09/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - At the time of going to press, the Slovenian EU Council Presidency put a new compromise proposal to ministers on the working hours/temporary work package. Difficulties encountered on this are: opt-out, which allows exemptions to the rules on working hours by individual agreement, maximum 60 hrs working week, exclusion from the benefit of work duration limits for workers under short term contracts (4 months in this case), and the question of inactive time on duty...