Petitions tagged with "Bank holiday"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Reform statutory leave so all workers have enough paid leave to truly live
  Opened on Thursday 7th May 2026
  27 signatures so far

• Make it mandatory to pay enhancement for working on bank holidays.
  Opened on Friday 1st May 2026
  74 signatures so far

• Make Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha bank holidays
  Opened on Thursday 23rd April 2026
  27 signatures so far

• Increase the minimum holiday entitlement to 30 days including bank holidays
  Opened on Tuesday 14th April 2026
  34 signatures so far

• Cut alcohol duty and VAT for pubs and restaurants & consider new bank holiday
  Opened on Wednesday 8th April 2026
  52 signatures so far

• Make the 15th June 2026 a bank holiday for England and Wales
  Opened on Friday 13th March 2026
  43 signatures so far

• Make 12 July 2027 a Bank Holiday for 1100th anniversary of the birth of England
  Opened on Wednesday 11th March 2026
  529 signatures so far

• Establish a 'Less Scroll, More Soul' Bank Holiday: An Offline 'In-Community' Day
  Opened on Tuesday 24th February 2026
  200 signatures so far

• Make international womens day a bank holiday
  Opened on Thursday 12th February 2026
  22 signatures so far

• Make Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve & 2 January bank holidays & seek UK alignment
  Opened on Wednesday 11th February 2026
  54 signatures so far

• Make St David's Day a Bank holiday in Wales
  Opened on Tuesday 10th February 2026
  39 signatures so far

• Increase driving test fees to £85 to pay for more examiners to clear backlog
  Opened on Monday 2nd February 2026
  26 signatures so far

• Make Christmas Eve a bank holiday
  Opened on Tuesday 27th January 2026
  86 signatures so far

• Make the Lunar New Year an official recognised Bank Holiday
  Opened on Thursday 22nd January 2026
  23 signatures so far

• Make Armistice Day a bank holiday
  Opened on Friday 19th December 2025
  64 signatures so far

• Make 5 November a bank holiday.
  Opened on Wednesday 10th December 2025
  29 signatures so far

• Create an Autumn Bank Holiday in England & Wales
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  37 signatures so far

• Increase the number of bank holidays in England & Wales to 10 days
  Opened on Wednesday 26th November 2025
  80 signatures so far

• Make St George’s Day a Bank Holiday for people in England
  Open from Friday 12th September 2025 to Thursday 12th March 2026
  351 signatures

• Introduce a bank holiday for every month of the year
  Open from Tuesday 2nd September 2025 to Monday 2nd March 2026
  41 signatures

• Create a bank holiday on 12 July 2027 to celebrate the unification of England
  Open from Tuesday 1st July 2025 to Thursday 1st January 2026
  326 signatures

• Create a 24/7 death certification, burial, and repatriation service
  Open from Friday 6th June 2025 to Saturday 6th December 2025
  78 signatures

• Replace the Spring Bank Holiday with a November Bank Holiday
  Open from Thursday 5th June 2025 to Friday 5th December 2025
  22 signatures

• Ban nurseries charging fees when closed and cap fees
  Open from Thursday 22nd May 2025 to Saturday 22nd November 2025
  80 signatures

• Create a new bank holiday celebrating face to face social time
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  42 signatures

• Require all employers to give full-time employees 30 days annual leave
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  126 signatures

• Establish a bank holiday on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  3,566 signatures

• Make St Swithin's Day a Bank Holiday
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  39 signatures

• Stop businesses from making staff use annual leave at Christmas
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  58 signatures

• Establish Harvest Day as a national bank holiday.
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  41 signatures

• Declare a Bank Holiday in 2025 for the 80th anniversaries VE Day and VJ Day
  Open from Monday 13th January 2025 to Sunday 13th July 2025
  734 signatures

• Bank holiday for the 80th Anniversary of the end of WWII
  Open from Friday 10th January 2025 to Thursday 10th July 2025
  46 signatures

• Make Saint David's Day (Wales) and Saint George's Day (England) Bank Holidays
  Open from Thursday 12th December 2024 to Thursday 12th June 2025
  337 signatures

• Introduce at least one bank holiday per month in the United Kingdom.
  Open from Wednesday 28th December 2022 to Wednesday 28th June 2023
  22 signatures

• Re-regulate rural bus services in England
  Open from Tuesday 20th December 2022 to Tuesday 20th June 2023
  59 signatures

