Bank holiday rage

[Reality]

If one more person says to me ‘yeah but you’ll get an extra day off’ about working today I am going to lose my shit.

Family group chat have said it over the weekend (they all have office jobs) and then even my DH has said it this morning!

Yes I’ve worked every day this BH weekend. No that doesn’t mean I’ll get an extra day off for the extra BH. That’s not how it works.

I wasn’t resentful about it but I am starting to be with everyone around me telling me how great it is that we ‘all’ get an extra days holiday. And I think many of them are in for a disappointment when they notice that they haven’t got an extra day either, it’ll just come off their annual leave entitlement.

@Reality I get it.
Lots of office job 9-5 people just dont get how other sectors work.
I dont live in the UK now so it's not a bank holiday here but if I have one more person tell me how lucky I am to have my days free to do whatever I want when I'm on night shifts I'll nut them one. No Norman I'm not spending a day on the beach - I'll be fucking SLEEPING!

Lots of office based people haven't been granted this bank holiday either...

No it doesn’t, there is no mention of bank holidays in law.

In law it needs to be 28 days for a full time employee.

No by law it has to be 28 days, including Bank Holidays so an employer can this year give 19 days and 9 Bank Holidays. Some people will have less days to select themselves not more. Its the lack of understanding of this that the op is complaining about.

No, it doesn't.

A full time worker is entitled to 28 days of annual leave which may or may not include bank holidays.

Some companies do 20 days plus 8 bank holidays.
Some will do 28 days plus bank holidays.
Some just do 28 days of leave per year.

Others will offer even more than that.

But by law, nobody is entitled to bank holidays off and they're not entitled to a day off in lieu or extra pay either.

No by law it has to be 28 days, including Bank Holidays so an employer can this year give 19 days and 9 Bank Holidays. Some people will have less days to select themselves not more. Its the lack of understanding of this that the op is complaining about.

This isn't true either 🙈

Annual leave entitlement is 5.6 weeks per year and doesn't have to include bank holidays at all.

Charles is a pampered, intemperate, adulterous child-man who has foisted this expensive excrescence on a country with no thought for the people. You are right to be angry, if I wasn't retired I would be absolutely livid.

This. Most people are getting an extra day off.

They might be trying to say that, but they would be incorrect. She doesn't get to take it today, she doesn't get to take it another time. She doesn't get to take an extra days holiday this year (or last). She gets the bare minimum her employer is allowed to pay her by law. If we got another one it would make no difference to her holiday entitlement.

I get why she's irritated. Here we have a whole thread with a comprehensive explanation, yet still people are presuming to know better and making incorrect assumptions!

Not true.

YOUR holidays might work this way but not all do. Some employers are x days PLUS bank hols, others are x days INCLUDING bank hols.
So for some, this extra bank holiday means they lose 1 of their own holiday days.

Most people are getting an extra day off.

What other people are getting is irrelevant though - it's not the law that you're entitled to bank holidays off - nor are you necessarily entitled to an extra day off due to an extra bank holiday.

As long as OP is getting her 28 days a year, bank holidays are irrelevant and have nothing to do with it.

Some contracts will say "20 days plus all bank holidays" so yes, those people will get an extra day off.

But if your contract says "28 days annual leave" with no mention of bank holidays, you won't get an extra day off for today.

How is jt Charles's fault people don't understand AL and extra bank holidays🙈

Get your frustration, work in hospitality so bank holidays just another day, but busier, no extra day, off no extra pay. But a lot of customers assume we are getting time and a half or double pay (only for Christmas day where I am)

Nope. Some people are getting an extra day off, some are losing a day of their own AL days.

The just tell them you don”t?

Not seeing issue. You’re mistaking idle chit chat for bragging, no one cares who has today off.

I didn’t say “all”. 🤷‍♀️

It’s annoying if family and DH are saying this, they should listen and care enough about what you say about conditions at your workplace!! My DD is working today and I know she won’t get a day in lieu. She hasn’t had to tell me that more than once.

Others, ok - most would assume you’ll get another day off

But clearly it does bother you. Otherwise you wouldn’t give a toss when others mention it?

@mainsfed but she is telling them, and they're trying to tell her she's wrong 🙈

Like half the posters on this thread are doing because apparently most people don't understand holiday entitlement in this country 😬

Wrong

Can't you just ignore them, though, op? So they're wrong. And?

A bit of resilience goes a long way, unless you've been going on and on in your family group chat about having to work today? Unless you work down a saltmine maybe you should stop going on about it?

You do know that holiday entitlement varies between employers? And that some are more generous than the statutory requirement?

Nope. Somepeople are getting an extra day off,some are losing a day of their own AL days.

EXACTLY this! Where I work bank holidays are taken out of our holiday entitlement, which is at the employer's discretion.

I worked on Saturday as normal but lose another day's AL on a BH on a day when it's all over!

Many, many people will be given bank holidays as an extra even if they have to work them. Sounds like you have a crappy employer. Find a new one. The rage should be about being poorly treated not about people with better conditions being surprised by your situation.

Agreed.