Euro Socialists win battle against opt-out

If UK businesses had hoped for pragmatism from the European Parliament in its plan to remove the opt-out clause from the Working Time Directive (WTD), they were in for a disappointment, writes Adam Ray.

Last week in Strasbourg, France, at a special forum held to outline the proposed changes to the WTD ahead of a vote in the European Parliament to remove the opt-out, a string of MEPs painted the clause as an instrument of worker subjugation.