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Employment contracts and opt-out agreements
Provided they’ve agreed to opt out, your employees may exceed the average weekly working limit of 48 hours per week. Can you automatically include an opt-out provision in your employment contracts?
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WORKING TIME
Commuting and working time calculations
Apparently, over 3.7 million UK employees undertake a daily commute of two hours or more. Must you take excessive travelling time into account when calculating an employee’s weekly working time?
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WORKING TIME REGULATIONS
Overtime - it’s subject to an opt-out!
In a recent case, the employer refused to grant an employee overtime because he wouldn’t sign an opt-out agreement. Is such a rule acceptable?
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WORKING TIME
Second jobs - the health and safety implications
If an employee has some form of secondary employment, for example part-time work at weekends, you will probably have some concerns, particularly around health and safety. But what, if anything, can you do about them?
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MOONLIGHTING
Taking holiday to work elsewhere
An employee has been taking holiday, often at short notice and you’ve now found evidence that suggests they are doing this due to a second job. That’s not a problem in itself, but what should you do before they can continue?
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WORKING TIME
Still safe to opt-out?
For the last few years, the UK’s right to opt-out of the 48-hour working week has been under serious threat and looked set to go. So what’s the latest decision?
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