Shouldn't I get more money for working on Easter Sunday?

[Spidermama]

I agreed to a shift without realising it was on Easter Sunday. I emailed them today to say, 'Whhops! I didn't realise this shift is actually on Easter Sunday. Is there a bigger fee?'

Where do I stand? I would have thought it would be normal to pay people extra for working on E Sunday.

You would think it would be reasonable, but I don't think it's necessarily the norm or law.

afaik, employees can even be required to work on bank hols (and Easter Sunday isn't a bank hol), and merely given toil pro rata.

But definitely worth pushing for time and a half!

Sorry, but neither my DH, nor my colleagues get paid any extra for Easter Sunday, and they both work it as part of a rota.

Good Friday and Easter Monday, yes, but not Easter Sunday.

Oh arse really?

I'm no Christian but I would have thought Easter Sunday is the big one. Bigger than Christmas day in some ways surely.

yes, but we have the Monday as the Bank Holiday to compensate for the Sunday, so in the world of work, Easter Sunday is a normal day. The Monday is special

That seems heathen-ish even by my standards. I'm begining to regret raising the matter now.

If you imagine that for the sake of argument everyone works 9 - 5 Monday to Friday.

They get no time off for Easter Sunday. So, they have the Monday instead. Which is fair enough.

Until you think about people who work Sundays.

However, to make it seem more fair, imagine if you worked Sundays and Mondays, you couldn't expect to get double time for both days. Likewise, your employer can't pay double time for both days, so they pick one. I imagine it is always the Monday as that is the Bank Holiday, not the Sunday.

Does that make it seem a bit fairer?

Not really. I'm freelance so I work as and when.
I suppose from an employer's point of view it seems fair but no-one would expect to work for normal pay on, say, Christmas day would they?

Ooh, I would work Easter Sunday for free (well, maybe not free) but it would get me out of the obligatory MIL visit.... - managed to avoid it last year as DH was working - if only he was this year..........

You are right, spidermama, you wouldn't expect to work for normal pay on xmas day, but if it fell on a Sunday, you couldn't expect to also get double time for the Monday bank holiday day

When I worked in residential it was double time for either of the days (same at Xmas ) either Sun or MOn at double and other one at normal rate.Also Friday was double time

we get time and half on easter sunday and time and 3/4 on good friday and easter monday.

only get extra on xmas day if it falls on a week day - if on a sunday its usual time and 1/2 and then time and 3/4 on the following mon and tues - always request xmas day off when falling on a sun, get more money and time with family by doing the two days after

we get normal rate sunday and only get weekend rate (2.50 more an hour) for Friday and Monday

No - but Christmas Day is a holiday, Easter Sunday isn't, any more than any other Sunday, iyswim.

I am being asked to be on call for £3/hr before tax on Good Friday even though Friday is not one of my contracted days. I am thinking of refusing.