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.
Social dumping • Posted workers • Rule Enforcement • Posting labour • Employment conditions • Inspection activity • Housing • Transnational posting of workers • Construction sector • OSH • Occupational safety and health • Collective rights • European law • Non-European • Public works • Free provision of services • Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) • Subcontracting • The Aarhus Light Rail • Working conditions • Law applicable • The Copenhagen Metro • Labour migration • Cross-border labour recruitment • Undeclared work • Inspection services • European Labour Authority (ELA) • Flexibility • Labour exploitation • Labour flexibility • Language barriers • Atypical employment • Health • Rule enforcement • Wage dumping • Unions • Third country nationals • Trade Union • Free movement of workers • Internal market • Transnational labour market • European Union • Directive 2014/67/EU • Precariousness • Cross-border • Posted work • Labour mobility • Exploitation • Precarity • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Freedom to provide services • Directive 96/71/EC • Germany • Precarious work • Outsourcing • Dumping • Collaboration • Slovenia • Austria • Belgium • Applicable labour law regime • Italy • Labour market • Posting of workers • Work transformation • EU