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.

It's screwed up our wedding plans because we thought people would get the Monday off; but we'll work it out!

It does seem that the Government could have mentioned this sooner and more visibly, even if most people ignored it until closer to the time.

It's an excellent thing to remember, especially in our current climate.

Barbara.

Inset days will have already be decided and putting one on the 4th won’t help school staff as they have to work them.

And yes, when your holiday dates are rigid, published a year in advance and you have no choice but to go on holiday at the most expensive time then you will book something this far in advance.

It won't affect me at all but I still think anything less than a years notice for something like this is not enough, and really less than two. It's not hard to think of a multitude of reasons why knowing these dates well in advance is necessary for many people!

I can see some people might have already booked events/weddings and holidays based on the usual date. I will effectively lose a days worth of annual leave ( I don't work Mondays so get prorated bank holidays to take whenever). Think this should have been announced last year or given another day

Once more... you're not losing a day of leave.

For example:

Say your allowance is 30 days a year (statutory 28+2). This equals six x 5 day weeks of leave for a FT employer.

But you're on 4 days a week. So altogether you get 24 days of leave. This still equals six weeks of 4 day weeks.

You get the same number of 'weeks' holiday as an employee who works fewer days because you need fewer days to take a week.

So, now look at those bank holidays in 2020. Good Friday, VE BH, Christmas Day. 3 BH that fall on your working days, leaving 21 days to book freely. The same as 2019, where you have Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

You have the same number of days holiday overall. You have the same number of freely bookable days overall.

We still have to work on INSET days - that won't be a solution for anyone.

There's been a conference for a social group I'm involved in which is booked for next year, and it is always specifically organised around the bank holiday weekend - so the events are on Sat/Sun/Mon - done this way so that people don't have to take an extra day off work on the Friday to attend. The organisers would have started arranging and booking venues etc this time last year.

They are now sweating because it's likely bookings will be affected - they have to have a minimum number to break even and could end up suffering quite a loss if people feel that they don't want to or can't take the additional day. I'm reconsidering booking because the person I usually go and share a room with is a teacher and can't take a day's annual leave if the dates remain the same.

Some people have already booked and paid for their places and will now have to take an extra day's annual leave to attend unless the organisers can get everything moved to the following weekend.

It's going to be a massive headache for them.

It’s great for me, sorry OP. I process payroll on a Monday and Tuesdays after a BH Monday are then a ruddy pain. So it’ll make my life a bit easier that W/E.

why not give us the Monday as well. Nice long weekend.

You won't lose a holiday deposit, holiday companies will allow a change.

HollowVictory.. the hotel I booked with have confirmed that they WILL NOT refund my deposit! They first said they would look into it but have now confirmed that they are unable to refund it....

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But do you know who I am?

Non issue here...lovely those veterans are being celebrated.

Just out of interest, it's now Wednesday, so people have had a few days to ask for the now-non-BH Monday off. Has anyone done so and been refused?

We still have to work on INSET days - that won't be a solution for anyone

I thought a lot of schools used twilight training and then the staff get the INSET day off. For example, at the end of July if the LA puts in a random Monday as the end of term. You can guarantee it will be an INSET day but I am sure nobody works that day because I live near the school and it's all closed up.

Can you not work an extra day at some point in the next 11 months and then take that Monday off in lieu?

First world problems.

It mucks up a holiday for us, school had an inset day on the Friday and we were going Friday to Monday. Why couldn't they just have an extra bank holiday.

My friend is getting married on 8th May so I was originally having to take a day off work - now I don't have to!

I think it's always going to be a 'you can't please everyone' situation. They should have given more notice given people book their wedding sometimes 2 years in advance, especially over bank holidays. For whatever reason they didn't think of this though, I'm sure someone somewhere is getting a kicking!

A year's notice is OK. Makes no difference to me personally as diaries can be adjusted.

why not give us the Monday as well. Nice long weekend

It wouldn't be though. It would be Monday -bank holiday; Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday normal then Friday - bank holiday

I think posters who say it doesn’t bother them as they won’t be affected are missing the point. The OP was asking who would be inconvenienced by the change (and relatively short notice).
Bully for you if it makes no difference but think of the thousands who will be affected either because personal plans will be disrupted (often at some cost) or because the organisations they are involved with have a regular annual event on that day.
If the Govt didn’t want to grant an extra BH it could have declared that VE Day would be celebrated on the existing Monday BH. After all, who remembers the actual date after all this time. Most of those on active service on the original day were overseas and not able to properly celebrate. The actual date is as artificial as the Queen’s Official Birthday.
I was at a street party to celebrate — I’m sure these weren’t spontaneous events organised without notice.

Meh. NHS worker, makes no odds, will be working whichever way. If dh doesn't get the day off then ds1 can babysit.

There's a local event that could/will be massively affected but I'm pretty sure 11 months will give sufficient notice for them to rearrange.

I think that two different dates would be more appropriate otherwise there is a risk that organisers of May Day celebrations/ weddings/ events etc will scramble to rearrange for the following weekend and then the whole point of celebrating 75 years of peace with our neighbours will be lost. An additional day would be more respectful. We have one of the lowest rates of bank holidays in Europe anyway.

I don't know why they don't leave BH Monday as is, and just give us the following Friday as an extra Bank Holiday. Everyone's existing plans ok, and we get an extra day off - simples!

Well the last extra bank holiday we got to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee was estimated to cost the economy £2.3bn.
Which doesn't seem that "simples", especially when so many people on this thread apparently object to the idea of a bank holiday to mark the anniversary at all.

cant believe this will inconvenience people at all....i expect ones that are are the people who moan about accidents on motorways making them late!

I can't believe that so many people DON'T believe that this actually has a financial/logistical hit for so many people. Nor that they can't understand that the BH has moved to a DIFFERENT weekend. So many "all right jacks" here.