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Hart, Bob 'Working time and employment' Routledge Revivals, 2010. Explanation of Working Time Limits (48 hour week) in the UK and how the opt-out works; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) resources on the UK Working Time Regulations Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine; OECD Average annual hours actually worked per worker
See Category:Working time; Annual leave; Effects of overtime; Flextime; Four-day workweek; Karoshi; List of countries by average annual labor hours; Overwork; Right to rest and leisure; Six-hour day; Work–life balance
The UK ultimately refused to ratify the Convention, as did many current EU members states, although the Working Time Directive adopts its principles, subject to the individual opt-out. [21] The present constitution of the ILO comes from the Declaration of Philadelphia 1944, and under the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work ...
The Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) is a statutory instrument in UK labour law which implemented the EU Working Time Directive 2003. [1] It was updated in 1999, but these amendments were then withdrawn in 2006 [ 2 ] following a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice. [ 3 ]
Reflecting basic standards in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ILO Conventions, [13] the Working Time Directive 2003 requires a minimum of 4 weeks (totalling 28 days) paid holidays each year, [14] a minimum of 20-minute paid rest breaks for 6-hour work shifts, limits on night work or time spent on dangerous work, [15] and a maximum ...
Since 1997, changes in UK employment law include enhanced maternity and paternity rights, [86] the introduction of a National Minimum Wage [87] and the Working Time Regulations, [88] which covers working time, rest breaks and the right to paid annual leave. Discrimination law has been tightened, with protection from discrimination now available ...
Shorter working time was one of the labor movement's original demands. From the first decades of the 20th century, collective bargaining produced the practice of having, and the word for, a two-day "weekend". [148] State legislation to limit working time was, however, suppressed by the US Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York. [149]
The Working Time Directive has also been clarified and interpreted through a number of rulings in the European Court of Justice. The most notable of these have been the "SIMAP" and "Jaeger" judgments ( Sindicato de Médicos de Asistencia Pública v Conselleria de Sanidad y Consumo de la Generalidad Valenciana , 2000 and Landeshauptstadt Kiel v ...