To ask if your company has said anything about the bank holiday?

[Mouseaboutthehouse]

I work for a big company, we always have bank holidays off. My husband works for a small company and bank holidays come out his leave allowance but the business is always closed. Neither of our companies have acknowledged the bank holiday next Monday. I have meetings booked - my boss and my 'big boss' haven't heard anything from the powers that be. Has your company said anything?

It depends on the contract. If it says days/hours plus Bank Holidays it should be given as an allowance.

If the contract says ie 28 days inclusive of bank holidays it doesn't need to be given.

My dh works for a big US firm ( in the UK). They've said they won't recognise it.

I run a small business and my clients (from big UK based firms) have cancelled and want to rearrange.

Large global company.

Uk HR confirmed it this am.

Interesting as I'm local authority, and we've been told it's a day off and the Town Hall closed. Must be up to individual authorities to decide. It's not being added to our HR system as it's about giving everybody that particular day off to be able to mourn the Queen/watch the funeral, rather than an extra day of leave to be added to your entitlement. So I guess people who don't work on Mondays won't benefit (although I don't know that for sure).

Mine hasn't actually said anything but there is now no appointments in the diary for Monday they've all been rearranged and BANK HOLIDAY is wrote across the page instead. So I assume we are off 🤣

City firm. We had an email earlier saying it was a bank holiday and we can take it off, but that the office would still be open if anyone needed or wanted to work.

Our local authority has been re-arranging / cancelling all the appointments today.

Ah yes, it’s the latter - 28 days inclusive of bank holidays. Thanks, just interested.

NHS and absolute nothing has been said. nobody seems to know in our trust. We assume they are desperately trying to work out of they can get out of it behind the scenes.

Medium sized business. We are closed.

Large company. Head of HR confirmed we'll be assigned the bank holiday as per contract. Our bank holidays are on top of annual leave and some people work in 24/7 teams so that pretty much covers any questions any scenario that could come up for us.

Personally it means I don't have to work which feels somewhat hypocritical as a non-royalist. I can't swap with the 24/7 people because I'm not qualified, but at least they get their bank holiday bonus payments.

Veterinary. Open as usual.
We only shut Christmas Day and New Year's Day. We'll be extremely busy as everyone else will be off .

I work in social housing and we have been told we will be closed for all but emergencies.

branch of massive advice charity, still waiting, huuuge meeting about it amongst the bigwigs apparently.
bh's have to come out of our AL as a rule 😔

Nhs waiting to be told

No, public sector (social worker) nothing said as yet

Very small company, we're closed and getting a extra day off (I decide 😉)

How much AL do you get?

We were told this morning we would be off.

NHS, told we would be told about leave in due course.

Very small business, opening but shorter hours to allow for those who want to watch.

Yes we had an email saying an extra BH

Plenty of places stay open on bank holidays.

Yes. An email went to UK staff confirming we all get it as a paid bank holiday.

I still don’t know if we can take it for the funeral but might then have to work on a different bank holiday. I’m fairly sure we only get 8 contractually

That is correct from my understanding of it, it's not legally required the same way as others