SCHEDULE 5 Sunday Working

SCHEDULE 5 Sunday Working

Section 33

Employment Rights Act 1996

1

The Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended as follows.

2

In section 41 (opted-out shop workers and betting workers), for subsection (3) substitute—

“(3)     In this Act “notice periodâ€, in relation to an opted-out shop worker or an opted-out betting worker, means—

(a)     in the case of an opted-out shop worker who does shop work in or about a large shop, the period of one month beginning with the day on which the opting-out notice concerned was given;

(b)     in any other case, the period of three months beginning with that day.

This subsection is subject to sections 41D(2) and 42(2).â€

3

After section 41 insert—

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

(1)     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.

(2)     In this Part—

“additional hours†means any number of hours of shop work that a shop worker is (or could be) required

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