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Maximum 60-hour working week
17th October 2008
Employers are to be confronted with revised legislation that will impose a maximum 60-hour working week.
Earlier this year, Britain agreed that it would retain its opt-out of the 48-hour week under a EU Working Time Directive.
The opt-out is to be subject to tighter controls including a new absolute maximum average of 60 working hours a week where there is an opt-out.