First TransFair Report online
Lynn de Smedt and Frederic De Wispeleare concluded the first TransFair project output. They examined the quantitative dimension and economic relations in the European freight transport market: “Road freight transport in the EU. In serach of a balance between the economic and social dimension of the internal market. A quantitative sectoral analysis”
News from the EU II: van den Bosch judgement by the CJEU
The European Court of Justice finally reached a verdict in the case Van den Bosch vs FNV (C‑815/18). The court decided that transport workers fall under the Posting of Workers Directive, however a sufficient connection to the territory of the workers’ receiving country must be proved to benefit from the labour protection of this state. You […]
News from the EU I: driving and rest times — a guideline
The mobility package has been approved and some of the regulations are in place since August 20, 2020. To keep an overview over the new regulations, the European Commission, published Q&As to pressing topics, such as the return of the driver to “home”, weekly rests, multi-manning and breaks or manual recording of border crossing. https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/mobility-package-qa_en?utm_source=ETF+Contacts+Database&utm_campaign=69568a90a9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_30_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a3110b567d-69568a90a9-114885869
TransFair Transnational Union Workshop — Online!
On October 1, TransFair’s first transnational workshop took place. It gathered all consortium members, unions and research institutions from Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Belgium and Czechia. In the transnational online workshop, TransFair partners exchanged about new research findings on the European road transport sector, its quantitative dimension, the role of third country nationals in Polish […]
Slovenian media coverage of the TransFair action
The TransFair action that was jointly organised by the Austrian union vida and the Slovenian union nsds received particular public attention. Find in the links below, a broadcasting contribution and a newspaper article bringing interviews with the two transport unions and main messages of the action to a wider audience. tvhttps://www.rtvslo.si/gospodarstvo/veliko-soferjev-ne-dobi-placila-za-opravljeno-delo-delodajalci-placajo-kolikor-sami-zelijo/534857?fbclid=IwAR03bT_q4h0Y3rr3XDJ6oOjXFOu9UZnMXDvS5gQQQX5SphTUhhE61XL0Eyo newspaper articlehttps://www.vecer.com/vozniki-tovornjakov-oskodovani-za-300-do-500-evrov-na-mesec-10215198
TransFair Union action in Slovenia
On September 1st, 2020, TransFair partners arranged an information action for truck drivers on international transport journeys. The Slovenian union nsds and the Austrian union vida met for a joint action on the highway next to Prepolje near the Austrian-Slovenian border to provide truck drivers with information about minimum wage entitlements when they work abroad. […]
Legislative acts of Mobility Package officially in force
On July 31st, the legislative acts negotiated within the so called Mobility Package have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. They concern: rest and driving periods for drivers, new provisions for introducing the smart tachograph, new provisions concerning access to the international road haulage market and concerning conditions to be complied […]
Mobility Package approved by the European Parliament
After a very long period of negotiations, the mobility package for road transport has been approved by the European parliament on July 8, 2020. It will bring new regulations for posting of workers in road transport, new regulations for drivers’ rest time and new measures to detect letter-box companies in road transport. Here, you find […]