working time regulations
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This has been the industry's solution to avoid the working time regulations.

What breaks am I entitled to under working time regulations?

The hours Cassidy was expected to work by the company may also breach other provisions of the working time regulations.

The EU should not have control over working time regulations, parental leave and other significant national issues.

"You don't need to contract out of the working time regulations if you are not a worker.

Others have referred to particular activities and sectors which are proposed to be covered for the first time by working time regulations.

Previously, share fishermen were specifically exempt from working time regulations in the same way that other self-employed people are or had been.

The present situation in which large groups of workers are excluded from the EU' s basic working time regulations is unacceptable.

They are fighting for new working time regulations and new variable contract-based tariff and remuneration systems.

At the moment, a number of countries in Europe are avoiding the working time regulations, and that is exactly what we do not want, as it distorts competition.

If you are within working time regulations because you are a worker, you are within the national minimum wage as a worker."

Interns at Alexander McQueen are asked to sign an agreement which includes an opt-out from working time regulations which limit the working week to 48 hours.

British Airways v Williams [1] was a 2010 decision by the United Kingdom Supreme Court relating to employment law and European Working Time regulations.

In considering this you also need to have regard to the national minimum wage and working time regulations as there are different rules around where training time is treated as working time for these purposes.

Mr President, my group shares the same opinion as most other groups, i.e. that this is a good report and that it is high time we had working time regulations which also apply to road transport.

Thus, we reject the Commission's proposal to exclude self-employed drivers, for the following three reasons. Firstly, self-employed drivers need to be covered by working time regulations so that we can ensure traffic safety in Europe.

The EU throws the people a bone every now and again - working time regulations, freedom of movement - but if it threatens their real masters, the European aristocracy and pan-European corporations, they're as protectionist as anybody else.

That we seem to be doing all we can as a country to opt out of EU working time regulations tells me that either there's something seriously wrong in that people need to work ridiculous hours for decent pay, or if they choose to then they're really doing themselves no favours.

More than two thirds felt the quality of their training and operative skills had deteriorated as a result of shift-working patterns brought in to meet working time regulations, and 71% felt the reduction in working hours had not led to any improvement in their work/life balance.

"In my view, the long hours you describe break working time regulations which say there must be at least 11 hours' rest within any 24-hour period and that every adult worker must have a break of not less that 24 hours in each seven-day period," says David McBride, an employment lawyer with Thompsons Solicitors.

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