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