Working time rules
Rest, breaks, weekly limits, night work and overtime: what the rules say and how they land in the rota.
Night work: who counts as a night worker, limits and rotas
Night time, the three-hour threshold, the eight-hour average and the free health assessment: what actually changes once someone becomes a night worker.
Overtime: limits, how it is paid and how to plan it down
There is no statutory overtime premium in the UK, but there is a ceiling: the 48-hour average. Where overtime really comes from, and how to cut it.
Rest breaks during a shift: when they are required
Past six hours of daily working time a break is owed: how long it has to be, what the rules for young workers are and how to make it survive a busy floor.
Weekly rest: 24 hours, Sundays and the shop worker opt-out
Twenty-four uninterrupted hours in every seven days, or 48 in a fortnight: how weekly rest works in a business that trades every day of the week.
How many hours can you work per week: the 48-hour average
Forty-eight hours as an average ceiling including overtime, measured over seventeen weeks: how the weekly limit actually reads, and what it means to plan.
Rest between shifts: how the 11 hours actually work
Eleven consecutive hours between the end of one shift and the start of the next: what the rules say, where the exceptions sit and how to plan around it.