European Directive Threatens Safety and Employment Rights.

Amicus have alerted the UK TUs of the biggest threat to come out of Europe since it's enlargement as a result of the controversial Services Directive, which would allow workers from other European countries to work in Britain with the wages and safety standards of their home country.

The draft directive says service providers will only be subject to the laws and conditions applying in the country where they are based, rather than those of the country where they provide the service, under the 'country of origin principle'.

European companies working in Britain, for example, would only be expected to abide by safety standards in place in their own country, enforced in the UK by their own safety enforcement agency.

An Amicus postcard campaign calls on the UK government to abandon its support for the directive.

UK unions are calling on the government to withdraw their support from a European directive that threatens safety and employment rights.

Trade unionists from all over Europe will demonstrate in Strasbourg on 14 February.

Download an article on the health and safety implications of the Service Directive.

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