2. The transfer of night workers to daytime work for health reasons

This provision is comparable with Article 6 of ILO Convention 171 (358) and requires that, where workers suffer from health problems connected with their night work, they are transferred whenever possible to day work to which they are suited. The Directive does not enter into details of the procedure or how the health problems and the connection with night work are to be proven. These can therefore be decided on at national level. As to the positions to which workers should be transferred, the Directive only requires that it is work to which they are suited and that it is ‘day work’. The transfer should take place ‘whenever possible’. Unlike the ILO Convention242, the Directive does not detail situations where transfer would not be possible, nor does it specify benefits or protection against dismissal for workers for whom no transfer proves possible despite health problems linked to night work.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.