§1 Mobile workers

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Interpretative Communication on Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time · European Union

If mobile workers do not come within the scope of one of the sector-specific Directives, as an alternative to the derogations provided under Article 17(3) and Article 18 (see Part B), the Directive permits their exclusion from the rules on daily rest, breaks, weekly rest and length of night work without requiring equivalent compensatory rest or appropriate protection. The Directive nevertheless requires not only compliance with the general principles relating to the protection of the safety and health of workers but also that workers are entitled to ‘adequate rest’ (See Chapter IV above) except in circumstances of accident or imminent risk of accident. Despite the original Commission proposal (417), the adopted text does not permit additional derogations from the reference period for calculating mobile workers’ maximum weekly working time.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07