Traduction de «horaire hebdomadaire » (Français → Anglais) :

Are we sufficiently aware that, in 1994, when the Member States came to an agreement on the maximum 48-hour working week, they excluded several million workers, such as transport workers, offshore oil rig workers or junior doctors in training?

While some agreements are very liberal and do not impose any restrictions on flight frequencies or route schedules, other agreements provide for a tight regulation of key economic aspects, such as the weekly frequencies, the route schedules and the fares.

We take a favourable view of the points achieved in the Conciliation Committee, and are as one with you on the points you have already mentioned, namely the inclusion of the self-employed, a clear definition of self-employment, clearly-defined work times – in respect of which, of course, more redress can again be demanded of enterprises – and the need to define exceptional circumstances as regards weekly work times and work at night.

3.4. Despite this recommendation, the Directive, when adopted by the Council on June 22, 1994 extended the transitional period to the limits on weekly working hours for children.

5.3. The rationale for the transitional period thus appears to be that the imposition of maximum weekly hours of work and the prohibition on night work, even with the flexibility permitted by the Directive, would disrupt and/or reduce employment or training opportunities for young people which pose no real health or safety risk.

In order specifically to prevent the employer from achieving, by subterfuge or through intimidation, a situation whereby the employee renounces the right for his weekly working time not to exceed the maximum laid down, this express manifestation of consent is surrounded by a series of guarantees to ensure that the interested party suffers no harm if he refuses to work more than 48 hours per week under the terms mentioned, that the employer keeps up-to-date records of employees carrying out such work where hours exceed the weekly maximum that the records in question are made available to the competent authorities, and that the entrepreneu ...[+++]r provides to the competent authorities, at their request, information relating to agreements given by the workers".