U.K.
The European Court has ruled that the government's guidelines on the UK's Working Time Regulations are wrong and should be changed. The wording says that: “employers must make sure that workers can take their rest, but are not required to make sure that they do take their rest”. The Court ruled that this does not place a clear obligation on employers to ensure that employees to actually take the minimum required rest period.
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And at > euobserver (EN)
In a significant new judgement (Matzak, C-519/15), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that standby time away from the workplace may be counted as working time. In previous rulings the ECJ has said that on-call time at work should be counted as working time but normally if a worker is on standby away from the workplace this would not count as working time as they are not at the disposal of the employer. In the Matzak case involving a Belgian firefighter the Court found that the requirement to be at the workplace within eight minutes imposed a restriction on how the worker spent his
