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"Madam President, my government, the British Government, recognises that the current legislation needs toughening up because of compromises, but is basically in favour. The rapporteur herself is unhappy with at least most of the amendments and is asking for a pass on the whole thing without the amendments. However, within that, the provision of services is already catered for because it is prohibited to prevent a worker in this situation, on grounds of residence or nationality, from working in another state by way of posting.
The rapporteur’s latest brief emphasises workers’ rights when posted to another country, but surely that is a question of the national law of that country. If that is followed, why is there the need for extra legislation? Let the national law take care of it.
But that brings me unfortunately to the dreadful business of the Laval case. That was 10 years ago now but it is still relevant. Here you will remember a Latvian firm won a contract to build an educational facility in Sweden and brought in a team of Latvian workers to do the job. By way of collective agreement, they undertook to pay those workers less than the Swedish minimum wage, which was an act of law in Sweden.
The unions and the Swedish Government objected. They took it to the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Justice found in favour of the employers. When the employers and the unions in Sweden objected further and said that they might take strike action, and was that not legitimate, was that not within the rule of law, was that not a right? then the ECJ came back with the answer: yes, it is a fundamental right to strike, but not as fundamental as the right of free movement. If that is the way this project is going, it is descending into an Orwellian nightmare and will come to grief quicker, rather than later."@en1
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