ETUC Executive Committee Declaration on the Working Time Directive of 8 July 2009

(9 juillet 2009) The ETUC Executive Committee yesterday confirmed its position on the working time directive. EPSU General Secretary Carola Fischbach-Pyttel expresses her satisfaction with the ETUC statement: ‘Our message to the Commission is very clear. We do not want a fast track consultation on a revised working time directive over the summer break. We now need time for reflection before any revision of the directive. We expect that the Commission now lives up to its duties and enforces the current directive.

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