Free Day Off Work!

smartie1976

TaBunny wrote:

my other half has to take all bank holidays as part of his normal holiday entitlement or they don't pay for them sigh so another one would really mess us up

I've seen someone else has already replied, but this won't be the case for much longer. EU Law will despatch with that sneaky little trick employers keep trying.

littlejaffa

robert_harper_2000 wrote:

We have a real chance to make April 23rd, our nations day, a bank holiday.
There is a chance the public can make St Georges Day a public holiday

in saying "our nations day" without actually saying what country your talking about it seems you forgot the uk includes ireland, scotland and wales, all well represented here

pinginal

There are people from all over the world here (note the person from australis that posted in support earlier). I don't think you can accuse the OP of discrimination. It seems the OP was just drawing attention to the fact that out of all the home nations, England is poorly represented on its national day. For example a huge deal is made of St. Patrick's Day, and in comparison nothing is made of St. George's Day. It is about time that people celebrated St. George's Day, at least to the extent of St. Patrick's Day.

pinginal

littlejaffa wrote:

in saying "our nations day" without actually saying what country your talking about it seems you forgot the uk includes ireland, scotland and wales, all well represented here

It's quite clear that from the references to St. George's Day that the OP is talking about England. England separately is still a nation.

A_little_stressed!!

I think its great! VOTE VOTE VOTE!
I have to work every bank hol 12+ hours shift normal hourly rate but its always a great atmosphere because people are out enjoying themselves!!

ALSO great for those who get double pay on bank hols! I used to get £7.04 at 14 years old working at Clarks!! And who wants to shoe shop on a hol, no1! We just stood around chatting! £7.04! 6 years later I still dont earn that!

Wiggly_Worm

TaBunny wrote:

my other half has to take all bank holidays as part of his normal holiday entitlement or they don't pay for them sigh so another one would really mess us up

I didn't think this was legal? Anyone?

quietly

I would like to correct the misunderstanding(s) in the statement that we should "have a BH every month like some states in Canada?"

#1 > Canada doesn't have a BH every month. Think about how long, cold, dark, snowy, icy & awful winter is...and there are no BH's between New Years and Easter...and that can be 16 weeks apart some years!

#2 > Canada doesn't have "states" either...they are called Provinces, which was only proper considering the country was only a colony of Great Britain until 25 years ago...

And yes, although my hubby is self-employed and loses income when there's a BH, we'd love to have another when family can visit!

Smiles,
quietly

Tetsuko

Wiggly_Worm wrote:

I didn't think this was legal? Anyone?

It can be if the person works part time.

If a person would normally have the Monday off during the week anyway, then the bank holiday gets removed from their holiday entitlement for part time staff.

weaver

Are all people who are up for this also up for the fact that you are not automatically paid for bank holidays.

at present the law states - 20 days holiday for a 40 hour week. so employers are within their rights to expect you to either put a hoilday day in or not get paid for it. so be prepared to take a day out of your normal summer holiday if you want this bank holiday.

Also a note that xmas & new year are counted as normal working days as are all bank holidays, so if you get any of these days in addition to the 20 days holidays government states you are getting a bonus.

Small employers cannot afford to keep giving paid bank holidays, whereas larger firms can.

Its ok voting for something, but please be aware of any conciquences

greenstick

Sorry to burst any of your bubbles but this link has been flying around on email for years.

Despite their claim of being "Very successful" the website was registered in 2002, and 750000 votes from 26 MILLION hits in one year alone seems to be a pathetic ratio to me.

Whether we want it or not, we'll only get it if the government think they can somehow:
1. Gain voters from giving us it or
2. Make money on it.

If a petition is raised on the same site as the Road Pricing petition, maybe we'll get another email from the PM?