Queen's Diamond Jubilee holiday: overview
We explain employees' rights to time off on the Queen's Diamond Jubilee bank holiday.
Not all employees will be entitled to take the Diamond Jubilee bank holiday off work.
- Topic of the week: Queen's Diamond Jubilee holiday overview Whether or not employees are entitled to take the Queen's Diamond Jubilee bank holiday off work depends on the wording of their contracts of employment.
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For most employees, there is no statutory right to take time off on a bank holiday. The Holiday and holiday pay section of the XpertHR employment law manual explains the law relating to employees' holiday rights.
The XpertHR policies and documents section includes a number of model documents on holiday and holiday pay, including a Bank and public holidays contract clause and a Holiday request form.
We list bank and public holidays 2012 for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the XpertHR quick reference section. Dates for 2013 and 2014 are also listed.
The XpertHR FAQs section provides answers to questions about bank and public holidays, for example: Can bank holidays be included in a worker's statutory leave entitlement? and What is an employee’s holiday entitlement if an extra bank holiday is granted one year?
