Emmanuel Macron plans to drastically restrict the use of posted workers for companies that receive public money. The President of the Republic receives the social partners this Wednesday, with bad news under the elbow.
Emmanuel Macron just received the social partners. He should announce to them a severe turn of the screw on posted workers…
Posted workers are clearly in the crosshairs of the Head of State. For a simple reason: we expect in the coming months an explosion of unemployment and Emmanuel Macron has always been very hard vis-à-vis this practice of posted work. It was he who had obtained from Brussels in 2017, just after his election, that posted workers be better supervised and paid as much as the French, to avoid any form of unfair competition. But in the context of the current crisis, the Elysée wants to go even further…
Or even almost prohibit posted work…
The idea would indeed be to strongly encourage companies not to use posted workers when they resort to short-time working or when they make a departure plan. You will remember that a few weeks ago, the state put pressure on the car manufacturer PSA so that it gave up recruiting 531 Polish workers posted in its factory of Hordain in Hauts de France. The State will therefore not deprive itself of exerting this kind of pressure and of increasing the anti-fraud controls in order to, if not prohibit, at least make it very difficult to recruit posted workers. In times of economic hardship, the temptation to use cheap labor is great. This is the reason for this turn of the screw ... which is of course also very political.