Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

In European Commission v UK [2007] ICR 592, the ECJ confirmed that rest periods are essential to the protection of workers’ health and safety. UK government guidance in place at the time, telling employers they were not obliged to ensure their workers exercised or could exercise their rights to minimum rest periods, was a breach of EU law.

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