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Working Time Waiver Form

The working time waiver form allows your employees to opt out of the 48 hour average working week, i.e. to work more hours.

We expect the opt out to remain in the UK until 2010, although our fellow European governments are consistently trying to revoke our right to an opt out. Note that this form cannot be forced on employees, it must be voluntary. Note also that whilst the form does allow employees to opt out of the 48-hour average week (over a 17 week reference period), it does not exempt all the requirements of the Working Time Regs. If your employees do work more than an average of 48 hours per week (less for young workers) you MUST have a working time opt out form on file for them, or you will be in breach of the regs and liable to be caught out should you be audited.

For convenience we have set the 'opt back in' clause (under which an employee can change his mind about his opt out) to the allowable maximum period of 3 months. This will help you preserve continuity of business where employees change their minds.

For further information see our FAQs on the Working Time Directive