Can i work 45 hours per week in two jobs

[djones123]

Hi,

I am planning to join a new company on 37.5 hours a week contract and also i am planning to do 7.5 hrs a week with my current employer for few months.

Is it legal to do more than 37.5 hours a week?

As far as tax is concerned, I think I will be paying 40% tax on both jobs as tax on main job (37.5 Hrs) is 40%.

[hyperblue]

Of course it is, unless you're French.

[Supernova190188]

It's up to you if you wanna work more than that. My standard week is around 50 hours. Unless of course you are french!

[Mandat]

I'm not French, and I work much more than 37.5 hours per week.

[STW2010]

djones123 said:

Is it legal to do more than 37.5 hours a week?

Eh? I doubt I've been 'legal' for 7-8 years if that is the case!

(Of course it isn't)

[boxst]

Legal, yes. But it may be against your terms of employment with your new company.

[New POD]

djones123 said:

Hi,

I am planning to join a new company on 37.5 hours a week contract and also i am planning to do 7.5 hrs a week with my current employer for few months.

Is it legal to do more than 37.5 hours a week?

As far as tax is concerned, I think I will be paying 40% tax on both jobs as tax on main job (37.5 Hrs) is 40%.

May I ask why you think 37.5 hours would be the limit ?

http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/workingtimedire...

Maximum weekly working time
4.—(1) Subject to regulation 5, a worker’s working time, including overtime, in any reference period which is applicable in his case shall not exceed an average of 48 hours for each seven days.

(2) An employer shall take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect the health and safety of workers, to ensure that the limit specified in paragraph (1) is complied with in the case of each worker employed by him in relation to whom it applies.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5) and any agreement under regulation 23(b), the reference periods which apply in the case of a worker are—

(a)where a relevant agreement provides for the application of this regulation in relation to successive periods of 17 weeks, each such period, or
(b)in any other case, any period of 17 weeks in the course of his employment.
(4) Where a worker has worked for his employer for less than 17 weeks, the reference period applicable in his case is the period that has elapsed since he started work for his employer.

(5) Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall apply to a worker who is excluded from the scope of certain provisions of these Regulations by regulation 21 as if for each reference to 17 weeks there were substituted a reference to 26 weeks.

(6) For the purposes of this regulation, a worker’s average working time for each seven days during a reference period shall be determined according to the formula— (A+B)/C

where—

A is the aggregate number of hours comprised in the worker’s working time during the course of the reference period;
B is the aggregate number of hours comprised in his working time during the course of the period beginning immediately after the end of the reference period and ending when the number of days in that subsequent period on which he has worked equals the number of excluded days during the reference period; and
C is the number of weeks in the reference period.
(7) In paragraph (6), “excluded days” means days comprised in—

(a)any period of annual leave taken by the worker in exercise of his entitlement under regulation 13;
(b)any period of sick leave taken by the worker;
(c)any period of maternity leave taken by the worker; and
(d)any period in respect of which the limit specified in paragraph (1) did not apply in relation to the worker by virtue of regulation 5.

[sparks_E39]

You won't pay a higher tax rate.

[New POD]

sparks_E39 said:

You won't pay a higher tax rate.

P46 ?

[sjabrown]

As long as it's within the terms of your contract then the answer is yes. You might be getting near to the limits of the EWTD, but as it's 2 jobs and you're choosing to do it it would be difficult for anyone to say anything. I'm part salaried, part self-employed and in the past year have been doing anything between 40 and 100 hours per week.

[WhereamI]

boxst said:

Legal, yes. But it may be against your terms of employment with your new company.

+1

I'd not be too impressed to find a new employee was doing this - depending on the circumstances.