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Shift work
Domain: Health and safety at work => Work organisation
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Uncountable
Definition
Any method of organizing work in shifts whereby workers succeed each other at the same workstations according to a certain pattern, including a rotating pattern, and which may be continuous or discontinuous, entailing the need for workers to work at different times over a given period of days or weeks.
Definition source
Reg. 22 of The Working Time Regulations 1998
European legislation
Directives 93/104/EC, 2000/34/EC
British legislation
The Working Time Regulations 1998
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