There are delays associated with the exceptions. After a certain number of days, users will have to either destroy or obtain licences for the works that are reproduced, so we will rapidly find out what isn't working.

D. whereas oil workers in the region had gone on strike for better salaries and working conditions half a year earlier, but mass dismissals had instead followed and put many families' in great difficulties to secure their livelihood; whereas trade union activities had been harshly repressed, frustration and anger had risen and manifestations on 16 December were followed by violence which included firing by security forces on fleeing, seemingly unarmed demonstrators, as documented in a video-clip posted on the YouTube website and embedded in news reports in authoritative media;

R. whereas the ‘recast Directive’ clearly indicates that any forms of less favourable treatment in relation to pregnancy or maternity leave constitute discrimination; whereas it also clearly provides for a guarantee of return to work after maternity leave to the same or equivalent job and for protection from dismissal for men and women when they exercise the right to parental and/or adoption leave;

12. Is deeply concerned at the current deplorable deadlock on social policy; insists on the urgent need for progress on the temporary workers directive, and calls on the Council to take the utmost account of the amendments adopted by Parliament at first reading; calls on the Commission to make more extensive use of its right of initiative in social policy, and in particular on collective rights of employees, social security for atypical workers, protection against individual dismissal, a revision of the European Works Councils directive and the end of the individual opt-out in the working time directive; warns the Council against non- ...[+++]transparent deals between governments which create blocking minorities, jeopardise progress in EU social legislation and undermine the EP’s role as co-legislator;

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5. Make use of early retirement taking into account acquired experience, in accordance with national practice, for example by: (a) making more use of internal flexibility measures, inter alia with regard to working hours, for further restructuring of undertakings in the context of seeking to be competitive and getting people back to work; (b) striving to gear, where appropriate, early retirement schemes in particular to workers who have spent long careers in arduous jobs, or as an accompaniment to mass lay-offs; 6. Facilitate phased retirement, for example by developing for older workers the possibility of part-time work and activities ...[+++] making good use of their skills, while ensuring that workers in comparable situations receive equal treatment in principle, in particular as regards access to social protection.