Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-16-Speech-2-097"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991116.6.2-097"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-16-Speech-2-1032
lpv:speaker	lp:Glenys Kinnock2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"We are now finally making good an omission dating from 1993, the year when the working time directive was adopted. This legislation represented definite progress but at the same time its application excluded six million workers. This included personnel involved in the transport sector, but also in work at sea (offshore workers, in particular, and “doctors in training”). It was no longer acceptable to exclude these workers in so far as the nature of their work was no different to that of the workers covered by the terms of the directive. The proposal under discussion today is intended to rectify the current situation. There have been fierce discussions, especially on the question of the “offshore” sector and doctors in training. Regarding the latter, the European Commission’s initial proposal was that the application of the directive should be extended to doctors in training over a transitional period of seven years. We demanded that this period should be reduced to four years, with a maximum weekly working time of fifty-four hours (subject to negotiation) during that time. This is the minimum that may be asked if the nature of this profession is taken into account. It is the welfare of these doctors at work, and the health and safety of their patients, which is at stake! This is why the Council’s common position on this, envisaging a nine-year transitional period, would be unacceptable! Regarding offshore workers, we have demanded that working hours may be expressed by an annual figure subject only to collective wage agreements or employer-employee agreements. This condition shall have to be reconsidered taking into account the health and safety of workers within a period of five years after the directive comes into force. The organisation of working time and the improved reconciliation of working life and private life which it affords must be of benefit to the majority. This is the condition on which we may start talking about Social Europe. It is more than time for this."@en1

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