Abstract
Regulation (EU) 2019/1149 establishes the European Labour Authority (ELA) as a decentralised operational EU-agency. The ELA has to help individuals and businesses to get most out of the opportunities offered by free movement and to ensure fair labour mobility. According to the Commission, it will serve the double mission of helping national authorities to fight fraud and abuse and making mobility easier for citizens. This article addresses existing problems with labour mobility and analyses reasons for insufficient compliance with local standards and other enforcement problems. The author reflects on the added value and future functioning of the ELA.
Highlights
In his 2017 State of the Union Address, delivered at the European Parliament in September 2017, European Commission President Juncker announced plans to establish a new European agency, the European Labour Authority, in order to foster fair mobility in Europe.1 B J
The European Labour Authority (ELA) has to help individuals and businesses to get most out of the opportunities offered by free movement and to ensure fair labour mobility
The ELA’s objective is to promote fairness and help strengthen trust in the Single Market, and ‘to help individuals and businesses to get most out of the opportunities offered by free movement and to ensure fair labour mobility.’
Summary
In his 2017 State of the Union Address, delivered at the European Parliament in September 2017, European Commission President Juncker announced plans to establish a new European agency, the European Labour Authority (hereafter the ELA), in order to foster fair mobility in Europe.. According to the concluded legal text, the European Labour Authority will support Member States in providing information and services to citizens and business, facilitate cooperation and the exchange of information between Member States, and support them through concerted and joint inspections in order to fight abuse, fraud and undeclared work. Challenges and risks (e.g., gaps, new interfaces, overlaps, complexity, feasibility and resource issues).
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