Workers have a minimum entitlement to daily and weekly rest periods.
After a 3 month qualifying period of employment all workers are entitled to 3 weeks' leave in each holiday year. Employment records must be maintained and kept for 2 years. Workers carrying out certain activities and employed in certain sectors are completely excluded from the Regulations other than those specific to young workers. Sectors excluded include road, sea, inland waterways and lake transport, sea fishing or other work at sea, doctors in training, police and armed forces. It is possible to opt out with individual workers and to agree that the 48 hour limit will not apply to them.