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The WM is designed to protect workers from being exploited
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by employers and to ensure they are safe to drive or use machinery so companies cannot bypass those regulations, even if the employees are willing to work longer hours.
But there are exceptions to the Working Time Regulations if your workers: • work a long way from where they live • have to travel to different places for work There are also exceptions to cover: • security or surveillance work • jobs that require round-the-clock staffing • some employees working in rail transport • exceptionally busy periods • emergencies In all these cases you should average workers' hours over 26 weeks, rather than 17 weeks, to find their average working week. They are also entitled to accumulate their rest periods and take them at a later date. This is known as compensatory rest.
In addition, your workers may be covered by other working time legislation if your business covers air, road or sea transport. Mobile workers are not permitted to opt out of the average weekly working limit. However, they may agree by collective or workforce agreement to extend the reference period from 17 to 26 weeks and increase the amount of night work that can be worked.
If you are employing young people, there are no exemptions in these industries from the regulations for workers aged under the age of 18. Holders of a full category C (LGV) driving licence can drive large buses provided they have held the licence for at least two years and the vehicle is: • damaged or defective and being driven to a place of repair or being road tested following repair, • and is not used for the carriage of any person who is not connected with its repair or road testing.