Confederation says no to the Directive on Posting of Workers‘ review

The cost of the initiative could be substantially higher than its questionable advantages.

The Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic, together with its partners from Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Portugal and Slovakia, has joined the initiative of the Polish Lewiatan directed against the review of the Directive on Posting of Workers planned within the European Commission Work Programme 2016.

In the joint letter addressed to the EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Marianne Thyssen, the Commission‘s Vice-president for the Euro and Social Dialogue Valdis Dombrovskis and the EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elżbieta Bieńkowska, they have expressed their disagreement with the introduction of the principle „equal pay, for equal work in the same place“.

They are convinced that instead of introducing this unclear and dangerous principle, the European Commission should focus on full implementation of the so-called Enforcement Directive that would substantially improve the situation of the posted workers without creating new barriers to entreprises supplying services abroad.

The entrepreneurs‘ associations are supporting the abolition of all illegal practices, but they are against limiting the legal competition in the EU internal market and don’t support the actual rhetoric of the Commission that links the posting of workers with the „social dumping“.

The associations invite the Commission to renounce on the planned review of the Directive on Posting of Workers as the cost of this initiative for both the EU and member countries‘ economy could be, within the context of the economic slowdown, substantially higher than its questionable advantages.

Joint letter of the 8 associations

 

Radim Klekner
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section European Union
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