27th December - working day

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Hi,

I'm a bit lost, the 27th is that a bank holiday? it isn't listed as one on the .gov site.

I'd noted I'm set as having the day off as annual leave but unsure if it is actually being forced, when I started my current role I wasn't told about any particular Christmas shut down in operation, for the period inbetween Christmas and new year and xmas eve, I recall we specifically had to book leave if wanting to be off as I understood it and I hadn't applied for this day off as leave.

27th December to confirm, sorry again.

The 27th isn't a bank Holiday.
(It would be if Christmas day or Boxing day were on a Sunday.)

It’s a normal working day unless your company enforce leave.

It’s not a bank holiday as far as my diary tells me

Nope. It's the most awkward working day between Boxing Day and the weekend

No, 27 Dec isn't a bank holiday (this year).

Are you allocated an extra day's leave as Christmas Leave? At my old company we had a bonus day that had to be taken either 24th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st or 2nd January (depending on how it fell that year)

No its a normal working day (unless it falls on a Sunday).

It's a normal working day. However my place of work has given it to us as an extra day off (unexpected and on top of our usual holiday allowance)

If you're a civil servant, some official buildings have compulsory shut down on the 27th but only in years when Christmas Eve falls on a Tuesday (like this year). In those years Christmas Eve is a normal working day, and the 24th shut down is moved to the 27th. It's to reduce operating costs.

it is not a bank holiday but if a company closes the 3 working days between Christmas and New year ( this year Friday 27th and Monday30th Tuesday 31st) they can gie them as extra days but equally they can allocate 3 days of annual leave to this period, it is perfectly legal for a business to decide when you take your some or even all of your annual leave
Some buisness like constrcution will be taking 2 weeks just now and often a compulsory 2 weeks in the summer for some businesses it just makes more sense to close completely for a coupleo f weeks as they can't do that type of work with some team members off

I work for a company where we shut down between Xmas and new years and I'm forced to use 3 days annual leave for this time.

I don't mind as like the time off but I don't like being forced to do something.

I’m a civil servant and would need to use A/L
to have either of these dates off.

OP, the GOV.UK bank holiday page is a complete list - you can trust that.

What they said.

Thank you all, I somehow thought the annual leave was generous but checking the contract I received after couple of months after in the role, it's stating just 26 days total (this includes bank holidays by looks of it) based on 12 months of service and for 1 week starting after the new organisational holiday year had commenced (holiday year is the usual 31st March to 1st April)

My own fault, I'm starting to become concerned I could be in debt to the employer over leave as it is. Can I ask them to look into how much I may owe them in the event I choose to leave before the end?

If CD or BD falls on a Saturday, 27/12 is a BH. If BD is a Sunday then 28/12 will be. Same goes for New Year as if NYD is a Saturday, the 3/1 will be a BH too.

As CD and NYD are always a week apart, they fall on the same day of the week.

In my office jobs, I always had to turn up to work on the days between Xmas and NY if they don't fall on weekends or BHs

Annual leave is a minimum of 5.6 weeks which is 28 days that can include bank holidays but for full time workers it can't be less than 28 days in total

OK well as a temporary 'civil servant without the benefits' I've been allowed to take a week's annual leave more than I ever should have, meaning I'm in debt to the employer when I've calculated it today myself.

I will deal with it.