2.3 Hours of Work

The hours' regime: the normal working hours (the Act's daily-and-weekly limits — the eight-hour day's pattern); the rest intervals and the weekly day-off; the overtime (the voluntary-and- compensated extra hours — the premium rate; the caps); the night work's conditions; the shift work's discipline; the hours' flexibility (the averaging-and-arrangement faces within the law's ceilings) — the hours' law as the worker's first protection (the factory era's legacy) and the production's realistic discipline.