if an employee get no bank holidays for a whole year can they claim for the loss of pay the following year?

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am asking on behalf of a work associate....he has worked in our workplace for 5 years and has never been paid for bank holidays or had the day added to his holiday entitlement....only now new boss has came in and told us we get 5.6 wks pay which includes bank holidays, before he only got 4 weeks and no bank holidays, which he is trying to see if he can get back pay for them....does anyone know, I've looked at acas website but never seen anything about this.

I believe you only have a certain amount of time to claim holidays so it may be too late. But I say that based on a policy of an old workplace of mine, so I'm not sure on the legal viewpoint.

www.gov.uk/solve-workplace-dispute/overview - he should first raise it with his manager and if he has no luck he can raise a formal grievance complaint.

he cant afford to raise a formal complaint

has he spoken to the manager informally?

only the line manager who is worse than useless

So has he worked on every bank holiday for 5 years? Does the company have a HR dept?

no he never worked a bh, the person who worked them all got double time for them and he never got a day off in lieu, or he was expected to make up his contracted hrs on the tue-sat instead, if the bh was on a monday.

no company is small and has no hr dept, we have no contracts or written statements, no nothing.

What do you mean be can't afford to raise a formal complaint?

well it costs £250 just to raise it?

I don't think it does cost to raise a grievance

It doesn't cost anything to raise a formal complaint against your employer - it is only at ET stage that the claimant has to pay, this is a way off yet.

thanks