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Incapability is distinct from disability, where an employer must include and give reasonable adjustments to the disabled person under the Equality Act 2010. Incapability has also been distinguished from misconduct as being "sheer incapability due to an inherent incapacity to function". [ 19 ]
A century after the 1871 act, the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), which currently regulates bank holidays in the UK, was passed. [14] The majority of the current bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act: however New Year's Day and May Day were not introduced throughout the whole of the UK until 1974 and 1978 respectively. [15]
The August Bank Holiday or Summer Bank Holiday [1] is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, part of the statutory bank holiday provision. Originally, the holiday was held on the first Monday of August across the country, but was changed in the late 1960s to the last Monday in August for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and a colloquial term for a public holiday in Ireland. In the United Kingdom, the term refers to all public holidays, be they set out in statute, declared by royal proclamation , or held by convention under common law .
The Bank Holidays Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 17) established public holidays (known as bank holidays) in addition to those customarily recognised in the United Kingdom.. The Act designated four bank holidays in England, Wales and Ireland (Easter Monday; Whit Monday; First Monday in August; 26 December if a weekday) and five in Scotland (New Year's Day, or the next day if a Sunday; Good Friday ...
Sir Keir Starmer would not commit to a bank holiday if Gareth Southgate’s team beat Spain.
First case of AIDS reported in the UK: 1982: MSM activity made legal (NI) 1983: Gay men barred from donating blood: 1984: Chris Smith elected as first openly gay MP: 1987: Operation Spanner begins: 1988: Section 28 comes into force: 1989: Stonewall UK forms: 1994: Age of consent for MSM becomes 18: 1997: Angela Eagle becomes first openly ...
The UK experienced an unusually wet July even as a historic heatwave swept parts of Europe and the world hits back-to-back record-breaking temperatures this year driven by the man-made climate crisis.