I want to choose when I have a holiday!

[Shreik]

I don't want the Queens funeral to take one of my days of holiday entitlement. What if I can't attend something I want to go to because I have no annual leave left because I had to take this off. So annoying.

@Shreik what happened with your leave for the extra jubilee bank holiday? That would tell you what will happen now.

The arrange your work this week accordingly.

Oh shut up. If your holiday entitlement isn't plus bank holidays, perhaps people don't want to use up a precious day of their leave to potter in the garden on some random Monday in September.

In which case, what's the point of making it a bank holiday?

And what happens if your holiday entitlement is all booked but your workplace is closed for the day?

Is it not a bank holiday? You either get it or don't and if your employer is making you take annual leave is that even legal ??

Pretty sure they aren't allowed to do that

I don’t work Mondays but get extra days’ leave to compensate, one for each Monday bh. There’s usually 4.

An employer can tell you when to take annual leave. My current employer closes over whole of Christmas and I must use leave to cover the days that are not bank holidays. Last employer (exactly same job Tupe transfer) was open and so I had more choice of use of annual leave. I’ll find out what’s happening for us tomorrow I expect.

Employers can tell staff when to take leave (unless there's a specific contract term precluding it)

"When leave can and cannot be taken
Employers can:
tell their staff to take leave, for example bank holidays or Christmas
restrict when leave can be taken, for example at certain busy periods
There may be rules about this in the employment contract or it may be what normally happens in the workplace.
The notice period for this is at least twice as long as the leave they want their staff to take. The employer must tell the worker before the notice period begins."

from: www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off-

I think lots of the responses here are ignoring the fact that many employers can and do require employees to use their annual leave entitlements for bank holidays. It depends on your employment contract. Lots of places day x days per year plus bank holidays, others say x days per year inclusive of bank holidays. If your contract is the latter, you have to use a days leave for bank holidays.

I imagine my employer (big law firm) will be closed for the bank holiday but our hours and billing targets won't change so we'll still have to do the same amount of work, just squeezed in somewhere else. I suspect this will be true of many.

What happens on a leap year?

Do people just work an extra day for free? If so I not bothered about employers paying out for an extra day off.

OP desperately tries to think of something else to complain about because everything else vaguely sensible but still rather curmudgeonly under the circumstances has been covered. The bins will be emptied late as well. It’s an outrage.

What happened for the jubilee op? Just do that again.

It’s an additional bank holiday , on top of the eight we already have every year. Plus we already had an extra one for the platinum jubilee.
Kind Charles’ coronation is likely to be next year some time , so that’ll probably be an extra bank holiday too.

King Charles not kind !

I used to do night shifts sometimes. When the clocks went back we did an extra hour.

When they went forward, we did an hour less.

No on complained, that’s just how it goes.

Are you trying to make the OP feel worse?

Most people will either get an extra day off on the day or get given another day’s leave won’t they? That’s what our work is doing and didn’t occur to me that wouldn’t be the case for most employed people.

But surely it’s just another extra day off? …it is for me anyway…a billy bonus…. Would have wfh that day and watched the funeral at home….now I can lie in…watch the funeral….and have the rest of the day to myself ….AND get paid for the day…win win i would say

Loads of people lose a day of their bookable leave when this happens which really sucks. It's one reason Corbyn always annoyed me going on about more bank holidays ie less choice of days off for many.

No just explaining how it works. A stupid thread anyway.

Whilst it's a bank holiday it's not a statutory one. Therefore employers are not required to offer it. If they do it's their choice and they need to cover the cost.

Do you think the Queens funeral shouldn't be marked ? Is that what you really mean .

The company I work for is very large , will definitely be closed , so no option of working that day . Full time staff will get the day off without being penalised. However part time members of staff will have it taken from their annual leave , same as we did for the Jubilee , and if the Coronation falls on a working day next year, the same then .

it does mean we will have less leave for the times we wanted eg Christmas . It’s fairly standard in my industry . Annual leave is worked out as a set number of days plus a pro rata number of days to go towards bank holidays . It’s the same allowance given each year , so sometimes we end up a day better off or worse off depending on how Christmas falls . The extra bank holidays obviously weren’t expected from when contracts were written years ago , and we weren’t given any extra allowance .