{"id":6440,"date":"2022-12-20T18:32:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=6440"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:36:58","slug":"il-ministri-tal-ue-jiddiskutu-kif-jistghu-jitjiebu-l-kundizzjonijiet-tax-xoghol","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/il-ministri-tal-ue-jiddiskutu-kif-jistghu-jitjiebu-l-kundizzjonijiet-tax-xoghol\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Ministers discuss how to improve working conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SEM-443-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SEM-443-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SEM-443-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SEM-443-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SEM-443-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SEM-443.jpg 1253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council, held in early December, EU Ministers discussed a draft <a><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/platform-work-eu\/\">EU law to improve the working conditions of persons working through platforms<\/a>. The proposed rules aim to ensure that&nbsp;people working through digital labour platforms, such as food delivery workers and ride-hailing drivers are&nbsp;granted the legal employment status that corresponds to their actual working arrangements. It proposes a checklist to assess whether the platform is an \u2018employer\u2019 or if a person is genuinely self-employed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministers also settled their position on a proposal to tighten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/protecting-workers\/\">EU legislation protecting workers from the risks of asbestos<\/a>. The Council wants to&nbsp;lower current exposure levels&nbsp;and carry out asbestos fibre-counting on the basis of a more modern method. If agreed, the new rules would ensure a tenfold decrease to exposure compared to the value currently in force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministers also approved two conclusions: on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.consilium.europa.eu\/doc\/document\/ST-14495-2022-INIT\/en\/pdf\">inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market&nbsp;<\/a>and on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.consilium.europa.eu\/doc\/document\/ST-14588-2022-INIT\/en\/pdf\">gender equality in disrupted economies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Member states finally reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/data.consilium.europa.eu\/doc\/document\/ST-15094-2022-INIT\/en\/pdf\">political agreement on a Council recommendation on&nbsp;adequate minimum income<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council, held in early December, EU Ministers discussed a draft EU law to improve the working conditions of persons working through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6441,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[302],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/6440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/6440\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}