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CBI chief: 'Hold your MEPs to account over Temporary Workers Directive'
Wednesday, 27 November 2002 Digby Jones, Director-General of the CBI, has recommended that CBI members check the voting record of their local MEPs on the Temporary Workers Directive. The CBI has placed this directive at the top of its list of the top 10 most unwelcome EU regulations, and estimated that it will cost 160,000 temp jobs in the UK alone. East Midlands Conservative Euro-MP Roger Helmer, who attended the conference this week, welcomed the idea and said: "Conservative MEPs voted against this directive in the European Parliament last week, whereas Labour MEPs supported it against the wishes of the CBI, the EEF and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. If CBI members have difficulty in persuading Labour MEPs to divulge their voting record, I shall be very happy to oblige. It is important that UK businesses know who is on their side, and - more importantly - who is not."
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