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Section 41A: Notice of objection by shop workers to working additional hours on Sunday

Employment Rights Act 1996 · 1996 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: Sunday working for shop and betting workers

A shop worker may at any time give to his or her employer a written notice, signed and dated by the shop worker, to the effect that he or she objects to doing shop work for additional hours on Sunday.

In this Part—

  • "additional hours" means any number of hours of shop work that a shop worker is (or could be) required to work under a contract of employment on Sunday that are (or would be) in excess of the shop worker's normal Sunday working hours;

  • "objection notice" means a notice given under subsection (1).

The "normal Sunday working hours" of a shop worker are to be calculated in accordance with regulations.

Regulations under this section may provide—

for the calculation to be determined (for example) by reference to the average number of hours that the shop worker has worked on Sundays during a period specified or described in the regulations;
for a calculation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a) to be varied in special cases;
for the right to give an objection notice not to be exercisable in special cases (and subsection (1) is subject to provision made by virtue of this paragraph).

Provision under subsection (4)(b) or (c) may, in particular, include provision—

about how the calculation of normal Sunday working hours is to be made in the case of a shop worker who has not been employed for a sufficient period of time to enable a calculation to be made as otherwise provided for in the regulations;
for the right to give an objection notice not to be exercisable by such a shop worker until he or she has completed a period of employment specified or described in the regulations.

But regulations under this section may not include provision preventing a shop worker who has been continuously employed under a contract of employment for a period of one year or more from giving to the employer an objection notice.

Regulations under this section may make different provision for different purposes.

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