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