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This will be covered for the introduction of the new European Working Time Directive.
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The Working Time Directive has been hotly debated in the EU for years.
There is also the issue of the European working time directive which is gradually being phased into the health service.
The changes cut welfare benefits and gave employers more flexibility in reaching agreement with their employees on working time and pay.
And the European Parliament recently voted for their swift inclusion in the European Working Time Directive, which sets a 48-hour maximum.
The UK's opt-out from the Working Time Directive only applies to the directive's clause setting a 48-hour limit on the working week.
The EU working time directives could come in to effect in the UK in three years' time if they back the move.
Clinging to a rigid model of fixed working time and presence is better suited to the industrial age than the digital age.
There will be no point in consulting the British people if there is just a change, say, to the working time directive.
Professor Roy Pounder, the RCP lead on the European Working Time Directive said rotas which included seven 13-hour shifts were "clearly not sensible".
Tax experts have said the proposals could mean thousands more workers would be affected by employee-related legislation such as the working time rules.
In addition, the European Working Time Directive will mean their working week is reduced to 58 hours by August, then 48 by 2007.
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Conservatives have long pressed for Britain to be exempted from the European Working Time Directive and other laws they see as harming Britain's economic competitiveness.
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They would also have to comply with new employment laws, such as the working time directive which guarantees employees four weeks' paid holiday a year.
There have been reports David Cameron and Germany's Angela Merkel agreed a deal reviewing the working time directive in return for any eurozone-related treaty changes.
Small firms, which employ half the British private-sector workforce, have complained about a raft of new government rules, including stakeholder pensions and regulations on working time.
The European Working Time Directive requires that workers in all occupations have at least 11 hours off duty each day, and limits shifts to 13 hours.
One of its chief concerns is to ease the regulatory burden on small businesses, especially the Working Time Directive and other EU labour and welfare legislation.
Mr Hughes also described the adoption of the working time directive in the UK as a "mistake", telling MPs he supported the government's bid to limit its application.
It shows the UK needs to move in the opposite direction to what Buchholz is calling for, says Paul Sellers, working time expert at the Trades Union Congress.
For the same number of hours worked, workers can enjoy the same standard of living even as they allocate more of their working time to purchasing health care.
He triggered open-mouthed horror at one Strasbourg dinner, at which MEPs were discussing the wickedness of British opt-outs from the European Working Time Directive, a meddlesome tool for limiting overtime.
However, managers said they still faced the problems of doctors working fewer hours under the European Working Time Directive which they said created staffing and safety issues for smaller hospitals.
"We will examine the balance of the EU's existing competences and will, in particular, work to limit the application of the Working Time Directive in the United Kingdom, " the agreement said.
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The court in Luxembourg said the EU Working Time Directive grants workers a right to at least four weeks' paid annual leave "even where such leave coincides with periods of sick leave".
"The retirement age is also being raised by a year and companies are to be allowed to negotiate working time directly with employee representatives to permit more than a 35-hour week, " says Delfeld.
Employment legislation has become more and more onerous as Labour has implemented new regulations such as the working time directive (from Europe), and new rights for consultation through works councils (again from Europe).
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