Is Good Friday a Bank Holiday?

kirsty100000

It's a bank holiday I got double pay today for it although apparently Easter Sunday is just a normal day where I work and will get nothing extra for having to work for 9 hours

RikM

leftieM wrote: »

It is a bank holiday but not a public holiday. It is both a bank and public holiday in other parts of the uk and the rest of Europe. Tuesday is a public holiday but not a bank holiday. That is unique to NI.

Good Friday is not strictly a bank holiday, it's a common law public holiday (by custom and practice rather than by statute), but then, so is Christmas Day

Easter Tuesday? Not a holiday at all. Except that some public servants might get it as an additional day in their contracts...
No one has the right to take a bank/public holiday off, but employment contracts tend to specify them as holidays.

NAR

RikM wrote: »

Good Friday is not strictly a bank holiday, it's a common law public holiday (by custom and practice rather than by statute), but then, so is Christmas Day

You are wrong, it is a Bank Holiday and banks are closed. All public service used to get Good Friday off but some 30 years ago a decision was made to move their holidays to Easter Monday (again a Bank Holiday) and Easter Tuesday, which is now classed as a public holiday.

donnac2558

Its bloody confusing here.

Post Office and banks closed, doctor open. Post delivered Saturday but Post Office closed. Doctors take the Tuesday open on the Good Friday.

When I worked in the Passport Office we got the Maundy Thursday as a holiday but worked it and got a day in lieu.

Old_Git

if a bank payment was to be paid yesterday via standing order from first trust bank would it still go out if it was a hoilday .

erincc

Old_Git wrote: »

if a bank payment was to be paid yesterday via standing order from first trust bank would it still go out if it was a hoilday .

No it will go on Tuesday when the banks reopen.

antrobus

NAR wrote: »

You are wrong, it is a Bank Holiday and banks are closed. All public service used to get Good Friday off but some 30 years ago a decision was made to move their holidays to Easter Monday (again a Bank Holiday) and Easter Tuesday, which is now classed as a public holiday.

Oh, I'm not so sure. I think if you do a bit of research you might find that technically speaking, bank holidays are defined in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 which makes no mention of Good Friday. Apparently Christmas Day and Good Friday are common law holidays.

Not so sure what difference it makes though. Although knowing the difference might be worth a point or two on QI.

leftieM

antrobus wrote: »

Oh, I'm not so sure. I think if you do a bit of research you might find that technically speaking, bank holidays are defined in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 which makes no mention of Good Friday. Apparently Christmas Day and Good Friday are common law holidays.

Not so sure what difference it makes though. Although knowing the difference might be worth a point or two on QI.

The joy of the internet. The fount of all information without providing the wisdom to evaluate it.

Witless

leftieM wrote: »

The joy of the internet. The fount of all information without providing the wisdom to evaluate it.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.:)

antrobus

leftieM wrote: »

The joy of the internet. The fount of all information without providing the wisdom to evaluate it.

So you missed this bit then;

antrobus wrote: »

.....Not so sure what difference it makes though. Although knowing the difference might be worth a point or two on QI.

Ah the joys of the internet! People who can't resist the temptation to be just that little bit more superior.:rotfl: