Working Hours

  • PoliticsAOL

    Green takes aim at police 'second jobs'

    Policing minister Damian Green looks set to rile police officers. Green is to launch a new code of conduct that will force police officers to declare any second jobs outside usual working hours. More than one in ten police officers have second

  • NewsAOL

    Campaign against long working hours

    Workers have been urged to leave their office on time as part of a drive to highlight the damage caused by the UK's long hours culture. Charity group Working Links organised the Go Home On Time Day to encourage people to think about how to

  • NewsAOL

    Brits work the longest hours in Europe

    Fiona Hanson/PA Wire A report has found that we work the longest hours in Europe. We also spend less time eating and sleeping, and face some of the highest housing costs and the longest commutes. It's not all doom and gloom however, as

  • HealthAOL

    One in three likely to skip lunch breaks

    Nearly a third of us skip lunch breaks when we're at work because we feel we can't take any time off. The figure (30%) is an improvement on the 37% who said they were unlikely to take a lunch break two years ago, but is still high.