Hello,

Can anyone advise on a detailed guide to the Working Time Directive which includes examples, I am struggling to locate anything that is of any ilk off the internet. I also pose the following questions:-

What contraventions if any are caused by someone generally working 8 hours a day & then suddenly on a rare occasion working an additional 8 hours to make a continuous shift?

To confirm that Employees are to have 11 consecutive hours rest in any 24-hour period (commuting/driving to work is not counted as work and therefore is considered as rest time).

If an employee works a 12 hour shift and then drives home (approx. 2 hr drive) is this OK?

WTD is normally or can be based over four weeks so you will work more hours in one week than an other but it ballances out over the four weeks. If it is occasional working then besides the safety issue of driving home there would not really be an issue.

There is a lot of work where you would not always have 11 hours between shifts, nureses, DR's, care homes, prisons etc the time taken in these areas is dependent on what is happening when you are about to go home, look at the recent bombings particularly manchester nurses, police etc called in I bet not all of them had 11 hours between the shift, I would bet that quite a few never went home at all for 24 hours. Would we argue that they cannot be called in or asked to stay on in these circumstances because they hadn't had 11 hours between the shift. I think what we need to do is look at the circumstances and then judge.