Poland and other V4 countries against Spanish-French proposal on posted workers

Poland and other V4 countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary) have rejected the Spanish-French proposal to include the transport industry in the directive on posted workers, during a summit of EU labor ministers in Luxembourg. “It is not an attempt to compromise but to forcibly, inch by inch, secure the interests of one group at the expense of the other,” said Hungarian Minister for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takacs. Currently, the regulations on posted workers require the employer to pay its employees staying in another EU country at least the minimum wage of that country. The proposed change would require the employer to pay its workers the same amount as the receiving country. Poland has the highest number of posted workers in other EU countries.