Posted Workers
The Condition of Transnational Posted Workers in Europe
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abstract
The result of research carried out in several European countries, this book analyses the phenomenon of the posting of workers from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, with a particular focus on working conditions, occupational safety and health (OSH), regulatory issues, offences and violations of posted workers’ rights. The first part of the book examines the origins and evolution of the posting of workers in Europe, also in terms of legislation; the second part presents various national case studies (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland, and labour mobility from Third Countries); the third part focuses on Italy, as the European crossroads of posted work. From this richly documented examination, the posting of workers emerges as a new frontier of the devaluation of labour, which exacerbates tendencies characteristic of the transformations of labour that have taken place in recent decades on a global scale, first and foremost precariousness and social dumping. Given its profound impact on the labour market and working conditions, the posting of workers therefore opens up new challenges for the protection of workers in both receiving and sending countries.
Work transformation • The Aarhus Light Rail • Flexibility • Wage dumping • Freedom to provide services • Directive 2014/67/EU • Health • Transnational labour market • Atypical employment • Slovenia • Directive 96/71/EC • Construction sector • European Labour Authority (ELA) • Labour flexibility • EU • Occupational safety and health • Outsourcing • Germany • Free provision of services • Labour exploitation • Collective rights • Cross-border labour recruitment • Austria • Labour migration • Dumping • Cross-border • Internal market • Third country nationals • Applicable labour law regime • Non-European • Working conditions • Exploitation • Precarious work • European Union • Labour market • Belgium • Language barriers • Free movement of workers • Employment conditions • Posting labour • Precarity • Rule Enforcement • OSH • Public works • European law • Posting of workers • Housing • Posted workers • Social dumping • Rule enforcement • Trade Union • Collaboration • Precariousness • Unions • Inspection activity • Undeclared work • Inspection services • Posted work • Law applicable • Labour mobility • The Copenhagen Metro • Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) • Italy • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Transnational posting of workers • Subcontracting