Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-05-Speech-2-163"
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"We welcome the rejection of the proposal from the European Commission, presided over by Mr Durão Barroso, which aimed to exclude ‘self-employed’ road transport workers from the directive on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities, as a result of our proposal to reject the Commission proposal.
In February, in the Committee on Transport and Tourism, we tabled a proposal calling for the rejection of this unacceptable initiative by the European Commission.
This is the best possible response to yet another attempt to intensify competition and the exploitation of road transport workers, thereby threatening their labour rights and road safety.
What we must do is defend and improve the rights and working conditions of road transport workers, by combating job insecurity, respecting rest periods – without any loss of pay – and ensuring compliance with the labour legislation or collective agreements existing in each Member State.
What we need is for the rules on working time and driving and rest periods to be applied equally to all professional drivers, including self-employed drivers, in order to ensure their safety and road safety, thus preventing excessively long working hours and inadequate rest periods or work patterns."@en1
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