Not satisfied with hurting the working man, the tories now want to opt out of

David Cameron is to demand new opt-outs on EU employment rules in his renegotiation talks with the European Union.The Prime Minister will seek to restore two key exceptions on the EU’s social chapter that were jettisoned by Tony Blair.He hopes to make fresh headway in clawing back powers ahead of Britain’s in-out referendum on Europe next year. If he is successful, the UK would no longer to forced to abide by the EU working time directive, long seen by Eurosceptics as an emblem of Brussels interference.The opt-out was negotiated by John Major when the working time directive was drawn up in 1993 as part of the Maastricht treaty.It guarantees employment terms such as a maximum 48-hour week and four weeks of paid holiday per year, as well as rules on hours of rest for shift workers.However, Mr Blair took the UK into the directive in 1998 with the proviso that individual workers could ask to be voluntarily excluded from the 48-hour maximum.It has been claimed that it puts patient care at risk by increasing the number of handovers necessary between medical staff in hospitals while decreasing clinical experience for junior doctors.Trainee surgeons are said to lose 3,000 hours by the time they qualify – the equivalent of 128 full days.Mr Cameron’s demand will delight Conservative backbenchers, who have warned that the Prime Minister has not been ambitious enough in seeking to regain powers. Some Tory MPs worry that the changes suggested so far by Mr Cameron, which focus on new welfare rules preventing EU migrants accessing benefits for four years, do not go far enough.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3157014/Cameron-demands-opt-EU-job-laws-Prime-Minister-restore-guarantees-maximum-48-hour-week-four-weeks-paid-holiday-jettisoned-Tony-Blair.html


Who voted for this man? Dickhead.


We need to lower taxes and not an opt-out!