Ensure temps get rest and recuperation
29 August 2012
My agency supplies staff to the agriculture and food processing industries and we recently underwent an audit. The auditor stated that workers are entitled to one day’s break out of every seven or two days’ rest in every 14 days. However, a lot of our Eas
You are meeting your requirements under the Working Time Regulations (WTR) in respect of adult workers’ weekly rest periods, provided the workers are free to decide whether or not to work at the weekends.
As you rightly say, the WTR provide that a worker is entitled to a rest period of not less than 24 hours each week. Alternatively, this rest period can be...