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Should Shetland have a day off for the royal wedding like the rest of the UK?  

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  1. 1. Should Shetland have a day off for the royal wedding like the rest of the UK?

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I didn't think I was bothered about the royal wedding, but having viewed all the sharging on this issue I feel an urge to watch a jolly good pageant (with nice frocks!!). I think I'll take a day off and sit in front of the telly with my cucumber sandwiches getting mildly sloshed on cheap bubbly.

 

No, I don't particularly think the council should pay me to do so, but staff have a right to feel hard done by since the government decreed a holiday. You would almost believe we did not have to do as the government said.

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I wonder what UHA would be like without the drinking?

 

I think the ConDem Gov indicated that it would be a national holiday.

 

 

 

(Not if UHA was dry)

 

Now, just thinking back 30 years ago..

 

There are already complaints from education authorities that it could disrupt the school timetable.

 

There is nothing in Statute, for a prince of a prince to get a holiday in the name of his wedding.

 

Will there be buses on the day after??

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Cost £468,000.00. For one public holiday! Well done S.I.C. we cannot afford it.

 

Cannot though for the life me understand why in Orkney it is only costing them in the tens of thousands.

 

Why such a difference in cost? How many more people do the S.I.C. employ than Orkney - or has someone got their sums wrong!

 

 

In orkney it was gonna cost £20k for a public holiday but they have decided to award an extra days leave the staff which was costed at £12k which in the benefit of staff morale is a better idea, at least if people want to take if off they can or work it and save the day for some other time.

 

Perhaps the reason for the SIC having such a huge difference in costings, besides being office and management heavy, is that they quoted a figure which is inclusive of lost revenue and public holiday pay rates. If they give them an extra days annual leave they'd sidestep the PH pay rates.

 

Alas, yet again the toon hall cant see the trees' for the leaves. :)

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What's strange about the Up Helly Aa holiday is that schools outside Lerwick are allowed to stay open and pay their staff treble time. This seems to be because of rural resentment at it being a 'toon' festival- they scorn the holiday but claim the treble time. How do they get away with that?

 

Having worked in schools for the last 10 years outside Lerwick that have been open for either a normal school day or an inservice day after the Lerwick Up Helly Aa I can assure you that no staff have ever been paid treble time - misinformation rules again. What happens is that the holiday is taken on a different day, usually after the local Up Helly Aa at no extra cost to the council.

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Having worked in schools ... What happens is that the holiday is taken on a different day, usually after the local Up Helly Aa at no extra cost to the council.

I am confused. Which UHA other than Lerwick is not on a Friday or Saturday? How can school holidays be taken on Saturdays or Sundays?

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Having worked in schools ... What happens is that the holiday is taken on a different day, usually after the local Up Helly Aa at no extra cost to the council.

I am confused. Which UHA other than Lerwick is not on a Friday or Saturday? How can school holidays be taken on Saturdays or Sundays?

 

Is there really any up helly aa that doesn't have a Monday following it?

 

I think that's highly unlikely

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Wouldn't it be nice if every aspect of our lives wasn't quantified by bean counters who gleefully remind us how much money each facet of our existence is "costing the economy"?

 

It's a day off for God'sake.

 

How many days of do we all share? Regardless of your feelings about the wedding itself (I'm hugely indifferent to the entire event), I cannot help but be dismayed at folks refusal to embrace the opportunity for a shared day off work!

 

Needless to say, my workplace is not marking the event and, granted, I'm a tad jealous of others who are... but this endless self-flagellation about tightening belts and days off costing X thousand pounds is just depressing...

 

Am I alone in wishing that this issue was not judged entirely on intangible fluctuations on some accountants spreadsheet, where the sweat of a man's brow is reduced to a cold assembly of pound signs that seldom reflect his productivity and societal worth, yet are somehow used dictate whether he's allowed 8 hours extra off in a whole bloody year to join in celebration with his fellow man in witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime event ( or at least to get drunk with all his pals whom, for once, are off the very same day!)?

 

38 of you would rather work the day. I can only assume that you are of that rare breed whom actually enjoy your work, for which you have my admiration and respect. I for one do not wholly enjoy slogging my guts out for 40+ hours a week and enjoy my days off immensely. Are these 38 folk the same blessed people who actually have to be reminded to take their annual holidays lest they loose them? ;-)

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Are these 38 folk the same blessed people who actually have to be reminded to take their annual holidays lest

 

they loose them? ;-)

 

As one of the 38 yes. I mind when Charlie and Diana got married I was in working that day with a few like minded souls and I'll be doing the same this time round. When I was with the SIC I used to work the UHA holiday as well.

