...and cancel Christmas!!!

[DJRC]

A darkly amusing parody of the line from Alan Rickman in Prince of Thieves, but currently being played out for real in Portugal.

The Portugese govt has just cancelled 4 national holidays, alas for full comic value neither Christmas nor Easter, but arguably 2 of their most important National Days...the formation of Portugal day and the historic independence from Spain day.

All in the name of austerity and now "increasing productive growth".

[TonyHetherington]

Blimey. I can't imagine that's gone down well.

[DJRC]

They arent especially!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Good for them.

I'm sick of governments announcing public holidays that others have to pay for.
Queen's jubilee for example. What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

Maybe I should send a letter to Cameron's PA, telling her she can have next Wednesday off on full pay. See how he likes it.

[Deva Link]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

They don't do that. Firms don't have to give people the day off.

[eharding]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Good for them.

I'm sick of governments announcing public holidays that others have to pay for.
Queen's jubilee for example. What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

Maybe I should send a letter to Cameron's PA, telling her she can have next Wednesday off on full pay. See how he likes it.

AFAIK there is no statutory right to paid leave on bank holidays and public holidays in the UK - entirely at the discretion of your employer.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Deva Link said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

They don't do that. Firms don't have to give people the day off.

Agreed. But want to tell your staff they've got to work queens jubilee bank holiday when everyone else has the day off and they'll miss their street party?? Yeah...good luck with that!

[Oakey]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Agreed. But want to tell your staff they've got to work queens jubilee bank holiday when everyone else has the day off and they'll miss their street party?? Yeah...good luck with that!

Yes, it amazes me too how everything comes to a complete standstill on a bank holiday, what with absolutely no one working at all. Anywhere. Ever. Everybody has the day off. everybody

[Adrian W]

eharding said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Good for them.

I'm sick of governments announcing public holidays that others have to pay for.
Queen's jubilee for example. What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

Maybe I should send a letter to Cameron's PA, telling her she can have next Wednesday off on full pay. See how he likes it.

AFAIK there is no statutory right to paid leave on bank holidays and public holidays in the UK - entirely at the discretion of your employer.

My daughter works for Comet, they do not pay for bank holidays, she had to work the one just gone as if it never happened.

[jesta1865]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Agreed. But want to tell your staff they've got to work queens jubilee bank holiday when everyone else has the day off and they'll miss their street party?? Yeah...good luck with that!

i may not be working that day (employer is closed) but i will be making myself scarce from any street party, luckily our road is too busy to be closed

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Oakey said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Agreed. But want to tell your staff they've got to work queens jubilee bank holiday when everyone else has the day off and they'll miss their street party?? Yeah...good luck with that!

Yes, it amazes me too how everything comes to a complete standstill on a bank holiday, what with absolutely no one working at all. Anywhere. Ever. Everybody has the day off. everybody

I think most employers of office staff would struggle to get staff to work a bank holiday or toyaccept a reduction in pay for having the day off.

[Deva Link]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I think most employers of office staff would struggle to get staff to work a bank holiday or toyaccept a reduction in pay for having the day off.

The Government had given employers a great opportunity to disempower their staff - just tell 'em they're working or they're not getting paid.

[DJRC]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Deva Link said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

They don't do that. Firms don't have to give people the day off.

Agreed. But want to tell your staff they've got to work queens jubilee bank holiday when everyone else has the day off and they'll miss their street party?? Yeah...good luck with that!

Im working, its no Bank Holiday here.

[0000]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Deva Link said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

They don't do that. Firms don't have to give people the day off.

Agreed. But want to tell your staff they've got to work queens jubilee bank holiday when everyone else has the day off and they'll miss their street party?? Yeah...good luck with that!

So it's the government's fault that you're afraid either to communicate the financial responsibilities of the situation to your employees or you won't be able to present a convincing argument for working the day to them?

You are an employer, right?

[12gauge]

Why do we even have 'bank holidays' anymore?

Cant we just have half a dozen 'free days' or something, where we get to choose the days we have off?

It seems absurd that its assumed that the days we want off will happen to be the same ones for each and every one of us.

If I was prime minister id give everyone the same days off, but get rid of bank holidays.

[Deva Link]

12gauge said:

It seems absurd that its assumed that the days we want off will happen to be the same ones for each and every one of us.

For most business it makes a lot of sense for everyone to be off at the same time and then they can just shut down. It's already an issue in the UK that summer holidays seem to to spread from May to Sept - most other European countries still have periods (sometimes a whole month) when pretty well everyone is off.

[TTwiggy]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Good for them.

I'm sick of governments announcing public holidays that others have to pay for.
Queen's jubilee for example. What gives them the right to grant a days holiday to the staff employed by a private firm?

Maybe I should send a letter to Cameron's PA, telling her she can have next Wednesday off on full pay. See how he likes it.

Just you and those three ghosts for Christmas dinner round yours again?