Sentences with phrase «directive protecting workers»

The group made its case at a meeting in Brussels late last month, when an amendment to a European directive protecting workers from biological hazards at work came into force.

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In October 2009, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said it would soon issue a «compliance directive» to ensure that health - care facilities have controls in place to protect workers from occupational exposures to swine flu.

That defence has hitherto failed when based on trade union action to protect wages but one interesting question in an «equal ops» case (shorn of the complicated arguments on the Posted Workers Directive) would be whether such a justification defence would be more likely to succeed if itself based on another area of EC law, ie the Equal Treatment Directive.

As in Laval the point was made again that the only permissible protectionism here is under the Posted Worker Directive (96 / 71 / EC) which only protects legally fixed minimum wages, the irony here being that even under the German system (which is most likely to engage the directive on the basis not of a statutory minimum wage, but an «entrenched» collective agreement) this collective agreement was only a local and specific one and so not «entrencheDirective (96 / 71 / EC) which only protects legally fixed minimum wages, the irony here being that even under the German system (which is most likely to engage the directive on the basis not of a statutory minimum wage, but an «entrenched» collective agreement) this collective agreement was only a local and specific one and so not «entrenchedirective on the basis not of a statutory minimum wage, but an «entrenched» collective agreement) this collective agreement was only a local and specific one and so not «entrenched».

This is because this specific EU Directive has long guaranteed the minimum safety and health requirements which businesses across Europe must have in place to protect both workers and visitors on a site or workplace.