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UK Ordered To End 'long Hours' Culture
News The government has been given two months to comply, following a case brought against by the union, Amicus, which successfully argued that the UK's implementation of the European working time directive was unlawful and inadequate.
[April 29, 2002, 16:52]
UK Government In Breach Of European Employment Law
News In a groundbreaking decision that will now land the government back in the British courts and force it to change the law, ECJ judges have upheld the opinion of the Advocate General that the European Working Time Directive prevents national...
[June 26, 2001, 14:17]
Overworked IT Managers Risk Blunders Or Burnout
News According to research released on Wednesday, nine out of ten IT managers in the UK regularly exceed the 48-hour working week specified by the European Working Time Directive. The boom in Internet applications means that one in four IT managers...
[August 2, 2001, 12:45]
Overwork And Burnout Bowl Over UK IT Directors
News This is more than is allowed under the European Union's Working Time Directive, but UK companies can opt out of this directive. According to Mercury, this is due to the UK government's decision to allow firms to opt out from the Working Time...
[April 1, 2004, 18:00]
Civil Liberties Group Warns Of EU Surveillance Proposal
News The EC is currently working on an update to the 1997 directive on privacy in the telecommunications sector, but the scope of the Council's framework decision goes much further than earlier proposed changes.
[May 9, 2002, 14:20]
Anti-patent Campaigner Hangs Up His Gloves
News The fight against patents is far from over, with the directive due to be passed to the European Parliament for a second reading next month. He was responsible for a high-profile campaign in which Linux founder Linus Torvalds, MySQL co-founder...
[March 30, 2005, 14:30]
Europe Moves To Monitor All Internet Traffic
News However, the new proposals go much further and would require changes to the data protection and privacy directives, as well as demanding massive amendments to the telecommunications directive currently being reviewed by the European Parliament.
[May 17, 2001, 7:48]
EC Hits Out At Oftel - Again
News Europe is planning to rush through an unbundling directive which would give weight to the recommendations made in Lisbon. A directive will make it even more flagrant," he says. Oftel has fallen foul of European law for a second time as the EC this...
[June 15, 2000, 15:11]
Government Struggles To Prosecute Spammers
News The DTI said that any methods to deal with spam would have to be agreed at a European level, despite there being provision in the European Union e-Privacy Directive — part of which was enacted in UK law as PECR — for individual member governments...
[December 6, 2006, 9:46]
Patent Restart Request Ratified
News The European Parliament's request for the software patent directive to be started from scratch was ratified by senior members of the Parliament on Thursday, but campaigners from both sides are split on what will happen next.
[February 17, 2005, 14:50]
Networking Survey Finds Working Long Hours Endemic
News Of the 201 network professionals interviewed, up to half work hours in excess of the limit of an average of 48 hours a week outlined by the European Working Time Directive with 6 percent claiming to work in excess of 60 hours a week.
[July 3, 2002, 11:35]
IT Burnouts Work Less To Escape Stress
News Ninety percent of IT managers in the UK work over the 48-hour working week specified by the European Working Time Directive, and one in four regularly working over 60 hours a week. That feeling of burnout that you get at the end of each working day...
[April 23, 2003, 10:25]
Fears Over EU's Secret Surveillance Plans
News The European Parliament is currently debating changes to the 1997 EU Directive on privacy in telecommunications, which governs existing laws on communications data retention. European governments were expected to agree to changes to the 1997...
[August 20, 2002, 10:09]
IT Budgets To Foot Recycling Bill
News The industry has been given till 29 October to respond to the draft before the European directive is finally enacted into the UK statute books later this year. While the majority of senior IT professionals questioned agreed that more should be done...
[August 5, 2004, 14:15]
Pro-patent Lobby In Sticky Situation Over Ice-cream Offer
News The software patent directive is currently being amended by the legal affairs committee (JURI) of the European Parliament (EP). The email, which was signed by Harbour's assistant, Tori Lapworth, encouraged MEPs to get a free ice-cream and show...
[June 6, 2005, 16:50]
Internet Industry Slams Villainous Data Retention
News During its presidency of the European Commission last year, the UK government drove forward the data retention directive. European Commissioner Reding "for the revision of the TV without Frontiers Directive which threatens ISPs by extending the...
[February 24, 2006, 11:05]
UK Companies See Perils In Software Patents
News The UKPO has for a long time claimed that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive is necessary in many industries, such as the machine tool sector. The government's claim that patents protect innovation was questioned by industry experts at a...
[December 15, 2004, 14:40]
Patent Inspectors Strike Over Quality Fears
News In particular, they have been frustrated that the EPO has continued to grant software patents despite last year's rejection of the software patent directive. Employees at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich and Berlin held a strike on...
[May 10, 2006, 16:40]
Viviane Reding Nominated For Internet Villain Award
News Ofcom: "For arguing that Europe's Television without Frontiers Directive should not be applied to the internet, as it would stifle creativity and investment in internet video as well as requiring government regulation for little benefit"
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
EU Council Agrees To Internet Snooping Proposals
News After what an EU press release described as "thorough debate", the council agreed that the new directive on data protection and privacy in the telecommunications sector would give member states the power to bring in their own laws forcing network...
[June 28, 2001, 11:33]
