How to Know Your Bank Holiday Rights

When it comes to bank holidays, many people find that they still have to work. So just what should you be entitled to and how can you reclaim those rights? These steps will reveal exactly what your rights are.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Your bank holiday rights is that every employer, whether they work permanently or temporarily, is allowed 20 days holiday per year.
2. There is a loophole in the law which employers can use to designate bank holidays as working days.
3. There are eight main bank holidays in Britain per year. If you get paid for the bank-holiday leave then your employer can class that as part of your 20 days holiday per year. However, if it is unpaid, you are still entitled to the full four weeks on top of the bank holiday.
4. Even if you work through your bank holiday, you are not entitled to a higher pay rate.
5. If you work part time and you have to work on the bank holiday because a full-time worker is getting paid leave, you are entitled to another paid day off sometime in the year.

Tips & Warnings

• Finding out your bank holiday rights is extremely simple once you know how. There are many resources on the Internet where you can find everything you need to know. Unfortunately there is currently a loophole where your employer can force you to work on a bank holiday and you do not even receive more pay for it necessarily either.