How to enjoy the World Cup - and keep your boss on side
Scotland fan Cameron Rae has already booked the Monday after the Haiti game off work so he can attend a Tartan Army fan zone at his local town hall, complete with a bar and DJ running until 4am.Pubs will be allowed to stay open until 01:00 BST for England or Scotland matches in the knockout stages that kick off between 17:00 and 21:00 and until 02:00 for kick-offs between 21:00 and 22:00.Rae says: "I booked the Monday off a while ago. I work in a garage and we're open as normal, so I probably wouldn't get away with flexible working."Fellow Scotland fan Krys Kujawa, a business analyst, thinks he can survive the late-nights without needing days off work - just about."Haiti is early Sunday morning so there's still all of Sunday to recover," he says. "Morocco is late Friday night so you can just stay up and sleep in on Saturday. Brazil is the difficult one - that's coffee-your-way-through-work territory."In Scotland, there will be a one-off national Bank Holiday on 15 June to celebrate the national team playing in its first World Cup since 1998. All NHS Scotland staff and Scottish government employees are entitled to the day off. Local councils can choose to opt in or out and private businesses are not legally obligated to close or grant the extra holiday.Kujawa says he would have "preferred the Bank Holiday after the Brazil match" as it's a "bit of a buzzkill" knowing you have to go to work the next morning.
