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"Mr President, Commissioner, the aim of the Posting of Workers Directive is to ensure the freedom to provide services while at the same time guaranteeing employee’s rights. In my view this Directive has benefited of the European Union, and the criticism I am hearing today here in this House is to a large extent unjustified.
I would point out that in the Rüffert case, which we are discussing, violation of social standards and the setting of wages at the scandalously low level of 46% took place not as a result of any defects in the Posting of Workers Directive, but simply as a result of the failure to implement part of the relevant legislation of Lower Saxony in the manner envisaged in the Posting of Workers Directive. We are consequently dealing here with a problem implementing legislation within Germany, not with defects in the Posting of Workers Directive. We have a similar situation in the Laval case, where there is in turn a situation in Sweden where minimum pay is not prescribed either by statute or in a collective agreement in the manner envisaged in the Posting of Workers Directive. It is my view, therefore, that the way out of this situation is primarily through the adaptation of national legislation to the provisions of the current Directive, although I concede that there are many matters that could still be improved in the Directive, and in these matters I support the Commission’s opinion.
I would also like to take this opportunity to speak about the concept of social dumpin
which has been very frequently mentioned here. I note that the concept of social dumping does not exist either in international law or in economic theory. It is purely a propaganda term. One cannot speak of dumping in a situation where posted workers – Poles in Germany or Latvians in Sweden – receive a remuneration that is higher than what they would get in their own country. Nor can one speak of social dumping in a situation where there are no binding social or wage standards for all countries, and the reason there are no such standards is that the level of development of our Member States is different, and in addition, policy differs from state to state."@en1
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