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EU social partners launch negotiations on revision of Working Time Directive

On 14 November 2011, EU-level trade union and employers' organisations announced that they are opening negotiations over a possible agreement on amending the Working Time Directive.

In 2004, the European Commission proposed a Directive revising the Working Time Directive (originally adopted in 1994 and now consolidated in Directive 2003/88/EC).