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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 [1] It was updated in 1999, but these amendments were then withdrawn in 2006 [2] following a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice.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]
Working time in the United Kingdom is regulated in UK labour law in respect of holidays, daily breaks, night work and the maximum working day under the Working Time Regulations 1998. While the traditional mechanisms for ensuring a "fair day's wage for a fair day's work" is by collective agreement , since 1962 the UK created minimum statutory ...
The UK Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills) stated in guideline to employers on the Working Time Regulations 1998 that ‘Employers must make sure that workers can take their rest, but are not required to make sure that they do take their rest.’ Also, Statutory Instrument 1999/3372 had ...
The European Social Charter 1961 art 2(1) requires "the working week to be progressively reduced" with "increase of productivity". [10] The Working Time Directive 2003 requires at least four paid weeks of holiday a year. [11] With two-day weekends, most people in the EU work two-thirds of the year or less. [12]
a right to work no more than 48 hours per week, unless the member state enables individual opt-outs. It was issued as an update on earlier versions from 22 June 2000 and 23 November 1993. [1] Since excessive working time is cited as a major cause of stress, depression, and illness, the purpose of the directive is to protect people's health and ...
The original Working Time Regulations 1998 provided for a 13-week qualifying period at work before one could benefit from its protection. This restriction was challenged by the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union, because there was nothing about it in the Directive.
A payment under the Working Time Regulations 1998 regulation 14 was a sum payable to a worker in connection with employment, clearly within ERA 1996 s 27(1) and ‘holiday pay’ was there specifically. If it were not so, the principle of equivalence - that a no less favourable remedy would be available in national law as for EU law - would be ...
Commission v United Kingdom (2006), a European labour law and UK labour lawcase concerning the Working Time Directive, which is relevant for the Working Time Regulations 1998 Commission v United Kingdom (C-516/22) (2024)