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Regulations * Europe - IRU Working Time Directive update
The International Road Transport Union (IRU) is calling for the European decision on Working Time to be reversed in June ...
Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -April 30, 2010: ... as it runs the risk of creating massive unemployment for currently self employed drivers, using road safety as a fallacious argument... Following the European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Committee’s rejection of the draft Bauer report advocating support for the Commission proposal to exclude self employed drivers from the Working Time Directive at EU level, the IRU urges MEPs to reverse this decision when the proposal comes to vote again in Plenary this June... The IRU strongly supports the exclusion at EU level of self employed drivers from the scope of the Directive, while supporting the possibility for Member States to apply the Directive’s provision to such drivers if considered necessary after thorough consultation with the industry... MEPs should rectifiy this situation to avoid the subsequent massive unemployment of self employed drivers and stop using road safety as a fallacious argument for including self employed drivers in the scope of the Working Time Directive... Labels: rules and regulations
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