Setting working time limits
The thirty-five hours as a threshold rather than a ceiling, the three maxima that genuinely limit, then the 25 % and 50 % uplifts, the 220-hour quota and compulsory rest. Three modules on a workshop running 46 hours in a busy week. All the prose is free to read; the case study and quizzes are sold.
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By the end of this course, you can…
These outcomes are the modules' own: the promise cannot say anything the course does not teach.
- State what the statutory thirty-five-hour week sets, and what it does not.
- Retain the maximum daily duration of actual working time.
- Retain the two weekly ceilings and the period over which each is measured.
- Separate a trigger threshold from a ceiling that must not be crossed.
- Place the cases in which the code provides for derogations.
- Define what an overtime hour is under the labour code.
- Retain the two forms of consideration the text opens to the employee.
- Place the boundary between the two default uplift rates.
- Understand the reach of the words absent an agreement.
- Work out the pay for a busy week, block by block.
- Define the annual overtime quota and what exceeding it opens.
- Retain the size of the quota that applies absent an agreement.
- Know which hours are not counted against the quota.
- Retain the minimum duration of daily rest.
- Build the minimum weekly rest from the two texts that set it.
The programme, module by module
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- Module 19 minFree — no accountThirty-five hours, and three ceilingsWhat you will be able to do
- State what the statutory thirty-five-hour week sets, and what it does not.
- Retain the maximum daily duration of actual working time.
- Retain the two weekly ceilings and the period over which each is measured.
- Separate a trigger threshold from a ceiling that must not be crossed.
- Place the cases in which the code provides for derogations.
- Module 29 minIncluded in the full courseTwenty-five, then fiftyWhat you will be able to do
- Define what an overtime hour is under the labour code.
- Retain the two forms of consideration the text opens to the employee.
- Place the boundary between the two default uplift rates.
- Understand the reach of the words absent an agreement.
- Work out the pay for a busy week, block by block.
- Module 38 minIncluded in the full courseThe quota, and what rest protectsWhat you will be able to do
- Define the annual overtime quota and what exceeding it opens.
- Retain the size of the quota that applies absent an agreement.
- Know which hours are not counted against the quota.
- Retain the minimum duration of daily rest.
- Build the minimum weekly rest from the two texts that set it.
What you take away
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Participant handout (PDF)
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- Learning objectives (3)
- Key figures (3)
- Mistakes to avoid (3)
- Official sources (3)
Exercise workbook (Word)
Word
- Learning objectives (3)
- Key figures (3)
- Mistakes to avoid (3)
- Official sources (3)
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