(05 May 2014, 10:15 pm)aureolin wrote Does applying the GB domestic rules allow the company to exempt someone from the working time directive? I.e. Daily rest break is listed as 10 hours, as oppose to 11 hours I'm entitled to under WTD? Same goes for weekly rest breaks. 1 day per week or a full 2 days per fortnight, yet only 1 per fortnight for drivers driving under GB domestic rules? Find it hard to believe that I'm entitled to more rest breaks than someone operating heavy machinery whilst being responsible for up to 70+ passengers at a time.
In a nutshell.....yes. Another loophole is that as long as you have a 24 hour period off in a rolling 2 weeks then you are legal, and because the week starts at 00.00 on a Monday, if you have a rest period on a Monday of week 1, as long as you have a 24 hour rest period by the Sunday of week 3, you can actually work 19 days before you need a 24 hour period off......