Common use of The Working Week Clause in Contracts

The Working Week. 3.1. The working week will be expressed in terms of timetabled programmed activities. Each programmed activity could involve a combination of duties, for example a ▇▇▇▇ round and patient administration. For full-time consultants the working week will be 10 programmed activities, each with a notional value of 4 hours giving a timetabled working week of 40 hours. These may be programmed as blocks of four hours or in half-units of two hours each. Part-time consultants will agree with their employer the number of programmed activities which will make up their core working week. 3.2. During the hours of 8am to 10pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 1pm Saturday and Sunday and all programmed activities will be paid at plain-time rates. 3.3. The BMA and Health Departments agree that the contract should not involve any element of clocking on and off and overtime payments will not be available. Both sides also recognise that there should be scope for variation, up and down, in the length of individual programmed activities from week to week around the average assessment set out in the job plan. 3.4. Regular and significant differences between a consultant’s timetabled hours and the hours actually worked will need to be discussed as part of job plan reviews either at the planned annual review or an interim job plan review.