Bid to end long work hours fails; EUROPE.BRITAIN'S long-hours culture will stay after a lastditch EU effort to impose limits failed yesterday. Ministers celebrated after keeping the UK's optout from European parliament regulations imposing a maximum 48-hour week. Euro MPs had voted to apply it to all members but talks on phasing in broke down yesterday. Employment minister Pat McFadden Pat McFadden may refer to:
He said: "It's important that they have the right to choose their hours." But TUC TUC (in Britain and South Africa) Trades Union Congress TUC n abbr (BRIT) (= Trades Union Congress) → federación nacional de sindicatos TUC n abbr (Brit) (= chief Brendan Barber accused ministers of not standing up for workers. He said: "Long hours cause stress and illness, and lowers productivity." |
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