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"Mr President, Commissioner, the dynamic nature of the internal market has offered increased mobility for workers and has helped European businesses to develop their activities beyond national borders.
The ability of businesses to post some of their workers to other EU Member States for the purpose of temporary work has made a further contribution to this increased mobility. The experience until now, however, has left much to be desired. In the case of Portugal, the posting of workers has not gone well, especially in the building industry. A number of cases have come to light of Portuguese workers being exploited in Spain, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. This has happened because there is a yawning chasm between the 1999 directive, which strikes a balance between the freedom to provide services and the guarantee of the labour rights of posted workers, and the implementation of that directive on the ground.
In addition to the fact that Member States have differed in their interpretations of the directive, there have also been differences in its practical implementation, and this has led to more barriers and more bureaucracy, and has slowed down the process. It is abundantly clear that there is no monitoring of the implementation of this directive. Subcontracting is a terrible example of situations that are very common but are not covered by the directive. This has led to an unacceptable watering down of responsibilities, which always – I repeat, always – works to the detriment of the posted workers.
I support Mrs Schroedter’s report because I believe it is up to the host Member State, in close cooperation with the authorities of the country of origin, to ensure that the employment conditions laid down in the directive are rigorously complied with, for the purposes of increasing the effectiveness of monitoring and of combating illegal practices.
What is needed, therefore is greater transparency and more information on the rights and obligations to be complied with when businesses become involved in the posting of workers. I also endorse Mrs Schroedter’s report because it has become necessary to adopt corrections in order to ensure that this directive is supported, monitored and carried out better and more systematically."@en1
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