Posted By Adam Jackson I've been delving through the Working Time Regs on a night work issue but have come up blank. Night work is limited to 8 hours (averaged over a 17 week period) but can workers voluntarily exceed this as they can with the 48 hour working week limit providing its in writing or is the night work 8 hour limit a strict one?

Posted By Adam Jackson Is that true? Would be a handy answer if it is. I was under the impression there are some parts of the Working Time Regs which are absolute and some which employees can choose to opt out of. For example, I didn't think adolescents could opt out of their night work rules? (I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time - I'm big and ugly enough to admit it!)

Posted By Paula BrattonYoung Not sure - I won't be able to sleep tonight now :-) I'm on a mission to check...

Posted By Adam Jackson My friend is called Carl although its likely that somewhere is a new-born called Google..! Thanks for that pointer - appreciate you doing what I completely forgot to do and checking Google. I am suitably shamefaced :( Thanks Adam