The Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU is aware that it will never obtain consensus on the revision of the 1996 directive on posted workers. It therefore intends to put a compromise, which is as close as possible to the initial European Commission proposal to a vote in June.
Member states currently have a consolidated compromise text that does not contain the different options. Following several Council working party meetings (see EUROPE 11724), the concept of remuneration, which is...