Posting of workers. The Commission pursues controls

(B2) Too many controls for posting companies are disproportionate. This is the essential meaning of Communication and investigation report presented by the European Commission. According to them, practices which aim to impose residence/work permits or additional formalities on foreign workers - already present in another Member State and in an irregular situation - are illegal.

Similarly, there is no longer any reason to be exaggerated demands for formalities: retention of social documents for a certain period, obligation to have a company representative at all times, translation of certain documents. Only finds favor in his eyes the obligation of prior declaration. But on condition that it is not too preliminary - not too early - and not too cumbersome - limited to a certain number of data (name, duration of secondment, place...).

Officially, the European commissioner is generous. “Any measure that is good for the protection of workers is good for us” can be useful for control. There is no question, according to someone close to Commissioner Vladimir Spidla, of including the salary, a fundamental fact, however, in the directive on the posting of workers.

(NGV)