Under 18's working hours

Hi Trini

I found this if it helps:

Young workers

For young workers (those over compulsory school age but under 18) there are more stringent daily and weekly limits. They may not work more than eight hours in any day or 40 hours in any week (Monday to Sunday) (regulation 5A, WTR 1998). There are also no averaging provisions for young workers i.e this maximum hours may not be averaged out over the 17 week reference period. This is in contrast to adult workers, whose working hours are averaged over a 17 week reference period.

The specifics which you refer to are that I am aware that working hours for young workers are also set more locally and are specific to the local authority under whose jurisdiction the young worker would fall these tend to be more prescriptive in terms of actual times when young workers can work as opposed to the WTR which is more high level.

So for example where I live this is Derbyshire Local Authority and as you will see from the link has much more detailed guidance for what hours may or may not be worked and when:

https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/education/out_of_school/children_in_e...

I hope this helps!

Sarah

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Sarah Loates May 9, 2017 at 9:09am

Hi Trini

I found this if it helps:

Young workers

For young workers (those over compulsory school age but under 18) there are more stringent daily and weekly limits. They may not work more than eight hours in any day or 40 hours in any week (Monday to Sunday) (regulation 5A, WTR 1998). There are also no averaging provisions for young workers i.e this maximum hours may not be averaged out over the 17 week reference period. This is in contrast to adult workers, whose working hours are averaged over a 17 week reference period.

The specifics which you refer to are that I am aware that working hours for young workers are also set more locally and are specific to the local authority under whose jurisdiction the young worker would fall these tend to be more prescriptive in terms of actual times when young workers can work as opposed to the WTR which is more high level.

So for example where I live this is Derbyshire Local Authority and as you will see from the link has much more detailed guidance for what hours may or may not be worked and when:

https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/education/out_of_school/children_in_e...

I hope this helps!

Sarah
- Trinidad Galina Catalan > Sarah Loates May 15, 2017 at 3:29pm
  
  Thank you very much Sarah,
  
  Sorry for late reply!

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