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Daily rest

Daily rest is the unbroken time off an employee is entitled to in every twenty-four hour period. The Swedish Working Hours Act requires at least eleven hours, and the hours between midnight and five in the morning should normally fall inside the rest.

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  • Category

    Working time and pay

  • Also known as

    dygnsvila

  • Sources

    Arbetstidslagen (1982:673) section 13EU Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC

The rule gets difficult in practice with split shifts and at the changeover from an evening shift to a morning one. An evening shift ending at 23:00 followed by a morning shift starting at 07:00 gives eight hours of rest, which is three hours short.

Departures are possible through a collective agreement, and they occur in several trades, but they require that the departure is agreed and that compensating rest is given.

In care work, where shifts fall close together and a night shift is followed by an early morning, this is the rule that most often decides how a schedule may be laid out.

How Timply handles it

The schedule shows how the shifts fall and the time report shows what was actually worked, with clock times per day and per person. That is where you read off how long the rest between two shifts turned out to be.

Related terms

  • Weekly rest

    Weekly rest is the longer unbroken time off an employee is entitled to in every seven-day period. The Swedish Working Hours Act requires at least thirty-six hours, and the rest should fall at the weekend as far as possible.

  • Working Hours Act

    The Working Hours Act (1982:673) governs how much and when you may work in Sweden. It sets ordinary working time at no more than forty hours a week, caps overtime at two hundred hours a year, and requires daily and weekly rest.

  • Collective agreement

    A collective agreement is a written agreement between an employers' organisation or employer and a trade union on pay and terms of employment. In practice it decides premium levels, overtime pay, the number of holiday days and departures from the Working Hours Act.

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