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In continental EU legislation (AFAIK unlike USA), no contract can waive rights provided by legislation.

If a job contract includes provisions that explicitly give up some of basic job limits (say, no vacation, unpaid overtime, limits of shift/week length, etc) - then, barring very few exceptions (listed in the same legislation), those parts of agreement are null and void. It's the same as it's everywhere for minimal wage - even if you sign a contract that you'll work for $0.05/hour, then that provision anyway means $[minwage]/hour.



Working time directive is one that you can opt-out of https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...




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