Not necessarily — your employer may need you to work the bank holiday, as described above. If Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, the following Monday is a bank holiday. In many businesses, you will have to take time off whether you like it or not over the core Christmas period as offices and workplaces are shut down entirely. If you don't really do Christmas, this is irksome enough.
But it's particularly unfair on members of other faiths who may want to use up valuable time off for their own religious festivals, such as Hannukah, Eid, Kwanzaa or Diwali. All companies now have to comply with the religious discrimination provisions of the Equality Act Whatever the constraints around Christmas, employees must wherever reasonably possible, be allowed enough flexibility to take leave for their own religious holidays and festivals.
If this is an issue where you work, you should ask your company if they have reviewed their policies on taking holidays and the timing of shutdowns at Christmas. Your workplace union can help with this. See our Christmas Issues section for more about your entitlements over the festive period. Stay up to date with the TUC and get the latest news and get early access.
Join a union. You are here Home Latest News Employers Should I get paid overtime? Answer You do not get two public holidays. Just the calendar date. Answer Your public holiday is the calendar date. Answer The holiday is 'mondayised'. Answer The calendar date is your public holiday. Answer The holiday is 'tuesdayised', due to there being two public holidays in a row.
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How helpful was this information? Additional comments. Horse racing and football soccer are now popular sports. Boxing Day is a bank holiday. If Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, the following Monday is a bank holiday. All schools and many organizations are closed in this period.
Some may close for the whole week between Christmas and New Year. Many stores are open and start their post-Christmas sales on Boxing Day. Public transport services may run on special timetables. Many people travel to visit family or friends in this period, so bus, plane and train services can be very busy.
It used to be customary for employers to give their employees or servants a gift of money or food in a small box on this day. This is still customary for people who deliver letters or newspapers, although the gift may be given before Christmas Day. In feudal times, the lord of the manor would gather all those who worked on his land together on this day and distribute boxes of practical goods, such as agricultural tools, food, and cloth.
This was payment for the work that they had done throughout the year. Other stories relate to servants being allowed to take a portion of the food left over from the Christmas celebrations in a box to their families and the distribution of alms from the Church collection box to poor parishioners.
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