Q Are mobile workers in road transport covered by the Working Time Regulations 1998? A Mobile staff in road transport who are covered by the Road Transport Directive (2002/15/EC) are subject to only ...

COMPANY car and van fleets will be forced to monitor drivers' hours and could have to limit the amount of time employees spend behind the wheel when new legislation is introduced later this year. An ...

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has called on the European Commission to repeal the Working Time Regulations (WTR) after more than one-quarter of employers named it as the ...

The Government has come under fire for suggestions it wants to scrap the Working Time Directive, the EU rule which restricts the working week to 48 hours and protects other employment rights. Stories ...

Bilateral talks are being held with a number of national delegations to begin work on a new compromise deal that would be signed off at a meeting of employment ministers in December. The Portuguese ...

Drivers’ hours rules must be broken into three parts: the Working Time Directive (WTD), implemented in the UK as the Road Transport Directive; the EC Drivers’ Hours and Tachograph Rules for Goods ...

The Government has come under fire for suggestions it wants to scrap the Working Time Directive, the EU rule which restricts the working week to 48 hours and protects other employment rights. Stories ...

Although the directive was adopted as long ago as 1993, the European Public Service Union (EPSU) claims it still has not been fully implemented in some of the member states. The federation, which ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) received 45 reports relating to alleged breaches of the Working Time Directive in 2022 to 2023, up 165% from 17 reports in 2021 to 2022. According to research ...

We are a team of writers, experimenters and researchers providing you with the best advice with zero bias or partiality. The benefits of flexible working post-COVID have blurred the lines between work ...

Brexit could shackle us to unpaid overtime – rather than freeing us. By Anoosh Chakelian In a spectacular work of doublethink over the weekend, the Sun ran an article celebrating our opportunity to ...