Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-14-Speech-4-055"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010614.3.4-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-14-Speech-4-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Labour is still a commodity. It is attractive to employers if they can get their employees to work at the times that involve the least costs. They prefer drivers on the road who can be called on at any time of the day or night, all through the week. Sometimes twenty consecutive hours, and at other times five times a day for a couple of hours. This helps them avoid having to take on more people to share tasks. However, the result is that people become stressed and over-tired, cause more accidents and scarcely manage to maintain a private life. Only a well-coordinated campaign by government and trade unions can help put a stop to this. Now that road traffic is becoming increasingly international in nature and cheap Eastern European companies with poor conditions of employment are trying to capture a portion of the market in the European Union, there is an increasing need for measures. Above all in the field of cross-border problems there is an urgent need for measures on a European scale, but the Council has been sabotaging those measures for two years and even now only wants a toned-down version. It is good that the rapporteur wants to continue the main thrust, and calls for measures to prevent large transport companies avoiding their responsibility by offloading commercial risks onto their unprotected freelance drivers."@en1

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