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Posting of workers

Karen Farrugia Manager II (Research) International Affairs Unit

What is posting?

A "posted worker" is an employee who is sent by his employer to carry out a service in another EU Member State on a temporary basis, in the context of a contract of services, an intra-group posting or a hiring out through a temporary agency.

For example, a service provider may win a contract for the provision of services in another country and send his employees there to carry out the contract.

Employment rights and working conditions for posted workers

To guarantee that rights and working conditions for posted workers are protected throughout the EU and to ensure a level-playing field, the EU law defines a set of mandatory rules regarding the terms and conditions of employment to be applied to posted workers.

These rules are set out in the Posting of Workers Directive (PWD) which was adopted in 1996 and revised in 2018.

The starting point of the employment protection of posted workers is that posted workers remain employed by the sending company and are therefore subject to the law applicable to their employment contract, which most often is the law of their home Member State. However, the PWD provides core terms and conditions of employment, which are applied in accordance with the rules in place in the host Member State apply in so far as they are more favourable than the protection offered by the employment law of the home State (or the law applicable to the employment contract).

A posted worker can rely on the following terms and conditions of employment in the host Member state:

 remuneration, including overtime rates

 maximum work periods and minimum rest periods

 minimum paid annual leave

 the conditions of hiring-out workers in particular the supply of workers by temporary employment undertakings

 health, safety and hygiene at work

 protective measures with regard to the terms and conditions of employment of pregnant women or women who have recently given birth, of children and of young people

 equal treatment between men and women and other provisions on nondiscrimination

 the conditions of workers’ accommodation where provided by the employer to workers away from their regular place of work

 allowances or reimbursement of expenditure to cover travel, board and lodging expenses for workers away from home for professional reasons.

A new provision on long-term posting provides that where the effective duration of posting exceeds 12 months (or 18 months in case a motivated notification is submitted), all the host Member State’s applicable terms and conditions of employment, laid down by law or by collective agreement within the meaning of Article 3(8), must be guaranteed. The only exceptions are the procedures, formalities and conditions of the conclusion and termination of the employment contract, including non-competition clauses supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes.

Social security of posted workers

The social security of posted workers is regulated through Regulation no 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems. A detailed guide explaining the applicable rules is available on the DSS website.