A LOCAL lawyer has shared advice to help the Bradford area’s businesses manage time off for staff for The Queen’s funeral on Monday, September 19.

Charlotte Geesin, legal director at Cleckheaton-based HR and employment law consultancy, Howarths, said: “As it was with the additional bank holiday this year for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the starting position is that there is no automatic right for employees to take to time off - paid or otherwise - on bank holidays.

“Whether or not individual staff members are automatically entitled to paid time off on the day of the Queen’s funeral will ultimately depend upon the wording of their contract of employment.

“If their contract gives them an unspecified, blanket right to paid time off for bank holidays, then they will have a contractual right to paid time off on the day of the funeral.

“But if their contract specifies the bank holidays that their employer will recognize - or refers to those ‘normal’ bank holidays - then this additional bank holiday will fall outside the scope of their contract.

“In this instance, time off - whether it’s paid or unpaid - would be purely down to an agreement between individual employers and their employees.”

 

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