working christmas

sofaspud1234

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

That's nice dear.

What's the question/issue/problem?

What have you already done to try and resolve this problem?

Question, issue, problem has been spelt out dear!

Sambucus_Nigra

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

Question, issue, problem has been spelt out dear!

Only after my post.

Please answer whether you have made any attempts to resolve this yourself yet?

sofaspud1234

They will speak to HR

Sambucus_Nigra

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

They will speak to HR

Cool. :cool:

sofaspud1234

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Cool. :cool:

Still does not answer my question.
SarEl,
Thankyou

Sambucus_Nigra

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

Still does not answer my question.
SarEl,
Thankyou

What do you want to know? If you have already asked them and they said they will speak to HR, then that's great isn't it?

Personally, I'd not have agreed to work my days off without it being TOIL or overtime, but I'd have got it agreed beforehand. I wouldn't be working it for nothing, that's for sure.

scheming_gypsy

What problem are you actually having?

you said...

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

Working Christmas and it falls on my days off:mad: holiday year ends Dec no time for days off ! Where do I stand? Many thanks

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

Sunday and monday are my normal days off, yet I am working boxing day and new years day..end of year Dec I will loose 2 days?:mad:

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

I am working Boxing day and New Years Day.

Boxing Day I have been given another day off.

You've been given another day off to compensate for boxing day, and New Years Day will be in January 2012 so it'll be out of next years holiday entitlement.

You're being asked to work on one of your days off this year and given a replacement day off. So that's this year sorted.
Next year you're working on the 1st which is your day off but as it's a leap year there's another 365 days where they can give you your day off back.

SarEl

sofaspud1234 wrote: »

I feel I will loose out on statutory days off

Maybe I have misunderstood but I thiink I get it... You don't understand. There is no right to statutory days off! The right is to 28 days leave which may include bank holidays if the employer requires you to not work when you normally would. This is an entirely different situation.

If you work Monday - Friday and normally don't work bank holidays, then if the employer asks you to work on the bank holiday it does mean they have to give you another day for holiday. Because you must have 28 days holiday (minimum). This is about annual leave.

But you are not being asked to give up a days holiday - you are being asked to work a rest day - the "weekend" if you like, for simplicities sake. The "weekend" isn't annual leave - it is a rest period. For this circumstance the employer can do one of two things here - pay you for that time, or give you another "rest day" some other time. But this is not annual leave - just "the weekend".

There is no such thing as a statutory day. Bank holidays are nothing special in law - they don't really exist. With one or two exceptions employees have no right to any particular day off.

Does that explain it?

zagfles

SarEl wrote: »

Maybe I have misunderstood but I thiink I get it... You don't understand. There is no right to statutory days off! The right is to 28 days leave which may include bank holidays if the employer requires you to not work when you normally would. This is an entirely different situation.

If you work Monday - Friday and normally don't work bank holidays, then if the employer asks you to work on the bank holiday it does mean they have to give you another day for holiday. Because you must have 28 days holiday (minimum). This is about annual leave.

But you are not being asked to give up a days holiday - you are being asked to work a rest day - the "weekend" if you like, for simplicities sake. The "weekend" isn't annual leave - it is a rest period. For this circumstance the employer can do one of two things here - pay you for that time, or give you another "rest day" some other time. But this is not annual leave - just "the weekend".

There is no such thing as a statutory day. Bank holidays are nothing special in law - they don't really exist. With one or two exceptions employees have no right to any particular day off.

Does that explain it?

Ah yes, but the OP doesn't work Mon-Fri, he works Tue-Sat. At our place, if a shift days off (ie a rest day) falls on a bank holiday, then you get a day off in lieu if you don't work it, if you do work it you get 2 days off in lieu (ie one day for the bank holiday, ie leave, and one day for working a rest day).

So if the OP has similar T&C's I'd imagine he'd be entitled to 2 days off for working boxing day, another for new year's day (substitute rest day) and another for 2nd Jan (bank hol on rest day).

I think maybe that's what you were saying but worded differently:D

SarEl

zagfles wrote: »

Ah yes, but the OP doesn't work Mon-Fri, he works Tue-Sat. At our place, if a shift days off (ie a rest day) falls on a bank holiday, then you get a day off in lieu if you don't work it, if you do work it you get 2 days off in lieu (ie one day for the bank holiday, ie leave, and one day for working a rest day).

So if the OP has similar T&C's I'd imagine he'd be entitled to 2 days off for working boxing day, another for new year's day (substitute rest day) and another for 2nd Jan (bank hol on rest day).

I think maybe that's what you were saying but worded differently:D

I know - that is why I said "weekend". I was trying to make it simple!

There is no right to two days off if you work a rest day which also happens to be a bank holiday - that is just what happens where you work and that is an much more generous term than most people get.

Bank holidays are nothing special. The employer doesn't have to treat them as anything other than a normal day of the week.