The Slovenian EU Presidency has announced that agreement has been reached on common rules to allow a work week of over 48 hours and to grant temporary agency workers more rights.
Efforts to revise EU working time rules had stalled since November 2006 over opt-outs from a 48-hour weekly maximum, especially in Britain, which is reluctant to tighten rules. Under the revision of the directive on work time, under certain conditions Europeans could choose to work up to 60 or 65 hours a week after individual negotiations with their bosses.
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