The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has urged MEPs and other stakeholders to permanently exclude at EU level self-employed drivers from the scope of the Working Time Directive.
Underlying the importance of supporting the Commission’s proposal to revise the Directive, IRU Head of Social Affairs, Damian Viccars, stressed that by rejecting the Commission’s proposal, important measures improving the enforcement of the Directive in general and cracking down on fake self-employment, could be lost.
MEPs were therefore encouraged to support the European Commission’s proposals to define night work in line with other working time legislation.
MEPs must thus imperatively rectify this situation to avoid the consequent unemployment of self-employed drivers and stop using road safety as a fallacious argument for including self-employed drivers in the scope of the Working Time Directive.
