A divisive topic open to every sort of populist message, and yet also a fundamental text for this EU term, which is likely to constitute ‘the foundations for a Social Europe’. Thus is how Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, French PPE party MEP and member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee summarised the issues over revising the Directive 96/71/EC on the posting of workers in the context of the provision of services. As EU Parliament Co-Rapporteur on posted work on 07 March during a conference organized by the AJIS (Association des Journalistes de l’information Social, Association of social information journalists) the MEP presented the main thrusts of the draft report that she has just prepared with the Dutch MEP Agnes Jongerius (S&D party).
The draft report follows on from a proposed revision that was presented by the European Commission in March 2016 (c.f. article No. 9538). In the first place it proposes extending the directive’s legal base to both article 151 and 153 of the TFEU, or in other words, to integrate the EU’s social policy. In this way, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier explained the posting of workers would no longer solely relate to the free provision of services but also relate to workers’ protection: “This is a real message for our citizens, which will allow the topic to be part of the European Social Dialogue,” she believed.
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