What is your employer doing about people who don't work Mondays?

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I work in the public sector, Monday will be a day's paid leave.

So are people who don't work Mondays entitled to a different day? Would anyone have the nerve to ask?

I'll get it in lieu. I'm working on Monday!

Everyone isnt entitled to additional bank holidays
It depends on what your contract says- lots say 8 bank holidays and so you dont get additional ones
Self employed people such as amazon drivers, contractors etc dont get a bank holiday

It is a very employed middle class view that everyone gets bank holidays.

Apparently it was a local authority decision!

Depending on the contract, they could do.
We ended our summer term early this year, to account for the extra bank holiday for the jubilee. This meant the school was closed on the Friday and staff who are not normally contracted to work on Fridays we're given (I think) 6 hours back in lieu.

I agree! I had to go to our HR dept and ask about the jubilee bank holiday, after asking the SBM and the head teacher. I'm not asking for more than I genuinely believe I am entitled to, but end up feeling like I'm being greedy!

Exactly the same with me! Now thinking I should have asked to be paid for the day in lieu that I never got to take off 🤔

Yes same here

I'm a teacher and I don't work Mondays. To be honest I've always just thought 'bad luck'. If I could get it back in lieu though, and had to ask about it, I'd feel so awkward and greedy.

Why? What's the worst that can happen? They say no and you've lost nothing.

NHS - we've been told if we are working we will get another stat day in lieu, normal bank hol procedure.

We are giving every one an additional day

I work part time as an employee but not on Mondays. I don’t get the bank holiday ‘off’ as already off. Dh and I are both self employed (him all the time, me on the days of the week when not working in my other job). We both technically need to work on Monday regardless of bank holidays and with 2 dc home from school. 😩

Annual leave given back if already booked off, part time workers who don't work Monday can take it another time

"Everyone isnt entitled to additional bank holidays
It depends on what your contract says- lots say 8 bank holidays and so you dont get additional ones
Self employed people such as amazon drivers, contractors etc dont get a bank holiday

It is a very employed middle class view that everyone gets bank holidays."

I agree. All my contracts of employment since I started working stipulated the number of bank holidays that were included.

Currently I think it's 9 that's included. But we don't close apart from Christmas so it's all just included in the annual holiday allowance.

My work hasn't yet said anything about Monday, but I would be very surprised if we are closed. I would pretty much imagine anyone wanting it off will need to take a days holiday, pretty much what happens for any other bank holiday someone wants off.

We also may get the option to work from home - but any time off watching the funeral will be made up.

My company have said you can take it off IF you wish to mourn the queen, let your line manager know. But if you don't take it, you can't take the extra day another time as it's specifically for mourning.

The lack of clarity is ridiculous as some self righteous types have already said they'll work and anyone saying they want it off looks a bit bad now!

I've said nothing either way...yet!

The principle (law) is that you cannot treat part-time workers less favourably than full-time workers.
So if your employer is giving full-time workers an EXTRA day off on Monday (i.e. not making them take it out of existing leave), then the must give part-time workers additional time off too, pro-rata, whether or not they work on Mondays (if PT workers don't work on Mondays, that additional time off must be added to their annual leave).

Our SLT are giving everyone a paid day’s leave on the funeral day, to everyone who would be working on the funeral day, which is great. And nothing if you are booked on annual leave, are on Mat leave, or you’re part time and the funeral day is on your non-working day. We’ve noticed that they have not referred to it anywhere as a ‘bank holiday’, even though it’s a bank holiday by Royal decree. Public sector. Lots of part time women workers.
Pretty used to arbitrary petty stuff from HR, but given that schools seem to be closing it’s hardly going to be a day of reflection and mourning for parents. Hasn’t gone down that well.

Mafalda is there any link that puts it as pithily as you have, giving an official expression of the law here?

It never should have been called a bank holiday its for a very specific purpose if you not working that day you can mark the day already it shouldn't be companies give time to take at other times completely unrelated to its purpose

Imo obviously

Nice bit of HR bashing there
HR don't make decisions they advise and leadership should make the decisions

At this company, if Monday is a non-working day for you, then tough titty, you don't benefit from the Bank Holiday.

I don't work Fridays, but don't get a day in lieu to make up for Good Friday, and some years I miss out on some of the Christmas Bank Holidays too (2022 is good, though).

I asked and was told I don’t get anything off in lieu. Annoying.

Here is the ACAS advice

www.acas.org.uk/part-time-workers

I would imagine it depends on what your contract states. Mine is x holiday days + bank holidays. Some contracts are 28 including bank holidays so you Amy not get them.

We have been given the day off on the Monday. I am on annual leave prior to Mat leave so wud imagine I will ‘get the day back’

This does not sound right from your company.
A simple way to check is add FT holiday and BH (i.e. all the days FT people are off work), then multiply by the PT ratio you do (e.g. 0.6, 0.8 etc). That should give you all the days off you are entitled to.
If any BH fall on your working days, then they need to be taken out of your total.