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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…
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
Part-time workers should not be treated less favourably than full-time workers; employers' responsibilities and what part-time workers can do if they're treated unfairly
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Includes employment status, workers' rights and changes to contracts
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 right across the country will be given more say over their working patterns thanks to new laws supported by the Department for Business and Trade.
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
An explanation of the types of work and the working hours for which you must pay the minimum wage.
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
A summary of working time regulations for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and public service vehicle (PSV) drivers and crew ('mobile workers').
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