An end to bank holidays?

[EGTC]

Whats your thoughts?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17654781

The way its going we'll all be working xmas and new year too.

[waco]

Whats a bank holiday ?

Just worked Good Friday Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday..............12 hours each day!

Still at least I have a job!!!!!

[symon]

I would happily cash in the bank holidays for either money or extra holidays that I can take when I like. Not being religious, I'd rather not be forced to take time off when the Christian calendar dictates. But I guess that's what I get for living in a Christian based country. If I was living in an Arab country for example, I guess I would be issued with a different set of holidays.

Then there are the issues induced by almost everything being closed at once.

[Lincoln 7]

symon. Ever thought of becoming a Monk, and living in a Monastery?. Problem solved all in one go.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

[Arthur Pewtey]

So workers can work bank holidays to increase productivity? I guess bosses would like that. They would also like the increased profits and bonuses. Would the workers pay increase for working extra days? I doubt it somehow.

Most of us work to live not live to work.

[tornado64]

jolly good old bean !! lets ban all hollidays so we can get the last drop of blood from our peasant slaves !!

after all victorian britain was a fantastic place that we should be back in with all it's fantastic workers rights and health and safetey

little 7 yr old johnny doesn't do much either so perhaps he can come out of school so he can go up chimneys !!

gradualy and little by little everything that was faught for to give workers a well earned rest is being given away

it is ok for those that do non physical jobs but what about the builder wheelbarrowing day in day out and all other physical and mentaly draining jobs ??

[tornado64]

FWIW i'm working them but get double pay , but that is the nature of my work and we get a decent holiday package , but a lot of employers will see it as a superb opertunity to have someone there 365 and paying single rate !!

[Lincoln 7]

Arthur. Most Companies have their employees by the short and curleys, inasmuch as that many of them, more or less forced their employees to sign new Contracts, taking away any recompence for working Bank Holidays and only work for the normal working hourly payment.

One friend was told, either sign the contract, or go and work in one of our other stores so any miles away, it was obvious the employee would sign the new contract, and thats just one, of many changes.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

[Lincoln 7]

FWIW i'm working them but get double pay , b!

Can you lend me a few quid until my pension comes through Sire, Lord of the mansion, who worketh little and gets paid too much
Jim.
Lincoln .7

[tornado64]

Can you lend me a few quid until my pension comes through Sire, Lord of the mansion, who worketh little and gets paid too much
Jim.
Lincoln .7

pfft !! my take home pay is only just enough to take me home !! lol !!

[paul178]

pfft !! my take home pay is only just enough to take me home !! lol !!

Home? You have got a home you must get to much money then!

[tornado64]

Home? You have got a home you must get to much money then!

ok then , hovel !!

[Arthur Pewtey]

Apparently a single day off in 60 years is very bad for the economy according this comedian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17530003

Is the UK economy so fragile that a single celebratory day off causes the economy to contract?

Excuses, excuses.

[MSR777]

On the face of it, I don't suppose that re-arranging the holidays would be too bad. However, some of them are tied to events that took place on a specific date, so how would this re-arrangement work? What would worry me, would be that if these bank holidays are 'uncoupled' from their relative events, it could be used as an excuse to reduce the number of days still further. Governments and SOME employers being what they are, I wouldn't trust either not to take advantage of the situation. It could be the top of a very slippery slope.

[symon]

That's what I was implying MSR: I would rather get an extra weeks leave, for example, to be able to take the time off when I wanted to.

[tornado64]

Apparently a single day off in 60 years is very bad for the economy according this comedian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17530003

Is the UK economy so fragile that a single celebratory day off causes the economy to contract?

Excuses, excuses.

wool over eyes !! and we as sheep are expected to take a load of bo**ocks like that in

i suspect i am not on my own that the simple fact is i spend more on a day off !! , in fact i scare myself last week i spent £1000.00 in one day off

now i'm back at work i probably spend 15.00 a week on myself !!

[jbritchford]

Are we all just supposed to be drones here to service an entity name 'the economy'?

With people having an extra day off to celebrate I would have thought if anything MORE would be spent on that day. It's not like any businesses are going to buy any less because of the extra day off, they might put if off for a day, but that's all.

[tornado64]

Are we all just supposed to be drones here to service an entity name 'the economy'?

With people having an extra day off to celebrate I would have thought if anything MORE would be spent on that day. It's not like any businesses are going to buy any less because of the extra day off, they might put if off for a day, but that's all.

sureley the fewer days worked are better you will still only buy the same in the shops that you need each week and you could pay shop staff fewer days wages

err hang on !!??

but any given person is only going to buy the same each week and i'm tight with money unless it is a day off then i go potty