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Overview. You cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks. This law is sometimes called the ‘working time directive’ or ‘working time regulations’. You...
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Average actual weekly hours of work for full-time workers (seasonally adjusted) Source dataset: Labour market statistics time series (LMS) Contact: ONS Labour Market Team. Release date: 15...
PeriodValue2024 JUL36.62024 JUN36.62024 MAY36.62024 APR36.748 hour working week. The most controversial and widely known provisions in the working time laws, however, concern the maximum working week. Under the Directive, this is 48 hours.
Mar 7, 2019 · The UK would have been on target to reach a 30-hour-week (equivalent to a 4‑day week relative to 2016) by 2040 had average hours continued to fall after 1980 in line with the initial post-war trend, according to new forecast modelling published by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) today.
The average full-time working person in the UK works 36.4 hours per week. This is based on the most recent ONS data (Q4 2022). Average working hours per day.
The law on working time (The Working Time Regulations 1998) sets rules for: the maximum weekly working hours, and how someone can work more hours if they choose; rest during the working day, week and year – find out more about the right to rest; young workers' maximum working hours and rest breaks; night work