Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-11-Speech-3-111"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20040211.4.3-111"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bordes, Cauquil and Laguiller (GUE/NGL )2
lpv:translated text	". The Cercas report shows what every worker already knows: the employers and the politicians who serve them, who want a workforce that will do their every bidding, want the employers to be able to set working hours as they wish, with no legal limits. Great Britain is the leader here. The rapporteur says that ‘there are currently more than four million workers whose working week is longer than 48 hours, almost one million more than before the introduction of the directive. There has also been an increase in the number of those working more than 55 hours, which is now over 1.55 million. Around 1% of workers in the United Kingdom have a working week longer than 70 hours.’ As to the worker’s individual agreement to work those hours, the cynicism of such a provision is underlined by this comment by the rapporteur: ‘it is common for these agreements to be signed at the same time as an individual contract’. The choice is therefore between working yourself to death and having no work at all. This general offensive against any labour regulations affording workers even the slightest protection from the omnipotence of the employers is a serious social setback."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure)"1

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