April 29th Bank holiday

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As much as I value the Royals and looking forward to the wedding - why a bank holiday? Is it that necessary for business' to fork out another non-productive day?

Long gone the days of street parties (Di's & charles was the last wonderful street party) This will never happen again which is sad for our children.

So really its a day off.

Me and DP are both Self employed, so we don't get paid bank holidays and I cant work when DS is not at school. We will be very tight that month.
Why cant they get married on a weekend and have a bit of consideration for those of us that lose money(or lose holiday)over bank holidays?

Well you've got several months to prepare for it, annie.

It is also too close to election and referendum day. The papers will just ignore real issues for months. Dave obviously did not care very much for his best mate's vote on AV.

DD will be at school for just 2 days in April. They go back after Easter on Wednesday 27th April!

I tell a lie, they break up on 8th April at lunchtime so she will be in for an extra 4 and a half days at the start of the month.

Oh you're all a bunch of misery guts! It's a day off work! I am chuffed.

my dh has a small business - we already pay the blokes more an hour than we take ourselves - now we are expected to pay for another non productive day -

Well schools round here are off all that week so no school staff will benefit - other council employees will, but us school staff won't. Will they give us a day off in lieu? Doubt it. And if they do, it'll mess up the parents, who'll have to take an extra day off / pay for childcare on the day in lieu instead of having it the same time as their kids. Becoming a bit of an issue, the unions are rumbling... Aren't there Govt advisors who are supposed to look into these things? It's not rocket science.

Well, there must be an awful lot of you with children at private school. DD has two weeks and one day off for the Easter holidays, which is normal for state schools round here. She breaks up on 8th April and goes back on Tuesday 26th, so even with the extra bank holiday she will be at school for 9 days in April.

Depends on their contract Mollymole. If their contract is x amount of holidays per year including bank holidays then they don;t have to be paid for takin the day off and indeed you don;t have to give them the day off.

If however it is x days plus bank holidyas then they do.

We are part of a scheme called Welplan where you pay into it each month and then they reimburse holiday pay. They haveand employer contributions per week for the year and so I don't expect the lads will get any extra time.

Interesting choice of wedding date.
The month after the EU food directive banning sales of all herbs to consumers comes into force!!
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school isn't actually an official child-care arrangement - 7 days in school in April is only one day less than it would otherwise have been!

I'm sure everyone would have plenty to say if their children didn't have school holidays, were permanently knackered and had no time to spend together as a family - I hope so anyway!!!!

It is only one day. People are forever moaning in this country that we get far fewer bank holidays than the rest of Europe and then when we do get one, people are still bleating. And I am anti-monarchy. They are just spongers at the other end of the scale.

i work in public sector and 29th April is not counted as a bank hols and if you are rostered on to work it don't recive bank hol rate pay

Not all employees are entitled to 29th April as a bank holiday. It depends on their employment contract and whether their employees will honour this day.