7. Working time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Working Time ◽  
Night Work ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Rest Periods ◽  
Working Time Directive

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter focuses on the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR). WTR implements the Working Time Directive 1993 and parts of the Young Workers Directive 1994. WTR impose a maximum 48-hour week during a 17-week reference period and provide rules on night work, rest periods, and annual leave.

7. Working time

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Night Work ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Rest Periods ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Working Time Directive ◽  
Do So

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter focuses on the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR). The WTR implement the Working Time Directive 1993 and parts of the Young Workers Directive 1994. The WTR impose a maximum 48-hour week during a 17-week reference period and provide rules on night work, rest periods, and annual leave. The UK has opted out of the maximum 48-hour working week. It is the sole EU Member State to do so. On Brexit, the WTR are one of the areas which may come under attack from neo-liberals.

7. Working time

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Michael Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
European Union Member State ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Working Time Directive ◽  
Do So

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter focuses on the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR). The WTR implement the Working Time Directive 1993 and parts of the Young Workers Directive 1994. The WTR impose a maximum 48-hour week during a 17-week reference period and provide rules on night work, rest periods, and annual leave. The UK has opted out of the maximum 48-hour working week. It was the sole European Union Member State to do so. On Brexit, the WTR are one of the areas which may come under attack from neoliberals.

scholarly journals EWTD: maintaining the pressure

2009 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. 258-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Black
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Working Time ◽  
European Working Time Directive ◽  
News Item ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
European Working ◽  
Working Time Directive ◽  
First Time ◽  
Radio Programme

The ill-judged introduction of the 48-hour week demanded by the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) was the first news item on every television and radio programme on Saturday 1 August, indicating just how successful the College has been in raising public concern. It was encouraging that the British Medical Association (BMA) speakers were for the first time expressing serious anxiety, largely about the effects on training and about pressure being put on junior doctors to falsify their hours returns. All conversions to the cause are welcome, however late in the day. It is disappointing that the BMA is not yet stressing the dangers to patients, which they are surely hearing about from their members working in the acute specialties.

scholarly journals Maximizing time from the constraining European Working Time Directive (EWTD): The Heidelberg New Working Time Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schimmack ◽  
Ulf Hinz ◽  
Andreas Wagner ◽  
Thomas Schmidt ◽  
Hendrik Strothmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Time ◽  
European Working Time Directive ◽  
Time Model ◽  
European Working ◽  
Working Time Model ◽  
Working Time Directive

Optimizing training opportunities for otolaryngology senior house officers: an audit

2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 583-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Wasson ◽  
N Jacobsen ◽  
D Bowdler ◽  
C Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Working Time ◽  
European Working Time Directive ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Surgeon Training ◽  
European Working ◽  
Cent Case ◽  
Audit Cycle ◽  
Working Time Directive ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
Made In

Implementation of the European Working Time Directive and the Modernising Medical Careers initiative will mean junior surgeons must be trained in fewer hours over a shorter period. For this reason, junior surgeon training opportunities must be optimized. We undertook a departmental audit to identify where opportunities to train senior house officers (SHOs) in theatre were being lost, so that appropriate timetable changes could be made in order to optimize exposure to suitable surgical cases. During the first audit cycle, the SHOs followed their existing timetable and theatre attendance was monitored prospectively over a two-week period. Only 30 per cent of theatre sessions were attended and case participation was only 27 per cent. Simple timetable changes were made to maximize SHO theatre attendance, and a second prospective two-week audit was undertaken. The new rota yielded 46 per cent theatre attendance and 48 per cent case participation.

scholarly journals Teaching and Assessing Surgical Competence

2006 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEG Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Surgical Competence ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Surgical Trainees ◽  
Working Time Directive ◽  
Reduced Time

Surgical competence and its assessment is one of the most hotly debated topics engaging the profession. In the current climate of diminishing working hours and shorter training, the surgical profession is having to address the complex issue as to how surgery as a craft specialty should be taught, and how to assess when an individual is competent within their chosen sphere as well as how that competence should be maintained. Internationally, there is political pressure upon the professional to achieve contracted activity to comply with political imperatives and, at the same time, to achieve a greater degree of specialisation. Within Europe, the working time directive has led to a shift system of rotas and this, along with a shorter overall period of training, has led to reduced time available to surgical trainees in which to learn their craft.

scholarly journals Squaring the Circle: Registrar Training and Experience in an EWTR - Compliant Rota

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
RD Ramiah ◽  
J M Owen ◽  
DM Williamson ◽  
RA Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Surgical Experience ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rest Periods ◽  
Registrar Training

The European WorkingTime Regulations (EWTR) have been introduced over the past five years despite opposition from the surgical community. The stated aim of EWTR-compliant rotas for all staff is to reduce fatigue by having adequate rest periods and shorter working time, thereby improving patient safety as well as work–life balance. Concerns have been voiced that reduction in working periods for trainee surgeons will impair surgical experience and continuity of care for patients.

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