Poland also rejects the proposed changes put forward by the EU
executive and hopes to block them together with other poorer countries
in the bloc, Polish diplomatic sources said last week.
Hungary opposes proposed EU changes on seconded workers(Sputnik News)
Hungary opposes a European Union
plan to equalise pay between seconded and local workers as it would
pose an "unacceptable competitive disadvantage" to Hungarian companies, a
government spokesman said on Monday.
Poland also
rejects the proposed changes put forward by the EU executive and hopes
to block them together with other poorer countries in the bloc, Polish
diplomatic sources said last week.
The number of
seconded or "posted" workers, employed in one EU state but temporarily
sent to work in another, has jumped in recent years. There were some 1.9
million posted workers in the EU in 2014, the most recent data shows.
Employers
are not now obliged to pay posted workers more than the minimum wage in
the host country, which leads to underpayment of posted workers and
competition between firms employing seconded or local workers. The
European Commission has proposed equalising the pay of the two
categories.
"The planned measure would be
disadvantageous to us, and would threaten the jobs of tens of thousands
of Hungarians, for example those truck drivers working in the
international road haulage sector," the government spokesman said.
He
said the planned measure would oblige foreign companies to pay higher
wages to workers than local firms, which could still pay wages between
the minimum wage and the average wage.
"This
would bring about an unacceptable competitive disadvantage for Hungarian
companies," the government spokesman said, adding that several other
Central European countries thought the planned changes "do not serve
national interests."
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