Re:Work Hard, Live Well
by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday August 20, 2015 @07:59AM
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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.
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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...