Following the agreement reached by the Council of EU Ministers on posted workers, Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), is telling us about the dimension and stakes of social dumping for his sector in Europe, a reality that goes well beyond the issue of posting. (Ref. 130788)
- Could you give us a definition of social dumping and tell us why you think this notion is more and more topical?
Dominique Campogrande. To this day, we don’t have a widely-agreed definition of social dumping. For me, it is any practice that violates, avoids or deteriorates – more or less deliberately – existing social regulations (national, European or international) in order to gain economic advantages, notably in terms of competitiveness. Therefore, this is a much more widespread phenomenon than the “simple” issue of the “posting of workers,” with which it is often assimilated.
Two parameters can explain why this phenomenon has been growing.
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