Part 7: Sunday Working Schedule 5: Sunday working New Section 41A: Notice of objection by shop workers to working additional hours on Sunday
New section 41A introduces a new right for a shop worker to object to working additional hours on Sunday.
	The right is exercised by the shop worker giving their employer a written "objection notice", which they have signed and dated, to the effect that they object to working additional hours on a Sunday. An objection notice can be given at any time. "Additional hours" on a Sunday are the hours of shop work that a shop worker is or may be required to do in excess of their normal Sunday working hours.
	The method for calculating the "normal Sunday working hours" of a shop worker will be set out in regulations to be made by the Secretary of State. The Schedule sets out that those regulations may include:
a prescribed way to calculate normal Sunday working hours as the average number of hours that a shop worker has worked on Sundays over a given period;
different definitions of "normal Sunday working hours" in special cases, for example where a shop worker has not worked on enough Sundays for the standard calculation to be used;
that the right to give an objection notice might not be exercisable in special cases, for example where a shop worker has not worked on enough Sundays for the standard calculation to be used.
	However, Schedule 5 also provides that regulations on special cases cannot prevent a shop worker who has been continuously employed for a year or more from objecting to working additional hours on Sundays.
	Paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 amends section 236 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 so that the affirmative resolution procedure will apply to these regulations if they provide for the right not to be exercisable in certain specified circumstances. Otherwise, the negative resolution procedure will apply to these regulations.