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Original poster

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

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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

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crazyasafox · 09/06/2019 12:54

@Whatjusthappenedthere

What a load of old parp.

There isn't a person alive, in ANY career, that cannot re-arrange booked-off time, (or even an event planned,) that is ELEVEN MONTHS (almost an entire year,) into the future ... Yeah, even WEDDINGS can be re-arranged with a fecking YEAR'S NOTICE. It's not like it's the August bank holiday (this year,) that has been moved...

Some people are proper attention-seeking, drama queens! Hmm

Get a grip.

stucknoue · 09/06/2019 12:58

It's a years notice, that's plenty, who books annual leave a year ahead, most companies won't let you even for important reasons.

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Whatjusthappenedthere · 09/06/2019 12:59

Jeeze. Didn’t come on here to say I can’t re arrange or that I don’t understand the reason ... The title says inconvenience. Honestly. These men died for our freedom , I have the freedom to post, you have the freedom to twist what ever I say all out of context . Not a complete waste of so many millions of lives then. Hmm

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FizzBuzzBangWoof · 09/06/2019 12:59

It is actually better for me tbh

I work PT (0.6WTE), including every Monday

We have BH allocation (0.6 x how ever many BHs there are) added to our AL allocation and then have to use a day's AL every time a BH falls on a day we would normally work. Because I don't work Fridays then I won't need to use any of my AL/BH allocation

crazyasafox · 09/06/2019 12:59

@AuchAyeTheNo

I think it’s a great idea. Some people really need to get a grip, if you can’t fix it with 11 months notice then how on earth do you cope with sick days??!!

Exactly this! Ridiculous histrionic overreaction. Makes me wonder how (some) people cope with LIFE actually.

Saltovinegar · 09/06/2019 13:03

Plenty of people have pointed out it will affect them with perfectly good reason be it work or the fact that the May bank holiday is a traditional holiday and a lot of events are planned to coincide with it. I see no hysteria or anyone needing to get a grip.

If you are fortunate it will make no difference to you but I don't think posters need to be so rude to people who it will affect.

multivac · 09/06/2019 13:03

I shouldn't be surprised at the inability of "some" people to imagine circumstances other than their own, and consider the implications of a scenario from that persective... and yet somehow, every time, I still am...

RingtheBells · 09/06/2019 13:07

It's better for me, same reason as FizzBuzzBangWuff, Yay another day I can choose for myself if I want, always feel shortchanged working on a Monday as although the holiday is all pro-rata I have to use mine for more bank hols than a non-Monday worker.

Saltovinegar · 09/06/2019 13:10

It won't affect me personally but it will affect people I work with. I'll possibly be asked to work that Monday if more than 3 people need the day off. Only 3 people are allowed to be off in case of sickness.

People are very lucky if they aren't affected.

MulticolourMophead · 09/06/2019 13:14

It really should have been an additional day.

I just hope that exams have not yet been planned, needing to be re-arranged, as DS takes GCSEs next year.

I also do some event planning at times, and while none of my things would have fallen on next years May Day monday, I know of at least three large events in my area where the planning is already well in progress.

And I know it's been mentioned, but weddings are often booked up more than a year in advance if you want certain venues, so a good number of people, plus the venues, caterers, etc are all going to be facing headches.

18 months would have been better notice.

NunoGoncalves · 09/06/2019 13:14

It’s about the short notice not the reason

It's really not that short notice. I don't think there will be a stampede of people who have already made plans for that weekend 11 months or more in advance. I would say you're in a small minority, don't worry.

Antonin · 09/06/2019 13:15

My first thought when I first saw the announcement yesterday but was the short notice. So many events scheduled from year to year on that BH. Far from easy to rebook venues, especially when it’s going to take time to establish how many participants will be available. Eg the vintage bus event in Winchester, various antique fairs etc.
Then there are weddings which are often booked at leet 12 mons in advance.
Very short sighted and disorganised of the government, which seldom seems to be able to see further than its own nose and Interests. It’s all about appearances and paying lip service to respect for those who fought for this country. If they really cared they’d allocate adequate funds for those damaged both physically and mentally serving the country. My father was at Dunkirk and it broke his health, my mother lost her entire family in the bombing so I have a very real second hand experience of WWII. An extra BH is the least they could do to make the occasion memorable to younger generations.

