MEPs vote to drop working time opt-out

The scrapping of the UK’s opt-out of the 48-hour working week looks one step closer as MEPs voted by 421 to 273 to drop it.


The issue will now be debated in the final conciliation stage between UK ministers and the European council of ministers, with hopes for a decision to be reached early next year. If the opt-out is scrapped it will be dropped for UK workers in three years’ time.

 

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