For decades, the posting of workers has been a prominent topic of the public and political debate.

However, in the last few years, several factors have intensified the debate. Firstly, an increase in the number of postings, which has impacted heavily in specific labourintensive sectors. Secondly, there has been a growth in abusive and fraudulent practices such as letter-box companies or bogus self-employment. Thirdly, in view of the social policy provisions introduced into the European Treaties since the Lisbon Treaty revision, it is questionable whether the 1996 Posting of Workers Directive (PWD) provides a sufficient legal instrument for ensuring a level-playing field for free cross-border service provision whilst at the same time delivering a sufficient foundation for the social protection of workers. Fourthly, numerous rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union have raised as yet unsolved questions for interpreting the 1996 Directive.

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Posted workers - 8th parliamentary term

A ‘posted worker’ is an employee sent by his or her employer to carry out a service in another EU Member State on a temporary basis. EU law on posted workers is generally regarded as a targeted effort to regulate and balance the following two principles: creating a level playing field for cross-border service provision in a way that is as unrestricted as possible; protecting the rights of posted workers by guaranteeing a common set of social rights in order to prevent unfair treatment and the creation of a low-cost workforce.

On May 2018, MEPs voted on revised rules: workers posted temporarily to another EU country must get equal pay for equal work in the same place.

See more on this topic by visiting our <a href="https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/posted-workers-8th-parliamentary-term_6601_pk">package</a> for the 8th parliamentary term.

Posted workers (2019-2020)

Plenary session week 6 2014 - Conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of seasonal employment

Commissioner Cecilia MALMSTROM in charge of Home Affairs

A labor inspection team controls for illegal workers at a mine site in Luxembourg.

Vegetable production, pesticides

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels, MEPs debate on the European protection of cross-border and seasonal workers in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.

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