Day off on Christmas Day

[lillywhite]

If your day off falls on Xmas day does anyone actually know the procedure? We get something different every year! Some years nothing,others you get given another day during the week,day back in lieu and others an extra days pay. Ridiculous that it isn’t standard.

[rogersh]

I found this in a search for Christmas arrangements 2024. I expect an LTB for 2025 will be released imminently.

Extract 2024

3.12 In line with normal Christmas bank holiday and non USO service day arrangements, people who would normally be scheduled to work on the day of the bank holiday or non USO service day for the provision of USO collection and delivery services and
non USO parcel operations will not be required to attend and not be required to make up the hours.

3.13 Rest days will apply in line with normal year-round arrangements. Attendances may be varied by local agreement to take account of workload forecasts and service requirements. Where workload requires, (and subject to currently agreed working time limits) people can volunteer in advance to work their normal rest day in return for a day in lieu or the resourcing/remuneration options contained in Section 1. Where a rest day falls on a Bank Holiday (i.e. on 25th, 26th December, 1st January (& 2nd January in Scotland) and it is not operationally sensible to transfer the rest day to another day in the same week, people will receive an additional day holiday (including those working ‘a week off in six’ or other variations on this theme) in the form of a day in lieu or alternatively the excess hours can be taken as normal overtime. Normal adherence to the Working Time Directive still applies.

[lillywhite]

Thank you.

[yellowbelly]

Thank you.

This years arrangements have been out for a while and are as rogersh stated. I even think they've just copied and pasted the exact same wording, which is correct really as the procedure doesn't change - it's local managers who make it up as they go along:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=117312&p=1142607#p1142607

3.13 Rest days will apply in line with normal year-round arrangements. Attendances may
be varied by local agreement to take account of workload forecasts and service
requirements. Where workload requires, (and subject to currently agreed working
time limits) people can volunteer in advance to work their normal rest day in return
for a day in lieu or the resourcing/remuneration options contained in Section 1. Where
a rest day falls on a Bank Holiday (i.e. on 25th, 26th December, 1st January (& 2nd
January in Scotland) and it is not operationally sensible to transfer the rest day to
another day in the same week, people will receive an additional day holiday (including
those working ‘a week off in six’ or other variations on this theme) in the form of a day
in lieu or alternatively the excess hours can be taken as normal overtime. Normal
adherence to the Working Time Directive still applies.

[lillywhite]