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
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
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 […]
Video Clip by FNV “How Van den Bosch Transporten works”
The Dutch union FNV is one of the parties in the “van den Bosch Transporten” case currently at stake at the European Court of Justice (see: Post “Posting of drivers before the ECJ”). The case deals with the question if posting of workers rules should also be applicable to truck drivers that carry out international […]
Extension of driving times during the Corona crisis
Truck drivers are among the “system-relevant” professions, not only in Corona times. In order to ensure the free movement and supply of goods even now, drivers have to work under difficult conditions that are hazardous to health. Instead of improved and safer working conditions and the recognition of the “system relevance” of their activity, drivers […]
Posting of drivers before the ECJ
Will the van den Bosch case before the ECJ clarify whether and which cross-border road transport services are subject to the posting of workers directive? On April 30, the advocate general published its opinion concerning the van den Bosch Transporten vs.Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging case. Principally, he confirms that the directive 96/71/EC (“posting of workers directive”) […]
TransFair Kick-off Meeting
The TransFair kick-off meeting took place in Vienna on February 21st and 22nd 2020 at the premises of the union vida. It was a lively gathering assembling all the project partners — unions, researchers, workers support organisations from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia.The coordinating team presented main project aims and the […]