Traduction de «Controlled flexible hours » (Anglais → Français) :

12. Recalls that flexible working arrangements are specific to many jobs in this sector; emphasises that, on the one hand, increased flexibility in working arrangements – provided that it is voluntary and geared to the real needs of workers, and that workers have control over it and clarity as to their working hours and part-time arrangements – increases women’s opportunities to participate actively in the service sector and suppo ...[+++]rts the reconciliation of work, family and private life, but that, on the other hand, flexibility can have a negative impact on women’s wages and pensions and negative consequences for women in employment, such as a lack of formal contracts, social security and employment security; notes that it can also result in employers failing to ensure adequate occupational health and safety conditions;

We have a Committee on Budgetary Control, and it is sensitive and flexible enough to exercise its responsibility within a matter of hours.

The new labour code in Portugal includes an increase in fixed-term contract duration, working hours flexibility, devices to control unjustified absenteeism and encouragement of occupational mobility.

28. Points out that not nearly enough attention is paid to demographic change and calls on the Member States to pursue a policy more in favour of children and the family and to make jobs for the elderly, and working into later life, more attractive and to encourage people with job experience who are willing and able to work by introducing further training courses, more flexible working hours and part-time work for the elderly; believes that older people in particular should be encouraged to exploit their creative potential for voluntary social, education-oriented, cultural, and ecological work, for which the appropriate social security ...[+++]cover should be provided; considers, further, that controlled immigration should be regarded as an opportunity because it increases the supply of skilled workers; believes that the related social integration aspects and the costs incurred therein must be taken properly into account;

Mr. Ron Heslegrave: But the industry, the companies, and the shipping community, amongst them all, have some sort of control over the driver's hours, and he has to have some flexibility in order to manage his fatigue while on the job.

The main assumptions for the success of the plan are an improvement in labour productivity, expected to reach in 1997 a level almost double of the one in 1993, to be achieved in particular through a greater flexibility of the workforce and the working hours and reduced absenteeism; an increase in the "Europeanization" of components, which will provide a significant reduction in the costs of material; an increase in the final quality of products through a strict quality control programme at all st ...[+++]ages of the production process.