Barber and others v RJB Mining (UK) Ltd [1999] IRLR 308 HC

Contracts of employment: Maximum 48-hour week is a statutorily implied term in all employment contracts

Date:

1 April 1999

In making the Working Time Regulations, Parliament intended that all contracts of employment must be read so as to provide that an employee should work no more than an average of 48 hours per week during any 17-week reference period, holds the High Court in Barber and others v RJB Mining (UK) Ltd.