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

426 replies

Whatjusthappenedthere · 09/06/2019 10:37

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. Angry

OP posts:
likeridingabike · 09/06/2019 11:56

I agree that an extra bank holiday would have been more fitting, but I don't agree it's short notice, it's next leave year for everyone surely.

freshstartnewme · 09/06/2019 11:57

It’s about the short notice not the reason

OP. It is NOT short notice. Short notice would be July, maybe August; not 2020

tinytemper66 · 09/06/2019 11:57

Well I just booked a break fri-mon as I checked on my school's website that it is a bank holiday on the Monday ( I have now taken a photo) and now it has been moved! I wonder what my head will do. Wish I knew this yesterday. I didn't realise until now.

WhatIfIHadnt · 09/06/2019 11:58

@BlueThesaurusRex look on the gov.uk website. You have an entitlement to at least 28 days’ leave if you are a full time worker; pro-rata I’d part time.

WhatIfIHadnt · 09/06/2019 11:58

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Ivy44 · 09/06/2019 11:59

I think we should have been given an extra bank holiday, just as we did in 2012 for the Queen’s anniversary.

However, having to reorganise 1 day when you have been given 11 months notice to do so isn’t really that bad, especially given the reasons for moving the day.

Does your life really always run that smoothly that you never have to reorganise things last minute? Children never get ill and you have to leave work early or take time off at short notice? Clients never cancel because something has come up?

LemonTT · 09/06/2019 11:59

Ok then, no it will not inconvenience me because I can manage to reorganise things in my working life with 11 months notice. Especially booking a days leave and rescheduling work.

Frankly maintaining this post and giving headspace to this decision would inconvenience me more. That’s the bonkers bit.

poorbuthappy · 09/06/2019 12:00

And it won't make a difference to school term dates as it's the only bank holiday which doesn't fall within a school week off!

REDCARBLUE · 09/06/2019 12:00

Why not give us an extra day instead of moving it?

soulrider · 09/06/2019 12:00

I agree that an extra bank holiday would have been more fitting, but I don't agree it's short notice, it's next leave year for everyone surely.

My workplace bizarrely ties your leave year to your birthday. So for anyone with a birthday after 8th May, this falls in their current leave year

flowery · 09/06/2019 12:00

All those people who are not happy because they will ‘lose out’ due to being part time, that isn’t the case.

Part timers are entitled to exactly the same amount of paid leave as full timers, on a pro rata basis. A bank holiday moving by four days therefore has absolutely no impact at all on the total number of days you get off.

starzig · 09/06/2019 12:02

I agree. Cause taking the bank holiday on the friday rather than Monday is going to make you somehow more respectful to veterans.

hmsvictory · 09/06/2019 12:03

"I’m clearly just selfish twat for not wanting to loose a days paid holiday that I spend with my children."

Correct. The people who always work Fridays and not Mondays see you having bank holiday Mondays off all year round. Then finally they benefit and you're like a bear with a sore arse.

Put in for leave and stop sulking. Doubt there will be a "stampede". It's not bloody Christmas

dreygrey · 09/06/2019 12:03

Happy days, I'll get a bank holiday at last - I work Wednesday-Friday Grin

LarryGreysonsDoor · 09/06/2019 12:03

Our school has already sent out 2019/20 term dates.

Some people might have booked holiday for that weekend already.

freshstartnewme · 09/06/2019 12:04

Some people might have booked holiday for that weekend already.

I don't see why that's a problem. No one is saying you have to stay at home. If you have a holiday booked you can still go.

BlueberriesAndCream · 09/06/2019 12:05

I don't think it's disrespectful for people to say that they don't agree with the way something is done. Nobody is saying it's not a good reason for a day off or that they have anything against the commemoration.

But there are a lot of things that happen every year on that weekend, and are booked up well in advance. It's not like just changing a random day off at work to a different one. Many events and holidays and tours and courses etc etc are generally tied to that weekend, and long-standing bookings, tickets, hotels, loads of other stuff have already been arranged based on it. There's nothing wrong with people saying that it will cause them inconvenience or a lot of money with cancelled events. You can still object to the way something has been arranged, without disagreeing with the fundamental 'rightness' of the commemoration.

likeridingabike · 09/06/2019 12:06

soulrider Madness.

Mine runs April - April and I can't even book October half term off yet so although I have holiday plans for next May it's booked at my own risk.

soulrider · 09/06/2019 12:06

I don't see why that's a problem. No one is saying you have to stay at home. If you have a holiday booked you can still go.

It's a problem if you've booked holiday and not booked leave because you hadn't realised any leave was required.

ClassyArse · 09/06/2019 12:09

I hope there’s also a Bank Holiday on 15 August 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VJ Day. That always seems to get overlooked.

Wannabeyorkshirelass · 09/06/2019 12:11

We set our operational days about 18 months in advance so our entire business will be operating on the bank holiday and closed on the Monday before it.

I agree it's mean to just shove a bank holiday forward 4 days and call it a tribute. A proper tribute would be an additional day. But I expect nothing less than a half arsed sentiment that doesn't put them out in the slightest from this shambles of a government.

NannyRed · 09/06/2019 12:12

So book a day off unpaid!

MrsMiggins37 · 09/06/2019 12:13

God, what a bloody moan about something so trivial.

I find it hard to believe you’re booked up so far and in advance and this is going to cause such massive inconvenience.

cardibach · 09/06/2019 12:14

And it won't make a difference to school term dates as it's the only bank holiday which doesn't fall within a school week off!
While I think on the whole this won’t make too much problem for most people, the fact that it’s not in a school holiday could make it an issue for teachers. If a teacher has boomed a long weekend away and now the Monday is a school day, that’s a problem. Teachers can only be off in the holidays.
I do think it should be an extra bank holiday though.

ZiggyB · 09/06/2019 12:15

I assume that they announced it now, after this years May holidays, to avoid any confusion with 2019 dates.

I’m part time and work on Monday’s but I’ll be given it pro rata for the Friday. Also I’m not that organised so have nothing booked in the diary yet for 2020 Grin