Your rights to extra pay or time back if you work over Christmas and New Year
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ANYONE working over the Christmas period will be keen to know if they are entitled to extra time back or even more cash. Whether you will need to work on Christmas Day or Boxing Day depends on the terms of your employment contract. For example, someone working at a restaurant, hotel or hospital might have it baked into their contract that they may have to work these days.
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The good news is, some businesses or bosses choose to offer workers extra pay such as double time on Christmas bank holidays. However, it is not a legal requirement to do this, so you may be asked or required to work for the same amount as usual. You may or may not get a bank holidays included in your annual leave allotment, too.
Here's everything you need to know about whether you have to work this Christmas, whether you'll get extra pay and if you're entitled to time off in lieu. Usually, the rules around working on Christmas Day or Boxing Day depend on how your office treats bank holidays.
If you often work weekends or do shift work that includes Saturdays or Sundays, you could be asked to work as normal. This might apply if you're a fireman, doctor, hospitality worker or journalist, for instance. That said, many workplaces shut between Christmas and New Year, so you might not have to work, depending on your employer.
