Originally Posted by
geezerBJ
There is a contractual entitlement to public holidays and as employment contracts are legally binding, I disagree.
As for your comments on religion,the most popular religion in Britain and indeed Europe is Christianity....Fact. You don't have to attend Old Trafford every Saturday afternoon to be a Man Utd fan.
There is no legal obligation for Public Holidays to be included in anyone's employment contract (not that Armed Forces personnel have employement contracts under the terms of UK employment legislation). There is no RAF regulatiory entitlement to time off on a bank holiday as many of RAF personnel who will be working on Christmas Day and Boxing Day will testify.
But you cannot call yourself a footballer if you don't play football (even though you believe that there is a game called football).
Originally Posted by
glum
Possibly not, but does one have to go to church to believe in God?
More to the point, I think it's the fact that the nation's rules were built up from the base of the Christian teachings, and at their basest, the ten commandments.
Our outlook and philisophy is based on Christianity as opposed to Hindu, Muslim, Jedi or whatever else is out there to follow.
Surely anyone wishing to join the armed forces must be prepared to accept all (legal) orders that are asked of them. If not, then they leave - as we are seeing more and more now.
The fact that more and more of the forces are leaving becase they are no longer prepared to tolerate the latest orders and changes to our working pracitces is perhaps what those at the top require.
Interesting point as Christians, Jews and Muslims all believe in the existance of the same god - So belief in a god
per se does not make an individual a Christian (or Jew or Muslim), it is how that belief is manifested ie by practising Christianity (or Judaism or Islam). Oh and the Ten Commandments are from Judaism.