If you could choose any one weekday off, which would it be?

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Trying to minimise days of childcare.
DH works shifts so usually has one weekday off which he can do a flexi working request for, and realistically finances will only allow me to go to 0.8, lowest, after maternity leave

Which weekday would you take off?

I think in the ideal I’d like Mondays off but also have to bear in mind bank holidays…

Re bank holidays my employer stipulates that if you work part time and do not normally work on that day you are not entitled to pay, nor are you entitled to a day off in lieu.

This means I should work Mondays, doesn’t it?

Any help appreciated, which day have you got off and why?

I used to love Wednesdays but it only works in a job where the interruption doesn’t force you behind, so where you have the same workload every day iykwim

Another vote for Wednesdays

I would do this also! I think it would really help prevent that day 3/4/5 exhaustion. No brainer for me

I'd take Monday's off, that way when nursery is shut for bank holidays I won't be paying for a day when my child can't attend anyway!

I work compressed and have fridays off (it's my quietest day, Monday's I like to go to the office and they're usually really busy)

On the bank holiday note you're only really benefitting from 4 days, the other 4 bank holiday fall on different days in the week so you may need to book these out of your entitlement anyway. But you are entitled to a pro-rata'd amount (I work in HR and we would take peoples full holiday amount (so for us 33 days inclusive of BH) and we would then work out how much total holiday they are entitled to.

I have Wednesdays off. I love it as a nice break mid-week. Part of the reason I was allocated wednesdays was because so many people already had Fridays off so they needed me working!

I'd usually say always always a Monday! U don't feel the Sunday evening dread (even on a Monday night). The best bit is u get ur allocation of bank holidays for the Mondays so for me it means I end up getting nearly 2 weeks off (I only work 3 days a week).

For a baby though midweek wld be better as only away from you for 2 days at a time and a wee break in the middle of the week is nice.

Ur employer is defo wrong ur still entitled to it (0.8 x number of holiday Mondays) although this happened to my sister too and she was told she was entitled to none unless she worked a Monday 🤷🏻‍♀️ they made it up as they went!

I love having a Wednesday off. It really breaks up the week.

Same here. Ideal.

I have Wednesday off too and it's lovely knowing I'm only ever a couple of days away from a day off! Breaks up the week really nicely.

I’ve done a few. Wednesday made the week feel much easier, 2 full on busy days of juggling work and child and home and everything, 1 much calmer day in the middle. Monday would have worked better from a BH point of view for me but I found loads of stuff is closed on a Monday (visitor attractions, pre school classes etc) and meant I couldn’t go the places I wanted to go with DD before she started school. Friday was a waste of a day off because it tended in my workplace to be a more easy going day anyway.

I'd take the Wednesday, nice to break up the working week

I did Fridays - used a childminder and they didn't charge for bank holidays. So 3 day week when there was a B/H and not the childcare cost.

Be aware most nurseries charge for bank holidays if that's your rostered day - which is why some people go for Mondays off.

Check the Monday information from work in regards to bank hols, and the childcare info in regards to them - then you will have a better idea

I have Friday off, as most people work a Monday I’d feel very much on the back foot if I missed it and would be trying to catch up on emails all week. Friday is the quietest work day so I don’t tend to miss much. I tend to write reports, work on projects etc so having a Wednesday off would disrupt the work flow too much.

Wednesdays because it's in the middle and you'd only work 2 days before having time off. Even better when Bank Holidays are included.

I have worked 4 days a week for ten years and have had every day off in that time. My absolute fave was Tuesday! Stuff's open (untrue on a Monday); I never actually 'made a long weekend of it' (I'm PT afterall); I didn't resent people crashing my day off (which I did when it was a Monday); you only have to do three days max before a day off AND Tuesday is everyone's least favourite day and now it's YOUR best day!

Wednesdays off are lovely.

If you're being diddled out of your pro-rata bank holiday entitlement by your employer, you should point them towards the Working Time Regulations 1998, and the Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002.

As a PP said, this has been the law for 20+ years!

I used to have Wednesdays as a non-working day. It worked really well as I was in at the start and end of the week and could park stuff on Tuesday to pick up on Thursday.

I have a weds off , splits up the week and gives me a day to rest / see mum / docs appts / house paperwork etc

I used to have Monday and Friday off when DD was little.
I just have Friday off now. It's lovely.

Always a long weekend.

You really don't lose out, or shouldn't anyway. You get the same amount of bank holiday leave pro rata, but can choose when to take it!

In fact in my team, one person who works 3 days incl Mondays actually has to give leave back if she benefits from more BH than she is entitled to pro-rata.

I can't believe how many employers still aren't giving part time workers the leave which they are entitled to. I remember working for a small company 15 years ago when a new HR person realised they weren't doing it but should be for the one person who worked Tues-Thurs. Senior management really couldn't get their head around why she was entitled to it!