easter sunday pay

if a part time employee who usually works sat and sun in a retail chain cannot work on easter sunday because the shop closes, are they entitled to be paid anyway. my friends employer says no because they are on a contract to work 8 hours per week therefore they recieved the 8 hours over sat and evenings during the week and were just not rostered for the sunday. is this right?

smarty121 said:

...employer says no because they are on a contract to work 8 hours per week therefore they recieved the 8 hours over sat and evenings during the week and were just not rostered for the sunday. is this right?

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If that's what the contract says and that's what happened, it sounds right to me

As far as I know if you are normally rostered to work on a particular day then if a Bank Holiday falls on that day you are entitled to be paid for it.

Stronge said:

As far as I know if you are normally rostered to work on a particular day then if a Bank Holiday falls on that day you are entitled to be paid for it.

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That is technically not correct. You are entitled to pay for a public holiday if you are normally rostered but not a bank holiday. What you are also entitled to if you are not normally rostered is one fifth of your average weeks pay for all public holidays.

I hope I am making sense.

Christy