THE MONDAY DEBATE: Should we abandon Bank Holidays?(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  March 31, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Bank Holidays mean travel chaos so here is our guide...would it be better to abandon national Bank Holidays and have more annual holiday entitlement...branch of the Institute of Directors BANK Holidays were first introduced in the days when...

Debate: Is it time we scrapped bank holidays? Next weekend will prompt the...

The Independent - London;  August 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ......makes up our full tally of just eight bank holidays. (Scotland has, of course, an extra...entitlements? The business disadvantages of bank holidays have been well rehearsed. First, some...some businesses that operate over bank holidays, for example seaside attractions and...

Union calls for extra bank holidays could cost hospitality industry...

Leisure Report;  May 1, 2003 ;     154 words ......workers can expect extra pay for working bank holidays if the TUC gets its way. The TUC reported...it wants three additional statutory bank holidays to be introduced, with employees offered...This would increase the UK's annual bank holidays from eight to 11, in line with other...

Bank holidays: let's be rid of this 19th-century notion

The Independent - London;  August 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......moving in quite the opposite direction. Bank holidays were a late 19th-century means of compensating...that had been abolished. They were bank holidays because when banks were closed no other...Through all this change, however, bank holidays have remained inviolate. There is a...

53 of small businesses would like more bank holidays; Only 9 would like...

M2 Presswire;  April 12, 2007 ;     492 words ......small businesses would like more bank holidays; Only 9 would like less(C)1994...given the thumbs up to having more bank holidays in the UK. Only 9 believe that there should be fewer UK bank holidays whilst 38 believe we have the correct...

Standing firm on holidays I Have just read the letters in Viewpoint about...

Grimsby Telegraph;  June 8, 2007 ;     262 words ......read the letters in Viewpoint about Bank Holidays and it raises an interesting fact...not law for a company to give you the Bank Holidays, nor pay you for them. Below is a copy...there is no statutory right to get Bank Holidays on top of this. 'Your employer may...

Warning of jobs axe over extra days off Bank holidays vow divides bosses,...

Evening Times;  March 9, 2005 ;     376 words ......company paid their workforce for all bank holidays. Labour's vow comes seven years after...currently include the existing eight bank holidays in that entitlement. Union leaders...Scotland are currently missing out on paid bank holidays. Most of those losing out - 133,448...

STUC calls for all to be given paid bank holidays

The Scotsman;  June 4, 2002 ;     378 words ...UNIONS yesterday called for paid Bank Holidays to be made legally enforceable after...government to change the law, so that bank holidays are given the same status as public...entitled by right to paid time off on bank holidays - while the rest of the population...

Stanley McHale: Bank holidays are for wimps and workshy.(Features)

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  March 31, 2005 ;     430 words ......work shy ne'er-do-wells like myself, bank holidays are a considerable nuisance. For the...never understood why they're called BANK holidays? Banks knock off half-way through the...invented. And Easter's the Daddy of bank holidays. A 112 hour marathon of early closing...

TUC call for more bank holidays.(Business)

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 3, 2002 ;     173 words ...The TUC today called for three extra bank holidays a year - to help workers become more...UK workers have the lowest number of bank holidays and the least statutory leave in Europe...union group complained. There are eight bank holidays in Britain, compared with 12 in Italy...

Call for three more bank holidays.(Business)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 27, 2004 ;     235 words ......this week urged to agree three extra bank holidays, including one to help break up the...on the Government to allow three new bank holidays to bring this country up to the European...Only Holland gives its workers as few bank holidays, but the Dutch have more annual leave...

More bank holidays called for.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 3, 2002 ;     75 words ...THE TUC today called for three more bank holidays a year to help workers become more...UK workers have the lowest number of bank Holidays and the least statutory leave in Europe...organisation complained. There are eight bank holidays in Britain compared with 12 in Italy...

Should I receive pay for bank holidays?

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 27, 2007 ;     496 words ......holiday a year. The company says that the bank holidays make up the fourth week, and that they...obliged to pay eight hours' pay for bank holidays. I haven't got an employment contract...the previous paid 12 weeks. However, bank holidays are not statutory holidays. Your employer...

Business backing more bank holidays; Eight in ten agree more bank holidays...

M2 Presswire;  October 27, 2004 ;     686 words ......October 2004-CRONER: Business backing more bank holidays; Eight in ten agree more bank holidays will boost productivity(C)1994-2004 M2...businesses are joining the campaign for more bank holidays, saying more time off could actually increase...

Bank holidays become thing of the past

The Independent - London;  August 31, 1998 ;     444 words ...BANK HOLIDAYS are a thing of the past for small businesses...chose to work through the previous bank holidays and expected to do the same again today...now stay open for the May and August bank holidays. The essence of the national holiday...