Betekenis van:
arduous
arduous
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
"the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Person who has been employed under working conditions recognised as dangerous and of arduous nature
- Special allowances may be granted to certain members of temporary staff to compensate for particularly arduous working conditions.
- Handling or working with certain substances in conditions which make the work arduous (see list in Annex)
- Special allowances determined in accordance with the following Articles shall be granted to officials called upon to do particularly arduous work.
- It is for the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, to determine the rates and conditions of the special allowances which may be granted to certain officials to compensate for particularly arduous working conditions,
- determining the rates and conditions of the special allowances provided for in Article 56c of the Staff Regulations which may be granted to compensate for particularly arduous working conditions
- Whereas: It is for the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, to determine the rates and conditions of the special allowances which may be granted to certain officials to compensate for particularly arduous working conditions,
- An official who is entitled to payment of the allowance provided for in Article 1 may receive the allowances for particularly arduous work provided for in Article 56c of the Staff Regulations only up to a maximum of 600 points, to be determined in accordance with Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 858/2004.2. Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:
- a revision of the list of heavy and arduous professions to reduce its coverage to no more than 10 % of the labour force; the new list of difficult and hazardous occupations shall apply with effect from 1 July 2011 to all current and future employees;
- Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 858/2004 of 29 April 2004 determining the rates and conditions of the special allowances provided for in Article 56c of the Staff Regulations which may be granted to compensate for particularly arduous working conditions
- An official who is entitled to payment of the allowance provided for in Article 1 may receive the allowances for particularly arduous work provided for in Article 56c of the Staff Regulations only up to a maximum of 600 points, to be determined in accordance with Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 858/2004.2.
- The law should, in particular, introduce: a unified statutory retirement age of 65 years (including for women); a merger of the existing pension funds in three funds and a unified new pension system for all current and future employees (applicable as of 1 January 2013); a reduction of the upper limit on pensions; a gradual increase in the minimum contributory period for retirement on a full benefit from 37 to 40 years (by 2015); a minimum retirement age of 60 years by 1 January 2011 (including for workers in heavy and arduous professions and those with 40 years of contributions); the abolition of the special rules applicable to persons insured before 1993 (while retaining acquired rights); a substantial narrowing of the list of heavy and arduous professions; a reduction of pension benefits (by 6 % per year) for people entering retirement between the ages of 60 and 65 with a contributory period of less than 40 years; the creation of an automatic adjustment mechanism linking the retirement age with the increase in life expectancy (as of 2020); the creation of a means-tested minimum guaranteed income for elderly people above the statutory retirement age; stricter conditions and the regular re-examination of eligibility for disability pensions; an amendment of the pension award formula in the contributory based scheme to strengthen the link between contributions paid and benefits received (with accrual rate limited to an average annual rate of 1,2 %); and an extension of the calculation of the pensionable earnings to entire lifetime earnings (while retaining acquired rights).