Move to Work, Move to Stay? Mapping Atypical Labour Migration into Germany

Wagner, Bettina; Hassel, Anke

doi:10.1108/s0195-631020160000032006

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“…As this freedom was not subject to transition periods after enlargements, self‐employment also allowed new EU citizens to immediately take up economic activity in old EU Member States by registering their own businesses. Though also being legally tied to the rules of the Member State of activity, self‐employment facilitates the evasion of binding wage and labour standards (Wagner and Hassel, 2016a, p. 148), for example through ‘bogus self‐employment’. This points to the difficulty of verifying whether workers are categorized adequately: someone claiming to be self‐employed may actually be integrated into work processes and, therefore, a dependent worker subject to social‐security contributions.…”

Section: The Domestic Conditionality Of the Eu's Internal‐market Regimementioning

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Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector

Blauberger

Schmidt

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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In this article, we trace Germany's recent reform (and its precursors) seeking to remedy precarious working conditions in the meat sector. Focusing on an extreme case of labour exploitation, and asking how unique it is, allows us to uncover which institutional features of EU Member States condition the liberalization effects of negative integration. We thereby contribute to the literature on Europeanization, which has mainly emphasized weak industrial relations to account for the German meat industry's reliance on cheap migrant labour. Complicated enforcement structures, demanding requirements of administrative cooperation, and the complexities of an evolving case law, we argue, further contributed to the precarious conditions of migrant workers in Germany. Major COVID outbreaks in slaughterhouses created the political momentum for reform which specifically addresses this administrative side of labour protection, but remains limited to the meat sector – despite similar patterns of labour exploitation elsewhere.

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Section: The Domestic Conditionality Of the Eu's Internal‐market Regimementioning

confidence: 99%

Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector

Blauberger

Schmidt

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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“…One reason for this was that most Western European countries implemented 'transition periods' of restricted labour mobility from new EU Member States. Posting allowed firms and workers to circumvent these transition periods because posted workers move under free movement of services rather than free movement of labour (Dølvik and Eldring, 2008;Wagner and Hassel, 2016). 1 Although the posting status was originally intended for sending abroad workers as part of a pre-established employment relationship, this requirement was not enforced.…”

Section: The Socio-economic Drivers Of Eu Postingmentioning

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European Integration and the Reconfiguration of National Industrial Relations

Arnholtz¹,

Lillie²

2019

Posted Work in the European Union

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“…Despite Germany’s 7-year transitional restrictions on movement of labour and a range of services after enlargement, the recovering German economy attracted large flows of eastern labour. Because of the transitional restrictions, many came through channels with weaker labour rights including temporary work agencies, ‘solo’ service providers and posting into unrestricted industries (Wagner and Hassel, 2016). This fuelled low-wage job competition in a range of sectors.…”

Section: Repairing National Wage Floors In the Enlarged Single Marketmentioning

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Cross-sectoral coordination and regulation of wage determination in northern Europe: Divergent responses to multiple external pressures

Dølvik

Marginson

2018

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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We examine changes in collective wage regulation in five northern European countries since 2000, with a focus on coordination across sectors, articulation between levels and determination of wage floors. Earlier change in the functioning of wage bargaining arrangements in Germany placed pressure on other northern countries. In Finland, employers recently instigated a shift from tripartite incomes policy to manufacturing-led pattern bargaining, with increased scope for decentralized negotiations. This made Finnish arrangements more similar to their Nordic counterparts, which have been marked by modest adaptations. Divergence continues in wage floor regulation. Increased statutory generalization of collectively agreed minimum wages has moved Germany and Norway closer to Finland, while Denmark and Sweden still rely solely on collective bargaining. The multi-faceted employer and state approaches to wage regulation are not consistent with recent claims of a neoliberal transformation across the northern coordinated economies.

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Move to Work, Move to Stay? Mapping Atypical Labour Migration into Germany

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector

Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector

European Integration and the Reconfiguration of National Industrial Relations

Cross-sectoral coordination and regulation of wage determination in northern Europe: Divergent responses to multiple external pressures

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