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captainboosh · Newbie Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 1 Career Advice: +0/-0

Just a quick query I hope one of you could help me with.

I get paid for bank holidays, although I have been told by a friend that if you are ill the day before the bank holiday then you will not be paid for the bank holiday.

The actual situation is that I am very sick at the moment but I am worried about taking time off work. Because if the roumer i've heard is true then If I am off over the next few days, I may not be paid for the Xmas day and boxing day bank holidays.
I havn't seen anything about this in my contract, but I was hoping there would be a general idea or thought into what normally happens.

I really can't afford to lose any wages due to bills but im suffering with an ear infection, an eye infection, sinusitis and bronchitis. So im in the wars!

Hope someone can help.
Thanks.

lexa10881 · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:

I am not sure what line of work you are in? Your post is a bit vague so I cannot help much. When in doubt, read your contract or ask a supervisor. Just be honest. If you are sick, they are going to know that just from the way you look and sound, and if they have any good sense they should send you home and tell you to forget about it for the day.

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KA · Expert Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 235 Career Advice: +2/-0

Some take a sick day before or after a public holiday not because they are sick.

I've heard of companies questioning anyone taking a sick day before or after a public holiday. I have also heard of companies not allowing someone to work overtime on a Saturday if they took friday as a sick day.

It comes down to your contract, company policy & laws in your state.

I would ask if the rule applies if you got a doctor's certificate.

Randy · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject:

Here in the states it's practically etched in stone that missing work the day before or after a paid holiday negates getting paid for the holiday. I'm hoping the rest of the world still has a heart that pumps red, not green....

lexa10881 · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:44 am Post subject:

It's the same here, Randy....miss a day near Christmas and sometimes they just simply can you.

All i can recommend to you is if you are really that sick, and you have to miss work, that you also see a doctor to document that you really were and take it to work.

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Randy · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:14 am Post subject:

I'll give it three-to-five years and Christmas day will be just another work day for most folks....after all, in a "service based" economy, who really "needs" a day off, with pay? <---lots of sarcasm there, not that I would ever be sarcastic about anything relating to employment.....

You know, before I started driving a big-truck back in 2000, I'd never been out of our little valley here in SW VA and therefore I'd always wanted to believe that the insanity I associate with employment was rather limited to this part of the world. Well, driving started me realizing it's pretty much all over the country.

And then finding this website had made me see it is, for all intents and purposes, a worldwide phenomenon, or disaster. I get both sad and angry because I keep thinking that THIS (!) is the "American way of life" we're determined to spread across the planet?

lexa10881 · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:41 am Post subject:

Yes, the sense of 'holiday' truly seems to be dying in every sense each year. I had people today who called and actually got irate when I said the grocery store was going to be closed early today and all tomorrow *because of Christmas* !!!!!!!

Really, where has the sense of decency gone? Rolling Eyes

There once was a time where hardly any business was open every Sunday, let alone a holiday. It's just sad. I look for it to be a thing that disappears and all days to just blur.

Heck, my guy is home and he works in CA for google. Even google is out for vacation, and not just simply a day. He is home for a good bit of time, and while the search engine is literally a living thing that must remain functional, it is not mandatory that all employees be there holding hands and keeping vigil. If something as big as google can shove its employees out the door for a week or so for a leave to get rest, then what is wrong with everybody else?

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Randy · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:31 am Post subject:

quote="lexa10881"

Really, where has the sense of decency gone?

I'm painfully aware of how scathing and cynical most of my posts sound, and I wish it wasn't that way, but it comes from me not being able to answer the same question you just asked. For me, that question, and its answer, hints at the very reasons and purpose for being on this planet.

A few years ago I was having an unusually rough time with all this. And since symbolism is very important not only in my life, but life in general, I bought a black balloon filled with helium, tied a piece of black ribbon to it, and to the ribbon attached a note that simply read "Goodbye Human Decency," and then let it go....

Merry Christmas, lexa....

lexa10881 · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:44 am Post subject:

HAHAHAHAHA Very Happy

But in a way, Crying or Very sad

You did something symbolic but true, and maybe it helped you deal with it. I ponder a lot of questions like this and know I will never get the answer. I have been told that I have grown much quieter over the last few years, and I think it has something to do with life changes and traveling. The traveling has enlightened me as I realised the BS I see here in my hometown is not an isolated thing; it seems to be a part of some pandemic affliction and people have no sense of anything decent or that matters anymore.

Merry Christmas to you too, Randy.

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