Working Time Directive?

[jh0711]

signing an opt out to the wtr does not mean anyone can force you to work more than 48 hours per week but it does give you the option should you wish to.

when the laws came out in 97/98 there was clause that if some one was classed as an autonomous decision maker than the ruling would not apply to them.

It was brought out to stop dodgy companies offering low wages but letting people work 60/70 hours per week so they could take home a living wage - obviously with NWM this is not such an issue now

[kirk]

You'll be with CP then...

[boredsenseless]

They cannot insist upon it, and they may not make you signing it a condition of them acting for you.

tim

No but they can find a 'more suitably qualified' candidate, which essentially is the same only fully legal.


REMEMBER : What people are allowed to do and what they want to do are rarely the same, and if you want it enough there are ways of achieving the same legally.



Sorry I didn't have my "avoidance of pedantic referrers" hat on when I wrote the original posting.

[tim123]

No but they can find a 'more suitably qualified' candidate, which essentially is the same only fully legal.


REMEMBER : What people are allowed to do and what they want to do are rarely the same, and if you want it enough there are ways of achieving the same legally.

The 'they' in this sentence is the MSC, the client has already offered the contractor the gig.

tim