Shift patterns include working on Easter Sunday

taximike

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So on my shift patterns it seems they are expecting us to work on Easter Sunday, without the option to take it off.

I am pretty annoyed about this, I work a for a major bank in the credit support team, just temping. Planning to leave around mid-may.

Anyway - they aren't even going to pay us any extra! That's what really takes the michael. Do I have any legal right here not work that day? It's going to mess up family plans.
 
Religious holiday, become suddenly enraged by the fact it's inpeding your beliefs and restricting your right to celebrate :p
 
I should have been more clear. My place of work opens 364 days a year. I don't know if I'm working that day, I haven't looked. I don't even know when it is.
 
Can you politely ask your line manager to have that day off? Probably better to try the tactful approach before giving them the double barrels of the law :) (apologies if you've already tried this)
 
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Are you actually on a fixed shift pattern, if my shift falls on a bank holiday I have to work it, I do get an extra day's holiday in lieu though.

edit/ o and Easter Sunday isn't a bank holiday
 
Not a bank holiday so as long as it's in your contract, you have to work it.
I just wouldn't show up though, whenever I feel I'm supposed to be given a day off, like other people get that day off, I take it. I've yet to get a warning for it even.

"I don't care if tescos wants to stay open 24/7 all year round, I feel me and my family are more important than the idiots who can't survive for 1 day without a shop open."
 
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I am not guaranteed any days off, if my rota falls on Christmas Day then it's my bad luck

Easter Sunday is a normal working day ( well the same as any other Sunday ), it is not a bank holiday
 
Sorry, whats so special about easter Sunday? What makes the day totally different to every other sunday? Don't even get to open presents like xmas!
 
jamief said:
Yeah, but what is so special about it? You don't take Shrove Tuesday or Ash Wednesday off, do you?
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apparently some guy died and came back as a zombie, so some people might want to make a big thing of it :p

Personally it's a day where I check the functionality of my firearms, just incase >.>
 
AcidHell2 said:
Of course you don't.

It is all down to your contract.
I am only guaranteed not to work 3 days a year (Christmas day, boxing day, new years day). Everything else is fair game and at normal rate.
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Except that you have a statutory right to holidays, and the company cannot technically refuse for you to take a holiday whenever you see fit provided you give them correct notice (all this company must approve holiday and you cannot take holiday if company is already short staffed is just BS).
 
rypt said:
Except that you have a statutory right to holidays, and the company cannot technically refuse for you to take a holiday whenever you see fit provided you give them correct notice (all this company must approve holiday and you cannot take holiday if company is already short staffed is just BS).
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don't think that is correct, they can decide when your holidays are if that is the way they work, many people have set holidays and cannot choose their own
 
Rotty said:
don't think that is correct, they can decide when your holidays are if that is the way they work, many people have set holidays and cannot choose their own
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AFAIK the UK law states that you can take a holiday whenever you see fit provided you give the correct amount of notice, and that technically makes whatever your contract says about holidays null and void (including the forced Christmas holiday time).
I don't think this has ever been challenged in court though.
 
rypt said:
AFAIK the UK law states that you can take a holiday whenever you see fit provided you give the correct amount of notice, and that technically makes whatever your contract says about holidays null and void (including the forced Christmas holiday time).
I don't think this has ever been challenged in court though.
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Many places have factory shutdown weeks and you have to take your holidays then, would be interesting to see a test case happen
 
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