• Veterans Day Bank Holiday the Monday following Remembrance Sunday
  Open from Wednesday 23rd November 2022 to Tuesday 23rd May 2023
  456 signatures

• Make November 11th a national bank holiday and a National Day of Remembrance
  Open from Friday 18th November 2022 to Thursday 18th May 2023
  60 signatures

• Devolve the same powers to Wales as Scotland
  Open from Tuesday 15th November 2022 to Monday 15th May 2023
  928 signatures

• Keep the May 1st 2023 Bank Holiday on that date and not move it to May 8th
  Open from Monday 17th October 2022 to Monday 17th April 2023
  418 signatures

• Create a new Ancestors Bank Holiday
  Open from Tuesday 4th October 2022 to Tuesday 4th April 2023
  24 signatures

• Queen Elizabeth II Day: New bank holiday 8th September or the Birthday (21.4)
  Open from Wednesday 28th September 2022 to Tuesday 28th March 2023
  59 signatures

• A Bank Holiday to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the NHS
  Open from Thursday 1st September 2022 to Wednesday 15th March 2023
  89 signatures

• Make August 1st a National Bank Holiday in the UK
  Open from Wednesday 24th August 2022 to Friday 10th March 2023
  35 signatures

• Make World Mental Health Day a national bank holiday
  Open from Monday 8th August 2022 to Wednesday 22nd February 2023
  80 signatures

• Bank Holiday for England Women's Team Winning the Euros
  Open from Wednesday 3rd August 2022 to Friday 17th February 2023
  16 signatures

• Create a new permanent bank holiday celebrating and encouraging women in sport
  Open from Wednesday 3rd August 2022 to Friday 17th February 2023
  14 signatures

• Make each county’s patron saint day a bank holiday for that individual county
  Open from Thursday 14th July 2022 to Saturday 28th January 2023
  14 signatures

• Move all Monday bank holidays to a Friday
  Open from Monday 13th June 2022 to Tuesday 27th December 2022
  21 signatures

• Introduce an annual bank holiday to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
  Open from Wednesday 8th June 2022 to Thursday 22nd December 2022
  24 signatures

• Rename the early May bank holiday 'Union Day'
  Open from Thursday 5th May 2022 to Saturday 19th November 2022
  76 signatures

• Make the Queens Platinum Jubilee a permanent Bank Holiday
  Open from Thursday 28th April 2022 to Friday 11th November 2022
  104 signatures

• Keep May 30th as a Bank Holiday
  Open from Tuesday 26th April 2022 to Wednesday 9th November 2022
  14 signatures

• Make Monday 21st November 2022 A Bank Holiday as England KO at 1pm in the FIFAWC
  Open from Wednesday 6th April 2022 to Thursday 20th October 2022
  42 signatures

• Grant a ‘Covid 19 Remembrance’ Bank Holiday in 2022
  Open from Tuesday 25th January 2022 to Monday 25th July 2022
  20 signatures

• Introduce additional bank holiday payments for state pensions
  Open from Monday 10th January 2022 to Sunday 10th July 2022
  30 signatures

• Grant an extra bank holiday in England on Magna Carta Day, 15th June.
  Open from Monday 13th December 2021 to Monday 13th June 2022
  456 signatures

• National bank holiday for Slavery Abolition
  Open from Monday 6th December 2021 to Monday 6th June 2022
  91 signatures

• Make St David's day a bank holiday in Wales
  Open from Thursday 14th October 2021 to Thursday 14th April 2022
  13,034 signatures

• Make the first Monday of October a Bank Holiday to mark National Curry Week
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  59 signatures

• Establish new Hallowe’en public holiday in England and Wales
  Open from Tuesday 21st September 2021 to Monday 21st March 2022
  26 signatures

• Bank Holiday Monday if England get to the finals of the Euro’s 2020
  Open from Tuesday 6th July 2021 to Thursday 6th January 2022
  400 signatures

• Give the UK a Bank Holiday on Monday July 12th if England win Euro 2020
  Open from Tuesday 6th July 2021 to Thursday 6th January 2022
  364,822 signatures

• Make June 23 a Bank Holiday!
  Open from Thursday 1st July 2021 to Saturday 1st January 2022
  41 signatures

• Make June 14 2022 a Bank Holiday
  Open from Monday 21st June 2021 to Tuesday 21st December 2021
  40 signatures

