Press Release: UK ensures right to work overtime can continue

The right for UK workers to choose to work longer than 48 hours a week was secured, at the EU Employment Council in Luxembourg on 9 June 2008, after ministers reached a new agreement. Agreement was also reached on the Agency Workers Directive.

Please note that the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was replaced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in 2009.

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Council of the European Union: Press Release, PRES/08/166: Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs, Luxembourg, 9-10 June 2008 http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/lsa/101031.pdf

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