Kings coronation bank holiday?

Ath_Wat

n1guy said:

DanDare999 said:

n1guy said:

DanDare999 said:

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

n1guy said:

unforeseen said:

Those who have bank holidays included in their annual leave entitlement will also be happy if they are royalists and want to watch events, but might otherwise have been unable to book the day as leave because lots of their colleagues also want that day off.

They won't because the coronation is on the Saturday before

Ah well I’ll at least be able to watch this then unlike the funeral 

If you have the time to spend a day watching that then you can't be that desperate for time off.

Okay so we shouldn’t watch it then and should all be working right? Even though it’s on a Saturday? 

Do you normally work a Saturday?

No I don’t work Saturday 

So what's the issue then?

It’s a silly sort of a thing, it’s an extra day off but it’s not an extra day off, it’s an opportunity for a day off, tomorrow is an opportunity for a day off as is the following day. You’re not actually getting another day added to annual allowance. 

That's something you need to take up with your employer.   Plenty of employers will do exactly what you say and add an extra day to annual allowance.  They are not legally obliged to, though.  Is your problem that you think there should be a law forcing employers to give people an extra day off for this?  

n1guy

Ath_Wat said:

n1guy said:

DanDare999 said:

n1guy said:

DanDare999 said:

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

n1guy said:

unforeseen said:

Those who have bank holidays included in their annual leave entitlement will also be happy if they are royalists and want to watch events, but might otherwise have been unable to book the day as leave because lots of their colleagues also want that day off.

They won't because the coronation is on the Saturday before

Ah well I’ll at least be able to watch this then unlike the funeral 

If you have the time to spend a day watching that then you can't be that desperate for time off.

Okay so we shouldn’t watch it then and should all be working right? Even though it’s on a Saturday? 

Do you normally work a Saturday?

No I don’t work Saturday 

So what's the issue then?

It’s a silly sort of a thing, it’s an extra day off but it’s not an extra day off, it’s an opportunity for a day off, tomorrow is an opportunity for a day off as is the following day. You’re not actually getting another day added to annual allowance. 

That's something you need to take up with your employer.   Plenty of employers will do exactly what you say and add an extra day to annual allowance.  They are not legally obliged to, though.  Is your problem that you think there should be a law forcing employers to give people an extra day off for this?  

Probably yes. Okay you may not get the day itself off depending on what particular job you do but it at least should be added on, I would say probably no low paid worker will benefit from this, given most are 28 days including bank holidays 

GenieBoy

My employer wouldn't give us the bank holiday for the Queen's funeral.

n1guy

GenieBoy said:

My employer wouldn't give us the bank holiday for the Queen's funeral.

Na Neither did mine.  

Ath_Wat

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

n1guy said:

DanDare999 said:

n1guy said:

DanDare999 said:

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

n1guy said:

unforeseen said:

Those who have bank holidays included in their annual leave entitlement will also be happy if they are royalists and want to watch events, but might otherwise have been unable to book the day as leave because lots of their colleagues also want that day off.

They won't because the coronation is on the Saturday before

Ah well I’ll at least be able to watch this then unlike the funeral 

If you have the time to spend a day watching that then you can't be that desperate for time off.

Okay so we shouldn’t watch it then and should all be working right? Even though it’s on a Saturday? 

Do you normally work a Saturday?

No I don’t work Saturday 

So what's the issue then?

It’s a silly sort of a thing, it’s an extra day off but it’s not an extra day off, it’s an opportunity for a day off, tomorrow is an opportunity for a day off as is the following day. You’re not actually getting another day added to annual allowance. 

That's something you need to take up with your employer.   Plenty of employers will do exactly what you say and add an extra day to annual allowance.  They are not legally obliged to, though.  Is your problem that you think there should be a law forcing employers to give people an extra day off for this?  