• Create a Bank Holiday in memory of armed services personnel killed in service
  Open from Monday 14th June 2021 to Tuesday 14th December 2021
  55 signatures

• Make "Flying Ant Day" an official Bank Holiday in the UK.
  Open from Wednesday 9th June 2021 to Thursday 9th December 2021
  21 signatures

• Move May Bank Holiday(s) to June or July after Lockdown restrictions are lifted.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  11 signatures

• 8th of March “International Women’s Day” to become a bank holiday
  Open from Monday 15th March 2021 to Wednesday 15th September 2021
  40 signatures

• Do NOT spend £28 million on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022
  Open from Monday 15th March 2021 to Wednesday 15th September 2021
  496 signatures

• Make June 22nd (or the day after Nightclubs reopen) a bank holiday
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  13 signatures

• New Bank Holiday last Monday of October to celebrate multi-cultural Britain
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  25 signatures

• Make every 29 February a "leap year day" Bank Holiday
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  15 signatures

• Create a new permanent public holiday on the nearest Monday to Midsummers Day
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  17 signatures

• Make June 23rd a bank holiday to celebrate UK Independence Day
  Open from Wednesday 30th December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  45 signatures

• Create an extra bank holiday at Easter 2021 to let people make up for Xmas
  Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
  13 signatures

• Extra bank holiday next Christmas to make up for this Christmas (Covid 19)
  Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
  24 signatures

• Creation of a temporary bank holiday.
  Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
  12 signatures

• Extra Bank Holiday when Covid restrictions are finally lifted
  Open from Monday 21st December 2020 to Monday 21st June 2021
  69 signatures

• Pay all Universal Credit Payments for December, before Christmas
  Open from Tuesday 8th December 2020 to Tuesday 8th June 2021
  21 signatures

• Make the 24th December 2020 a Bank Holiday
  Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
  12 signatures

• Bank Holiday to recognise unity during Covid Pandemic
  Open from Friday 27th November 2020 to Thursday 27th May 2021
  18 signatures

• Make 26th & 27th July 2021 a one off Double Bank Holiday - Christmas in July!
  Open from Thursday 26th November 2020 to Wednesday 26th May 2021
  81 signatures

• Introduce a new UK bank holiday to mark the day we went into lockdown
  Open from Tuesday 3rd November 2020 to Monday 3rd May 2021
  78 signatures

• Government to declare a new annual bank holiday to celebrate essential workers
  Open from Thursday 29th October 2020 to Thursday 29th April 2021
  16 signatures

• Make June 25th. 2021 an "Australian Christmas" bank holiday.
  Open from Wednesday 28th October 2020 to Wednesday 28th April 2021
  43 signatures

• Create a one off Bank Holiday on Monday June 21st 2021.
  Open from Wednesday 28th October 2020 to Wednesday 28th April 2021
  41,737 signatures

• Make Halloween a bank holiday.
  Open from Wednesday 23rd September 2020 to Tuesday 23rd March 2021
  15 signatures

• Make January 31 a national Bank Holiday - Independence Day
  Open from Friday 18th September 2020 to Thursday 18th March 2021
  110 signatures

• Introduce Black History Independence Day
  Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
  124 signatures

• Make it legal requirement to close shops on bank holidays INCLUDING BOXING DAY
  Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
  295 signatures

• The proposed bank holiday in October should be called Trafalgar Day
  Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
  14 signatures

• Create a new bank holiday in October
  Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
  25 signatures

• Change the early May bank holiday to coincide with and celebrate VE Day
  Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
  20 signatures

• Move the August Bank Holiday from 31st August to 14th August for VJ Day.
  Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
  24 signatures

• Make August 1st of each year a bank holiday - the 'Abolition of Slavery Day'
  Open from Thursday 18th June 2020 to Friday 18th December 2020
  3,056 signatures

• Make 23rd April a Bank Holiday in England to celebrate St. George's day.
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  43 signatures

• Make St. Andrews, St. David’s, St. Patrick’s and St. George’s bank holidays.
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  50 signatures

• Rename the May Day bank holiday to the NHS bank holiday day
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  29 signatures

• Rename future Early May Bank Holidays "Key Worker Day"
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  13 signatures

• Make the Monday after Mothering Sunday 2021 an extra bank holiday.
  Open from Thursday 30th April 2020 to Friday 30th October 2020
  109 signatures

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