EU: the Commission wants to adapt the legislation on the coordination of social security schemes with new forms of mobility

In a communication published on December 10, 2007, about a new action plan to promote employment mobility in Europe, the European Commission announced its work plan to tackle the issues raised by the new forms of workers' mobility in the European Union when applying rules set by European law on the coordination of social security schemes. (Ref. 071014)
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Among the obstacles to workers’ mobility in the European Union the European Commission listed, there is the non-enforcement of regulations aimed a guaranteeing that migrant workers using their European right to move freely, do not lose their social protection. These regulations (*) work “very well when they concern a Member State citizen performing most of their career in another Member State and then goes back to their country of origin for retirement,” explained Jean-Philippe Lhernould, profe

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