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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]
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]
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]
Barclays Capital Readies Systems For MiFID
News Speaking at a Securities & Investment Institute conference in London, Patrick Ludden, MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) programme project manager at Barclays Capital, said the focus of his team so far has been "about turning the...
[March 13, 2007, 9:49]
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. A recent study found that many IT managers are resisting teleworking...
[August 2, 2001, 12:45]
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]
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]
Computer Aid: New Life For Old IT
News Donations are expected to rise again this year as the WEEE directive comes into force, which effectively outlaws landfilling of old PCs. Computer Aid International has grown from one volunteer working part time to a slick operation employing 15...
[February 10, 2005, 15:25]
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. As one of the key figures in the anti-patent campaign, Mueller advised politicians about the directive and...
[March 30, 2005, 14:30]
WEEE Directive Brings Legal Headaches
News Companies will face a variety of legal challenges as they attempt to comply with the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) will caution this week.
[November 21, 2005, 17:05]
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]
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]
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 There is a desire for the Council to adopt the directive to uphold the current working methods -- to show that every political agreement leads to a political decision," he said. The European Parliament's request for the software patent directive to...
[February 17, 2005, 14:50]
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. This directive states that traffic data can only be retained for billing...
[August 20, 2002, 10:09]
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]
IT Budgets To Foot Recycling Bill
News While the majority of senior IT professionals questioned agreed that more should be done to reduce the huge quantities of technology equipment being dumped in landfill sites, a survey from UK office equipment manufacturer Brother has revealed that...
[August 5, 2004, 14:15]
Pro-patent Lobby In Sticky Situation Over Ice-cream Offer
News The email, which was signed by Harbour's assistant, Tori Lapworth, encouraged MEPs to get a free ice-cream and show their support for the proposed software patent directive. If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until 3pm, you can collect...
[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]
