The Queens Platinum Street Party. June 2022.

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Funding available for Queens Platinum Street Party in June.

Someones organising one in our road.

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Also an extra bank holiday. Friday June 3rd.

PS Queens Massage in Manchester might be busy that week 

[mr.bluesky]

Are they going to be offering freebies then 

[Blackpool Rock]

Are they going to be offering freebies then 

Careful you may bump into Randy Andy 

[lillythesavage]

Careful you may bump into Randy Andy 

He is too old 

[Doormatt]

I get 28 days holiday minus 8 bank hols. So I get 20 days to take as I please. For example 4 lots of 5 days for 4 weeks off or I can use for long weekends etc. Bit pissed off as a non royalist that I am forced to take/loose an extra day reducing my days to 19 next year. So 3 full weeks off and 4 days.

[hullad]

The May bank holiday, has been moved to Thursday 2nd June and Friday 3rd June becomes Platinum Jubliee day. This provides for four days of festivities for many of her subjects,many will have to work as normal of course.

I plan to watch a bit of the bash on the TV with the trooping of the colour on Thursday 2nd ( normally a Saturday ) kicking off the whole shindig tickets are as usual by ballot in March cost about £30 each. A nice day out if you like looking at the normally brown clad pongos in red, I enjoyed it a few years ago. The a fly past The Red Arrows battle of britain flight and whatever else they can spare .

I don't think there is an RAF review or  Naval spithead review either' given the pitiful state of our forces any reviews would look pathetic.

[daviemac]

I get 28 days holiday minus 8 bank hols. So I get 20 days to take as I please. For example 4 lots of 5 days for 4 weeks off or I can use for long weekends etc. Bit pissed off as a non royalist that I am forced to take/loose an extra day reducing my days to 19 next year. So 3 full weeks off and 4 days.

How does a bank holiday come out of your annual entitlement?

[Doc Holliday]

How does a bank holiday come out of your annual entitlement?

An employer can choose to include bank holidays in the statutory 28 days. Must be in contract of course. Alternatively the contract may require you to actually work Bank Holidays.

[daviemac]

An employer can choose to include bank holidays in the statutory 28 days. Must be in contract of course. Alternatively the contract may require you to actually work Bank Holidays.

Yeah I get that but if his contract is 28 days minus 8 bank holidays then surely they can't just change it at will and say it's now minus 9 if an extra bank holiday is declared.   

[Blackpool Rock]

How does a bank holiday come out of your annual entitlement?

It's all a question of how the holiday entitlement is pitched to an employee or how the employee decides to interpret it I guess.

Looks like a full time worker gets a legal entitlement to 28 paid days holiday or which 8 are the statutory bank holidays.
The guy who made the statement is looking at it as having 28 days holiday but then the bastards take a day off him for a bank holiday.
The way one of my employers pitched it was that you got 20 days holiday + 8 statutory bank holidays, they did this after people moaned about having to take a holiday from their 28 days entitlement for a bank holiday.
It's as broad as it's long but apparently the "Complainers" were then happy   

Just be thankful these days if a bank holiday falls on a weekend day it carries over to the Monday whereas it never used to

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[Doc Holliday]

Yeah I get that but if his contract is 28 days minus 8 bank holidays then surely they can't just change it at will and say it's now minus 9 if an extra bank holiday is declared.   

Ahh yes gotcha  It will depend what is in his contract and how it classifies bank holidays ie does it say just the eight statutory ones are included or can extra ones be included? Presumablt the latter in his case? 

[Blackpool Rock]

Ahh yes gotcha  It will depend what is in his contract and how it classifies bank holidays ie does it say just the eight statutory ones are included or can extra ones be included? Presumablt the latter in his case? 

But we aren't actually getting an extra one are we 
Thought 1 was being moved 

[daviemac]

It's all a question of how the holiday entitlement is pitched to an employee or how the employee decides to interpret it I guess.

Ahh yes gotcha  It will depend what is in his contract and how it classifies bank holidays ie does it say just the eight statutory ones are included or can extra ones be included? Presumablt the latter in his case? 

In the jobs I've had it was always xx days holiday plus bank holidays which always seemed the logical way of putting it. In any case as it's an extra to the norm it should be an extra for everyone.

Doormatt, did you lose a day in 2012 when we had the last extra one.   

[Doc Holliday]

But we aren't actually getting an extra one are we 
Thought 1 was being moved 

One extra and one moved

[JontyR]

Unless I'm mistaken, and I may be, but I thought that the present level of holdiay entitlement originally came from European Working Time Legislation. So in future the entitlement to paid holiday may be eroded now that we have "taken back control". The right was for 20 days plus statutory holiday. 

[GingerNuts]

Unless I'm mistaken, and I may be, but I thought that the present level of holdiay entitlement originally came from European Working Time Legislation. So in future the entitlement to paid holiday may be eroded now that we have "taken back control". The right was for 20 days plus statutory holiday.

No, most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year and an employer can include bank holidays as part of statutory annual leave.

[JontyR]

No, most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year and an employer can include bank holidays as part of statutory annual leave.

Yep, fair enough. But I thought we got to 28 days because of the 8 statutory/bank holidays. 20+8.

[Blackpool Rock]

One extra and one moved

So there is 

[Gordon Bennett]

There is a commemorative 50p coin to celebrate the Jubilee.

They are in Post Offices today. They are just normal coins for circulation, you might get one in your change. I just popped in local PO and got 4 of them, gave them £2.

They have been selling on Ebay for £5-£8 for past several weeks. I don't know if those sort of prices will dip now the coins are hitting general circulation. I believe about 1 million of them are hitting POs and Royal Mint are potentially gonna issue 5 million of them. Those sort of mintage numbers would suggest coin should only sell for a quid. However, when there is a lot of mania and publicity for a coin it can sell for a price that is disproportionate to its lack of scarcity.

I predict that in coming days some buffoon will "sell" one on eBay for £50+ and that "sale" will be reported in the gutter press.



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Are they going to be offering freebies then 

I think, if you pay for "70" you may get one free 

[Jomoore]

I predict that in coming days some buffoon will "sell" one on eBay for £50+ and that "sale" will be reported in the gutter press.

I'd say it's the guy who buys it for £50 who's the buffoon, not the seller 

[Gordon Bennett]

I'd say it's the guy who buys it for £50 who's the buffoon, not the seller 

It won't sell. If will be a nonsense fake listing, possibly put up by a lazy journalist to create the story.

Here's a current listing, I can't be arsed trawling through them all but there must be dozens at silly prices....

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