Loophole is "rubbish"
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TRADE ASSOCIATIONS and lawyers have hit back at claims that a legal loophole allows nonmobile transport workers to side-step the 48-hour week (CM 4 Sept).
Non-mobile workers in transport were supposedly brought under the WorkingTime Directive regulations in August due to the Horizontal Amending Directive.
However, law expert Michael Ponsonby argued that a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 2001 meant non-mobile workers were exempt until 2005.
Ruth Pott, head of employment affairs at the RHA says that while the ECJ decision was correct at the time, the horizontal directive supersedes it. Stephen Kirkbright,senior partner with solicitors Ford and Warren adds: "It is absolute rubbish that non-mobile workers are exempt from the WTD until 2005. The Horizontal Directive means workers in the transport industry are covered from 1 August."