God save the King: Civil Service Privellige Days for "Kings Birthday and Empire Day"

MrMan said:
No I actually don't think that we are a laughing stock at all. I don't presume for one minute that we are taken as seriously on the global stage that many seem to fret so much about.
If there were two days off for the King & the empire and they were subsequently removed then replacing them with two different days off is simply moving the goalposts.

I believe in God, but I worked St Patricks day and didn't get paid extra for it so i'm not sure your analogy stands up.
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Of course it stands up. How many people worked on Patrick's day? And how many people practise their religion?
 
They are two leave days that you had to take at Easter and Christmas because the buildings closed down
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A mixup of cause and effect, perhaps?

Am I correct in saying the Easter rescheduled-British-royal-privilege day occurs the Tuesday after Easter?

Would I be correct in saying the building is closed down BECAUSE the staff are off on a privilege day?

The alternative of a building somehow closing and causing staff to all go on holiday seems less plausible.

Incidentally this year the May weekend follows the Easter one, let's just say you'd want want to need urgent work done by a public office from 21-April to 3-May.
 
ashambles said:
Am I correct in saying the Easter rescheduled-British-royal-privilege day occurs the Tuesday after Easter?
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In my department you are given the option of the Tuesday or the Thursday before good friday. Managment then have to make sure there is enough staff on these two days so that everyone doesn't take the Tuesday for example. We do not 'close down' on either day.
 
liaconn said:
Of course it stands up. How many people worked on Patrick's day? And how many people practise their religion?
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St Patricks day has been turned into an excuse for a session, which I suppose follows that the priviledge days are an excuse to have extra paid holidays.
 
Shawady said:
In my department you are given the option of the Tuesday or the Thursday before good friday. Managment then have to make sure there is enough staff on these two days so that everyone doesn't take the Tuesday for example. We do not 'close down' on either day.
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Is the privilege day actually in addition to good Friday? I always thought the Privilege days were used in practice to give good Friday and christmas eve off?
 
circle said:
Is the privilege day actually in addition to good Friday? I always thought the Privilege days were used in practice to give good Friday and christmas eve off?
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That's what I thought my two were for, never knew it was for the kings birthday.

When I worked in Galway we got 1and 1/2 days for the races. We use to be annoyed that Ballinasloe staff got the race days and the fair. We galway city based staff felt we should have got the fair as well. Oh how times have changed.

From later posts here it looks like civil servants get Tuesday after Easter Monday as well. I remember some one telling me this years ago. It was to ensure all the country girls and boys could celebrate easter with interruption without having to worry about getting bus/train.
 
circle said:
Is the privilege day actually in addition to good Friday? I always thought the Privilege days were used in practice to give good Friday and christmas eve off?
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Yes, the two days are the 27th December and the Tuesday OR Thursday of the Easter weekend.
 
At one stage it was because the buildings closed down on those days. Now they open and staff can take them within a month of Easter or Christmas. Shortly they will not be ringfenced for taking at a particular time but will be allowed to be used at any time during the year like the rest of our annual leave. They have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Kings' birthdays or whatever. They may have had generations and generations ago, but not anymore. In the same way that school holidays were originally designed around the agricultural year, but not any more. And people got Sundays off work to go to Church and rest, not go shopping or go to the pub or whatever. We could go back donkeys years on everything if we were to take all this to its logical conclusion.
 
Shawady said:
Yes, the two days are the 27th December and the Tuesday OR Thursday of the Easter weekend.
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What about good Friday? Does that make it 3 privilege days then?

I forgot about Christmas eve which I also get, so I get 3 in total.
 
I think loads of places give their staff Good Friday off. Civil Servants have to go into work on Christmas Eve (although let go home very early) or take a day's leave.
 
becky said:
What about good Friday? Does that make it 3 privilege days then?

I forgot about Christmas eve which I also get, so I get 3 in total.
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I get good friday off but not christmas eve. Thats a normal working day.
 
liaconn said:
I think loads of places give their staff Good Friday off.
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Isn't Good Friday a public holiday, as opposed to a bank holiday ?

And isn't Easter Monday a bank holiday, but not a public holiday ?

I always assumed the PS privilege days to be for those days that are bank holidays and not public holidays, e.g. Good Friday and the working day following the two public holidays at Christmas.
 
TarfHead said:
Isn't Good Friday a public holiday, as opposed to a bank holiday ?

And isn't Easter Monday a bank holiday, but not a public holiday ?

I always assumed the PS privilege days to be for those days that are bank holidays and not public holidays, e.g. Good Friday and the working day following the two public holidays at Christmas.
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I consider anything over my A/L and not a public holiday a privilege / concession day.

Good Friday is a bank holiday, Easter Monday is a public holiday.

Most people get it off but it's a normal working day for those who have to work.
 
Good Friday is another working day for me as well and has been in all jobs in the last 10 years (for me). I would imagine the service industry and anyone needing to make deadlines are in the same boat.
 
Isn't it great to see all this intense focus and publicity on a €4.6m problem (privilige days) as we hand over another €24 billlion to the banks?
 
Thats assuming removing privledge days would save €4.6 million. The government were unable to show ho this saving would be made.
 
Complainer said:
Isn't it great to see all this intense focus and publicity on a €4.6m problem (privilige days) as we hand over another €24 billlion to the banks?
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I'm sure there are many people more concerned about the bank bailout, but just cos there are more important issues does not mean that this one should be dismissed.

We're up to, at least, 3 different spellings for privilege :D !
 
Shawady said:
Thats assuming removing privledge days would save €4.6 million. The government were unable to show ho this saving would be made.
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Actually, there would be zero saving. There would be an increase in productivity, but there would be zero cash saving.
 
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