Moving the May Bank Holiday. Will this cause you inconvenience?

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I work Mondays. I am still paid for the Bank Holidays. I don’t work Fridays. I have already made my holiday arrangements around child care for 2020 and now unless I can take a day off unpaid my plans are now up the creek. Also my job involves a diary of clients that book up almost a year in advance so this will now also need to be sorted.
Not a happy bunny, this should have been announced at least a year in advance for people accommodate.

@LakieLady

To be fair, I AM shocked that employees also seem to think it's 'fair' to do it that way.

Most of my colleagues are spreadsheet geeks and track our own entitlements, which is why we catch out the HR woman so often...

World Snooker final tickets bought at great expense for Sunday night, friends always come up from London, go back BH Monday.

Unless everyone can book that Monday off, then the plans will have to be cancelled.

Relatively small, first world problem and it seems pathetic given the reason why it's been moved, but it's a good example of why 10 months isn't enough notice.

This will have zero impact on me, and I am all for the celebration - but no, it's not enough notice for a day when there are so many large events organised (and all sympathy for those who have booked weddings around it too).

Even the gov.uk site was still using the old date this morning, although they've updated it now.

I think it should have been an additional day, but then I would say that ...

Sorry @IceRebel

Was on green paper, working party. Thought it was out in the public domain, months ago

Oh and centre parcs appear to have realised and the price of the new Bh weekend is now at peak Bh price. Sneakily they haven't reduced the price of the first weekend in May for anyone who doesn't realise! The third weekend is quite a bit cheaper

And yet they'd have you believe that the peak price is the standard price and the off-peak price is a reduced price. They really must think we are stupid.

Not confirmed yet in Scotland but makes no odds to me so long as school moves with it if it’s the Friday not Monday

Just wondering what those poor sods who gave their lives !!!!!! at someone else's bidding (they had no choice) would say about those complaining about a change of date/date, it's one day, it's an inconvenience, you'll not be losing your life or even scarred for life . As the widow of an ex soldier I have no sympathy at all for the moaners on this thread

2020 early May Bank Holiday is being pushed back to the Friday so people can commemorate VE Day. My issue isn’t the reason, it’s the impact on people’s lives. Personally, it has cost me a days pay.

It's not being pushed BACK to the previous Friday - it's being moved FORWARD to the following Friday so that instead of being on Monday 4th May (ie: the first Monday in May) it will now be on Friday 8th May to coincide with VE Day.

And you're not losing a day's pay. You'll still be paid for the Monday. What you are losing is a paid day off work because now that Monday won't be a Bank Holiday.

My grandad who fought and lost friends and a fiance in the war, would say don't make such a big fuss. He believed that much of the commemoration had become a glorification of war and ww2. He fought so that people could live their lives.

And my dad, who also served and lost friends in the military, has said its wrong to do it at such short notice.

People be respectful and be pissed odd that they will lose thousands.

It's not being pushed BACK to the previous Friday - it's being moved FORWARD to the following Friday so that instead of being on Monday 4th May (ie: the first Monday in May) it will now be on Friday 8th May to coincide with VE Day.

Huh? You’re correcting someone who had it the correct way- you are the one saying it the wrong way around.

We should have an extra bank holiday to mark the day. There was an extra bank holiday for the royal wedding and this is far more important.

@nuxe1984, your wrong. @GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat is right, the bank holiday is being pushed back!

”It's not being pushed BACK to the previous Friday - it's being moved FORWARD to the following Friday”

If you bring something FORWARD it happens sooner. If you push something BACK it happens later.

HTH.

So if you go from Monday 4th May to Friday 8th May you're going "back" in time?

Guess they got it wrong in Back to the Future!

Who said you’re going back in time?

Forward=nearer

back=further away

It’s might be a first world problem but it’s a problem for some none the less. I imagine a lot of people can’t afford to lose money on events they have already booked and paid for and not actually get to do the thing.

Definitely not enough notice.

Flowery is correct. If you bring something forward, you're doing it sooner, and if you're pushing it back, you are doing it later.

So yes, the Bank Holiday is being pushed back to 8th May.

Surely this just shows people use forward and back differently when it comes to time?

I can understand the logic behind both bring forward = sooner, nearer to now; but also forward = moving forward through time, so further from now.

If your midday meeting was changed to 8am same day instead then you would say it was brought forward, this is the same.

Guess they got it wrong in Back to the Future!

It’s back as in return, not back as in backwards.

I work in a very large company and we are already booking colleagues' holidays for 20/21. In my team of 30 managers about 19 have already booked theirs for 20/21. Many people book their whole annual leave on the first day the booking window opens.

I work for a company whose BH change every year due to the phases of the moon or a man in a boat

Live and let live and stop whining

am I missing something or is 11 months not enough notice?
Be grateful that we had VE Day, otherwise your first world problem could have been a whole lot worse!

you are missing something, as countless people have explained. For many things, it is not enough notice. People have arranged plans, trips, courses, tours, events, etc that always take place on that weekend. Money has been paid, things have had long-standing arrangements etc. They can't all be moved to the Friday, and even if they were, it wouldn't necessarily be appropriate, as they might conflict with the VE celebrations.

Nobody is objecting to the day itself, or the need for commemorating it. These 'you should be grateful' arguments get tiresome, because it's like nobody can object to anything at all about the way something is done, if it's for a good cause. And we all know that's not true. What if you were told a couple of weeks in advance that you were going to have to give up something you'd planned, lose money, change everything around etc - you'd be a bit put out, even if it was for an exceptionally good cause. Imagine you were told that you couldn't possibly complain about that, because of the reason. You'd probably think that was unfair, and complain anyway. So it's not the case that because it's a good reason, that nobody can ever complain about the details of something. So we are not arguing about the principle of it; we are just disagreeing about the length of notice that people think is reasonable. People are expressing that for them, it is not enough time because of long-standing arrangements. Other people haven't realised that there are so many things that regularly happen that weekend, that have been organised, paid for, booked etc so far in advanced, and that actually it does matter to people, irrespective of it being for an excellent cause. Maybe they don't need to arrange things that far ahead, or maybe they aren't part of any groups or organisations that have long-standing commitments for that weekend, and for them, it is loads of notice, but that's not true for everyone.

People are more than happy to commemorate and be grateful for VE day, but they can still disagree about the way the bank holiday was arranged.