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The 1993 Directive came into force almost 30 years ago, in a society where, overall, employment relationships were more homogeneous and work organisation more standardised in the common ‘9 to 5’ working day. However, over the past decades, working time regulation has been increasingly confronted by new forms of employment and new ways of organising work, through the rise of e.g. remote work, mobile work, on-demand work, platform work or multiple employment.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.