Posted Migration and Segregation in the European Construction Sector

Çaro, Erka; Berntsen, Lisa; Lillie, Nathan; Wagner, Ines

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1015406

Cited by 59 publications

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“…While many of the same dilemmas have been identified by other studies (Caro et al 2015;Lillie et al 2014;Wagner and Berntsen 2016), few have studied how the pressure from below has been tackled at a national level. In the following, we will turn our attention to the way these local dilemmas surrounding new rule-takers have affected the agenda of national rule-makers in the collective bargaining process, political regulation and labour court activity.…”

Section: From Local Renegotiation To National Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extra‐Institutional Changes under Pressure from Posting

Arnholtz

Andersen

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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The posting of workers has become a key topic in debates about how national labour relations respond to pressures from EU market making. While most prior studies have shown that national employment relations are under pressure from above (via EU regulation) and from below (due to increasing use of posting), the question is whether these pressures will lead to erosion of employment relations or adaptation at the national level. Taking the case of posting in the Danish construction sector, the article shows that, while formal institutions stay the same through minor adaptation, the increasing use of posting has led to changes in the strategies of the social partners, shifts in predominant policy arenas and the appearance of new actors on the regulatory scene. As such, we argue that conflicts regarding posting are driving a process of extra-institutional change.

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Section: From Local Renegotiation To National Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extra‐Institutional Changes under Pressure from Posting

Arnholtz

Andersen

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…Employers try to take advantage of the differences between national systems and exploit the grey areas among national and transnational regulations when posting workers. Through regulatory evasion, arbitrage and conformance, they either ignore the rules or choose to apply the ones that benefit them the most (Berntsen, Lillie 2015). While not all posting leads to social dumping, several studies indicate that posted workers, in particular in low-pay and low-skill jobs, are often paid either less or the same but then subjected to charges for various expenses such as travel, accommodation, or administrative fees, which are then subtracted from their salaries (Cremers 2011;Cremers et al 2007;Cremers 2016;Kall, Lillie 2017;.…”

Section: The Osh Vulnerabilities Of Posted Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, the literature has focused on the impact of multi-level regulation on the employment relations and working conditions of posted workers (e.g. Caro et al 2015;Cremers 2011;Lillie 2012;Wagner 2015;Wagner, Berntsen 2016). Their findings suggest that as part of the outsourcing practices, posting occurs at the very end of the subcontracting chain, where workers are most vulnerable.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Posted Work and Occupational Safety and Health: A Literature Review

Danaj¹

2018

DveDom

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Posted Work and Occupational Safety and Health: A Literature ReviewThis article provides a review of the literature on posting and occupational safety and health (OSH). Although the vulnerabilities of posted workers are discussed in the literature on posting, and the overall OSH risk factors, including those relevant to migrant workers, are discussed in the literature on OSH, the two strands of literature barely intersect. There is therefore an immediate need to study the occupational safety and health of posted workers throughout the European Union. Social factors influencing OSH risks, such as employment fragmentation and precarity, and the various forms of cross-border labour mobility, such as posting, should also be further explored. KEY WORDS: posted work, European Union, occupational safety and health, literature review IZVLEČEK Napoteno delo ter varnost in zdravje pri delu: Pregled literatureČlanek prinaša pregled literature s področja napotenih delavcev ter varnosti in zdravja pri delu (VZD). Čeprav ranljivi položaj napotenih delavcev obravnava literatura o napotitvah, splošne dejavnike tveganja VZD, vključno s tistimi o migrantskih delavcih, pa literatura o varnosti in zdravju pri delu, se oba segmenta komajda prekrivata. Prav zato se pojavlja potreba po proučitvi poklicne varnosti in zdravja napotenih delavcev v celotni Evropski uniji. Podrobneje bi morali raziskati tudi tiste socialne dejavnike, ki vplivajo na zdravje in varnost pri delu, kot so zaposlitvena razdrobljenost in prekarnost ter različne oblike čezmejne zaposlitvene mobilnosti, med katere sodijo napotitve delavcev. KLJUČNE BESEDE: napoteno delo, Evropska unija, varnost in zdravje pri delu, pregled literature | Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Researcher,

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“…Agency workers typically lodge in dormitories, located off factory site and across town, that house between 200 and 1000 workers. While staying in dormitories produces social-spatial segregation in relation to the local context and workers (Caro et al, 2015), it also guarantees migrant workers a certain degree of sociability among their compatriots and a continuous exchange of information with respect to work at Foxconn, other job opportunities and social events.…”

Section: A Temporary Workplacementioning

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“…Broadly speaking, there are two strands to the discussion: the 'social dumping' perspective, which sees labour migration as unsettling of existing industrial compromises in West Europe; and the 'integrationist' perspective, which sees migration as beneficial to economic growth prospects. Commentators in the first strand identify the causes of social dumping in West-East industrial relocation and East-West posting of workers (Caro et al, 2015). The difference in social standards and wages results in a 'race to the bottom', a downward pressure on social and living standards in the EU-15.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From labour migration to labour mobility? The return of the multinational worker in Europe

Andrijasevic

Sacchetto

2016

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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There is currently a large knowledge gap about intra-European labour migration. Existing scholarship focuses overwhelmingly on the movement of workers from East to West Europe. Commentators are caught up in a debate over whether such movement is best understood in terms of social dumping and hence a race to the bottom, or in terms of business opportunities and benefits for firms, states and migrants. The argument put forward in this article is that both approaches are inadequate in that they focus attention on a linear East-to-West movement and discuss this movement from the vantage point of the state, businesses and trade unions in the country of destination. It is our suggestion that such readings of intra-European labour migration fail to grasp the changes in labour force behaviour engendered by freedom of movement and European Union citizenship. In order to gain a clearer understanding of emerging migration patterns in the enlarged Europe, this article adopts mobility as the analytical lens though which to examine the integration of labour markets as well as the tensions between capital, trade unions and labour to which mobility gives rise. Building on fieldwork and interviews with migrant workers conducted at Foxconn electronics assembly plants in the Czech Republic, the article illustrates processes of both segregation and mobilisation produced by intra-European labour mobility, and suggests that the term 'multinational' worker is best suited to convey the experiences and practices of this emergent workforce.

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Posted Migration and Segregation in the European Construction Sector

Cited by 59 publications

References 45 publications

Extra‐Institutional Changes under Pressure from Posting

Extra‐Institutional Changes under Pressure from Posting

Posted Work and Occupational Safety and Health: A Literature Review

From labour migration to labour mobility? The return of the multinational worker in Europe

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