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48 hours a week is the maximum in the UK and the EU.

You (the worker) may opt out (this is a domestic add-on, not all countries have this I think) and work more hours, but you can't be required to, and may not be fired or discriminated against if you do not.




>48 hours a week is the maximum in the UK and the EU.

That's blatantly false. In Austria the maximum is 60h/week since it's the maximum allowed in the EU.


"Maximum weekly working hours - GOV.UK" https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours

As far as I'm aware this came from the EU Working Time Directive so it's been law for a long time.


60 hours in any _individual_ week, but cannot exceed 48 hr/week on average (normally over 17 weeks to be exact, but this isn't fixed).

So your 60 hour week needs to be offset by, for example, a 36 hour week at some point. Unless you opted yourself out, or you work in one of industries where it doesn't apply.

However, it doesn't appear Austria has the opt-out at all.




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