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Legal amount of minimum work hours?

If you work over the legal amount of hours in a shift at work, is it your own fault or the employers?

  • Ok can someone please help settle an argument? My friend worked a 17 hour shift at work, he agreed to work the shift, he wasn't forced into it. But he worked the 17 hour shift ...show more

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    In Catering my husband regularly worked a 16 hour shift. He was asked to do it and he did. There are various occupations in the UK where shifts are very long. Your friend was asked and he did it willingly, he could have refused, so what's the problem now. He can always say no the next time. UK

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Where is he, and how old is he? For adults, most places this is NOT illegal.

Judy

There is a maximum number of hours per week that your employer can MAKE you work. However you may CHOSE to work more. Your friend chose to work more so cannot complain. He can say no in the future.

DR + Mrs Bears face

Some jobs are 24/7 like in home caregiver, no law about how long an adult can work. If it is child labor the company should know the laws or not hire children.

shipwreck

If he worked the long shift willingly and was paid overtime, I don't think there is much he can do about it.

Atticus

If you're in the UK then the rules on this are set by the Working Time Regulations. You can read about the working time regulations on http://www.simplifythelaw.co.uk. To go straight to the page on Working Time Regulations check out http://snipurl.com/28qaewv The law can be a bit more complicated then simply saying "it's lawful/not lawful to work a certain number of hours in a shift" there are rules about how much time you have off between shifts and whether that long shift was part of a pattern.

Rupert - Simplify The Law

The employer should not have asked him too

Geoff B

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