LRD guides and handbook September 2014

Health and safety law 2014

Chapter 9

Bank holidays

[ch 9: page 161]

There is no statutory right to take leave on bank holidays. Any entitlement to bank holidays is purely contractual. Employers are free to include bank holidays as part of the statutory minimum paid holiday entitlement (Campbell & Smith Group v Greenwood [2001] IRLR 588).