Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-03-Speech-3-106"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Seafarers’ hours of work – Organisation of working time2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991103.7.3-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-03-Speech-3-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Roseline Vachetta2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"The first thing that I would like to say is that the 1993 directive on working conditions is quite inadequate and leaves room for all sorts of excesses. Nevertheless, the legal grounds speak of the need to harmonise social conditions with progress. I deduce from this then that the overall aim is to bring working conditions into line with those of the more advanced countries of the European Union. Now, forty-eight working hours per week, just one day of rest per week and an eleven hour break between two working days are proposals which already fall short of the gains made in some Member States. This directive leaves room for all kinds of exemptions, which make the situation even worse and as a result, it is not acceptable. If it is extended to railway and airline employees, it would even constitute a step backwards, as the legislation in some Member States is more advanced. It is absolutely essential that measures which are favourable to workers and which are in force in certain European countries are not abandoned under any pretext and that includes on the grounds of competition in particular. In France, for example, where women’s night work is very strictly regulated, no European directive should have jeopardised this right which, on the contrary, should have been extended to all European working women."@en1

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