Probably yes. Okay you may not get the day itself off depending on what particular job you do but it at least should be added on, I would say probably no low paid worker will benefit from this, given most are 28 days including bank holidays 

I have nothing against the government legislating to give lower paid people more time off, but good luck waiting for that as long as we have a Tory government.

If this is going to happen, though, I see no reason why it should be tied to royal pageantry that a large part of the country find at best to be faintly embarrassing.

Ath_Wat

GenieBoy said:

My employer wouldn't give us the bank holiday for the Queen's funeral.

Yes, we all know a lot of employers don't.

TBagpuss

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

So watch it, nobody is stopping you.  As it happens you won't need to take the day off, but why did you have a problem when you thought you would have to take a day of holiday to watch it if you actually want to watch it?  I can understand people being annoyed at being forced to take a day off that's no use to them.

I thought it was on Monday. 

The Coronation is on the Saturday, They've now announced that there will be an additional Bank Holiday on the Monday.

I guess that it is less disruptive than shuttingdown central London on a week day and means more people are likely to be able to watch if they want to, and that the extra bank holiday may create a bit of good will, at least for theose who get bank holidays off in additon to their normal holiday entitlement.

It's possible that some employers who didn't give the funeral one may give this one, as there's a lot more notice of it (plus this year there was also the platinum jubilee one so some employres may already have paid staff for one extra and decided not to pay for a second one!) 

n1guy

TBagpuss said:

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

So watch it, nobody is stopping you.  As it happens you won't need to take the day off, but why did you have a problem when you thought you would have to take a day of holiday to watch it if you actually want to watch it?  I can understand people being annoyed at being forced to take a day off that's no use to them.

I thought it was on Monday. 

The Coronation is on the Saturday, They've now announced that there will be an additional Bank Holiday on the Monday.

I guess that it is less disruptive than shuttingdown central London on a week day and means more people are likely to be able to watch if they want to, and that the extra bank holiday may create a bit of good will, at least for theose who get bank holidays off in additon to their normal holiday entitlement.

It's possible that some employers who didn't give the funeral one may give this one, as there's a lot more notice of it (plus this year there was also the platinum jubilee one so some employres may already have paid staff for one extra and decided not to pay for a second one!) 

I got the Jubilee off. Mainly because my boss got caught up in the media hype off long weekend being announced every time he put the TV on, he didn’t realise he’d have to pay for it lol and took it off us.  So we never got the funeral needless to say.  The Coronation is the weekend after May Day, I can’t see many employers happy about 2 bank holidays in a row. 

cod3

Another bank holiday my employer won't care about.  Just like the jubilee and the funeral.  I'm not bothered fortunately as I would rather use my annual leave for my own family events.  It is not an additional holiday here, it's annual leave.

gettingtheresometime

n1guy said:

TBagpuss said:

n1guy said:

Ath_Wat said:

So watch it, nobody is stopping you.  As it happens you won't need to take the day off, but why did you have a problem when you thought you would have to take a day of holiday to watch it if you actually want to watch it?  I can understand people being annoyed at being forced to take a day off that's no use to them.

I thought it was on Monday. 

The Coronation is on the Saturday, They've now announced that there will be an additional Bank Holiday on the Monday.

I guess that it is less disruptive than shuttingdown central London on a week day and means more people are likely to be able to watch if they want to, and that the extra bank holiday may create a bit of good will, at least for theose who get bank holidays off in additon to their normal holiday entitlement.

It's possible that some employers who didn't give the funeral one may give this one, as there's a lot more notice of it (plus this year there was also the platinum jubilee one so some employres may already have paid staff for one extra and decided not to pay for a second one!) 

I got the Jubilee off. Mainly because my boss got caught up in the media hype off long weekend being announced every time he put the TV on, he didn’t realise he’d have to pay for it lol and took it off us.  So we never got the funeral needless to say.  The Coronation is the weekend after May Day, I can’t see many employers happy about 2 bank holidays in a row. 

I suspect the May Day bank holiday will be moved to the Friday (as per Whitsun was this year) so effectively there will be a long weekend.