Extra-Community seasonal workers may now enjoy decent working and living conditions, such as minimum wage and adequate housing, by virtue of the compromise adopted by the Parliament and the Council of EU Ministers on the draft directive on the entry and residence of this category of workers. These regulations aim to keep these temporary stays from becoming permanent. This bill is parallel to the draft directive on intragroup posted workers, which aims to simplify and facilitate transfers within a multinational enterprise of non-EU skilled workers, which should be adopted in the spring 2014. (Ref. 130704)
Agreement on the draft directive on the entry and residence of third-country seasonal workers (see article No. 110355). The compromise reached between the European Parliament and the Council of EU Ministers on October 29 provides that the Member States will be free to determine the number of workers admitted and to define seasonal work beyond its traditional link with farming and tourist activities, i.e.
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