Bank Holidays

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The following copied from a forum topic.


Extract from current Staff Handbook
All staff receive a Bank Holiday entitlement in days at the beginning of the holiday year, dependent on the number of days they work in a week.  This is irrespective of whether or not they are contracted to work on a particular Bank Holiday.
Bank Holiday entitlement
Bank Holiday entitlement days are to be used to take Bank Holidays off that fall on a contractual day of work, if you do not wish to work or the store is not open.
You may ask to work on a Bank Holiday if your store is open and take your Bank Holiday entitlement by mutual agreement with your manager on another scheduled working day.
If you do not have sufficient Bank Holiday entitlement to take off all the Bank Holidays that fall on your contractual working days, you have the following options:
• Take the day as annual holiday.
• Work your hours at another mutually agreed time within four weeks of the Bank Holiday.
• Take the day unpaid.
• Volunteer to work the Bank Holiday.
• Take your Personal Day (if eligible).
If your working days do not fall on the Bank Holiday you will have your entitlement to take at another time, by mutual agreement with your manager.

If you take a day off (Bank holiday or ordinary holiday) and use a day from your allowance you will get paid your usual pay for that day (including all premiums).  If you don't use a day from your allowance you can use that day on another occasion.  If the store is closed you will have to use a day from the allowance or use the other options above.