HM Queen Elizabeth II's State Funeral - managing extra bank holiday

I'm in the NHS (acute and community services). We're stepping back some "routine" ops and appointments, but providing a bit more of a service than we usually would on a weekend/bank holiday, because it's short notice. Staff are have an additional 1/5 of their weekly contracted hours added to their annual leave entitlement. If they are working, they'll be paid enhancements and have the leave to book later. If they were due to work and their service is closed, they'll need to book the day as annual leave (using some of their "normal" holiday allowance if the additional leave allowance doesn't cover it). Staff who don't work Mondays, are on leave etc still get the 1/5 to use at a later date. Staff off sick don't accrue leave in respect of public holidays under our contracts (our basic leave allowance is well in excess of statutory)

Thanks for sharing that info, Emily. I'd posted (first page of this thread) about a tweet I read about the impact on the NHS, given the short notice, etc.

We have done the same as what we did for the Jubilee. Everyone will get the day off and part time workers will be entitled to their proportion of the day.

We are treating the day as we do any other Public Holiday. Many of our staff work Public Holidays (we are a 24/7/365 business) and their usual arrangements will apply with either a lieu day if worked and premium rates will also apply. Those staff who do not normally work will just have the day off paid as a Public Holiday.

In reality we are processing 10 Public Holidays in this current holiday year and part-time staff have that allowance pro-rated.

Although not a school, we are doing exactly the same Nina. In our minds this is different to other bank holidays where we would normally give part timer/compressed hours folks 1/5th of a week added onto their allowance, and then they'd book what they needed. Whilst it's a day off work, it is not the same as other bank holidays and I like your analogy to a "snow day", so thanks for that.

This is really interesting - we have treated it as we would any other Bank Holiday, which as this thread shows, has its own issues (particularly when it comes to part time workers). I'm interested to know why this Bank Holiday is different to the others - is it just because it is very last minute? It certainly makes sense to treat it as an 'emergency closure' in that sense, but in all other ways I'd say it's the same as any other Bank Holiday?

It has raised lots of comments hasn't it Maya? Our CEO/Director of Ops have decided against giving those part timers who don't work Mondays any pro rata time off to use another day as they say it is against the spirit of why the day was introduced in the first place. So far I have 1 disgruntled part timer who said it isn't fair out of over 20 other part timers who have accepted it.

That was my first thoughts too... and as you've said whatever you do, it has it's own challenges. These are my thoughts now:
* Our contracts are 33 days including bank holidays
* Full time staff work 8 hours on a Monday. 1/5th of the working week is 7.4 hours. We will pay full time staff 8 hours for the bank holiday.
* A part timer might work 8 hours on a Monday and Tuesday (16 hours). If we were to give them 1/5th of the week (like we normally do for bank holidays), then they'd only get 3.2 hours towards the Funeral day, which although is strictly "fair" doesn't seem to be in the spirit of allowing the day off to mourn the Queen/tune in to the funeral.
* It isn't (I totally accept this is my opinion) going to be a "lovely day off" for most. I'm not a Royalist by any stretch of the imagination, but the day hasn't been given to "enjoy". It's being given so that we can mourn our Queen and pay our respects - for most of us, it will be by watching our TV's.

* Actually most of our part timers/compressed hours folks work Mondays, so hopefully won't be a big issue, as they will be getting "more" than a full timer.

Let's see what push back we get - I can see that we are going with something different to most and against what is being "advised" as such. I know whatever we do, someone will be offended!

In the case of the person who already had annual leave booked that day, I would just credit that day back to them.