The annual survey of working time by the EIRO industrial relations observatory confirms the trend in recent years of very little change in working hours and the disappearance of working time cuts from the collective bargaining agenda. For 2009, EIRO reports some evidence of an increase in hours in France, Slovakia, Germany and Spain. In France, this resulted from legislation in 2008 that relaxed the rules regulating the 35-hour week. The survey also reports specifically on working time in the civil service where again there is little evidence of any significant change.
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Annual survey indicates slight increase in working hours
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Survey finds slight increase in working time in civil service
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