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Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
You cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged…
Average working hours are calculated over a ‘reference’ period, normally…
You can choose to work more than 48 hours a week on average if you’re over…
Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers.
Workers over 18 are usually entitled to 3 types of break: rest breaks at…
Employers can say when employees take rest breaks during work time as long…
Workers may be entitled to ‘compensatory rest’ if they do not have the…
Workers are not entitled to the 3 general types of rest break if they work…
Young workers (above school leaving age and under 18) are usually entitled…
Workers who cannot take or are not allowed rest breaks should speak to…
The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions
Staff who regularly work at least 3 hours during the ‘night period’ are…
The limits on night working hours do not usually apply: in the armed…
Employers must offer workers a free health assessment before they become a…
Includes types of worker, employee rights, overtime and changes to contracts
Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
A summary of working time regulations for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and public service vehicle (PSV) drivers and crew ('mobile workers').
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
The working time rules that apply to you depend on whether you drive a vehicle in scope of the assimilated or GB domestic drivers’ hours rules.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
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