European Court of Justice to decide later this year on fate of directive which Ictu views as ‘the most significant and far-reaching’ on workers’ rights in decades
Trade union organisations have criticised a recommendation by an advocate general of the European Court of Justice that the European Union’s recent adequate minimum wage directive be annulled in its entirety. Photograph: Dan Moorehad exceeded their authority by adopting the directive which is intended to provide stable mechanisms for updating and increasing national minimum wage levels across the EU.
They had hoped the Government would pass legislation as part of the transposition process that would have made organising in workplaces easier and potentially have encouraged employers to sign up to sector-wide agreements. Mr Emiliou found that while the commission and parliament had adopted the directive in accordance with provisions of the treaty on the functioning of the EU which allow for the setting of minimum employment standards they had exceeded their competence by failing to heed exclusions relating to pay and the right of association.
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