Abstract
Research background: Labour migration, i. e. the transnational movement of foreign workers on the European markets and their integration, is among the key topics of both Czech and European politics. I devote my paper to the regulation of work-related migration in a wider perspective of the global labour market in a specific type of labour migration „posting workers“. Purpose of the article: The paper focus on economic, political, and ethical problematic aspects of posting workers within the European Union in connection with the European Commission’s revision of Directive 96/71/EC with an emphasis on posting workers to the Czech Republic. Methods: I will to analyse the key patterns of the reactions and discourse strategies of selected Czech stakeholders regarding the proposal for a revision of Directive 96/71/EC, in particular that of selected government representatives. For this purpose, it will be used the method of discourse analysis (especially methods developed by Ruth Wodak). Findings & Value added: I would like to demonstrate, using the revision of Directive 96/71/EC as an example of new renovating models of global labour, as a part of the process of integration of the global market in the era of globalization, that the mechanism of posting workers creates a hybrid single European labour market, changes international relations, and contributes to the transnational flexibility of labour.
Highlights
On March 8th, 2016, the European Commission presented a proposal for a revision of Directive 96/71/EC, which until regulated the posting of workers in the European Union [1]
The European Commission wanted the proposal to revise Directive 96/71/EC to respond to problematic phenomena, such as non-compliance with the regular posting of workers, which could serve to increase the profits of posting companies
In 2016, the Czech Republic Government was generally critical or negative of the European Commission’s efforts to revise Directive 96/71/EC and in this respect defended a similar general position, which was held by representatives of entrepreneurs and employers, as opposed to trade unions, who always supported the European Commission’s proposal
Summary
On March 8th, 2016, the European Commission presented a proposal for a revision of Directive 96/71/EC, which until regulated the posting of workers in the European Union [1]. This proposal or in particular, some aspects of it, such as the principle of equal pay for equal work in the same country, have provoked a heated debate, between Members of the European Parliament and between the European Union (EU) institutions and some Member States. Between submitting the proposal for the revision of Directive 96/71/EC in March 2016 and the final adoption of this revision in June 2018, for example, negotiations on the posting of workers were accompanied by discussions on more general issues such as protectionist measures in some Member States or convergence issues (with regard to wage, economic or social themes) and cohesion policies. Czech Republic representatives joined this criticism in the negotiations on the directive’s revision
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