European Underworked

As if things weren't bad enough.

A rule which allows workers to choose to put in more than 48 hours a week may end after MEPs voted to scrap it.

They voted to phase out the right to opt out of the Working Time Directive over three years.

Unions said the decision was a victory for UK employees, but business groups said competitiveness would suffer.

The plan would have to be approved by the Council of Ministers. The UK government hopes to block it from becoming law.

Whatever. It's not as if the Europeans have any clue how hard the rest of us work.