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'''Work-to-rule''' is ana [[industrialjob action]] in which [[employee]]s do no more than the minimum required by the rules of their contract, and precisely follow all safety or other regulations, which may cause a [[slowdown]] or decrease in productivity, as they are no longer working during breaks or during unpaid extended hours and weekends (checking email, for instance).<ref>{{cite book |title=Images of Organization |first=Gareth |last=Morgan |publisher=Sage Publications |location= Thousand Oaks, California |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_W8jXt4_eMC&pg=PA165&dq=work-to-rule&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sz3iT_bPOIXK2AXVho3jCw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=work-to-rule&f=false |year=1998 |page=165 |isbn=0-7619-1752-7 |access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Air Canada Hit By Work-to-Rule |newspaper=The Sun |location=Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |pages=1–2 |date=9 December 1968 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uJZlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yooNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6026,3158040&dq=work-to-rule&hl=en |access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref> Such an action is considered less disruptive than a [[Strike action|strike]] or [[lockout (industry)|lockout]], and obeying the rules is less susceptible to disciplinary action. Notable examples have included nurses refusing to answer telephones, teachers refusing to work for free at night and during weekends and holidays, and police officers refusing to issue citations. Refusal to work overtime, travel on duty, or sign up to other tasks requiring employee assent are other manifestations of using work-to-rule as [[industrial action]].
 
[[John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington|Sir John Donaldson]] described it as a decision to "[g]ive the rules a meaning which no reasonable man could give them and work to that."<ref>Secretary of State v. ASLEF (No. 2) [1972] 2 All E.R. 949 at 959 (N.I.R.C.) per Sir John Donaldson. Cited in {{cite book |title=How to Do Things with Rules |first1=William |last1=Twining |first2=David |last2=Miers |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NHUv-wpDSRkC&pg=PA41&dq=%22Give+the+rules+a+meaning+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C-raUMaGBueH0AXj7oCYBw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Give%20the%20rules%20a%20meaning%20%22&f=false |year=2010 |page=41 |isbn=978-0-521-19549-2 |access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref>