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Social Chapter

the innovations in the European Union brought about by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 which extended the rights of workers throughout Europe.
Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
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WORKING people should listen very carefully to what Tories say about the Social Chapter as we leave the EU.
It was the EU Social Chapter that gave us employee rights.
And what of the support for workers' rights, through the Social Chapter, and for improving the environment?
If only Putin's would invade us like they did war James Gabalfa The first item Victorian-values Thatcher demanded and got from the EU, was an opt-out of the social chapter. She then had being poor put back on the statute book as a crime.
Both men have spoken of privatising NHS services while Johnson has demanded the scrapping of the EU's social chapter.
Less than a week away from the European Council, the ministers in charge of employment and social affairs will focus their talks on youth employment and the social chapter of the country-specific recommendations.
Scrap the social chapter. Scrap the fisheries policy," Johnson said.
Chapter 5 takes a broader perspective and considers the difficulty of implementing effective employment standards in a global economy by examining international institutional approaches (e.g., the ILO and the Social Chapter of the European Union) and corporate codes of conduct.
My understanding is that the Labour government has not signed the European Social Chapter which actually has increased the legal rights of employed people
Bushill-Matthews is contemptuous, especially 'when Tony Blair signed up to the Social Chapter without even asking for anything in return, an amateurishness still regarded with disbelief by other Member States'.
This has been exemplified by Prime Minister Blair's acceptance of the European Union's Social Chapter, one component of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which strengthened the EU's power over workplace rights.
He added that the introduction of the minimum wage, the signing of the social chapter and strengthened maternity and parental rights showed Labour was committed to better conditions for all workers.
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