Traduction de «temps de travail au chantier » (Français → Anglais) :

As regards the definition of working time and the implications of the ruling by the Court of Justice in the Simap case, which found that the time spent on duty by medical staff in first aid teams counted as full working time, the Commission is examining the implications of this case and has already held a meeting between the national authorities and the Commission services and is planning to schedule a study of the legal situation and the implications of this ruling on health systems and other sectors.

(2) Council Directive 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time(4) 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.

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.

7. Calls on the Member States and the two sides of industry to remunerate overtime in the form of time off or of vouchers (for services or courses) or longer career breaks or sabbaticals, and to conclude agreements for flexible working time on the basis of the Commission study and to support proposals involving the collective shortening of working hours by lowering social security contributions, thus enabling (partial) compensation for workers' loss of income to be guaranteed; such proposals should principally be a matter for collective agreement between the social partners, and stresses that fundamental working time standards should be ...[+++] governed by national and European legislation;

6. Calls on the Commission to encourage the two sides of industry to consult about these issues at European level and also at sectoral level, with a view to concluding flexible agreements on reducing working hours particularly in sectors currently excluded from the directive on working hours;

I. whereas, finally, in addition to all these measures one method has not been sufficiently explored, i.e. a significant reduction in working hours, coupled with maintaining or even extending the duration of utilization of production capacity; whereas consistent reductions in working hours, implemented through sectoral and regional collective agreements on terms of employment, could lead to better distribution of the existing work by means of: