EU: MEPs remove their proposition to include self-employed drivers into the scope of the working time directive for truck drivers

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29 September 2009 à 17h10

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The wind has turned within the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. MEPs finally rejected the report recommending the extension of the 2002 directive on adjusting truck drivers’ working time to self-employed drivers, on hold since may (see our dispatches No. 090486 and 090813).
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e wind has turned within the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. MEPs finally rejected the report recommending the extension of the 2002 directive on adjusting truck drivers’ working time to self-employed drivers, on hold since may (see our dispatches No. 090486 and 090813).

Fake independent drivers. Originally, European directive 2002/15 gave until March 2009 to include independent workers within its scope. It affected road safety but also the respect of competitio

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