On Tuesday 13 December, the European Commission unveiled a batch of draft legislation on job mobility with a proposal aiming at balanced and consensual changes to the EU rules on coordination of social security systems, (EU Regulation 883/2004).
The initial plan was to publish the entire package in 2015 and the first batch, draft ‘targeted’ changes to an EU directive of 1996 on the secondment of workers was unveiled in March, giving rise to heated debate (see EUROPE 11685). The...