An extra bank holiday? Yes please!
We could get an extra day off before the end of the year because of the Pandemic.
Plans for an extra Bank Holiday are said to be at an advanced stage with efforts underway to try and get it in November or December.
The day would recognise the efforts of frontline workers and to remember those who lost their lives to covid.
The plans are likely to include an extra Bank Holiday and could also involve extra pay or holidays for some workers.
The are calls for any of those extras to be passed on to the likes of Gardaí, ambulance personnel and healthcare assistants in nursing homes, along with others who were exposed to the brunt of frontline work during the most intense stages of the pandemic.
However, the move hasn't been without criticism:
Let’s reward the people who work all the bank holidays with another bank holiday.
Bank holidays? The more the merrier but this is not in the name of frontline staff. Frontline staff want pay equality and the tools and tech to do their job. The rest of this talk is all Bullshit. https://t.co/LReUX3OfPs
— Anthony O’Connor (@Antcon7062) September 24, 2021
That feeling of dread going into a 24+ hour shift with a skeleton crew and Bank Holiday mayhem awaiting never goes away. This feels like a holiday made up by out of touch politicians for out of touch politicians who have never had to work a bank holiday in their life. https://t.co/9qDa5o93gQ
— Husnain Mahomed (@HusnainMahomed) September 26, 2021
