Transformed Working Time Arrangements: Benefits and Extent of Agreement

Workings time arrangements have
been transformed to benefit all
parties in the employment relation!
To what extent do you agree with
this statement?
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Critically examine the changes in working time patterns and trends over recent years..............3
Critically assess the development of “flexible” working time and work-life balance.................5
Access the legal regulation of working time arrangements.........................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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Q2. Workings time arrangements have been transformed to benefit all parties in the
employment relation! To what extent do you agree with this statement?
INTRODUCTION
The International Labor Organization (ILO) has created an idea of "job in place" which includes
open doors for women and men who work better than the average and are paid opportunities,
value, safety and human respect in the States, in order to reduce the differences between people's
years in relation to their current job and working conditions. Great progress on the ILO's journey
beyond average work leads to better working hours. Previous working hours had been the subject
of a comprehensive universal working standard, the Working Time Convention (industry), 1919
(No. 1), and remains essential for its extension by the ILO (Pichault and McKeown, 2019). Over
the years, ILO has achieved universal standards on a range of work time topics, recalling
measures for work time points, daily rest periods and week after week, paid annual leave, for
insurance nights. Uniform treatment rules for workmen and low-maintenance workers.
In this modern world everything has been changed by new emerging technologies. The schedule
has been replaced by new modern working time arrangement techniques. As per labor law;
company is liable to pay overtime to those workers; who contribute more than 40 hours in a
week. Thus, organizations are adapting new ways to breakdown these 40 hours according to
convenience of labor. Some workers required fixed period of time like in banking sectors and
other customer service providing firms. But manufacturing sectors where fixed order quantity is
ordered in precise time don’t hold any constant time. Due to these reasons; employees are
allowing both shifts day and night. Women employees are exceptional case; as it depends on
their choice to choose working hours. New startups are adopting flexible working hours due to
their main target which is to accomplish task. In this project report; to discuss the impact of
working time arrangements two parties; employee and employers have been considered.
Over recent years it has been identified that there is changes in work time patterns and trends, it
has been identified that in UK there is excessive working hours and workplace pressures same in
workplace structure. EU Working Time Directive introduced in the provinces of United
Kingdom from year 1998 to 2003. At a time when a young specialist has to work more than four
and a half hours after each, at that point they are entitled to a 30 minute break. Another young
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specialist is qualified for twelve consecutive hours in each 24-hour period in which he works.
Both of these warranties should be modified or avoided in exceptional circumstances. Young
experts are entitled to 2 days per week and can only be found in the middle of about fourteen
days.
Free guidance is created by DTI (Department of Trade and Industry), which can provide more
data. This legislation restricts and put limit of 48 hours working week along with 4 weeks paid
annual leave (British workers put in longest hours in EU, study finds, 2019). Main cause of
significant increase in the working hours over their years turns out to be the increase in
competition pressure and need to more with less. At present workers are subject to get overtime
for each hour above 40 hours a week. In this relation, it has been identified that the despite of
having these legislations professional as well as managers along with this transportation and
manufacturing workers seen with working over time. This has been identified that there increase
in pressure upon organization to be more agile, consumer focused and competitive (Drahokoupil
and Kahancová, 2019). This turned out to be the key driver for change in nature of work time. In
addition to this it has been determined that over the past 40 years there is a significant increase in
demand of skilled workforce that increases irregular work scheduling. Through this unskilled
labors and blue color workers get benefited through getting rotational shifts. This lead towards
much negative consequence along with this it has been evaluated that about 10% of workers in
organizational workplace structure are assigned to on-call work shift or irregular work time.
Further irregular work shift is mainly linked with working longer weekly hours. Due to the
irregular work time employees faces issues related to family conflicts and many more negative
consequences because of overtime work that has been performed by transport and manufacturing
workers in UK. This keeps on increasing with a constant rate and as overtime increases
likelihood of having irregular schedule (Birkett, 2019). In order to compact this United Kingdom
government introduced many legal remedies like right to request to make change in work time,
location, and schedule. With disturbed pattern of working hours there are number of
consequences that has been facing by employees from many years. It has been identified that
11% of workers in United Kingdom perform their work in a long work hour schedule. Along
with this has also been evaluated that there is a clear differences in which managers,
professionals and workers engaged in manufacturing and transportation seems to work more
comparatively to other employees. Along with this there is a significant difference among long
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