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"Madam President, Commissioner, the 8-hour working day and the 48-hour working week were enshrined in one of the first conventions adopted by the International Labour Organisation, which was founded in 1919. This was an acknowledgement of the fact that the health and safety of workers must be protected, and that they must be given time to rest and the chance to raise a family, or in other words to produce more workers. The Commission’s proposal does away with all that, however, and cites hypocritical reasons for doing so. The opt-out clause, which is a disgraceful practice, invalidates everything that the trade union movement has managed to achieve over the past centuries. If the Cercas report makes provision for the abolishment of this clause, it deserves our support."@en1

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