David Cameron 'to demand UK should be exempt from EU employment laws'

The Prime Minister will seek to restore opt-outs to the EU legislation which were given up by Tony Blair, with specific exemptions from rules governing working time limits and giving equal rights for temporary workers

David Cameron will demand that the UK should be exempt from European Union employment laws as part of his plans to redefine the relationship with Brussels, according to reports.

The Prime Minister will seek to restore opt-outs to the EU legislation which were given up by Tony Blair, with specific exemptions from rules governing working time limits and giving equal rights for temporary workers.

Downing Street said the reports in the Daily Telegraph and Times were "speculation" but added that Mr Cameron had made clear that he wanted to cut back on "unnecessary EU regulation" and return power to Westminster as part of his renegotiation strategy ahead of an in/out vote on membership of the EU.

According to the reports, Mr Cameron wants to restore the opt-out to the social chapter which covers areas including equal opportunities and working conditions.

The working time directive imposes a 48-hour limit on the working week, with specified rest periods and regulations on annual leave.

Mr Blair opted into the directive, although workers can choose to work more than the 48-hour limit.

The Prime Minister is also believed to be seeking an exemption for the UK from the directive on temporary agency work, which prevents gives temporary staff similar rights to their permanent colleagues.

Giving an indication of the Prime Minister's plans, a senior Tory quoted in the Times said: "A big item is the return of the opt-out from social and employment legislation that would include the working time and temporary worker directives.

"For later on, we want a protocol and line in a future treaty saying employment conditions are the responsibility of member states."

Mr Cameron's demands for reform ahead of the referendum on whether to sever ties with Brussels promised by the end of 2017 include measures to restrict welfare for EU migrants, an opt-out from the goal of "ever-closer union" in Europe, greater powers for national parliaments and protections for countries - like the UK - which are not members of the single currency.

Responding to the reports on the Prime Minister's plans on EU employment legislation, a Downing Street spokesperson: "This is just more of the speculation we said there would be during the negotiation.

"The Prime Minister has set out the four priority areas for reform and made clear that cutting back on unnecessary EU regulation is part of making Europe more competitive.

"As the PM has said before - Europe if necessary, national when possible."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-to-demand-uk-6045630


Fucking hell, he'll be bringing back serfs and child labour next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But wasn't it EU rules that caused the massive increase in 'zero hours' contracts...!?

Tommy Monk wrote:But wasn't it EU rules that caused the massive increase in 'zero hours' contracts...!?

Maybe he wants to stop the gm food and weather mod in uk. I'm am sure he means well, after all he has suffered so much by losing his child, no parent could ever recover from such a thing.

captainJane wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:But wasn't it EU rules that caused the massive increase in 'zero hours' contracts...!?

Maybe he wants to stop the gm food and weather mod in uk. I'm am sure he means well, after all he has suffered so much by losing his child, no parent could ever recover from such a thing.  

Sorry Jane, but that is bollocks. If that was the case he would have make life so much more difficult for parents of disabled children and the disabled, which he has.

Poor children with disabilities have been betrayed by Cameron’s policies

The father of a severely disabled child who died would oversee policies that have left other people’s severely disabled children hungry and cold. A third of families with disabled children in this country can no longer afford heating, I reported in this column last year. The number going without food has nearly doubled in the past two years.

According to new findings from the charity Contact a Family, 70% of parents of disabled children say the stigma of claiming benefits for their children has increased in the last two years. And more than 10% say they have received verbal insults from friends or family for claiming benefits. That is worth repeating: needing state help for their disabled children is now reason for someone’s own family to turn against them.

As the punishment is bestowed – be it through cuts in money, stigma or both – it is worth understanding the crime. The demonisation we have watched fester over the past five years is not meant for disabled people as a homogenous group, but for disabled people who dare to be in poverty.

It is no coincidence last week’s Conservative manifesto took credit for a social security system that has supposedly ended “something for nothing”, while promising to enable the children of the wealthy to inherit £m properties tax-free. There are different rules for the poor. That goes for the disabled poor too.

The bedroom tax headlines punctuating this parliament may have talked of hitting “the disabled”, but the vital detail is these are the disabled people living in social housing, not in Downing Street – or those ever likely to reside there.

That is because this government’s cuts have fallen 18 times harder on severely disabled people in poverty than on the average citizen. Needing help to move or to eat shifts from being difficult to being terrifying when local councils say cuts mean your dignity is now too expensive.

That is not a reality David Cameron’s son ever had to endure, yet it is something his father has created.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/disability-child-david-cameron-cuts-to-support

He uses his son, and it's sickening to listen to.

Yes he always used his son and still managed to leave his daughter in a pub. Daddy of the year he ain't