Luxembourg, 05/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - To comply with provisions of an EC directive of 1993 on changes to working time, a collective agreement cannot exceed 48 weekly hours including being on-call, without the free and explicit agreement of the individual worker. The European Court of Justice therefore decided in its Bernard Pfeiffer ruling, in the name of a worker at the German Red Cross, who was contesting their weekly working hours, brought up to 49 hours by way of the inclusion of a...