The European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority (ESA) last week sent a letter of formal notice to Norway for introducing ‘unjustified and disproportionate’ restrictions on the use of temporary agency workers.
Every year, thousands of workers are misled and abused in all kinds of shady working deals. In most cases, these workers are not recruited by a regular construction company but by a so-called intermediary company. A lucrative business model in the internal market. This has to stop and that is why, the EU should ban intermediaries in the context of posting.
When Ivan (not his real name) agreed to leave his homeland Bulgaria to work in Germany as a posted worker via a temporary work agency, he was happy to have a job. He never would have guessed that this job would bring him into problems with social security and that his case would end up in the European Court of Justice. Ivan is not alone. Every year, thousands of workers are misled and abused in all kinds of shady working deals. In most cases, these workers are not recruited by a regular construction company but by a so-called intermediary company. A lucrative business model in the internal market. This has to stop and that is why