Working time can be considered as a crucial element in the field of working conditions for workers, in fact, it can produce consequences of competitiveness, it plays an important role in the trade off between working and private hours and it influences gender equality. The working time directive 2003/88 regulates different aspects of the working time management. Its main objective is the actual protection of health and safety of workers. In the first part of my research I took in analysis the directives text, examinating which are the provisions that the directive introduces, limits and...