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"I would like to express my satisfaction that the European Parliament is voting to drop the opt-out clause, which allows Member States to derogate from the 48 hour working week rule at their own discretion.
The opt-out clause is detrimental to workers and employees, opening the door to unfair treatment, exploitation and harm to people’s health. We are members of one union and the rules need to apply equally to everyone. We cannot boost our competitiveness at the expense of the health and lives of workers. Parliament should send the Council a very clear signal telling it what Europe’s citizens want.
I did, however, also support the Council’s proposals on active and inactive on-call time. The specific situations differ from one country to another. This means that the implementation of the provisions adopted today by the European Parliament would cause my country significant difficulties, also affecting medical workers. It could go on from there to cause problems in whole sectors. This is why I hope that the Conciliation Committee will reach sensible compromises.
I would like to end by calling on European governments, especially those from Central and Eastern European countries, to tighten controls over compliance with labour legislation. After all, it is no secret that even nowadays, hundreds of thousands of Europeans are working in abject conditions and for far longer than specified in the statutory working time regulations."@en1
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