The European Parliament and the EU Council got to the heart of the matter on Thursday 10 January at the fourth interinstitutional meeting (trilogue) on the Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive, addressing the issue of scope, including the issue of the term 'worker', the working time threshold under which the legislative text is not applied and has various exemptions.
The meeting was not as successful as the one before the winter break, when agreement in principle was...