Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
Workers cannot agree to opt out of the 48-hour working week through terms incorporated in a collective agreement. Instead, each individual worker must freely agree to any opt-out, with full knowledge of the facts (Pfeiffer v Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [2005] IRLR 137).
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