - that when they fall on weekends, the next working day is substituted for the BH. And they're absolutely right.
The poster didn't say that it entitles you to a day in lieu or a day off; they were simply talking about the public holidays themselves.
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Public holidays are irrelivent
The OP OH normaly works, Sun, Mon, Tues, so should ask for holidays when they want to not work any of those days.
One get out might be if the holiday year is Jan-Dec and they have any untaken statutor holidays left, if they leave it till the week before then they are they are the only days left to take.
Probably won't save the job though.0 -
Thought Christmas/Boxing Days were legally protected. Mind-you, your o/h could always 'trip and fall at work just after her shift starts'. That way, she could fein an ankle injury and go home.Never Knowingly Understood.
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getmore4less wrote: »Public holidays are irrelivent
The OP OH normaly works, Sun, Mon, Tues, so should ask for holidays when they want to not work any of those days.
One get out might be if the holiday year is Jan-Dec and they have any untaken statutor holidays left, if they leave it till the week before then they are they are the only days left to take.
Probably won't save the job though.
The employer only has to offer the time I thought, thus if the employee has worked for several months and not taken the holiday then the employer could reasonably refuse this time of and give it after the holiday year or pay it?
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Thought Christmas/Boxing Days were legally protected. Mind-you, your o/h could always 'trip and fall at work just after her shift starts'. That way, she could fein an ankle injury and go home.
Protected? There is no statutory right to not work on ANY bank holiday.
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