you getting a day off for the royal wedding?

but employees are not obliged to allow...

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Although many employers do close down on such days or offer employees who work extra pay or a day off in lieu, they are not required to do so.

 

Any right to time off or extra pay for working on a bank holiday depends on the terms of the contract of employment.

 

The only legal obligation on an employer is to allow their workers the minimum annual leave laid down in the Working Time Regulations 1998 (28 days for a full-time worker).

 

Many businesses, such as those in the retail sector, open on bank holidays and need to maintain staff cover. Bank holidays are usually treated just like any other day therefore and employees have to make a request for annual leave in the normal way if they do not wish to work the bank holiday.

 

Where an employment contract provides for “twenty days holiday plus bank holidays” then an employee will be entitled to the royal wedding bank holiday next year in addition to the usual eight bank holidays.

 

Where the employment contract simply states that the employee is entitled to “twenty eight days holiday per year” there will be no such contractual entitlement. An employer with such a holiday clause may decide to close down on the 29 April 2011 but require employees to take the day out of their annual holiday allowance.

my boss is saying "no chance!". gotta check my contract.

I voted in both polls!

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