The Parliament's Committee on Petitions adopted, on June 25, an own-initiative report ordering the Commission to deal with the complaints it received for breaches of the European legislation on working time in Member States. The report should be ratified this fall, and should be quite aggressive regarding working time. Indeed, at the same time, MEPs will examine on a second reading and criticize the proposal to revise the working time Directive adopted by the Council of Ministers (see our article No. 080482). (Ref. 080540)
An old issue. The report adopted follows a special; report issued by the European Mediator concerning the European Commission’s inaction in the handling of a complaint for breach to European working time legislation, in 2001. In this case, the claimant – a German physician – asked the Commission to initiate an infringement procedure against Germany, which refused to consider inactive on-call time as working time. When questioned by the European Mediator, the Commission explained its inaction by
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