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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.

• Overview

  You cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged…

• Calculating your working hours

  Average working hours are calculated over a ‘reference’ period, normally…

• Opting out of the 48 hour week

  You can choose to work more than 48 hours a week on average if you’re over…

What qualifies as ordinary commuting and private travel for tax purposes.

• Updated: 18 April 2024

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

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.

Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) was the FCDO-funded women’s economic empowerment programme from 2017 to 2025.

• Updated: 1 October 2025

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

Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay

Includes holidays, finding a job and redundancy

• Updated: 9 July 2021

Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes

This report looks into those workers in the UK who are underemployed and want to work more hours, as well as those workers who want to work less hours, meaning they are overemployed. This report therefore looks in more detail...

• Updated: 25 November 2014