EU: the European Parliament insisted on workers’ protection within the framework of transborder posting

As an answer to the recent communication by the European Commission on the evaluation of the national measures of enforcement of the 96/71 directive on the posting of workers (see our dispatch n° 070526,) the European Parliament adopted, on July 11, a resolution which stressed the protection of posted workers more than the lightening of administrative charges imposed on service providers. (Ref. 070640)
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As a reaction to the European Commission’s communication entitled “Detachment of workers within the framework of a provision of services: in drawing the advantages and the potentialities maximum while guaranteeing the protection of workers,” pleading in favour of the suppression of excessive charges which can hinder free movement of services, Eurodeputies are attacking again, defending a more protective vision of posted workers. Indeed, in October 2006, the Parliament had already adopted a repo

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