Established in 1969 by the constituent parties - THE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS’ ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND (now ‘SELECT’) and UNITE THE UNION _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCOTTISH JOINT INDUSTRY BOARD FOR THE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING INDUSTRY THE WALLED GARDEN, BUSH ESTATE Telephone: (0131) 445 - 9216 MIDLOTHIAN, EH26 0SB Fax: (0131) 445 - 5548 Website: www.sjib.org.uk SJIB Circular 02/2009 22 January 2009 To All SELECT and SJIB Member Firms Dear Sir/Madam Local Holidays in Scotland Rule 3.1 of the SJIB National Working Rules states that employers in the Scottish Electrical Contracting Industry should arrange for their employees, engaged under the SJIB National Working Rules, to take: - • 5 holidays in spring; • 12 holidays in summer; • 10 holidays at Christmas & New Year; • together with the 3 locally recognised Spring, May Day and Autumn Holidays. Please find attached a list of local holiday dates for towns and cities throughout Scotland which you may use as a guide to ensure that your company complies with this SJIB rule. Yours faithfully Fiona Harper John Quigley Bob Wheeler Secretary For UNITE the Union For SELECT - AMICUS Section Chairman: D. Carrigan OBE, BA (Hons) Director: D. N. McGuiness DipEM, FIET, MCMI Secretary: F. M. Harper BA (Hons), MSc (Econ), MCIPD Local Holiday Dates for Scottish Towns and Cities (2009) Aberdeen Ballater Spring Holiday 20 April Spring Holiday 2 March May Day 4 May April Holiday 6 April Summer Holiday 13 July Summer Holiday 1 June Autumn Holiday 28 September Autumn Holiday 5 October Buckie Buckhaven Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 6 April June Holiday 8 June May Day 4 May Summer Holiday 27 July Victoria Day 1 June Autumn Holiday 14 September & 19 Trades Holiday 20 July October September Holiday 14 September Autumn Holiday 5 October Burntisland Clackmannanshire Spring Holiday 6 April New Year 1,2 & 5 January May Day 4 May Easter Holiday 10 & 13 April Victoria Day 1 June May Day 4 May Trades Holiday 20 July Alloa Fair Holiday 3 August Autumn Holiday 12 October Cupar Dundee Shopkeepers Holiday 2 February Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 6 April May Day 4 May May Day 4 May Victoria Day 25 May Trades Holiday 20 July Trades Holiday 27 July Autumn Holiday 5 October Autumn Holiday 5 October November Holiday 2 November Dunfermline Earlston Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 6 April May Day 4 May May Day 4 May Victoria Day 1 June Trades Holiday 24 July Trades Holidays 20 July Autumn Holiday 5 October East Kilbride Edinburgh Good Friday 10 April Spring Holiday 20 April Easter Monday 13 April May Day 4 May Spring Holiday 25 May Victoria Day 18 May Summer Holiday 20 July Trades Holiday 4 July Autumn Holiday 28 September Autumn Holiday 21 September Elgin Falkirk Easter Monday 13 April New Year 1,2 & 5 January June Holiday 22 June May Day 4 May Autumn Holidays 7 September Falkirk Holiday 29 June & 19 October Autumn Holidays 7 September & 12 October Forres Galashiels Spring Holiday 20 April Spring Holiday 6 April June Holiday 1 June May Day 4 May Summer Holiday 27 July June Holiday 1 June Autumn Holidays 21 September Braw Lads Gathering 26 & 27 June & 19 October Trades Holiday 24 July Autumn Holiday 12 October Glasgow Glenrothes May Day 4 May Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 25 May May Day 4 May Glasgow Fair Begins 18 July Victoria Day 1 June Autumn Holiday 28 September Trades Holiday 20 July Autumn Holiday 5 October Hawick Jedburgh Easter Monday 13 April Merchants’ Holiday 2 March May Day 4 May Spring Holiday 6 April Common Riding 5 & 6 June May Day 4 May Trades Holiday 27 July Callants’ Festival 10 & 11 July Autumn Holiday 5 October Trades Holiday 27 July Autumn Holiday 5 October Kelso Kirkcaldy Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 6 April May Day 4 May May Day 4 May Kelso May Holiday 25 May Victoria Day 1 June Annual Civic Week 12-18 July Trades Holiday 20 July Autumn Holiday 5 October Autumn Holiday 12 October Lanark Leven Good Friday 10 April March Holiday 9 March Easter Monday 13 April Easter Monday 13 April May Day 4 May May Day 11 May May Holiday 25 May Trades Holiday 20 July Lanimer Day 11 June Autumn Holiday 14 September & 12 October Autumn Holiday 28 September Markinch Melrose Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 6 April May Day 4 May May Day 4 May Victoria Day 1 June Melrosian Festival 20 June Autumn Holiday 5 October Trades Holiday 24 July Autumn Holiday 12 October Methil Midlothian Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 20 April May Day 4 May May Day 4 May Victoria Day 1 June Victoria Day 18 May Trades Holiday 20 July Trades Holiday 4 July September Holiday 14 September Autumn Holiday 21 September Autumn Holiday 5 October Newburgh Newport-On-Tay Spring Holiday 6 April Spring Holiday 6 April May Day 4 May May Day 4 May Victoria Day 1 June Victoria Day 1 June Trades Holiday 20 July Trades Holiday 20 July Autumn Holiday 5 October Autumn Holiday 5 October Peterhead Rutherglen Easter Monday 13 April Good Friday 10 April Summer Holiday 1 June Easter Monday 13 April Trades Holiday 6 July – 17 July May Holiday 25 May Autumn Holiday 7 September Summer Holiday 20 July Autumn Holiday 28 September Selkirk Shetland Islands Spring Holiday 6 April New Year 1 & 2 January May Day 4 May Day after Lerwick 28 January Up-Helly-Aa Common Riding 11 & 12 June Easter Monday 13 April Trades Holiday 24 July Autumn 12 October St Andrews February Holiday 2 February Spring Holiday 30 March May Day 27 April Autumn Holiday 5 October November Holiday 2 November Scottish Bank Holidays English Bank Holidays New Year 1 & 2 January New Year 1 January Good Friday 10 April Good Friday 10 April May Day 4 May Easter Monday 13 April Spring Holiday 25 May May Day 4 May Summer Holiday 3 August Spring Holiday 25 May St Andrew’s Day* 30 November* Summer Holiday 31 August Christmas 25 & 28 December Christmas 25 & 28 December *The St Andrew's Day Holiday (Scotland) Bill was approved by Parliament on Wednesday November 29, 2006. It aims to promote St Andrew's Day on November 30 as a national celebration of Scottish identity and culture across the whole of Scotland. The Bill adds November 30, or the following Monday should November 30 fall on a weekend, to the schedule of bank holidays in Scotland. It provides the legal framework in which the St Andrew's Day bank holiday could be substituted for an existing local holiday from another date in the year. It gives employers the discretion to choose St Andrew's Day as an alternative option, replacing a holiday taken at another time. Each organisation and company is free to take its own decision about what to do. Whether you decide to have a holiday, or not to, or to replace an existing one. That decision is not bound in any way by the new legislation. .