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Re:Work Hard, Live Well by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday August 20, 2015 @07:59AM (#10091260)
How does that help? Pretty sure the working time regulations - as with most employment laws designed to protect normal employees from exploitation such as minimum wage - don't apply to a business owner working on their own business. That's certainly my experience here in the UK anyway.
Re:Work Hard, Live Well by pjmlp on Thursday August 20, 2015 @09:08AM (#10091560)
I don't know exactly how it works, but I am pretty sure work regulations in Germany also apply to business owners.

Specially insurances will not be covering certain work related diseases with that type of workload.

It has been a continuous discussion in the press in the last years, to the point some companies started enforcing a "go home" policy.

For example, sorry in German,

http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/berufsleben/erreichbar-nach-d...