Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
The reference period is 52 weeks in the offshore oil and gas sector and can be extended to 52 weeks by collective or workforce agreement in other sectors. Employers cannot make workers do more than these hours (Barber v RJB Mining [1999] IRLR 308).
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