Does anyone know the legal requirments for Bank Holiday working. Should double time be paid?

Question

Or can you take time off in leiu? If so should that be on day off for each bank holiday or 2. This is mainly about having to work New Years Day.

Answer 1

They dont have to pay you double time.They must however give you the chance to have the day off,unless it is in a contract of employment which you have signed up to.

Answer 2

Employers have no need to differentiate between Bank Holidays OR Sundays. They are simply treated as a normal working day.
"Salaried" staff find this to their cost as nothing extra is paid for working on any of these days, and in certain instances, the fact that Christmas day is given off, that day "off" is counted as part of the annual leave allowance!

Answer 3

i work for a 24hour company and as such they see no need to pay extra for nights, unsocibal, sundays, christmas day, new years day or bank holidays, we get paid minimum wage regardless and no days off in leiu and they wonder why the staff are pi***d off and noone actually wants to work when they are there or help out when short staffed

Answer 4

Believe it or not, employers are under no legal obligation to let employees take the day off on a bank holiday, nor do they have to pay you any extra...however, most employers would pay extra out of choice.

Answer 5

If you are a "at will" employee, which means you are non-union, then the employers can do what they want. If you are in a union, most likely you get paid premium time on a holiday.

Answer 6

There is no explicit entitlement to double or treble time or time off in leau. What does it say in your contract? What has happened in the past, this will establish 'custom and practice', ie what happened in the past should happen again.