VICTORY FOR BARECHESTED WORKERS

VICTORY FOR BARECHESTED WORKERS - LYNNE

July 12, 2005 6:13 PM

The Employment and Social affairs Committee voted today to leave it up to Member States to decide whether to introduce anti-sun legislation. Liz Lynne Lib Dem MEP and shadow rapporteur for the Optical Radiation Directive, who negotiated this compromise, said:

"This is a victory for common sense, it is no business of the EU to decide whether workers can wear shorts and be bare-chested. I wanted to take natural radiation out of the directive completely but we now have the next best thing, leaving it up to Member States.

"A perfectly reasonable directive to protect workers from artificial

radiation could have been ruined by the ludicrous proposal to legislate on the sun. Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy"

"All people should be made aware of the dangers of the sun, but to tell employers to do this is taking the nanny knows best mentality too far".

Notes:

Safety and health at work: exposure of workers to optical radiations - 2nd

Reading Vote

(COD/1992/0449B)http://www2.europarl.ep.ec/oeil/file.jsp?id=215612

This is only one stage of the process and could all be changed if the

Council of Ministers disagree and we have to go to conciliation.

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