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 09/06/2019 13:20

There isn't a person alive, in ANY career, that cannot re-arrange booked-off time,

Fortunately I am only losing £20 deposit paid and the hotel are actually looking into whether they can refund that due to the unusual circumstances (the booking staff had no idea about the change until I rang them) I don’t get to book ANY time off... my holidays are SET, bank holidays and most of the school holidays. I WILL NOT BE ABLE to keep my hotel booking as I WILL now have to be in school on what was (and still is if you look up official calendars that haven’t had time to change yet) a public holiday.

And yes weddings can be rearranged but most are booked well over a year in advance due to availability of venue, photographer etc. It is not inconceivable that rearranging a wedding booked for May 3/4 2020 will now involve the couple having to look at 2021 dates!

RustyBear · 09/06/2019 13:20

@multivac - the May Day Bank Holiday only started in 1978, so people have been celebrating those traditions for hundreds of years without necessarily having the day off to do it. Also, May Day itself (ie 1st May) is only the Bank Holiday about once every 7 years, (or less because of leap years) and it's on the 7th just as often. So having it on the 8th doesn't really make that much difference.

Starburst8 · 09/06/2019 13:22

@BlueThesaurusRex Normal Monday- Friday annual leave is 28days. This includes 8 bank holidays.
I work in payroll so have calculated my annual leave by hours and then tried again with days and I still get the same calculations.
Working 4 days instead of 5 I lose 45hours in holiday over the year. But then again I'm working less so swings and roundabouts.

LizzieMacQueen · 09/06/2019 13:22

It's exam season in Scotland. I'll go check the SQA website, see if they've cottoned on to it yet.

LarryGreysonsDoor · 09/06/2019 13:23

There isn't a person alive, in ANY career, that cannot re-arrange booked-off time,

Teachers

TSSDNCOP · 09/06/2019 13:26

Can you not just switch all your Friday 8th bookings to Monday 4th?

Thanks though Op I’ve just e-mailed our HT as I know he’s working on next years calendar at the moment.

Tohellinahandcart · 09/06/2019 13:30

Yes! 7 teachers at my school have booked a weekend holiday abroad where we are due to come back on the Monday (team building of course 😉). We're all panicking now!

fairweathercyclist · 09/06/2019 13:32

I usually do a 10k race on the early May bank holiday. I assume it will be rearranged to one of the Sundays or the Friday date.

RaininSummer · 09/06/2019 13:33

Only just hearing about this here. I am a bit sad to lose one of my 4 day weekends as I always have Friday off. The problem with just being given another bank holiday is that a lot of small firms, mine included, make us take it from our already tight annual leave allowance and that is a real pain. All for the commemoration but I wouldn't be actually going to anythi g as bank Holiday travel is a nightmare.

LarryGreysonsDoor · 09/06/2019 13:36

It’s ok Tohell, just tell your school that people on MN have said that there is no one in and career who can’t rearrange their time off.

Heyha · 09/06/2019 13:37

I suspect this may end up changing into the Friday being an extra bank holiday rather than a switched one of there is enough public pressure...place your bets. So many good reasons (the respect/celebratory aspect being the main one) to keep the Monday AND offer the Friday too.

Becca19962014 · 09/06/2019 13:37

It doesn't effect me at all.

However, I live somewhere rural where events have already been planned for that May Day, planning started literally after the current one finished and it's a big event for families locally and from far away. They cannot be transferred to the Friday due to the Friday events already being planned. Here schools/colleges have year timetables in place at least two years in advance. People have already pulled out of the events planned on the Monday. This is a rural area dependent on tourism.

No one has complained about celebrating the day, like I said events are already being planned for it, but people are saying it should be an extra day, not moving an existing one.

No one here considered that the May Day holiday would be moved having assumed that it would have been announced before now if that was to be the case, so instead there had been a tentative assumption of an extra day being allowed and that being announced this weekend.

SherlockSays · 09/06/2019 13:39

Damn, that means I get one less annual leave day added to my allowance (I don't work Monday's so get them back in holiday allowance) Envy to take when I want to!