Not all who work on bank holidays get double time

Saturday 27th February 2010, 2:58PM GMT.

From K Jeune.
I WRITE with reference to recent correspondence regarding the Liberation Day bank holiday.

I agree with Bridget Murphy that 9 May should be kept as a special holiday
and celebrated as such. I work in retail, but don’t work on Sundays, but I think that those who do should be given a day off in lieu.

I would also like to point out that Bob Le Sueur’s assumption that all people in retail who work on bank holidays and Sundays get double time, is incorrect.

Where I work, we get the flat rate, and that applied to Boxing Day and the bank holiday Monday last year and all the late evenings we had to work in the run up to Christmas.

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Tony B

March 2, 2010 at 6:10 pm

There is court case going on in UK at the moment, started by the building industry. Acording to current law only Bank Worker’s are entitiled to pay on Bank Holidays. Sound familair?

Apaprently the original legislation was intended to force the Banks to close. As the banks were closed it was thought other buisness would follow suit. Maybe we should change the name to ‘Public Holidays’ officially?

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