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| Training Seminar on Applying the EU Working Time Directives (WTD) | Subjects covered: | Aimed at Professional Managers | |
| If you would like to arrange a Training Day on the European Working Time Directive, please call us. A one-day course is £2000 +vat |
Objective:To understand the WTD and to ensure your shift patterns are fully compliant with these regulations. |
Constraints imposed by WTD on shift working Health & Safety & shift working Fatigue: causes and effects Night working Solution:48 hour working week Solutions:Breaks on shifts Solutions:Daily rest break problems Solutions:Annual holiday problems Solutions:Holiday pay problems |
HR Managers Operational Managers Shift Managers Staff representatives All types of organisations |
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Alec Jezewski founded CDT in 1994 to help organisations write their shift patterns. He graduated from UMIST with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, then went on to do post graduate research at Nottingham Trent University setting up computer models for high-pressure gas cylinders. Next Alec joined Rolls Royce in the Stress Office for several years. His speciality was creating computer models to compare theoretical design with real structures. In 1985 Alec started his own 24/365 business. Being an engineer he decided that there had to be a logical approach to shift pattern design and a way to run the shift pattern more effectively. What he found was that there was very little literature on the subject, most of this was contradicting and impractical. He has helped organisations around the world, including 10 Downing Street, organising shift patterns that effectively meet the WTD. | Angela Moore has been working with CDT since 2001. She has a BSc from UMIST in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research, where her final year thesis was modelling call centre workloads. She has an MSc in Operations Management from Manchester Business School where her dissertation was on comparing shift patterns used in the public and private sectors using her work with CDT. This work included setting up the statistical calculations to determine the optimum size and location of the sectors for country wide repair and maintenance facilities and staff. Her current research is for a unique PhD at Southampton University in Loss Given Default for personal loans and credit cards. She is the joint author of 'How to Manage Your Shift Patterns:Holidays and Absences. She has created many of the computer models used by CDT to help organisations run more efficiently. |  |
Contents of this webpage are:
The history of the EU WTD
The UK regulations
Effects on UK organisations
CDT & shift working
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There are several aims addressed by this legislation. These include Health & Safety of the worker, improvements to the work and life balance of the family and an even playing field for employers in the European Union.__________________________________________________________ |
The history of
The European Community Working Time Directive
The Working Time Regulations 1998
with later amendments
The limits and entitlements and their effect on an organisation
UK Legislation
Statutory Instrument 1998 No.1833 |
Problems Associated With Complying With The Working Time RegulationsIn our experience, these are: As you may gather, these periods require an iterative solution. For instance, in the latter instance above, the extended period includes an extra 4 weeks of time and it is easily possible for a employee to have some more holiday or absences in that time, thereby extending the reference period by that amount. Our solutions set up this iterative solution so you don't need to worry, it just happens. The actual complications of using a 'rolling 17-week period' require even more advanced mathematics to produce a solution. This is because the aim of the calculation is that you do not exceed the limit, and if the calculation is 'backwards' then we need to have 'predictive' calculations in place to prevent it happening before it is too late. This is because, by the time the calculation happens, it is too late to change the past. Having a fixed 17-week period will always have some part of it containing the planned shift pattern in the future and this can be changed far more easily. Our computer models are unique in being able to do both. |
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| All the shift patterns we set up comply with the WTD limits and entitlements. We give advice on possible derogations where both the employer and the employees can gain a perceived benefit and where it is not detrimental to the operation
of the organisation. We provide the software to run the operation by setting up computer models specically designed to the Terms of Employment, the Contractual obligations between the employer and employees, and most importantly
in alignment with the workload. The computer models guarantee adherence with the WTD regulations including any derogations. (A derogation is where a limit is changed by an agreement between the employer and employee, such as
agreeing to work more than 48 hours a week on average, or where the average is taken over a year, or where the daily rest period can be less than 11 continuous hours.) We advise upon when this is possible and also whether it should be done.
Most organisations use some form of 'Time & Attendance' software to monitor, among other essential tasks, the hours worked by the employee. We have worked with hundreds of organisations, but never found one that has a T&A system that calculates the average hours worked per week in accordance with the regulations given in the legislation. For most organisations, this is not an important issue as the employees do not work anywhere near 48 hours on average a week. Irrespective of that failure, what is important is that the software, from whatever source. can predict if this limit will be exceeded and then allow the working hours to be amended in the future so that it does not happen. I believe we are unique in providing this software in our computer models. The models are created in the Excel spreadsheets, so they are immediately understandable to everyone. |
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Extract from the book Order form for the book Also available from Amazon, ISBN 9780955919800 |
How To Manage Your Shift PatternHolidays and AbsencesThe aim of this 234 page book is to provide you with the tools and techniques to make a shift pattern run smoothly. The main objective of any shift pattern is to ensure you have the right people with the correct skills when and where you want them. The major issues, which are going to prevent you from achieving this objective, are staff holidays and absences. Therefore the two key topics of this book are how to organise staff holidays and staff absences so that they do not effect the operation. In this eye-opening book CDT shows us how to effectively manage holidays, absences and create a shift pattern that actually manages itself. Key topics covered in this book include: · Calculating How Many Staff You Need · Different Types of Shift Patterns · Holiday Management · Holidays Included Shift Patterns · Holidays Excluded Shift Patterns · Shift Cover Arrangements · Banked Hours · Fatigue and Shift Work · Incorporate Training into your Shift Pattern · Terms and Conditions of Employment · Implementing a New Shift Pattern |
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