This may have been asked before, if so, my appologies. If a driver is given a Community Service Order that is carried out at weekends should the time spent doing the work be taken into account with reguard to maximum weekly working time and weekly rest periods?
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Sorry, I’m just waiting for someone to say that you have no business driving if you’ve broken the law 
I have certainly not broken the law but another driver has. The rest of us want to know how we stand putting our case forward to our supperiors as we belive it should be.
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gino7108:
This may have been asked before, if so, my appologies. If a driver is given a Community Service Order that is carried out at weekends should the time spent doing the work be taken into account with reguard to maximum weekly working time and weekly rest periods?
I would say no to both because although you can’t freely dispose of the time the community service is not being done for an employer and is not employment related … well not unless he’s doing it for thumping the gaffer anyway 
I’ll wait to be corrected though
gino7108:
I have certainly not broken the law but another driver has. The rest of us want to know how we stand putting our case forward to our supperiors as we belive it should be.
If you don’t mind me asking … what case ? 
And wot yer 'aving fer supper?
tachograph:
… well not unless he’s doing it for thumping the gaffer anyway
Or he is driving the rest of the miscreants to where they have to pick up the litter, clean the graffiti off something or paint a fence.
44 Tonne Ton:
And wot yer 'aving fer supper?
Wasn’t meaning to be nosey, I was just struggling to see how a driver doing community service could affect anyone else.
Interesting question by the OP
Dunno about the law but my personal thought is -
how is being forced to do something by an official authority considered as being able to dispose of your time freely 
Whilst pointing out that the Daily Snail is not welcome in this house, they had a shock horror story about a racist thug.
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Wheel Nut:
Whilst pointing out that the Daily Snail is not welcome in this house, they had a shock horror story about a racist thug.
But when he arrived to pick up litter on his first day, officials said they were concerned the sentence might take him over the EU Working Time Directive of 48 hours and ordered him to stop.
I don’t think that would count toward the WTD, just as working in a bar or office during the week wouldn’t.
I think it would only be because of the weekly rest requirements of the tacho rules that would come into play
ROG:
Interesting question by the OPDunno about the law but my personal thought is -
how is being forced to do something by an official authority considered as being able to dispose of your time freely
I wouldn;t think the fact he has been ordered to do some free community work automatically qualifies it as "work " for the regulations purposes. First and foremost the regualations are there to restrict and make compliant your ‘working time’ or ‘employed time’, they’re not there to try and curtail and restrict anything you do when you’re off work. So with this in mind i’d say this work counts no more than decorating your own house at the weekend, when you’re off.