Christmas Day Pay

An a big corporate I used to work at, the Support department had to elect between themselves who would 'get' to work Xmas day.

I say elect as opposed to nominate, because it was an extra £1'500, just for the one day. Crazy.
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
Hi folks,

Just wondered. Have any of you ever worked at a place that offered no extra pay on Christmas Day?

That is what is expected of us at our place and I cannot recall in 20 years of working at various places this has ever happened.

Seems a bit harsh to me. :confused:
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When I was a manager at sainsburys in the midlands the lazy regional management had decided that 2 managers needed to be in the store on Christmas day so that their Christmas dinners didn't get interrupted for call outs. Single pay. No choice.

Quit shortly after.
 
This year is extra crap - because it falls on a weekend actually working on Christmas Day will not even get you a lieu day. Thankfully I'm not working it this year!
 
As a chef, i'm lucky that i get xmas eve, xmas day and boxing day off where i work. I've worked xmas day once for double pay years ago, as a chef, that's good going!
 
I normally offer to work it (humbug), but any of the bank holidays around then is 2x time and a day back in lieu.
 
My work don't pay extra for Christmas day because it's a 24/7 place (w/12hr shifts), so all bank holidays etc are just another day - you get a shift allowance on top of your regular salary and that's it.
 
Dis86 said:
Last time I worked Christmas day it was triple time plus £150.00
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Same. Only ever actually "worked" one xmas day though (followed by Y2K NYE which was tripple pay + £600).

Been on call plenty of times though - that was double normal oncall rate and triple hourly rate if we actually got called out - I never did though.
 
Last time I worked xmas day was when I was on call as a headend tech for the now defunct NTL: 5 X normal pay and 3 X hourly rate for OT. I was out for 20 hours that day! Slept in the headend, had a Chinese meal for cams dinner that I begged the local Chinese to make me as they were only doing pre booked.

Honestly wasn't worth it as it was my sons 2nd Xmas and the first one where he understood the gifts were for him. Missed it all!!!!!
 
Yes, used to work shifts. Christmas and New Years were treated the same as bank holidays. If you were down on the rota to work those days you had to for no extra money.

However, contractors from another agency would be paid extra for weekends and bank holidays so they would earn more for Christmas and boxing day.
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
Just wondered. Have any of you ever worked at a place that offered no extra pay on Christmas Day?
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All of them...

Civil engineering, NHS, British Army, shops... everywhere I've worked, Christmas has always been part of the contract and never any extra pay.
Only time I got extra money was when I played in a band - Xmas and New Year were both very good earners.

Christmas sucks anyway, so I don't mind.
 
Working offshore was double rate for Xmas And NY on those 2 days, Family men usually asked the single people to offer to cover those hitches. I did it a few times, wasn't that bothered tbh.

interestingly this year ill probably get the opportunity to work the 24th (swerdish xmas), Xmas day and maybe NYE but ill be home by 4pm so tbh couldn't care less. It will be triple time + uncomfortable working hours bonus on top. Mind blowing money for such a crappy job.
 
Angilion said:
Minumum wage.

The days when people on low wages worked set hours on set days and could rely on that are gone. It's no longer the case that a low-paid job allows both low stress and a reliable, dependable, plannable life outside of work.
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That sounds ****. You are doing 55-60 hour weeks for an employer that pays you minimum wage for 35-40 hours? Why?! Christ that sounds dire.
 
platypus said:
Lots of money, time in lieu, super quiet office. Why wouldn't you?
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This,

I was working for orange on their 2nd tier tech support line at the time i took 1 phone call and 1 escalation.

Got told by an angry chap that i personally had ruined his Christmas because i couldn't make a phone do something it didn't do.

his wife had bought him a Bluetooth headset for his 7650 which only supported Bluetooth data xfer..... incorrectly advised by CPW
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got triple time and it contributed to my christmas hours bonus where i got 1000 extra if i did 5 key days in the busy period as over time.

My january pay packet was huge. damn you tax man!!!!

I would have done it for triple time and the oppurtunity to be told i'd personally ruined someones Christmas though.
 
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Angilion said:
If that was your choice, I very much doubt if you really would choose to be on the street.
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Seriously - there aren't many areas where I wouldn't try to compromise but that is one area I wouldn't - if the choice was between living on the streets or doing split shifts I'd be on the streets. That is one line I'm not prepared to cross where an employer thinks that level of disruption on their employees life is ok largely for their own convenience/costs - I've done them before the odd time there is a genuine emergency or other significant reason.
 
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