§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Employment if, in view of the difficulties being experienced by certain sectors of industry, he will introduce legislation enabling him to specify that no requirement contained in a contract of employment or otherwise that an employer should provide an employee with a paid holiday on a bank holiday shall apply to the bank holiday on 29 July.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThere is no statutory obligation, except where holiday entitlements are set out in a Wages Council order, on employers to give a paid holiday on any bank holiday. I have no plans to intervene in agreements which have been freely entered into between employers and employees about holiday entitlements.