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"Mr President, I would like to thank the President-in-Office for his excellent and encouraging remarks and the determination to make Lisbon happen. Lisbon is certainly very much about competitiveness. It is very much about jobs. Jobs will create greater prosperity and, therefore, in turn more social cohesion.
Yesterday I clashed briefly with Commissioner Diamantopoulou at Question Time on the atypical workers directive. I do not wish to revisit the various points made there, except to say that I would like to clear up a misunderstanding which is relevant to this debate. I mentioned that Birmingham City Council – a socialist-run council, one of the largest employers of temporary workers in the UK – has decided to reduce in number the thousands of temporary workers it employs. And I mean 'decided to reduce' already, as a direct result of the proposed atypical workers directive.
The suggestion from the Commissioner, possibly because of the interpretation, was that this was to do with the costs of insurance. It was directly linked to the costs of extra pay for the temporary workers and, moreover, the costs of the extra red tape involved in employing temporary workers. As a result of that, thousands of workers will lose their jobs. If that happens just in one council, it can happen throughout the European Union.
I am asking the presidency to ensure that the whole Commission accepts the importance of competitiveness in generating jobs, and the need therefore to promote competitiveness and not labour market inflexibility based on out-of-date dogma."@en1
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