Traduction de «Relations dans le travail » (Français → Anglais) :

Labour law geared essentially to protecting workers employed under standard labour relations based on permanent labour contracts will not deter those not in conventional employment from responding flexibly to market needs. Over-strict regulation of the labour market has adverse effects on economic growth and growth in employment, deterring employers from offering legal work and encouraging both employers and workers to resort to the black market.

It should be noted as a positive development that the ICOH (International Commission on Occupational Health) is now paying increasing attention to the ethical issues of the relationship between work and health, and in the revision of its ‘Code of Ethics’ gives particular prominence to the idea of workers as people rather than simply as links in the production chain.

128. Calls for a continuing policy of ratification by Member States of recent ILO conventions such as those on part-time work, home work and private employment agencies, which tie in closely with the issues of atypical employment relationships also addressed in EU directives; urges constructive participation in, and input into, the discussion on other inadequately protected forms of employment which are often on the borderline of self-employment and wage dependency; emphasises the need for better harmonisation and coordination between policies and activities in the framework of the ESC, the ILO and the EU, with regard to both the EU Charter and concrete (secondary) legislation and regulation ...[+++], and warns that coordination in an EU context must not lead to neglect of, or even deliberate withdrawal from, obligations arising from ILO and ESC membership; recommends that its Committee on Employment and Social Affairs draw up an own-initiative report on this subject;

108. Calls for a continuing policy of ratification by Member States of recent ILO conventions such as those on part-time work, home working and private employment brokering, which tie in closely with the issues of atypical employment relationships also addressed in EU directives; urges constructive participation in, and input into, the discussion on other inadequately protected forms of employment which are often on the borderline of self-employment and wage dependency; emphasises the need for better harmonisation and coordination between policies and activities in the framework of the ESC, the ILO and the EU, with regard to both the EU Charter and concrete (secondary) legislation and regulation ...[+++], and warns that coordination in an EU context must not lead to neglect of, or even deliberate withdrawal from, obligations arising from ILO and ESC membership;

Finally, again in connection with arrangements under traditional industrial relations, there is the problem of special arrangements for specific categories of particular types of workers such as women, mothers, persons with disabilities, children etc.

To emphasise the need for a close working relationship between police forces and customs services, define their respective roles in the context of drug law enforcement activities and enable them to work together more effectively, the Council urges Member States to establish national legislative, regulatory and administrative provisions.