Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-10-Speech-2-061"
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"Madam President, I was expecting to find in this directive what is missing from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the draft European Constitution: the upwards harmonisation of social rights. There is no mention of it. The opposite is true, in fact. Only employees’ flexibility has been increased therein.
Whilst the hanged men of Chicago died in 1886 for an eight-hour working day and a 40-hour working week, here we have, at the beginning of the 21st century, the great social innovation of the European Union, which should seek to raise the ceiling on the maximum weekly working time from 48 hours to 65 hours, or indeed above that in the event of individual or collective agreements, with the reference period for calculating the maximum weekly working time increased from four to 12 months.
Generously, periods of compensatory rest at the end of 72 hours’ work are guaranteed. One can only acknowledge the social audacity of this text that will most likely make European employers tremble! To cap it all, the concept of an inactive period of on-call time is being introduced, which is to be excluded from working time, and which completely contradicts the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities. There is no need for further explanation. The zealous servants of European employers have toiled well and although they know, like those who will choose to vote in favour of this text …
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