Monday, October 11, 2010
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: POSTED WORKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION [6 October 2010]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Posted workers in the European Union [6 October 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1073.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/73/en/1/EF1073EN.pdf
[full-text, 38 pages]
POSTED WORKERS (Definition)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/industrialrelations/dictionary/definitions/postedworkers.htm
According to the European Commission, a posted worker is a ‘person who, for a limited period of time, carries out his or her work in the territory of an EU Member State other than the State in which he or she normally works’. AND MUCH MORE....
Author: Pedersini, Roberto; Pallini, Massimo
Summary: This report examines the extent of the phenomenon of the posting of workers, the roles played both by European and national-level legislation in determining the employment and working conditions of posted workers and the roles played by legislation and collective bargaining – and how these two domains interplay. The report is in part an update of earlier work carried out in 2003 by Eurofound into the issue – not least, updating the findings with data from the new Member States, which had not joined the Union at that time. Importantly, the research looks at the possible implications of a number of high-profile decisions taken by the European Court of Justice in cases of posting of workers, which highlighted the at times tense relationship between the twin EU goals of economic freedom and social cohesion.
Contents
Introduction
How many posted workers?
The regulatory framework: implementation problems and recent developments
Level of debate and social partner action
Commentary
References
Annex
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