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Workers sent temporarily to another EU country would from now on get equal pay for equal work in the same place, under a provisional deal between MEPs and EU Ministers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n New EU rules to better protect workers posted to another member state were informally agreed by the European Parliament and Council negotiators. The revised rules aim to ensure better protection for posted workers and fair competition for companies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Under the agreed text,\u00a0all of\u00a0the host country\u2019s rules on remuneration, set by law or certain collective agreements, shall apply to posted workers. EP negotiators ensured that large, representative regional or sectorial collective agreements could also be applied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Improving workers\u2019 conditions<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Travel, board and accommodation costs should be paid by the employer and not deducted from workers\u2019 salaries. Employers will also have to ensure that the accommodation conditions for posted workers are decent, and in line with national rules.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Posting duration<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The duration of the posting has been set at 12 months, with a possible extension of 6 months. After that time-limit, the worker will still be able to stay in the Member State where he is posted, but\u00a0all of\u00a0the host country\u2019s\u00a0labour\u00a0rules will start to apply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n International road transport<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The new elements of the revised directive will apply to the transport sector once the\u202fsector-specific legislation<\/a>, included in the\u202fMobility Package<\/a>, enters into application Until then, the 1996 version of the directive remains applicable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When the new rules apply<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Member states will have 2 years to transpose the rules; they will have to apply the new rules by the end of this period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Next steps<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The provisional agreement still needs to be confirmed by EU member states\u2019 permanent representatives (COREPER) and adopted in the European Parliament\u2019s Employment and Social\u00a0Affairs Committee. Before entering into force, the draft directive will need to be formally approved by the full Parliament and the Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u202f<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Workers sent temporarily to another EU country would from now on get equal pay for equal work in the same place, under a provisional deal between MEPs and EU […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1285,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[56],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1274\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}