To be shocked that retail workers don't get extra pay to work boxing day

[Sunshinecloud6537]

AIBU to expect these retail/hospitality workers get extra pay on top of their hourly wage when working over Xmas bank holidays. These workers a missing our on time with their families at christmas with no extra remuneration to compensate this loss of family time.

AIBU or does this just seem very unfair and not at all in the spirit of christmas?

I work in care
Get an extra 50p an hour to work Christmas day.

Nothing extra for boxing day etc.

Tesco pay time and a half on Bank holidays.

I am a careworker and get double pay for bank holidays.

My daughters having to work Christmas day and boxing day on her normal apprentice wage of £4 an hour. Horses at the yard don't know its Christmas 🎄

Curlygirly do u work with me??

This thread has shocked me. I'd naively assumed that people working bank hols got enhanced pay.

I've never shopped on Boxing Day or any other bank holiday, and I rarely set foot in a shop on a Sunday, because I think retail staff shouldn't be forced to work on public holidays unless they're well rewarded for doing so.

Those in essential services who have to work should be handsomely rewarded for working at a time when most of us are off, too. It's only fair imo.

I'd be delighted to take part in a "stay home on Boxing Day" boycott, but the greedy fuckers who are desperate to get the latest gadget for threepence would still queue all night to save a few quid.

Well its all part of the new 24hour society and so employers are now exploiting workers and treating bank holidays etc as normal working days. Many do not pay overtime and some have even reduced overtime rates from the traditional 150/200% to lower rates. Believe it or not they are not all fly by night or small companies. We are talking major blue chip brands,,ripping off their employees.

Another Christmas piss take. Its not just shoppers who treat workers like crap

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3453747-To-think-this-is-a-shitty-way-to-treat-creche-staff?pg=1

I work in the care sector and I'm doing Boxing day evening (double time).
Fair enough, it's the nature of the job.

But what seriously pisses me off is the homes (I have 2) where they have live in fit, healthy relatives who can't be arsed to get off their backsides, walk two rooms and help Granny to bed themselves rather than expect a carer to leave their family and come and do it for them on Christmas day.

There is a circle of hell reserved for these people. And I will be holding the toasting fork.

At the risk of pissing on a few chips we need to discuss the elephant in the room. It aint the internet affecting sales. Last time i checked, ASOS had not one high street store.

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Restaurant insolvencies jump by 25%
Fashion discounting hits Asos profits
Laura Ashley to close 40 stores in UK

This isn't because of Brexit, it is because our economy has become stagnant through neoliberalisation and austerity. We're impoverished."