Working-time rules

Working-time rules in Slovenia

What the law says in Slovenia about rest, hours, breaks, night work and workers under 18, with the provision behind each figure, and what helloswap checks when a shift is planned, swapped or taken.

The figures for adults

Each figure is the law's, with the number of its source. The last column says what helloswap does with a shift that breaks it.

Rule	What the law says	In helloswap
Rest between two shifts	At least 12 hours in a row¹11 hours where working time is unevenly distributed¹	Blocks the shift
Average working week (EU rule)	At most 48 hours a week on average, overtime included²	Warning
Weekly rest	One day off a week, taken together with the daily rest: 36 hours in a row³	Warning
Break	30 minutes in a full working day; shorter days in proportion⁴	Warning
Night period	23:00 to 06:00⁵	Definition
Night work	Someone who normally works at least 3 hours of the day in the night period is a night worker⁷	Definition
Limit for night work	At most 8 hours on average in every twenty-four hours, over 4 months⁶	Blocks the shift

Workers under 18

Someone who is under 18 on the day of the shift gets these figures. helloswap goes by the date of birth on the person's profile. An empty cell means the law has no figure there that this page can state.

Rule	Under 15	Ages 15–17	In helloswap
Rest between two shifts	14 hours⁸	12 hours⁹	Blocks the shift
Longest working day	2 hours during the school year⁸6 hours in the school holidays⁸	8 hours⁹	Blocks the shift
Longest working week	12 hours during the school year⁸30 hours in the school holidays⁸	40 hours⁹	Blocks the shift
No work between	20:00 and 06:00⁸	22:00 and 06:00¹⁰	Blocks the shift
Weekly rest	48 hours in a row⁹	48 hours in a row⁹	Blocks the shift
Break	30 minutes when the day is 4.5 hours or longer⁹	30 minutes when the day is 4.5 hours or longer⁹	Warning

Nobody under 13 may be employed, apart from narrow exceptions such as performances with a permit.⁸
Where the law has one figure for school days or school weeks and another for free days or holidays, the first figure in the cell is the one helloswap applies, every day and every week. It does not know which days are school days.
Here a young worker's break counts as working time, so it is not taken off before the longest day and week are measured.
Weekly rest is measured over the 7 days up to the shift.
helloswap does not check whether someone of a given age may be employed at all, or in which kind of work.

What stands out in Slovenia

A young worker's break counts as working time.

How helloswap applies them

The law's figure is one thing, the check another. Where the two differ, it says so here.

Rest between two shifts: helloswap measures from the end of one shift to the start of the next. A shift that leaves less than 12 hours is not saved.
Average working week (EU rule): This figure is not in the country's own statute, which sets its limits in another way. It is the ceiling of the EU working-time directive, which every member state's law has to stay within. helloswap gives a warning when a person's average goes over 48 hours; the shift can still be saved.
Weekly rest: helloswap looks at the 7 days up to the shift and gives a warning when they hold no rest of at least 36 hours in a row. A rest that began before those days counts in full.
Break: helloswap compares the 30 minutes with the break length the company has set.
Night period: The hours that count as night for adults, where no agreement sets others. Workers under 18 have hours of their own, in their own table.
Night work: The law speaks of someone who normally works like this. helloswap goes by the shift: every shift that meets it is treated as a night shift.
Limit for night work: The law averages a night worker's working time over all the days of the period. helloswap is stricter: it averages the length of the person's night shifts over the last 4 months and does not save a shift that takes that average over 8 hours.

What blocks a shift, and what only warns

The split is the product's own and the same for every company.

Blocks: the shift is not saved

Nobody can override these, whether a manager plans the shift, someone takes it from the swap board or it is part of a swap.

Rest between two shifts
Limit for night work
The figures for workers under 18, except the break

Warns: the manager decides

The shift can still be saved. The warning names the rule and says why.

Average working week (EU rule)
Weekly rest
Break
The break for workers under 18

Sources

Every figure on this page carries the number of the provision it was read in. The links go to the official text.

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