[Nowhere Man]

A public holiday. Though certain people in the retail trade and of course essential/emergency industries plus of course catering still have to work. They normally get extra pay though for working on that day unless their contract of employment is worded cleverly and weekends and public holidays are part of their normal working hours.

All offices and factories though unless it unsafe to turn the machinery off will not be working on Monday.

Interesting. I've always wanted to know what "bank holiday's" were. I know in some factories like steel mills and the like, you cannot turn off the furnaces because the steel in them would harden and they would be done for. My father worked at one and he even told me the plant had a backup generation system in case if they lost commercial power because of this.

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I think the term bank comes from the fact originally these holidays were times when banks and other financial institutions were granted holidays. In those days there were not mandatory number of days that an employer had to grant employees.