Where we stand
The timelines below are intended to give an idea of the EU
legislative process (and how lengthy it can be...), relative to
some of the major EU pieces of legislation which Unite and other
Trade Unions are actively involved in.
A simple summary of each legislation is provided as well.
Should you wish to take a closer look at the actual legislative
text, please click on take a look at
the legislation.
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Posting
of Workers Directive
To download a Powerpoint presentation about the Posting of Workers
Directive click here >
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Back in 1991, procedure COD/1991/0346 also known as
« Freedom to supply services and workers' rights:
posting of workers “ started. The purpose of this
Directive is to determine: a) a single application procedure for
issuing a single permit for third country nationals to reside and
work in the territory of a Member State, in order to simplify their
admission and to facilitate the control of their status and; b) a
common set of rights to third country workers legally residing in a
Member State
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European Works
Council
To download a Powerpoint presentation about the
European Works Council click here *
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Fourteen years on from the adoption of Directive 94/45/EC,
approximately 820 European Works Councils are active, representing
14,5 million employees with a view to providing them with
information and consultation at transnational level. They are vital
to the development of transnational industrial relations and help
to reconcile economic and social objectives within the single
market, particularly through the decisive role they play in
anticipating and managing change responsibly
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Temporary
Agency Workers Directive
To
download a Powerpoint presentation about the Temporary Agency
Workers Directive click here *
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| The issue of equal treatment for agency
workers has been on the EU agenda since the early 1980s, when the
Commission first proposed a directive granting them equal rights to
those of permanent workers. However, the planned directive
never came into being, mainly due to the resistance of consecutive
UK governments, which feared that the country's highly deregulated
labour market might not benefit from granting statutory rights to
agency workers more
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Working Time
Directive
To
download a Powerpoint presentation about the Working Time Directive
click here *
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The issue of working time is a key element of European social
policy and has been covered, since 1993, by a directive that lays
down the basic principles. However, in order to receive the backing
of all the Member States, the Community legislator initially
advocated harmonisation in broad terms only and made provision for
significant derogations leaving the Member States considerable room
for manoeuvre as to how the directive should be applied. Among the
most controversial of the derogations was the provision on the
calculation of the reference period for the length of the working
week (48 hours of work per week calculated using a reference period
of 4 months) and the option not to apply this measure (i.e. to
exceed the maximum threshold of 48 hours/week) if a worker formally
agrees to this (a provision known as the ‘opt-out’) more >
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* make sure you save the presentation to be able to view notes made
on some of the slides.
