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ANOTHER holiday question

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wheresmygiro?
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ANOTHER holiday question

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Evening,

basically i will be resigning some time around september, am i right in thinking, if i havent taken holiday by then, i am entitled to have all that im owed paid to me?

Cheers
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yes as long as you give the correct notice
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can anyone supply a list for all public hols in scotland for us
and also all the english hols
reason one of our bank hols seems to have gone astray and has done for few years would be nice to claim them back :dance
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wheresmygiro? wrote:Evening,

basically i will be resigning some time around september, am i right in thinking, if i havent taken holiday by then, i am entitled to have all that im owed paid to me?

Cheers
they can make you take your holiday in your notice period, it's hard to get one up on them, Sep is 5 months into the year so you may get a week at best of paid holiday or two weeks if you've worked 20+ years
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hans solo wrote:can anyone supply a list for all public hols in scotland for us
and also all the english hols
reason one of our bank hols seems to have gone astray and has done for few years would be nice to claim them back :dance
yes the government have a web page listing them for a number of years https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

specific for scotland https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays#scotland" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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wheresmygiro? wrote:Evening,

basically i will be resigning some time around september, am i right in thinking, if i havent taken holiday by then, i am entitled to have all that im owed paid to me?

Cheers

Not a full years entitlement no.

Holidays are accrued on an ongoing basis throughout the year. Therefore if you work from April to the start of September you will only have accreted 5/12 of your entitlement. If you have taken more than that then you will either owe them which will taken of your final wage.

If you have accrued more than you have taken, then this can be paid as untaken holiday (I think not 100% sure), or added to the notice period. That means if you gave a weeks notice and had 3 days holiday accrued but not used then they can make your last day at work 3 days earlier.
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what i wanted to know was they moved our summer monday bank hol but we dont know where to or if its been forgotten
we are in scotland and as far as im aware we get these public hols
1easter mon
2 may ist mon
3may last mon
summer mon disappeared
4 sep bank hol mon
5 xmas day
6 box day
7new years day
82nd jan
i know we get extra day for 2nd jan but we dont get good friday off
so where has our july /aug mon gone
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5 August https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays#scotland" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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hans solo wrote:what i wanted to know was they moved our summer monday bank hol but we dont know where to or if its been forgotten
we are in scotland and as far as im aware we get these public hols
1easter mon
2 may ist mon
3may last mon
summer mon disappeared
4 sep bank hol mon
5 xmas day
6 box day
7new years day
82nd jan
i know we get extra day for 2nd jan but we dont get good friday off
so where has our july /aug mon gone
We lost our summer bank holiday in Scotland years ago because we were getting more holidays than the rest of the UK :thumbdown Royal Mail wanted to do away with the 2nd January holiday in Scotland but I believe the union negotiated away the local summer bank holiday instead
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1easter mon
2 may ist mon
3may last mon
4 sep bank hol mon
5 xmas day
6 box day
7new years day
82nd jan

That's the lot hans,8 public holidays.
The one in red is local/variable.
Some take it in August,some in September.
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:5 August https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays#scotland" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We don't get the 5th August
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fishtank wrote:1easter mon
2 may ist mon
3may last mon
4 sep bank hol mon
5 xmas day
6 box day
7new years day
82nd jan

That's the lot hans,8 public holidays.
The one in red is local/variable.
Some take it in August,some in September.
we get ours the 1st Monday in October in Dundee, used to get the last Monday in July but that was the one Royal Mail did away with
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hans solo wrote:what i wanted to know was they moved our summer monday bank hol but we dont know where to or if its been forgotten
we are in scotland and as far as im aware we get these public hols
1easter mon
2 may ist mon
3may last mon
summer mon disappeared
4 sep bank hol mon
5 xmas day
6 box day
7new years day
82nd jan
i know we get extra day for 2nd jan but we dont get good friday off
so where has our july /aug mon gone

The July bh (summer) went when they reinstated the 2nd may bank holiday which for a couple of years had been scrapped