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| Revision on posted workers is a compromise |
| Bratislava, 26.10.2017 |
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| At first Slovakia was one of the eleven EU member countries that triggered the yellow card procedure to block changes the European Commission proposed to 21-year-old posted worker rules. After some agreed compromises Slovak Labour Minister Ján Richter voted for tightening rules on posted workers in Luxembourg on October 23.
“I consider the reached compromise to be good because on one side it will put pressure on increasing the wages of Slovak workers and on the other hand it still will not endanger the competitiveness of Slovak companies,” said Richter.
After some 12 hours of negotiations in Luxembourg, most of the EU’s 28 members backed a compromise that would cap the posting of workers abroad at 18 months and introduce a four-year transition between reaching a final agreement on the reform and its taking effect. They further agreed to exempt international road transport from the revision.
The major objective of the directive’s reform is to have “equal pay for equal work at an equal place of work”. It is being pushed through by some established EU member countries criticising the current posting scheme. They accuse new member countries of social dumping, pointing out that since the latest enlargement round in 2007, labour cost differentials between member countries with the highest and the lowest wage level have increased from 1:3 to 1:10. Thus they require the introduction of a rule based on which posted workers should receive equal pay for equal work in the same workplace.
Richter praised the exclusion of the transport sector from the regulation and the four-year transition period. Another compromise was the extension of the cap to 18 months (a 12-month cap with a possible six-month extension), while the original proposal was 12 months.
“I see a cap of 18 months as sufficient since the average duration of the secondment of Slovak workers was 52 and 53 in the last two years,” said Richter.
From the Visegrad Group countries only Slovakia and the Czech Republic voted for the reform. The remaining two countries, Hungary and Poland, voted against. Lithuania and Latvia did not vote for the changed rules either, while Ireland, Britain and Croatia abstained from voting.
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