What is the procedure for paying for or the working of bank holidays?
Rules introduced in 2007 now make bank holidays part of the statutory holiday entitlement. The holiday does not have to be taken on the actual bank holiday day but a day per bank holiday has to be included as part of the holiday entitlement. To make the transition smoother only half of the bank holidays (4 days) were be added to the statutory holiday entitlement up to April 2009, thereafter the full 8 daysl became the entitlement. As these rules are not currently (2010) part of the Working Time Regulations, which enact the holiday rules, the days holiday for a bank holiday can either be taken off or be paid up, so for example, if an employee worked the bank holiday they could be paid double time for it instead of taking a day off and the rules would be satisfied. The number of extra days holiday given for the bank holidays is pro rata based on a five day week (even if the employee workers either six or seven days a week), for example, if an employee works three days a week their extra
