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totally agree, my rights have been set in holland and not by the eu. My cotract stipulates that it is bound by nbbu collective workers agreement and that is legally binding.a lot of the workers rights the EU provides mean nothing to many people. The vast majority of workers rights protected by the EU are in regard to health and safety, which don't get me wrong in theory it is good thing, but in practice I couldn't honestly count the amount of times I've signed health and safety paper work in jobs, just to be told by bosses to do the exact thing I signed saying I wouldn't do.
I currently work in a theatre, and just this week we had a show in that you could not rig within health and safety laws..... we knew this when the show was booked in, I had pointed out to my bosses the touring company had pointed out to their bosses ..... do they give a crap of course not.... they just say make it happen.... and if it doesn't happen it's our jobs on the line in the next in the endless series of restructures. So I end up working 18 hour days doing things that are beyond unsafe and it's not like I work for some dogs company, the the theatres are run by the Council.
Yes maybe if I kicked up a fuss after a few years of fighting I may have got some where.... but in the mean time I would probably have lost my job which are incredibly hard to come by at the moment. I'm at least contracted staff, more and more people in the uk are on zero hour contracts, which means you have any kind of objection to the way you are treated and you don't get fired, they just stop giving you work, no fuss no warning.
I'm saying all this because like you said let's not build up the EU to be something it's not, and people build up the laws The that protect workers rights as this amazing thing that people should be worried about losing ..... people don't care because they see very little to no benift from them, the only difference is that you have to sign paper work saying it not the company's fault if you do the things your bosses are telling you to do.
As a contractor i read the agreement and it stipulated i was entitled to the same benefits as a direct hire. Cue visit to hr and discussions with the company lawyer.
Result, 7% payrise backdated a year. I risked my job for this but i have to stand up for what i believe in. There are other benefits coming.
These agreements are to stop companies taking the piss out of contractors.