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Originally Posted by Mythica
How is it pedantry when someone says the EU provides no benefits to then point out a benefit that the EU brought to the UK?
Your analogy would work if the working time directive already existed as it does now before the EU law was brought in, but it didn't so it doesn't work.
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The Working Time Directive was NOT brought in by the EU in order to be a benefit. It was to burden the whole of the EU with the same rules that already applied in Germany.
If employers were really meant to monitor health and safety, then they would have to be allowed to monitor what people did outside of their jobs. Bit pointless having limits on workinghours, if people are doing other jobs, have active hobbies, or going out to the early hours taking all sorts of drinks and drugs.
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Tuesday that EU member states must require employers to set up a system that tracks time worked each day by each employee to ensure labor laws are complied with. "Member States must require employers to set up an objective, reliable and accessible system enabling the duration of time worked each day by each worker to be measured," the court said in its ruling.
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A German confederation of employers said that the ruling was tantamount to demanding a return to workers punching in and punching out on arrival and departure, calling this impractical given modern working practices, smartphones, home offices and the like.
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Something to look forward to.