Sentence examples for working time limit from inspiring English sources

It said the "vast majority" of those work longer than the EU-wide working time limit of 48 hours.

UK workers can opt out of the maximum working time limit, but introducing the directive has still significantly reduced the number of people working excessive hours in the UK.

The Brussels directive would leave policing the working time limits.

That is why the Council too rejected the proposal, which would allow the Member States' controlling authorities to carry out inspections and ascertain the extent to which the working time limits laid down in the Working Time Directive are being applied and to take account of drivers' fatigue as a result of loading and unloading the vehicle and other factors.

I fear that this latest plan will drain the energies of the left in social policy and will divert attention from so many other worthwhile policy alternatives: the living wage, boosting trade unionism, free childcare, radical changes in housing policy, policies to reduce working time to limit turbo-consumption, green investment and so on.

Public sector physicians' working time is limited to between 8.30am and 3.30pm, with the explicit objective of allowing health personnel to undertake private work in the afternoon.

A study on UK junior doctors' working arrangements from 2008 to 2010 shows that over half of the junior doctors experienced pressure to work unofficially beyond the work time limit.

Interns at Alexander McQueen are asked to sign an agreement which includes an opt-out from working time regulations which limit the working week to 48 hours.

Labour MEPs voted this week to end Britain's opt-out from the working time directive – which limits the working week to 48 hours – in 2011.

The other concerns working time, which is limited by the notorious 35-hour week introduced by a Socialist government in 2000-02.

Patient-related working time in hospitals is limited.