Agency that I have been working for asked if I could work the Good Friday “yeah no problem was the reply, but what’s the pay rate for working public holiday” - reply was the logistics business don’t consider Good Friday as a bank holiday so pay rates will be the norm - “oh yeah since when” - always has been, was the reply - So I shall be enjoying my Easter bank holiday weekend off.
Anybody else not getting paid the bank holiday rates ?
Do DHL drivers get paid bank holiday rates?
mastesallan:
Agency that I have been working for asked if I could work the Good Friday “yeah no problem was the reply, but what’s the pay rate for working public holiday” - reply was the logistics business don’t consider Good Friday as a bank holiday so pay rates will be the norm - “oh yeah since when” - always has been, was the reply - So I shall be enjoying my Easter bank holiday weekend off.
Anybody else not getting paid the bank holiday rates ?
Do DHL drivers get paid bank holiday rates?
Good for you mate, it’s sad though that the agency will probably get some mug to drive on bank holidays for normal pay 
There’s plenty of people contracted to work bank holidays without extra pay, but I’d never do it for an agency.
Double bubble for a B/H. Enjoy your weekend off. 
Charging my bank holiday rate today which was already agreed in advance. No chance I’d be working for my standard rates today.
in some areas, especially west Yorkshire, Good Friday has never been regarded as a public holiday.
The two days holiday have normally been Easter Monday and Tuesday.
This was owing to the mill owners not wanting to shut the boilers down for Friday (Saturday was a working day) which cost money.
I’m on double time and a day of in lieu. Sorted me a nice 11 hour shift out too 
Before long these mugs that work will ruin all the double bubble pay rates.
I’m off today and Monday but don’t have a choice as the container rail heads up here are closed,but if I had the chance I would want double time at least…
Last year a certain firm was making drivers book off Boxing Day saying they could make them work it as a normal day as it’s a public and not a bank holiday,it just seems wrong to me
There will be plenty that don’t pay for bank holidays. I know Ramage in Newcastle don’t pay you for working bank holidays, any bank holiday, and as they do a 4 on 4 off system someone will be doing this Friday -Monday for no extra. I don’t work there anymore.
It’s like everything else that is wrong with this job, they only do it because they can, they know they will ALWAYS get some ■■■■ that will co.operate without question.
Conditions and terms that were fought for by previous generations, wages, holidays, holiday pay, time and half after 40, have all but been bollocksed by these f/whits.
I’m on a short day today with full days pay so I’m sorted but am I wrong in saying it’s not actually a holiday? I googled it there and it’s calling it and observance, same with Sunday, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The rest are described as public holidays
If you go to gov.uk it tells you that it’s classed as one of the 8 bank holiday days we get.
New years day
Easter Friday
Easter Monday
Early May 5 may
Spring 26 may
Summer 25 August
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
kitbuilder123:
I’m on a short day today with full days pay so I’m sorted but am I wrong in saying it’s not actually a holiday? I googled it there and it’s calling it and observance, same with Sunday, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The rest are described as public holidays
explains every bank holiday
My apologies, I was looking at an Irish site.
del949:
in some areas, especially west Yorkshire, Good Friday has never been regarded as a public holiday.
The two days holiday have normally been Easter Monday and Tuesday.
This was owing to the mill owners not wanting to shut the boilers down for Friday (Saturday was a working day) which cost money.
All bank holidays were Monday and Tuesday in Bradford back in the day, not just Easter.
Slackbladder:
There will be plenty that don’t pay for bank holidays. I know Ramage in Newcastle don’t pay you for working bank holidays, any bank holiday, and as they do a 4 on 4 off system someone will be doing this Friday -Monday for no extra. I don’t work there anymore.
Don’t know whether I will get shot down for this or not, but I think on a 4 on 4 off system it’s fair game to be honest. Apart from controlling drivers hours, isn’t that the point of 4 on 4 off rotas? Firms that run 24/7/365 operations get all their weekends & BH’s covered as part of the basic drivers salary whilst the driver gets bags of time off only working 6 months of the year. Works both ways. 
robroy:
It’s like everything else that is wrong with this job, they only do it because they can, they know they will ALWAYS get some [zb] that will co.operate without question.
Conditions and terms that were fought for by previous generations, wages, holidays, holiday pay, time and half after 40, have all but been bollocksed by these f/whits.
Spot on totally agree,like the driver who I spoke to on wednesday who was moaning about working for normal rate on bank holiday,I said well why do you do it,he says they make us iv no choice…yet another one rolling over like a puppy for his belly tickling I despair at some of the things drivers just take.
If a transport firm pays their driver the normal rate for working today,do the customers that receive the load get charged more for delivering on a Bank holiday?
mastesallan:
Do DHL drivers get paid bank holiday rates?
It depend upon their individual contract and shift pattern, even at the same depot, there will be drivers who will be in double time + a day in lieu.
Others it will just be another normal day, and some will be somewhere in between.
At my local DHL depot, they have got drivers on numerous shift patterns, Mon-Fri, Tues-Sat, and Fri-Mon, which means that once I was virtually guaranteed to work 8 bank holidays per year, last year I ended up with none. As they now use there own drivers instead of agency drivers.
There`s only 1 contract on that site that now requires agency drivers working bank holidays, due to limited number of vehicles/men who do the job, so atm I have picked up a shift on that job for Monday. There may also be a possibility later today that I will pick up a shift for Saturday morning
You’ve got to be off your ■■■■ to choose to work Good Friday or any day till Tuesday unless you are on at least double bubble.
The agency will keep ringing all the drivers on their books.One will do it for normal pay.
While the agency charges double or triple the rate for supplying a driver.No load is that urgent.But they will say it has to tip today.
Bull ■■■ to that i say.