4. WORKING HOURS

4.1    Your normal working hours are set out in your Written Statement.

4.2   The Company reserves the right to re-arrange working hours in order to meet the needs of the business. Your working hours might be changed and you may be required to work in excess of your normal working hours.

4.3   If required you agree to work in excess of any limit placed on working hours whether by statute or otherwise (provided in the case of a statutory limit that the requirement is lawful).

4.4   Any excess hours worked will be unpaid unless you have a specific entitlement to overtime payments, which will be set out in your Written Statement and/or your Job Offer Letter, if any, or separately agreed in writing with your line manager.

4.5   The Working Time Regulations specify limits on working hours and set out an employee's entitlements to rests. As an employer, we are required to monitor the hours you work to ensure you do not work longer than permitted. Therefore, we will monitor working hours and keep records of these. We may require you to keep a record of your working time and rests to assist the monitoring process.

4.6   If you have to work during your lunchtime, you must take an equivalent break during the day making arrangements for appropriate cover where necessary.

4.7   You must take a minimum rest period of 30 minutes if you have worked continuously for six hours. The law entitles you to a daily rest of 11 consecutive hours and a weekly rest of 24 hours. Except where we may lawfully require you to work during all or part of these rests you must take them. If as a result of our work requirements you do not get your full rest entitlements, you will be entitled to an equivalent period of rest.