Statutory and Additional Holidays Sample Clauses

Statutory and Additional Holidays. 8.16.1 Every employer shall allow a further twelve days of holiday to every employee on his payroll whether contracted to work full or part time. 8.16.2 Eight of these days shall be called “statutory days” and are to be taken on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday Monday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, or equivalent days in Scotland and Northern Ireland, or on alternative days in lieu as recommended by Local Arbitration Boards or as determined by the employer in consultation with the local union officer. 8.16.3 The remaining four shall be called “additional days”, the dates of which shall be fixed in the same way as other holidays, except that the timing of the fourth day, negotiated at the 1998 National Conference, shall be at the employer’s discretion. 8.16.4 An employee who is absent from work for whatever reason, for more than twelve consecutive weeks including holiday periods, shall not be entitled to any further statutory days of holiday until the employee returns to work.