 

I was amused When Princess Anne married Mark Philips in 1973 the only story the socialist daily the Morning Star carried was

 

There was considerable disruption to traffic near Westminster Abbey yesterday due to a wedding

 

I have nothing agaist William and Kate and I wish them a long and happy marriage but it's damn all to do with me.

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What's strange about the Up Helly Aa holiday is that schools outside Lerwick are allowed to stay open and pay their staff treble time. This seems to be because of rural resentment at it being a 'toon' festival- they scorn the holiday but claim the treble time. How do they get away with that?

 

Having worked in schools for the last 10 years outside Lerwick that have been open for either a normal school day or an inservice day after the Lerwick Up Helly Aa I can assure you that no staff have ever been paid treble time - misinformation rules again. What happens is that the holiday is taken on a different day, usually after the local Up Helly Aa at no extra cost to the council.

 

It is in fact double time and a day off in lieu, which some of us might think is the same as treble time. Obviously a sensitive issue. Teachers dont get it to be fair, but hey we can't have everything.

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Wouldn't it be nice if every aspect of our lives wasn't quantified by bean counters who gleefully remind us how much money each facet of our existence is "costing the economy"?

 

It's a day off for God'sake.

 

How many days of do we all share? Regardless of your feelings about the wedding itself (I'm hugely indifferent to the entire event), I cannot help but be dismayed at folks refusal to embrace the opportunity for a shared day off work!

 

Needless to say, my workplace is not marking the event and, granted, I'm a tad jealous of others who are... but this endless self-flagellation about tightening belts and days off costing X thousand pounds is just depressing...

 

Am I alone in wishing that this issue was not judged entirely on intangible fluctuations on some accountants spreadsheet, where the sweat of a man's brow is reduced to a cold assembly of pound signs that seldom reflect his productivity and societal worth, yet are somehow used dictate whether he's allowed 8 hours extra off in a whole bloody year to join in celebration with his fellow man in witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime event ( or at least to get drunk with all his pals whom, for once, are off the very same day!)?

 

38 of you would rather work the day. I can only assume that you are of that rare breed whom actually enjoy your work, for which you have my admiration and respect. I for one do not wholly enjoy slogging my guts out for 40+ hours a week and enjoy my days off immensely. Are these 38 folk the same blessed people who actually have to be reminded to take their annual holidays lest they loose them? ;-)

{round of applause}

 

Here, here!

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I tink it's nonsense dat da Coonty Cooncillors have refused tae allow a day's paid holoday at da taxpayers' expense fur da rolye weddin'! As Brian fae Unison says, "da work will be dun onyway" so whit's da problem? How dus dat work den ... slack in da system or workin till midnight da followin day? In fact I'd gae a stage farder ... why does da public sector no vote an annual holiday in favour of da private sector and pay dem for a day or twa aff - after ah da wark lwil be done later ... da mind boggles!? Unions in dis climate are a particular disgrace (in my view), PT.

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I tink it's nonsense dat da Coonty Cooncillors have refused tae allow a day's paid holoday at da taxpayers' expense fur da rolye weddin'! As Brian fae Unison says, "da work will be dun onyway" so whit's da problem? How dus dat work den ... slack in da system or workin till midnight da followin day? In fact I'd gae a stage farder ... why does da public sector no vote an annual holiday in favour of da private sector and pay dem for a day or twa aff - after ah da wark lwil be done later ... da mind boggles!? Unions in dis climate are a particular disgrace (in my view), PT.

 

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here here

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What's strange about the Up Helly Aa holiday is that schools outside Lerwick are allowed to stay open and pay their staff treble time. This seems to be because of rural resentment at it being a 'toon' festival- they scorn the holiday but claim the treble time. How do they get away with that?

 

Having worked in schools for the last 10 years outside Lerwick that have been open for either a normal school day or an inservice day after the Lerwick Up Helly Aa I can assure you that no staff have ever been paid treble time - misinformation rules again. What happens is that the holiday is taken on a different day, usually after the local Up Helly Aa at no extra cost to the council.

 

It is in fact double time and a day off in lieu, which some of us might think is the same as treble time. Obviously a sensitive issue. Teachers dont get it to be fair, but hey we can't have everything.

 

No Staneydale, it is you that doesn't get it.

 

Having, for several years, been a teacher in a school that did not take a holiday on the day after UHA, I can assure you that teachers are NOT paid treble or double time for that day. And they have the same number of days off as do the Lerwick schools. They are just taken at different times. It is not an extra day off.

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