11. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and SSGI service providers, in view of the stress, working hours (shift and night work) and dangerous or demanding nature of certain activities carried out by the social services, to develop vocational training initiatives geared to enabling staff to adjust to and cope with circumstances of this kind, with a view to ensuring better-quality services and to improve working and living conditions for workers in the sector; considers also that, in view of the changing nature of requirements for SSGIs, public authorities must ...[+++] ensure that workers in SSGIs have a high level of vocational training;

11. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and SSGI service providers, in view of the stress, working hours (shift and night work) and dangerous or demanding nature of certain activities carried out by the social services, to develop vocational training initiatives geared to enabling staff to adjust to and cope with circumstances of this kind, with a view to ensuring better-quality services and improve working and living conditions for workers in the sector; considers also that, in view of the changing nature of requirements for SSGIs, public authorities must ...[+++] ensure that workers in SSGIs have a high level of vocational training;

Their Parliaments have worked night and day to incorporate in national legislation the Community rules and laws that we have developed over nearly fifty years.

(7) Research has shown that the human body is more sensitive at night to environmental disturbances and also to certain burdensome forms of work organisation and that long periods of night work can be detrimental to the health of workers and can endanger safety at the workplace.

In Spain, there are many gaps in legislation to protect young people: for example there are no regulations on nightwork, no medical supervision of young people under the age of 18 working in family businesses and young self‑employed workers not covered by labour law, the law does not guarantee the right of children working in family businesses and young self-employed workers to the full benefit of compulsory education, the minimum age for young people to go to work is not enforced in practice, no account is taken of the maximum number of working hours, and the minimum wage is not always guaranteed.

The Commission is determined to work closely with the Government and people of Croatia to entrench the rule of law, democratic government and, above all, economic reform which may prove difficult in the short term but on which Croatia’s long-term prosperity and stability depends.