{"id":614739,"date":"2026-06-01T05:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614739\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:26:19","slug":"substitute-bank-holiday-confirmed-for-england-after-scotland-gets-bonus-one-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614739\/","title":{"rendered":"Substitute bank holiday confirmed for England after Scotland gets bonus one in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

If a bank holiday falls on a weekend, a “substitute day” (usually the following Monday) is declared a bank holiday.<\/p>\n

13:20, 31 May 2026Updated 13:23, 31 May 2026<\/p>\n

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Substitute bank holiday confirmed for England after Scotland gets bonus one in June<\/p>\n

A substitute bank holiday has been announced for England – after Scotland was given a bonus one in June. In the UK, if a bank holiday falls on a weekend, a “substitute day” (usually the following Monday) is declared a bank holiday.<\/p>\n

For example, in 2026, Boxing Day (26 December) falls on a Saturday. It means the substitute bank holiday for Boxing Day will be Monday, 28 December.<\/p>\n

The next bank holiday in England and Wales is 31 August. This is known as the ‘Summer bank holiday’. This is followed by bank holidays over Christmas<\/a>, namely Christmas Day on December 25, and then Boxing Day, on December 28.<\/p>\n

READ MORE Next bank holiday brought forward with bonus one in June confirmed<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember, your employer does not have to give you paid leave on bank or public holidays. And bank holidays might affect how and when your benefits are paid.<\/p>\n

In Scotland, the next bank holiday is in two weeks – thanks to the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Government has designated Monday 15 June 2026 as a national bank holiday to celebrate Scotland’s participation in the FIFA Men’s World Cup.<\/p>\n

But North Ayrshire Council staff will no longer give workers the day off. Councillor Chloe Robertson said: “It’s quite disappointing that the call-in has come in as health and social care staff work really hard and I think they deserved that recognition.”<\/p>\n

Councillor Christina Larsen said the cabinet had decided to accept the decision of a council committee.<\/p>\n

“We want to highlight how much we very much appreciate our staff. The decision to accept the recommendation is absolutely no reflection on them,” she said.<\/p>\n

As is the case with other bank holidays in Scotland, there is no law requiring banks or any other businesses to close.<\/p>\n

Employer policy regarding bank holidays will be set out in contracts of employment, Social Security Scotland has reminded households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a bank holiday falls on a weekend, a “substitute day” (usually the following Monday) is declared a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43075,14441,84,59,209222,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-august-bank-holiday","tag-bank-holiday","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-may-bank-holiday","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}