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.
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Working time and pay
- Also known as
veckovila
- Sources
Arbetstidslagen (1982:673) section 14EU Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC
Thirty-six hours means a day and a half off in practice, counted as continuous time without work. Being on call does not normally count as rest.
The rule collides most often with rolling schedules where staff work several weekends in a row. A schedule can satisfy daily rest every single day and still breach weekly rest, which is why the two have to be checked separately.
Departures can be agreed in a collective agreement.
How Timply handles it
The schedule and the time report show what is planned and what was worked, per person and per week. That is where the unbroken time off between two working weeks can be read.
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Related terms
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.
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.
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