Extra bank holidays

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Hello,
For those of you who work part-time or work on bank holidays, make sure that your employer has updated this year the number of bank holidays to 9. So, if your contract says that you have X number of holidays + bank holidays, you are due ONE extra day this year. My employer hasn't done the change yet so make sure you do not lose that day.
For those of you who work part-time or work on bank holidays, make sure that your employer has updated this year the number of bank holidays to 9. So, if your contract says that you have X number of holidays + bank holidays, you are due ONE extra day this year. My employer hasn't done the change yet so make sure you do not lose that day.
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Of course, just because we were given an extra day last time doesn't mean they HAVE to give you an extra day this time. But if your HR managers are not sure what to do, then reminding them of C&P may be useful (if it's in your favour of course!)
Why is it "stupid" of them to write it like that? My employer writes it like that because it's one of the perks that bank holidays don't come out your holiday allowance.
By default there is no legal right to paid leave on bank holidays. The minimum legal entitlement (for full time employees) is to 5.6 weeks (28 days) holiday per year to be taken when the employer decides. Anything beyond that is a contractual matter.
Yes i understand what your saying but like i said one of the perks of my workplace is to have all bank holidays off with fully pay (they official close every bank holiday). So it was very much intentional that they wrote it as annual leave + bank holidays in the contract and to basically say every empoyer who writes it like this is "stupid" doesn't make sense.
Those employers who use the "plus" phrase don't necessarily mean it as extra above the legal entitlement but they are leaving themselves open to whims of the Government deciding on national celebrations. Most employment contracts I have seen which include the phrase have grown out of versions of a document from decades earlier without thinking of the implications.. It is my opinion that doing so is less than intelligent.
ie 28 Days plus BH
What's the difference between saying
20 Days leave plus 8 BH vs 28 Days including BH?
ETA Don't Scotland & N Ireland get an extra BH over England & Wales?
However, If it says '20 days plus bank holidays' (which is a more common wording, where the contract is framed that way) then there is a difference, as this year, that would mean that you got 29 days instead of 28. Which benefits you and puts more cost on the employer.
I don't think it is necessarily stupid, as General Grant suggests - it's entirely possible that employers take the view that while it does mean that they are subject to the governments choices to add extra holidays it 's a realtively small issue in the grand scheme of things -