Commission agrees to extend working time negotiations

Europe

Negotiations between the ETUC and the employer organisations (businesseurope, CEEP and UEAPME) were due to end next month in line with the normal nine-month timetable. However, detailed negotiations on the key issues have not yet started and the European Commission has agreed to the social partners' request to extend the deadline to the end of December. The employers' side have put on-call time, compensatory rest and sickness and annual leave at the top of their agenda while the ETUC is focusing on the individual opt-out, the reconciliation of work and private life and the definition of autonomous workers.
Read more at > DG Employment (EN)

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