Traduction de «Travail avant repos » (Français → Anglais) :

3a. Any reduced daily and/or weekly rest period shall be conditioned by an equivalent period of rest as compensation before the end of the following working week.

If distance-working from home is covered by the rules governing rest periods laid down in the directive on working time , then workers who choose to be with their children in the afternoons and work in the evenings from 9 p.m. to midnight will not be allowed to start work the next day before 11 a.m., which is not consistent with the recommendations in the Communication on modernising the organisation of work (COM (1998) 592 ) and the Communication on strategies for jobs in the information society (COM (2000) 48 ).

If distance-working from home is covered by the rules governing rest periods laid down in the directive on working time , then workers who choose to be with their children in the afternoons and work in the evenings from 9 p.m. to midnight will not be allowed to start work the next day before 11 a.m., which is not consistent with the recommendations in the Communication on modernising the organisation of work (COM (1998) 592) and the Communication on strategies for jobs in the information society (COM (2000) 48).

This document dealt with the Directive's provisions requiring measures to ensure that young workers (i.e. those above minimum school leaving age but under 18) are entitled to rest periods, rest breaks and free assessment of health and capacities prior to assignment to night work and at regular intervals thereafter.

If distance-working from home is covered by the rules governing rest periods laid down in the directive on working time, then workers who choose to be with their children in the afternoons and work in the evenings from 9 p.m. to midnight will not be allowed to start work the next day before 11 a.m., which is not consistent with the recommendations in the Communication on modernising the organisation of work (COM (1998) 592) and the Communication on strategies for jobs in the information society (COM (2000) 48).

This applies, among other things, to: - the duration of maternity leave (14 weeks or more) and the amount of remuneration or social security benefit paid during such leave (100% or at least 80%), in that some Member States grant - less than 14 weeks and/or - less than 100% (or 80%); - 4 - - conditions of eligibility for leave, in that some Member States require the women involved to have carried on an occupation for a certain period prior to the beginning of pregnancy; - the obligatory two-week rest period before the presumed date of delivery, an entitlement which to all intents and purposes does not exist as such in the Member States; ...[+++] - prenatal examinations without loss of remuneration, an entitlement not granted in some Member States; - the maintenance of work-related rights and the safeguards against dismissal, in that in some Member States these are subject to seniority of a stipulated length with the same employer or the requirement that the undertaking concerned be of a certain minimum size; - the adjustment of working conditions and working hours, and night- time working, in that the Commission proposal lays down certain provisions, sometimes allowing for alternatives, linked to the maintenance of work-related rights and remuneration, which go beyond the existing provisions in this area in several Member States; - protection against agents and processes, for women who have recently given birth as well as pregnant women, as the Commission's proposal goes beyond the "lists" which exist in some Member States.