04/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - France threatens to no longer to enforce posted workers directive. On Sunday 3 July, France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on French television channel TF1 that France would no longer enforce the 1996 EU directive on posted workers on its territory if his demands were not “heard”. The directive “wreaks havoc” and must be revised by establishing “equal treatment, from the top, for fighting social dumping” and by enforcing payment of “the highest social contributions”, he said. The European Commission is soon due to announce what it intends to do with its proposal for reform that has been blocked by a “yellow card” from 11 national parliaments (see EUROPE 11574). In the view of French MEP Elisabeth Morin-Chartier (EPP), the European Parliament's co-rapporteur on this issue “the prime minister is mistaken, [because] the issue of social contributions is not tackled by the posted workers directive at all, but by the regulation on social security”. The review is indeed expected to focus on the “remuneration” of posted workers. (JK)