Even though there have been tribunal cases in ECJU since 2018 that has resulted in an Interpretative Communication on Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time. Which clarifies that time spent by On-Call firefighters - who are required to respond every time and immediately when their alerter goes off is to be classed as Working Time. As yet none of the Fire Authorities have recognised and implemented it, in fact some have introduced new contracts of employment that go up to and beyond 120 hours of cover per week, with no daily or weekly rest breaks.....
Even though there have been tribunal cases in ECJU since 2018 that has resulted in an Interpretative Communication on Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time. Which clarifies that time spent by On-Call firefighters - who are required to respond every time and immediately when their alerter goes off is to be classed as Working Time. As yet none of the Fire Authorities have recognised and implemented it, in fact some have introduced new contracts of employment that go up to and beyond 120 hours of cover per week, with no daily or weekly rest breaks.....