‘Worker rights will be strengthened by treaty’

THE Lisbon Treaty will strengthen workers’ rights and claims to the contrary are unfounded, an Oireachtas committee has said.

‘Worker rights will be strengthened by treaty’

In a new report, the cross-party Committee on European Affairs said claims by the No campaign that Lisbon would undermine employees’ pay and conditions were “without basis”.

No campaigners have argued that a series of European Court of Justice judgments – known as the Viking, Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg cases – prioritised the EU’s free-market principles above workers’ rights.

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