During a vote on an opinion at the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday 12 June, MEPs approved the possibility of extending the legal basis of the “posted workers” directive to article 153 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) covering working conditions.
MEPs believe that article 153, paragraph 2 of the Treaty “should” and not “could”, as initially intended by the rapporteur Jytte Guteland (S&D, Sweden),...