The case of the Latvian company that temporarily assigns Latvian workers in Sweden, and pays them Latvian-low salaries, is becoming a European issue. The CJEC is asked to deal with a prejudicial issue for which the solution should clear up the conflict between free delivery of services and work conditions.
This case (C-341/05), Laval un Partneri Ltd vs
Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet, had been very popularized even before it
became a dispute. The media had already disclosed the story of this Latvian company,
that temporarily assigned Latvian workers to work on a school building site in Vaxholm, Sweden, without observing
the Swedish minimum wage law.
The prejudicial question comes from the dispute between Laval un Partneri and
the Swedish union of construction workers. Following the failure...
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