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