Paid bank holidays

If an employment contract does not provide for paid bank and public holidays there is no legal right to have them, other than for bank workers themselves. The EAT has recently reconfirmed this in ruling against a claim for the extra bank holiday on 31 December 1999.

Negotiators will need to ensure that their members' contracts are amended if they want to be sure that they get the right to a paid day off on the extra bank holiday next year - 3 June 2002.

Campbell & Smith Construction Group v Greenwood [2001] IRLR 588