Is this a waste of two bank holidays

[Lizzy Lemon]

Double time makes the weather a lot more bearable doesn't it!

I work every Sunday and the hospital I work for doesn't recognise Easter Sunday as special. Normally on a Bank Holiday we get double time and a day in lieu, (got this for Good Friday). We already get double pay for a normal Sunday but no day in lieu for Easter Day itself. Those working on Bank Holiday Monday get double time and a day in lieu. Work than one out. If Christmas falls on a Sunday we get pay x 3 and day in lieu.

 

[Claire L]

I work every Sunday and the hospital I work for doesn't recognise Easter Sunday as special. Normally on a Bank Holiday we get double time and a day in lieu, (got this for Good Friday). We already get double pay for a normal Sunday but no day in lieu for Easter Day itself. Those working on Bank Holiday Monday get double time and a day in lieu. Work than one out. If Christmas falls on a Sunday we get pay x 3 and day in lieu.

Same here Easter Sunday is a normal working day but GF and EM are double time Like your Christmas pay ours is always double time for any bank holiday.

Claire

 

[Claire L]

Double time makes the weather a lot more bearable doesn't it!

Plus I worked yesterday at less than 8 days notice and it was a rest day

Claire

 

[higgy66]

Not wanting to upset anybody here but the Easter Bank Holidays are all down to religion. I think anybody who is not a Christain should feel lucky that they get them. If it wasn't for these celebrations we'd all be working.

There would be plenty of people moaning if they were only awarded to Christians and I bet the number of Jedi's would fall

 

[paulh]

Easter is determined on the full moon. The day for Easter will fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal equinox.

your corect that its to do with the full moon,but its to do with the assension,which comes after easter which has to be on a full moon,(those days spent as an alter boy were not wasted)
Paulh

 

[Sue's Mum]

I am in agreement with half of your suggestion. Obviously we can't move the holiday on Good Friday but the Easter Monday could be scrapped in favour of something in the summer. The weatherman's comments the other day were that we are having an unusually cold March. As we have our family from Thailand staying with us for two weeks we have been looking for somewhere to go but in the bitterly cold wind that we've been having here, there really isn't anything. There are so few indoor attractions which suit a 21 month old. But a walk along a beach, or a trip to the park/swings, etc would have been good. Instead, we are all a bit frazzled trying to keep our not-so-little grandson entertained indoors.

So I vote yes to moving the bank holiday on Easter Monday.

 

[mark&sue]

Not wanting to upset anybody here but the Easter Bank Holidays are all down to religion. I think anybody who is not a Christain should feel lucky that they get them. If it wasn't for these celebrations we'd all be working.

There would be plenty of people moaning if they were only awarded to Christians and I bet the number of Jedi's would fall

yeah but all the Jedi's would get May the 4th off

By the way we had great weather in Spain on our Easter break.

I guess we would now get bank holidays whether there was religion or not. I think the UK has less bank holidays than the rest of Europe. I always thought that Jedi thing was an urban myth. We always put down Jedi as our religion when asked, perhaps we should change it to DIS.


Susan