Nursery World - To the point... (77)

Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell thinks we should call time on the Government's idea of working hours New Labour is dead... but the evidence that it is alive and well is manifest in the Government's proud repudiation of the European Directive on working time and its current mission to retain its right to opt out of the 48-hour limit on the working week.

New Labour is dead... but the evidence that it is alive and well is manifest in the Government's proud repudiation of the European Directive on working time and its current mission to retain its right to opt out of the 48-hour limit on the working week.

The working time directive gives Gordon Brown and Tony Blair the opportunity to handbag Europe and bask in the praises of the Confederation of British Industry - all in defence of our low-pay, low-skill, high- exploitation economy.

It is well known that the longer working week is bad for health and encourages sloth in the entrepreneurial class.

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