Recent changes to working regulations in the UK are seriously damaging the working life and education of junior doctors and patients are also suffering, warn senior doctors on BMJ.com today. The ...

An Editorial in this week's Lancet looks at the recently released review of the effect of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on the quality of medical training in England, by John Temple. The ...

After more than two years of legislative highs and lows for the European Union’s proposed Platform Work Directive, the EU may be inching closer to adopting regulations on the classification of ...

Analysis: The push to extend working hours is part of a broader trend to normalise long hours, low pay and little rest in the name of flexibility and growth The Greek government has passed a law ...

A subsidiary of Italian contractor giant Saipem will pay out compensation to two offshore workers after a dispute about violation of working time regulations in Norway. Norwegian trade union Industri ...

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully "online first" publication. Our publishing model–"continuous publication"– means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being ...

As countries around the world experiment with shorter work weeks, Greece has taken a step in the opposite direction — introducing a six-day work week for some businesses that operate on a 24-hour ...

Summer is coming to an end, and offices are filling up again across Europe, with people swapping holidays for work. However, a significant share of Europeans will be putting in much more time at work.

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