Working Time Regulations: Employers should not rest easy on breaks from work

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP | Employment Law Journal | May 2019 #200
Flexible working can make it difficult to check whether staff are taking adequate rest breaks but it is important to get this right to avoid legal liabilities, warns Syma Spanjers ‘In the longer term, employers should encourage a workplace culture in which taking breaks is acceptable. Managers should lead by example to show that they …

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Working time: Resting their case – new rulings on work breaks

Trowers & Hamlins LLP | Employment Law Journal | April 2019 #199
Rebecca McGuirk and Anna Scott consider recent rulings on whether compensatory rest has to be continuous and on what compensation is available to a worker denied a rest break ‘“An equivalent period of compensatory rest” must have the characteristics of a rest in the sense of a break from work.’ The Court of Appeal has …

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