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