Statutory Holidays - Contract

Runningfast

Hi,

Just received (literally only opened it 5 mins ago) the contract for a new job I have been offered. Just reading it through and found the following and not sure if it is a mistake or not

Under holiday leave it states:

8 Statutory days plus 2 extra statutory days per year.

The job is in England so if I am correct there are 8 statutory days. What could the 2 extra days per year relate to?

This might be an easy one but all other jobs I have held have been x amount of annual leave and 8 statutory days.

Thanks.

General_Grant

Runningfast wrote: »

Hi,

Just received (literally only opened it 5 mins ago) the contract for a new job I have been offered. Just reading it through and found the following and not sure if it is a mistake or not

Under holiday leave it states:

8 Statutory days plus 2 extra statutory days per year.

The job is in England so if I am correct there are 8 statutory days. What could the 2 extra days per year relate to?

This might be an easy one but all other jobs I have held have been x amount of annual leave and 8 statutory days.

Thanks.

Sounds like they don't understand what "statutory days" means in relation to annual leave.

Have you quoted the full text of the document under the holiday leave heading? If not, perhaps you could do that and make it easier to see what they mean.

Are you working five days a week or fewer days?

Runningfast

General_Grant wrote: »

Sounds like they don't understand what "statutory days" means in relation to annual leave.

Have you quoted the full text of the document under the holiday leave heading? If not, perhaps you could do that and make it easier to see what they mean.

Are you working five days a week or fewer days?

Sorry I have only quoted part of it.

It states "your holiday entitlement is 30 working days plus the 8 Statutory holidays and 2 extra statutory holidays per year".

The job is full time over 5 days per week (Monday to Friday)

As the job is in England I am trying to work out what the extra 2 Statutory holidays relate to.

General_Grant

Runningfast wrote: »

Sorry I have only quoted part of it.

It states "your holiday entitlement is 30 working days plus the 8 Statutory holidays and 2 extra statutory holidays per year".

The job is full time over 5 days per week (Monday to Friday)

As the job is in England I am trying to work out what the extra 2 Statutory days relate to.

So it looks as though you have a good holiday entitlement, well over the statutory minimum (28 days in your case as you work Monday to Friday).

There are indeed 8 customary public holidays in England so I too cannot understand what the "extra" ones are. Perhaps they have a forced office closure at Christmas.

So perhaps the only people who can clarify the matter are those already working in the organisation. Sorry I have nothing to add.

Runningfast

General_Grant wrote: »

So it looks as though you have a good holiday entitlement, well over the statutory minimum (28 days in your case as you work Monday to Friday).

There are indeed 8 customary public holidays in England so I too cannot understand what the "extra" ones are. Perhaps they have a forced office closure at Christmas.

So perhaps the only people who can clarify the matter are those already working in the organisation. Sorry I have nothing to add.

Same, I cannot for the life of me work out what the extra 2 days are.

Yes the holiday entitlement is attractive and you are indeed correct about a forced office closure at Christmas but that is dealt with under a different part of the contract and states that those days do not come out of the holiday entitlement stated in section x (holidays).

I will phone HR tomorrow and ask some questions.

thanks

getmore4less

my guess is they mean 2 fixed(preallocated) days that don't come out of the 30 day allowance.

Runningfast

getmore4less wrote: »

my guess is they mean 2 fixed(preallocated) days that don't come out of the 30 day allowance.

That is a possibility but why would they call them Statutory holidays? Could just be bad wording but I am now intrigued as to how I can have 10 bank/public holidays off in England.

I'm not complaining either 2 extra paid days off is good by me :T

anamenottaken

Maybe the two extra ones are those that Northern Ireland enjoy and they have a workforce which lives there too.

sangie595

Would this by any chance be a local authority or an organisation previously associated with one? Or some other public sector? Because this used to be a common term in some years ago! You misread the section - or they mistyped it. It reads "extra-statutory" not extra statutory"!

These were two fixed days extra to other leave, usually tagged on to another public holiday. One I recall was "Easter Tuesday" - but it is so long ago I simply cannot recall where the other one fell. I remember getting these decades ago when I started, but I can't even begin to recall when they disappeared! They are a hangover from the "good old days" when there was almost no statutory holiday whatsoever, and some (all?) public sector workers got a couple of days more than everyone else. They hung on for some time in places but disappeared, as far as I knew, about 30-40 years ago maybe? Haven't seen one in decades.

RADDERS

sangie595 wrote: »

Would this by any chance be a local authority or an organisation previously associated with one? Or some other public sector? Because this used to be a common term in some years ago! You misread the section - or they mistyped it. It reads "extra-statutory" not extra statutory"!

These were two fixed days extra to other leave, usually tagged on to another public holiday. One I recall was "Easter Tuesday" - but it is so long ago I simply cannot recall where the other one fell. I remember getting these decades ago when I started, but I can't even begin to recall when they disappeared! They are a hangover from the "good old days" when there was almost no statutory holiday whatsoever, and some (all?) public sector workers got a couple of days more than everyone else. They hung on for some time in places but disappeared, as far as I knew, about 30-40 years ago maybe? Haven't seen one in decades.

When I worked for a local authority the other on was at whit week, you also got the Tuesday off, as I worked in II I had to work to do the weekly salary run
Correct this was over 30 years ago lol

sangie595

RADDERS wrote: »

When I worked for a local authority the other on was at whit week, you also got the Tuesday off, as I worked in II I had to work to do the weekly salary run
Correct this was over 30 years ago lol

Yay, yes, you are right! I remember now. It was my first real job after my degree. Great job too! But it was always weird to have that extra day when everyone else had gone back to work. Nice though!