Working seven days/week

[clashcityrocker]

Basic Rights
The basic rights under the Working Time Regulations are as follows:

Limit of an average of 48 hours per week which a worker may be required to work, however, they can opt-out of this limit and work more if they want to.
Limit of an average 8 hours work every 24 hours for night workers.
Free health assessments for night workers.
11 hours rest in every 24 hours.
A minimum of one day off per week.
Rest break during working hours if the working day is longer than 6 hours.

Is the minimum of one day off each week an entitlement (which can be opted out of) or an obligation?
Is working seven days/week a breach of the Working Time Directive?

[Biker Mouse]

If I remember correctly, The 24hr rest break every 7 days can be 48hrs in a 14 day period. As you say it’s an entitlement but I don’t think it’s mandatory.

[misstmac]

Legally, you are entitled to either 1 day off in 7 or 2 in 14. It’s been a while since I looked into something like this, but if I remember correctly the only section of the WTD you could opt out of is the bit about working a maximum of 48 hrs per week (averaged over something like 17 weeks). All other points are compulsory (i.e breaks, minimum of 11 hours between shifts etc). Unless it’s reported though, the WTD is ignored by some companies.

[Celgar]

David Cameron tried to get legislation through to make Sundays an ordinary working day so usual wages could be paid. Having said that if you do the maths what RM currently pays for overtime is less than you usually get per hour. At one time overtime was at 'time & a half' as standard but those days are gone now.

[Woody Guthrie]

Only professional drivers ( lorry, bus and coach ) have a mandatory weekly rest break, the rest of us have a right to 24hrs in 7 days or 48hrs in 14 days which like any right can be voluntarily surrendered.

However employers always have a duty of care to ensure that excessive working hours does not pose a threat to the health and safety of the individual or his/her colleagues.

[Martin Walsh]

A 24 hour rest period every seven days or 48 hours rest period every two weeks is mandatory requirement under the working time directive. However it is not monitored effectively.