Search results
You searched in
Business Advice Directory
all "Overtime - it’s subject to an opt-out!"
related advice.There are 10 results
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?
Published 23.02.2017
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?
Published 05.06.2009
You know that a worker has the right to withdraw from the opt-out that limits the week to 48 hours. Following recent case law, is it safe for you to reduce his salary accordingly?
Published 24.02.2005
One of your remote workers hasn’t entered into an opt-out agreement. Which of you is legally responsible for ensuring that there’s no breach of the maximum 48-hour working week rule?
Published 17.09.2020
The Working Time Regulations 1998 set out strict statutory rules on working time. When it comes to proving compliance, are you required to keep records, and if so, what?
Published 26.02.2019
Apparently, many employers regret hiring an employee who is a smoker and wish they had known about their habit in advance. Can you ask for this information during recruitment and refuse employment on
these grounds?
Published 19.11.2013
Usually, it’s unacceptable verbal comments that trigger a discrimination claim. However, as a recent case shows, personal thoughts committed to writing can catch employers out too. What do you need
to know?
Published 07.03.2012
A subscriber suspects that an employee has a second job. Their concern is that they’re in breach of the Working Time Regulations if he’s working excessive hours. What should they do?
Published 30.06.2005
Search all items in entire site