Wedding Bank Hol.why should it cost employers?

[mrmcfister]

Why should employers be required to pay staff's extra wages and close down costs etc for this pointless load of bollocks? Fair enough if people want to take a day off at no wages but this is like getting the local primary school down when ugly Ann comes to town...otherwise the streets would look very bare indeed....OK so some like a little pageantry but why should employers be asked to carry the burden for this hokum?

[mrchapel]

You mean employers like the cunt who just got buried, Eddie Stobbart? Who the whole media thought was great but didn`t give fucking staff holiday pay and sacked drivers for taking their tie off during a heatwave and don`t have the proper safety facilities in his depots.
Those kinds of employers? Or just fatcats in general who live off the graft of the little people and wish they could all move operations to India like microsoft and claim its nothing to do with the fact that a whole factory workforce there costs less than a bar of choclate.

[spider]

You are forgetting the Bank Holiday we got when they buried Di in 1997 after she was murdered.

[David Johnson]

"Why should employers be required to pay staff's extra wages and close down costs etc for this pointless load of bollocks? "

They dont necessarily have to. It depends entirely on the terms of their contract. If they get say, 28 days of paid holiday including bank holidays, extra bank holidays are unpaid. if the contract states 24 days plus bank holidays then they might have to fork out.

Cheers
D

[JamesW]

"You are forgetting the Bank Holiday we got when they buried Di in 1997"


Bank holiday? That was a Saturday.

If Saturday's count as bank holidays then we get a bank holiday every week.

[spider]

I worked for a company at that time that ran a six day operation Mon to Sat and I remember the firm had to give in to pressure from its employees and closedown that Saturday.

This was necessary because the workers all wanted to join in the grieving at the death of Saint Di.

They weren?t up for losing a days pay though so it had to be deemed a bank holiday and the few workers who had to go into work for essential security duties demanded Bank Holiday payments.

[RoddersUK]

So how does a Royal Wedding screw our economy?