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"Madam President, like many other speakers, I regret the delay in the mobility package but I can live with it for now, because of course it is connected to Brexit, and many of the issues that are crucial to the mobility package also play an important role in the negotiations with the UK government.
Free movement is an individual right of every European citizen and, as such, it must be protected, but this should not blind us to the fact that there are pluses and minuses to labour mobility. Yes, it can provide opportunities for job seekers and it can help to deal with issues like labour shortages and skills shortages. But equally there can be a brain drain from sending countries and also, if in a receiving country there are significant numbers of posted workers arriving in a particular sector, it can have the impact of driving down wages.
I believe that our job as parliamentarians is to act to mitigate the bad effects and promote the good effects of labour mobility. We need to recognise that in some cases our legislation needs updating, either to take account of new realities – and there are many in the European Union – or to deal with the unintended consequences of previous legislation. I presume none of us in this Parliament think we get it right first time, every time, or indeed that past Parliaments did. As always it depends on politics: in the Commission, in Parliament and in the Council. So that is three politics: politics, politics and more politics.
Right now, I think we need to put our minds to finding workable pragmatic solutions to the challenges we face and are likely to face in the future. Our citizens deserve that – they expect it and they deserve it.
Finally, your comments on equal work for equal pay in the same place. I agree with you on that because it is well-established in European legislation and, as you have said yourself on many occasions, we do it for part-time workers, for fixed-time workers, for seasonal workers, for temporary agency workers. So the question I want answered is: why do we not do it for posted workers?"@en1
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