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Originally Posted by Shurm
All I know is at my company we sign away any right to a 48 hour week before we're given a job and my Wife signed one as well and she works for the NHS.
Like I said earlier these directives are probably in place to help employees and Company's just make you sign something so it's useless really.
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I don't think these bits of paper have any standing in the law.
The Health and Safety Executive(HSE) enforce the WTD rules......as I said previously employers cannot force their employees to work more than 48 hours per week - but also that this is averaged out over 17 weeks...so if you worked more than 48 hours
by choice for some of those weeks(as long as when
averaged out over 17 weeks the total did not exceed 48 per working week) then you would not have been deemed to have contravened the regulations.
I worked for the NHS when these regulations came in, and I was required to ensure that my staff did not contravene the regs...this was sometimes difficult because of the shift patterns - but sometimes it meant that staff had to have 'unscheduled time off' to avoid falling foul of the regulations.