The EU Employment and Social Affairs Committee have recommended the scrapping of the UK opt-out by the end of 2006. Certain responses have to be in to the Commission by 31st March 2003, but all indications point to UK companies having to install Time & Attendance monitoring systems to handle the legislation by December 2006.
EEC RECOMMENDS END OF UK WTD OPT-OUT
As you are probably aware by now, Tensor WinTA and WinTA Lite Time & Attendance systems manage the information and documentation required for the Working Time Directive and automatically calculate overtime and night working rules associated with the legislation.