Change in law regarding lieu days?

[Rob.]

My employer has recently announced that the law has recently changed in respect of lieu day allocation and bank holiday payments. Apparently bank holidays worked no longer qualify for extra payment and sacrifice of the lieu day that would be accriued, just extra money and a lieu day. I, nor my colleagues have heard of this and I am interested to know if anyone is aware of any recent changes in the law?

[BigAlinEmbra]

Well by law employers don't have to give you bank holidays off, so what happens with them will be dependent on your contract of employment. Bearing that in mind, then your lieu days are contractual rather than a particular law.
How many days do you get?

28 is the minimum if you work 5 days a week.
Eg my contract gives me 29 days plus 8 public holidays, so strictly speaking my employer could whip the 8 and there's not much I could do. If you're on 28 flat then your bank holidays are within the 28 so you can still take them assuming your employer lets you. They'd become the same as any other AL day really.

If you're a small organisation then just get all the affected colleagues together and get them to say they're not happy, although in the current choppy times maybe nobody wants to rock the boat.
If it's a bigger place then you might have some union involvement? Let them take the heat.

[Rob.]

Just resolved this with help from the direct.gov website - the law has changed although it's still not the clearest of things.