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