Recent Developments in EU Employment Law

At a recent meeting of the EU Employment and Social Affairs Council, agreement was finally reached after many years in relation to the working time opt-out and definitions of on-call time, as well as new proposals to extend employment protection to temporary agency workers. The agreements now go to the European Parliament for approval.

According to the Commission press release (in the absence of the revised text of both Directives being available at the time of writing):

The main points of agreement in the Working Time Directive are:

• on-call time to be split into active and inactive on-call time. Active on-call time to be counted as working time