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