What is in the WTD?
There remain a number of categories of worker who are excluded from the Directive: • Managing executives or other persons with autonomous decision-making powers • Family workers • Workers officiating at religious ceremonies in churches and religious communities. The main provisions stated in the WTD were to ensure that workers enjoyed: • a maximum 48 hour working week averaged over a reference period; • a minimum daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours a day; • a rest break where the working day is longer than six hours; • a minimum rest period of one day a week; and • a statutory right to annual paid holiday of 4 weeks; • night working must not exceed eight hours a night on average Normal hours of work for night workers must not exceed an average of eight hours in any 24-hour period. Workers shall be entitled to a free health check-up before being employed on night work and at regular intervals thereafter. Anyone suffering from health problems connected with night work must be trans
