Working Hours
Key facts
- The Working Time Regulations 1998 (as amended in 1999, 2001 and 2003) apply to all accommodation providers that have people working for them.
- You must take reasonable steps to ensure that workers do not work more than an average of 48 hours a week (excluding lunch breaks).
- Workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid leave a year and rest periods of a specified length in each working day and in each seven day period.
- You need to keep sufficient records to show that you are complying with the regulations.
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