EU Posted Workers 2024 Compliance Update

An "EU Posted Worker" is an employee who is sent by his employer to temporarily carry out a service in another EU Member State in the context of a contract of services, an intra-group posting, or hiring out through a temporary agency.

To guarantee that rights and working conditions for these posted workers are protected throughout the European Union (EU) and to ensure a level playing field for their employers, EU law contains mandatory rules set out in the Posting of Workers Directives (PWDs).

The PWD was adopted in 1996, revised in 2018, and enforced by the Enforcement Directive in 2014. These Directives impose several rules on the Employer, who must comply with these obligations for every single posted worker.

The tasks arising from the PWDs create a heavy administrative compliance duty for the Employer, all the more because of the discrepancies between these EU member states in how they…