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An EU directive states that no worker can be compelled to work more than 48 hours per week. Workers are allowed to opt out of this limit, but that opt out must

• tialaramex 8y ago
  The UK implementation exempts roles where you actually control your own working hours, e.g. a parish priest is an employee (of the church) but there is nobody setting their working hours, likewise an MP works for their constituents, and is paid by Parliament itself, but neither gets to choose what hours the MP works so they're exempt. Another clever trick is that 48 hours is averaged. Where the nature of the work makes daily leisure time pointless the 48 hours are averaged over an entire year, so maybe an oil worker puts in 10 hours per day for 2 weeks out on the ocean... and then they go home for two entire weeks before their next session. On average that's still under 48 hours per week