Selected Online Reading on Posted Workers

This textbook aims to sketch out the main problems arising in the field of EU transnational transportation by providing adequate understanding of the legal setting in the five key EU legal areas for this sector: fundamental freedoms, private international law, posting of workers, social security coordination and social dialogue. Indeed, road transport is a truly living organism which makes it challenging for the laws to keep up with its ongoing dynamics. In  addition, due to its inherent transnational element, the process of application of relevant laws is often shrouded in ambiguity, making it difficult to solve the emerged conflicts of laws. Against this background, this textbook provides an integral vision on the interaction of EU freedoms with social rights at EU level offering a comprehensive and unique in-­depth coverage of the most relevant topics and presenting nuanced guidance depicting problem­solving skills which was carefully selected by the leading academic experts. Overall, this position is addressed to not only academics but also to students, practitioners and others interested in the road transport sector.

De detachering van werknemers en zelfstandigen binnen de Europese Unie heeft de afgelopen jaren herhaaldelijk de aandacht gekregen van juristen en beleidsmakers. In het bijzonder het arbeidsrechtelijk en sociaalzekerheidsrechtelijk statuut van de gedetacheerden is onderwerp van discussie. De toepassing van de detacheringsregels (of het misbruik ervan) zou leiden tot oneerlijke concurrentie of sociale dumping en sociale misstanden. Deze discussies hebben aanleiding gegeven tot opvallende rechtspraak van het Hof van Justitie en de nationale rechterlijke instanties. Recent werden een aantal toepasselijke Europese regels gewijzigd en heeft de Europese Commissie voorstellen tot wijziging van andere regels ingediend.

Des analyses critiques sur la mise en oeuvre, dans une perspective nationale et internationale, de la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne, qui a acquis une force contraignante en 2009. Les effets de la Charte se font sentir dans des enjeux de société sur les sujets suivants : la question relative aux travailleurs détachés, à l'euthanasie, à la protection des données personnelles.

Mercato degli appalti e corretta concorrenza tra imprese -- Appalti privati e dumping contrattuale -- Clausole di equo trattamento e congruità del costo del lavoro negli appalti pubblici -- Appalti transnazionali e retribuzioni dei lavoratori distaccati.

Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies. The central aim is to understand how the regulatory regime of worker "posting" is driving institutional changes to national industrial relations systems. In the introduction, the editors develop a framework for understanding the relationship of supra-national EU regulation, transnational actors and national industrial relations systems, which we then apply in the empirical chapters. This unique volume brings together scholars from diverse academic fields, all of whom are experts on the topic of "worker posting." The book examines different aspects of the posting debate, including the interactions of actors such as labour inspectorates, trade unions, European legal/political regulators, manpower firms, transnational subcontractors and posted workers. The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of institutional change, by showing how trans- and supra-national dynamics affect European industrial relations systems. This volume will represent the "state of the art" in research on worker posting. It will also contribute to debates on European integration, social dumping, labour market dualization and precariousness and will be of value to those with an interest employment relations, law and regulation.

How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissected in Ines Wagner's Workers without Borders, about the troubling working conditions of migrant meat and construction workers, exposed a distressing dichotomy: how could a country with such strong employers' associations and trade unions allow for the establishment and maintenance of such a precarious labor market segment? Wagner introduces an overlooked piece of the puzzle: re-regulatory politics at the workplace level. She interrogates the position of the posted worker in contemporary European labour markets and the implications of and regulations for this position in industrial relations, social policy and justice in Europe. Workers without Borders concentrates on how local actors implement European rules and opportunities to analyze the balance of power induced by the EU around policy issues. Wagner examines the particularities of posted worker dynamics at the workplace level, in German meatpacking facilities and on construction sites, to reveal the problems and promises of European Union governance as regulating social justice. Using a bottom-up approach through in-depth interviews with posted migrant workers and administrators involved in the posting process, Workers without Borders shows that strong labor-market regulation via independent collective bargaining institutions at the workplace level is crucial to effective labor rights in marginal workplaces. Wagner identifies structures of access and denial to labor rights for temporary intra-EU migrant workers and the problems contained within this system for the EU more broadly.