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