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(Image by nerami30 from Pixabay via Courthouse News) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — On-call time can count as working time, but only occurring regularly and saddling the employee with severe restrictions, the EU’s high court held on Tuesday. The European Court of Justice ruled in two separate cases, one from Slovenia and one from Germany, where employees had challenged requirements that they be available for work at short notice but officially not on the clock.  “If the worker is, on average, frequen...

UK government escalates deregulation as corporations cut pay and conditions The British government’s post-Brexit deregulation agenda is accelerating. The closing of the freeport (free trade zone) bidding process and the government’s recent recalibration of its plans for workers’ employment rights, followed quickly by an application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement, signals an intensified class war policy. Margaret Thatcher’s for...

If you switch off, people think youre lazy: demands grow for a right to disconnect from work Peter Yeung © Provided by The Guardian Remote staff are working an extra 48.5 minutes a day, according to a Harvard study. Photograph: AleksandarNakic/Getty Images When Poland went into strict lockdown last March, Natalia Zurowska barely had time to clear her desk at work. “I went in to get my laptop and then left,” says the 36-year-old, an office manager for a graphic design firm...

Written by Mihalis Kritikos, © Adobe Stock Technological change, far from being deterministic in its nature and effects, is open to reform. There is no guarantee that digital technologies will destroy jobs, nor any certainty that these technologies will lead to more and better jobs. This was one of the main conclusions of the study ‘Digital automation and the future of work: Securing a digital future that works for all’, which was carried out by Professor David Spencer of the University ...

EU refusal to renegotiate grace period on imports of British bangers comes amid fears of British bonfire of Brussels regulations

Some suspect European Commission’s reluctance to grant "equivalence" is politically motivated and will force firms to onshore to Continent