Overtime opt-out clause will not expire
in November says EU Commission
By
Kurt Sansone
A spokesman for EU employment commissioner Anna Diamantopulo yesterday
confirmed that the opt-out clause, which gives employees the right
to work more than 48-hours per week including overtime, is an
integral part of the EU Working Time Directive and it is not reserved
for any particular member state.
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Fuddy-duddy rightists are Sant’s new friends
Alfred Sant has just found himself another playground
to say no to the EU and his new friends are from the right-wing
European Group of Democracy and Diversities, one of the European
Parliament’s political groupings.
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What’s
wrong with Labour’s food prices report? ‘Half-baked’
says Bonnici
Economic Services Minister Josef Bonnici and Foreign
Joe Borg have lambasted Labour’s report claiming food prices
will be on the upturn come EU accession. Josef Bonnici called
it ‘half-baked’, whilst Borg is arguing prices will
actually go down, rather than up. READ
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INTERVIEW
Mystery shopping in the
year of the back sheep
Is your company not selling as much as you
believe it should? Do you sometimes get the distinct feeling
your sales manager is not performing to the best of her or
his abilities? Maybe you should be speaking to Anna Maria
Darmanin. Julian Manduca did exactly that. |
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OPINION
Time
to decide
Foreign
Affairs Minister Joe Borg addresses an NSTF Mini-European
Assembly and urges attendants to vote in next Saturday’s
referendum not on the basis of our own personal interests
or party political beliefs, as the answer will carry enormous
repercussions for future generations and for the future of
the country. |
NEWS
Arnold Cassola to vote
in referendum
Sex attack on Maltese
company directors
What the European ambassadors think
Membership to open a new chapter in
Franco-Maltese trade relations
The overtime saga dominates
the last few days before the referendum
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