This chapter is a contribution to the book "Posted Workers. La condizione dei lavoratori in distacco transnazionale in Europa" and it focuses on the under-researched topic of occupational safety and health vulnerabilities (OSH) of posted workers across the EU.
This chapter is a contribution to the book "Posted Workers. La condizione dei lavoratori in distacco transnazionale in Europa" and it focuses on posting in Austria by giving an overview of the posting trends, the governance system, and the main challenges in the Austrian context, specifically wage and social dumping, OSH, and rule enforcement, before providing a few concluding remarks.
The comparative report of the Posting.STAT project discusses definitions, data collection and analysis, followed by comparative findings on the scale, characteristics and impact of intra-EU posting, the impact of intra-EU posting on the economic actors involved, scale and characteristics of infringements related to intra-EU posting, and provides conclusions and recommendations on the importance of statistics in evidence based policymaking.
The conference to celebrate the 2021 European Day of Persons with Disabilities brought together more than 400 politicians, high-level experts and disability advocates.
In this brief, we discuss how posted and other hypermobile migrant construction workers suffer from marginalization in both the labour market and in access to social insurance, with variations between biographically different groups of posted workers.