Brussels, 18/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - A proposal to include seafarers within the scope of five EU labour law directives was presented by the European Commission on Monday 18 November. The current situation is a kind of “anomaly” that the Commission had already identified in its “Fitness Check” on three directives related to worker information and consultation last July (see EUROPE 10987). Exemptions effectively leave it up to each member state to apply the directives to seafarers or...