Amey Infrastructure Services

Working Time Policy Statement

It is the policy of AIS to achieve a sustainable working time ethos throughout the business to support health and safety of all our people.

In achieving this policy the working hours will be determined primarily by the need to deliver client requirements while taking the following factors into account:

• Considerations of employee fatigue

• Avoidance of working patterns that might have an adverse impact on health and safety.

• Ensuring that work patterns allow employees scope to ensure they are able to manage their lives in a way that achieves a reasonable balance between work and leisure.

• Legislation and regulatory requirements.

Working hours, time off and rest periods are to be compliant with the legislation and guidance of the Working Time Directive.

The Working Time Directive requires that when averaged over a seventeen-week reference period the working week should not exceed 48 hours unless agreed otherwise by:

• Collective bargaining in accordance with limits identified in the Working Time Directive.

• Restrictions in working hours of young people under the Working Time Directive.

• Relief for emergency work or unusual or unforeseen events. (For the purpose of this policy, Emergency is defined as an event that could not have been reasonably foreseen or predicted within the realistic work planning cycle; the planning cycle will typically be weekly).

• Opt out from restrictions where permitted by the Working Time Directive, in which case the average working hours calculated in accordance with the Working Time Directive should not exceed 55 hours. It is AIS policy that the 55-hour limit will be reduced progressively.

These should also be read in conjunction with the European Community Regulated Operations and Domestic Operations for Drivers Hours.

Work Hours for “young people“, as defined in the Working Time Directive, will be planned to be compliant with the Directive without exception

Working time, time off and rest periods will be monitored and reported using tools meeting local and company performance monitoring requirements.

Signed: Date: 1st May 2007
C C Webster
Managing Director
Amey Infrastructure Services