Traduction de «ridurre l'orario di lavoro » (Italien → Anglais) :

The agreement also gives employers greater flexibility because, under exceptional circumstances, they can shorten the daily rest periods to 9 hours instead of to 11 as provided for in Directive 2003/88/EC on the organisation of working time.

(1) Council Directive 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993, concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time(3), which lays down minimum safety and health requirements for the organisation of working time, in respect of periods of daily rest, breaks, weekly rest, maximum weekly working time, annual leave and aspects of night work, shift work and patterns of work, has been significantly amended.

(12) A European Agreement in respect of the working time of seafarers has been put into effect by means of Council Directive 1999/63/EC of 21 June 1999 concerning the Agreement on the organisation of working time of seafarers concluded by the European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA) and the Federation of Transport Workers' Unions in the European Union (FST)(5) based on Article 139(2) of the Treaty.

Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that an employer who intends to organise work according to a certain pattern takes account of the general principle of adapting work to the worker, with a view, in particular, to alleviating monotonous work and work at a predetermined work-rate, depending on the type of activity, and of safety and health requirements, especially as regards breaks during working time.

Subjects to be covered may, for example, include training and retraining, the introduction of new technologies, new forms of work and working time issues such as the expression of working time as an annual figure, the reduction of working hours, the reduction of overtime, the development of part-time working, and access to training and career breaks.

take an initiative designed to improve the social conditions of employment while ensuring a better balance between working life and life outside work through the adaptation and flexibilisation of working time, using different formulae and procedures to be negotiated between the social partners (such as flexibilisation of weekly hours, part-time work, sabbatical and parental leave and the gradual reduction of working time prior to retirement), in recognition of the fact that different sections of the population have different aspirations and expectations regarding their working lives; state how it intends to contribute to reforming and r ...[+++]educing working time - over and above codifying the existing provisions - in order both to enable workers to combine work and family life more successfully and to improve the social conditions of employment, while retaining business competitiveness in the global marketplace;