EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Talks between EU member states and MEPs on a directive that would limit the working week across the 27-nation bloc to 48 hours did not lead to an agreement on Thursday (2 April), reducing the chances of the legislation being adopted at all. "An exhaustive round of negotiations between the EU member states and the European Parliament, which ended in the small hours of Thursday, did not result in an agreement on the five-year-old proposal," the Czech EU presidency said in a press release. EU social affairs commissioner Vladimir Spidla said that the commission had done "its utmost to help both the European Parliament and the Council [the EU member states] reconcile the differences in their views."
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Talks between EU member states and MEPs on a directive that would limit the working week across the 27-nation bloc to 48 hours did not lead to an agreement on Thursday (2 April), reducing the chances of the legislation being adopted at all.
"An exhaustive round of negotiations between the EU member states and the European Parliament, which ended in the small hours of Thursday, did not result in an agreement on the five-year-old proposal," the Czech EU presidency said in a press release.
EU social affairs commissioner Vladimir Spidla said that the commission had done "its utmost to help both the European Parliament and the Council [the EU member states] reconcile the differences in their views."
It's like escapology.
Flexi without the curity. Ad astra per aspera
All hail freedom! Freedom from the cares of wealth! Freedom from working out what to do you your free time! Freedom from your family, who you never have to see working three jobs to feed them!
Workers of the world, cast off the chains of regulation, you have nothing to lose but your health!
Keep women on part time, casual, insecure and low paid contracts and sack them when the going gets tough?
What is really perverse about this is the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, discovered. If you give women economic power, i.e., a micro-credit loan, they use it to raise the nutrition level of family meals, send the children to school, and do other things to increase the living standard of their family. If they give the loans to men they piss it away.
Number of reasons for this and it certainly doesn't hold in any individual case. Principal is sound, however.
