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RULES * Europe - Votes on new ones for owner/drivers
Employment and Social Affairs Committee recommends self-employed lorry drivers must be subject to the same rules as those employed by companies
Video from YouTube, by ferschwanstain —21 Feb 2009: A comparison between American and european trucks
Brussels,Belgium -Transport Intelligence, by John Manners-Bell -16 Jun 2010: -- The European Parliament is due to vote today (Wednesday, 16 June) on a proposal put forward by its Employment and Social Affairs Committee which recommends that self-employed lorry drivers must be subject to the same rules as those employed by companies... Earlier in the year the committee voted to reject the Commission's proposal that self-employed drivers be exempted from the 2002 working time directive on the road transport industry... The problem of the "false self-employed" - drivers who are officially self-employed but are in fact not free to work for more than one client - should be tackled... The Employment Committee's report backed the Commission's approach and, to help combat the problem of false self-employed, suggested a precise definition of a self-employed driver. Being in favour of leaving self-employed drivers out of the directive's scope, the report argued there was no precedent for regulating the working hours of self-employed people... However the decision has been opposed by some MEPs. The UK's Conservative Employment spokesman in Brussels Julie Girling, said that the last thing the already over-burdened road haulage industry needed was more red tape for self employed lorry drivers...
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