Traduction de «Journée de travail non prévue à l'horaire » (Français → Anglais) :

Calls on the Member States to encourage the setting up or improvement of childcare facilities such as crèches and nurseries, and facilities for the elderly and other dependants with a view to providing good-quality, affordable services at times compatible with full-time working hours for as many people as possible; believes that these facilities offer huge support to parents and would make it easier for them to enter the workforce;

It focuses on internal flexibility (within companies and organisations), both in terms of length of working time (for instance part-time) and organisation of working time (for instance flexitime arrangements or staggered hours and flexibility in starting and ending the work day).

As 6 million drivers are concerned and the average cost of one working day is EUR 147, the savings could fetch EUR 234 million a year.Finally, as part of the planned revision of Regulation 3821/1985, the Commission will eliminate the above mentioned inconsistencies and exempt both for a distance of 100 km from the EU rules on driving and rest times and will consequently also exempt them from the obligation to use a tachograph for a distance up to 100 km. This should provide a substantial reduction of administrative burden for both farmers and craftsmen as non-professional drivers while continuing to fully ensure a high level of social pr ...[+++]otection of drivers and the safety on roads.

Limitations established within the rostering system must take into account all relevant factors contributing to fatigue such as, in particular, number of sectors flown, time-zone crossing, sleep deprivation, disruption of circadian cycles, night hours, positioning, cumulative duty time for given periods of time, sharing of allocated tasks between crew members, and also the provision of augmented crews.

Portuguese legislation provides that the daily working period must be interrupted by a period of not less than one hour and not more than two hours so that workers do not perform more than five consecutive hours of work. Furthermore, collective agreements may provide for work to be performed for up to six consecutive hours and for the daily break to be reduced to 30 minutes or to last longer than provided in the standard rule above and for the frequency and duration of any other breaks during the daily working period.

Mental illness and addiction are among the most important causes of absenteeism and presenteeism worldwide: the 1998 report of the World Health Organization stated that “more working days are lost as a result of mental disorders than physical conditions”. [274] In Canada , 20% of the normal work time of employees suffering from an undetected mental illness or addiction is not productive because it is “taken off”.