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Check what type of drivers' hours rules you need to follow if you drive a goods vehicle or a bus or coach.

• Overview

  If you drive a goods vehicle or a bus or coach you must follow the rules…

• Rules for employers

  If you employ drivers and other mobile workers, you need to: keep drivers’…

• Goods vehicles

  The rules that apply to goods vehicles depend on the weight of your…

• Buses, coaches and minibuses

  If you’re driving a vehicle that carries passengers, the rules that apply…

• Exemptions from assimilated drivers’ hours rules

  Some types of vehicle are exempt from assimilated rules (previously called…

• Assimilated rules

  Assimilated rules (previously called EU rules) apply if the maximum weight…

• GB domestic rules

  The domestic drivers’ hours rules in Great Britain (GB) apply to most…

• AETR rules

  The European Agreement Concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in…

• Driving under both assimilated or AETR rules and GB domestic rules

  If you work partly under assimilated (previously called EU rules) or AETR…

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

• Overview

  The National Minimum Wage is worked out at an hourly rate, but it applies…

• Paid by the hour

  Workers paid according to the number of hours they are at work are classed…

• Paid an annual salary

  Most people paid an annual salary are classed as doing ‘salaried hours…

• Paid per task or piece of work done

  Workers paid per task they perform or piece of work they do (known as…

• Paid in other ways (unmeasured work)

  If the work is not covered by any of the other types of work, it’s…

The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).

• Updated: 15 September 2025

The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions

Examines a natural experiment in Kenya in which market schedules over the past century were set quasi-randomly.

• Updated: 31 October 2025

Calculate how much you have to pay your furloughed employees for hours on furlough and how much you can claim back.

• Updated: 29 October 2021

What you need to check inside and outside of the vehicle when you do a bus, coach or other public service vehicle (PSV) walkaround check.

• Updated: 18 April 2023

• Updated: 11 March 2016

Advice for British people with mental health needs, and their families and carers, while travelling or living abroad.

• Updated: 11 July 2023

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.