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The European Council and European Parliament have begun a process of conciliation in order to arrive at an agreed series of amendments to the Working Time Directive. The process arises from the fact that the Parliament rejected Council proposals for changes that would have continued the individual opt-out, extended the period over which average hours are calculated and failed to acknowledge on-call time at the workplace as working time. The ETUC is now calling on both bodies to deliver a positive result and re-assert the importance of the European social model.
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