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This time of year will be particularly good for our refuse competitor's pay packets. Our dustbin day is Monday and they always come on Mondays, bank holidays or not.

I guess there will be a nice little premium in their wage packet for May.

Just saying.

Petras409 | 10.04.23 - 8:10 a.m. | #

Our bins too are emptied on Mondays but when it's a bank holiday the collectors/"competitors" get that day off. All the bin days slip a day for the rest of the week, and the collections scheduled for Friday happen on Saturday - so I suppose that's when the staff get a premium payment.

Ian | 10.04.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #

I wish I had thought about Monday bank holidays before I accepted Monday as my day off work.

Renata | 10.04.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #

As more people work from home for more of the week, we should move Bank Holidays to a Wednesday.

Still Anon | 10.04.23 - 8:34 a.m. | #

My bin-men deserve any bonus they get. 100% reliable in all weathers, and there all through Covid. Sometimes, when I forget to put out the bins, they come around the back to find them. In my best Colonel Kilgore mode, they get a six-pack for that!

Mike Jones | 10.04.23 - 9:21 a.m. | #

The pedant in me wants to know why it's a "bank holiday", a term that confuses the hell out of the rest of the world. In the UK now every day banks appears to be on holiday.

Today isn't a bank holiday even though people talk as if it is.

Call it a public holiday, stop misusing terms in the belief it's tradition.

dg writes: it’s a bank holiday.

Simon | Homepage | 10.04.23 - 9:30 a.m. | #

Let it be noted that Good Friday and Christmas Day are common law holidays rather than “bank holidays” in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

Rich G | Homepage | 10.04.23 - 10:28 a.m. | #

Blimey, is it only one month until the Coronation? That's one distant date that has suddenly snuck up on me!
Still can't used to having a King though, and probably won't until currency and stamps have been in circulation for quite a while!

Cornish Cockney | 10.04.23 - 10:48 a.m. | #

Renata - Check your employment contract. Assuming your colleagues do get Bank Holidays off, many employers give an equivalent number of days off in proportion to your working week (eg if you work 4 days you'll get 4/5 of the number of Bank Holiday days). As with actual Bank Holidays, you may though not get to choose when you take that day.

Andrew S | 10.04.23 - 10:48 a.m. | #

I like the references such as "26th December, if it be not a Sunday" in the legislation linked to by Rich.

It reads like one of those poems that doesn't scan for remembering important days or the length of a month.

Ned | 10.04.23 - 10:54 a.m. | #

Does Christmas day *falling* on a Monday count as a Bank Holiday Monday, in the same way that it does when Christmas falls on a Saturday or Sunday? Somehow that is making my head hurt.

Yes, Renata, you should get your Bank Holidays back pro rata, and part time people who work Mondays should have to give back some time similarly ... in a fair world at any rate.

And having lived somewhere where the bins aren't collected on Bank Holidays (and it messes up the whole following week), and now somewhere that they are (and my bin day being a Monday) I find the latter vastly preferable, and they deserve a bonus!

Sarah | 10.04.23 - 11:14 a.m. | #

Since retirement in 2013 from the Tower in Stratford Market Depot I love the quite of the times when school’s are closed and road traffic is much less around my house.

Bob | 10.04.23 - 11:30 a.m. | #

As a pensioner I hate Bank Holidays! Mucks my shopping schedule up no end.

However, on a serious note, why in times of economic stress is the coronation not scheduled to tie in with either of the 2 usual May holidays? As an example, another day bereft of elective hospital surgery helps no one.

J. | 10.04.23 - 6:48 p.m. | #

The Coronation is actually on the Saturday, so I assume the Bank Holiday is to "compensate" us for the Coronation being at the weekend.

Of course if the Coronation was on say Friday, then that could have been the Bank Holiday instead

Mikey C | 11.04.23 - 12:15 a.m. | #











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