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Allow night workers the choice to opt out of the 48 hour working limit

Submitted by Tyrese Miles on Sunday 1st December 2024

Published on Tuesday 28th January 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 28th July 2025

Signatures: 22

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48 hours ~ Capacity ~ Cost ~ Cost of living ~ crisis ~ night ~ Option ~ place ~ remain ~ shift ~ weeks ~ work ~ Working Time Directive

Petition Action

Allow night workers the choice to opt out of the 48 hour working limit

Petition Details

Under the Working Time Directive, day shift workers are allowed to work as many hours as they like if they opt out of the 48 hour week limit. We believe those who work between 11pm and 6am are penalised.

Additional Information

We believe this is important due to the cost of living crisis. We also think it is our right to be treated equally as others employees and should be allowed to make the decision to work as long as we want since we know our own capacity.

We believe the WTD is in place to protect those who may not be able to handle more than 48 hours a week and call for this to remain in place, with the option for all workers to opt out.


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