Next stage of working time consultation begins

Europe

The European Commission has launched the second phase of consultation over the Working Time Directive with responses due from social partners by 28 February. The Commission has put the focus on issues around on-call time, minimum rest periods, tackling excessive working hours, better reconciliation of work and family life and
clarifying areas whether the law appears unclear. However, EPSU underlines the need to challenge the individual opt-out which it believes is behind the fact that more than one in 10 employees in the EU still work more than 48 hours a week.
Read more at > DG Employment (EN, DE, FR)
And at > EPSU (EN)

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