EU: the European Parliament challenges the EU27 on working time

Within the framework of the agreement signed at the Council in June (see our dispatch No. 080482), the Member States agreed, after several years of blockade, to maintain the opt-out (the exception to the statutory 48-hour limit to the work week) which monitoring its appeal. Self-confident, the Council refused to bargain with the MEPs after the Parliamentary adoption of amendments which were not in its favor (see our dispatch No. 080988). The latter required the removal of the opt-out within 36 months after the adoption of the directive and advised to align with the CJEC’s rulings concerning inactive on-call time – i.e. consider it as working time unlike what the 27 agreed to.
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t (the exception to the statutory 48-hour limit to the work week) which monitoring its appeal. Self-confident, the Council refused to bargain with the MEPs after the Parliamentary adoption of amendments which were not in its favor (see our dispatch No.

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