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The report on which this proposal is based ‘shows that a number of EU transport firms use a variety of underhand means for using cheap vehicles and staff from third countries. The costs of both equipment and staff are significantly lower than in the EU.’ That means that a number of road transport firms employ underpaid drivers, working in precarious conditions, for transport outside the country in which they are based.
What worries the rapporteur most, however, is not the situation of the drivers, their excessively low wages or unacceptable working conditions, but the resulting ‘distortions of competition’. The proposed solution is the compulsory introduction of a ‘uniform driver attestation’ in all the EU Member States.
It would have been preferable to make the hauliers pay the same wages, whether or not the driver is an EU national. The best way to combat ‘social dumping’ would have been to impose a minimum wage aligned with that of the country where it is highest. Yet the European authorities prefer to impose a uniform administrative document throughout the European Union, rather than making the hauliers pay decent wages and provide decent working conditions for all their drivers, whatever their country of origin.
This shows that the envisaged reform is not concerned with the workers, which is why we abstained."@en1
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