EU WORKING TIME NURSING FEATURE EU WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE BRITAIN IMPLEMENTATION
February 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITISH nurses might be forgiven for thinking that the 25 eminent judges who make up the European Union's (EU) top legal institution, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), have little in common with them, and they may well be right. But don't be misled into thinking that because of that they're not on nurses' side. There is a big political battle going on in the European Union at the moment about working hours and in three recent judgements the ECJ has come down on the side of nurses, and others working in similar conditions, and against their ...
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