In spite of long debates, labour unions and employers of the transport sector acknowledged the failure of negotiations, on October 6th, on the transposition of the European directive on working time for road transport. For lack of negotiated solution, the government will therefore have to transpose the directive unilaterally. Meanwhile, road transport trade unions have launched a week of mobilization to ask for more safety at work. (Ref. 061001)
Labour unions regret the failure of negotiations and say they started too late. The issue is technically complex. Social partners’ failure to find an agreement forces the Spanish government to limit itself to a transposition of the European norm. In this context, union organizations do not rule out « an approval » on the basis of the draft text which must be worked out by the Ministry of Employment, but only if « employers’ involvement is real and not only incidental ».
Mobilization for safety
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