Abstract

CONTRERAS HERNANDEZ, Óscar. Posting of workers in the framework of the free provision of services in the European Union. Rev. IUS [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.33, pp.34-58. ISSN 1870-2147.

This article examines the free provision of services in the European Union, which entitles companies to move from one member State to another, to carry out transnational services. At the same time, it is the legal basis of posting of workers when the companies that have moved decide to take their employees. Now then, despite of a positive evidence of the economic integration process in the European Union, this economic freedom sometimes causes un-fair competition among companies as well as situations of discrimination between local and posted workers; basically, due to disagreements in legal, economical and social issues in the territory of the European Union.

Keywords : Globalization; free trade; European Economic Area; European Union Law; transnational provision of services; posting of workers.