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Click to show the answer What are bank holidays?

Click to show the answer Can employees be required to work on bank holidays?

Click to show the answer Are employees who are required to work on bank holidays entitled to pay in lieu of time off, or additional holiday?

Click to show the answer Are part-time workers entitled to bank holidays?

Click to show the answer If a part-time or shift-working employee is not scheduled to work on a bank holiday, is he or she entitled to an additional day's holiday?

Click to show the answer If a part-time employee is contracted to work a half day on a bank holiday, is he or she entitled to an additional half day's holiday to take at another time?

Click to show the answer Can employees be required to take annual leave on bank holidays?

Click to show the answer Can bank holidays be included in a worker's statutory leave entitlement?

Click to show the answer Are employees entitled to time off for bank holidays in addition to the statutory minimum annual leave entitlement of 5.6 weeks?

Click to show the answer Is an employee who is required to work on bank holidays entitled to extra pay?

Click to show the answer What different types of holiday need to be accounted for in the written statement?

Click to show the answer How should an employer deal with an employee who refuses to work on a bank holiday?

Click to show the answer Are employers required to provide pay or time off in lieu of bank holidays that coincide with maternity leave?

Click to show the answer Where an employee's period of paternity leave coincides with a bank holiday, is the employer under any obligation to provide a compensatory day off or pay in lieu?

Click to show the answer Can Christian employees refuse to work on the bank holidays that are aligned to a Christian festival such as Easter?

Click to show the answer Should employees who practise religions other than Christianity be given additional time off in lieu where a bank holiday is aligned to a Christian festival such as Easter?

Click to show the answer How should an employer deal with an employee who calls in sick on a bank holiday?

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