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- Type:
- Employment law manual
The law on rest breaks and rest periods, including the implications of the Working Time Regulations 1998, the temporary changes in place during the relaxation of the enforcement on EU drivers' hours and domestic drivers' hours rules due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), exclusions, and complaints to employment tribunals.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect that the temporary relaxation of EU rules on drivers' hours in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has been extended until 31 May 2020 and includes all sectors.
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- Date:
- 3 October 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In Pazur v Lexington Catering Services Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a kitchen porter had been subjected to a detriment when he was threatened with dismissal after he refused to return to work following a breach of his right to a rest break.
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- Date:
- 7 August 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In Hallett v Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Court of Appeal held that an NHS trust's use of commercial software to monitor rest breaks results in a breach of junior doctors' terms and conditions of service.
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to include information on Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE, in which the ECJ held that EU law means that Spanish legislation should require employers to set up a system to record workers' actual daily working time.
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- Date:
- 13 March 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v Crawford, the Court of Appeal held that, under reg.24 of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833), a compensatory rest period need not consist of an uninterrupted 20 minutes provided that it has the same value in terms of contributing to the worker's wellbeing.
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- Date:
- 21 March 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Santos Gomes v Higher Level Care Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that compensation for injury to feelings is not available in a claim under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) for a failure to provide 20-minute rest breaks..
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 16 January 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Crawford v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that, as far as possible, compensatory rest must comprise a continuous 20-minute rest break, not an aggregate 20 minutes of shorter breaks.
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- Date:
- 24 November 2017
- Type:
- Law reports
In this Portuguese case, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that the weekly rest period of 24 hours may be granted on any day during each seven-day period, and not necessarily the day following six consecutive working days.
