I work in a primary school - term time, non teaching, part time.
One of the schools in the MAT we're in announced that they were closing a day earlier before Christmas so that staff could take advantage of the extra bank holiday for the Jubilee. We had wondered about this in our office but, as the extra bank holiday takes place during half term, assumed we wouldn't be seeing the benefit.
Are we actually entitled to the extra bank holiday?
Similarly, everyone in my office is part time so that, on the odd occasion one falls in term time, someone generally misses out on a bank holiday because it falls on their non working day. If a bank holiday falls in term time and is a non working day for someone (non teaching) are the eligible to have toil? My thinking is that if I worked Tuesday to Friday and my colleague worked Monday to Thursday and a bank holiday fell on a Monday in term time, my colleague would have two days off to my one day off but be paid the same as I am, but I'm not sure how it's worked out.
We have thought about speaking with our line manager but she can be a bit prickly, so would like to have an understanding of the situation before I speak to her.
I would like to say that I'm not trying to get extra time off because I'm work-shy! I never have time off sick or compassionate leave but I would like to have what I'm entitled to, if it turns out that I am.
Thank you for any advice or help offers.