SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT / Social

European Parliament opinion calls for 'posted workers' directive application period to be reduced to 18 months

Brussels, 20/06/2017 (Agence Europe)

In an opinion adopted on Tuesday 20 June (12 for, 9 against, 2 abstentions), MEPs at the legal affairs committee (JURI) proposed to reduce the "posted workers" directive’s application period from 24 months to 18 months.

Once again, the JURI committee appears to share the same position as the Western European member states. After having adopted a positive opinion in favour of extending the legal basis of the said directive, by a whisker (see EUROPE 11807), the same committee hammered this...