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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl)UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)Note from the editor: [recruitment practices in Europe]Cremers, J.Publication date2011Document VersionFinal published versionPublished inCLR NewsLink to publicationCitation for published version (APA):Cremers, J. (2011). Note from the editor: [recruitment practices in Europe]. CLR News,2011(1), 4-5. http://www.clr-news.org/CLR-News/CLR%20News%201-2011.pdfGeneral rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s)and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an opencontent license (like Creative Commons).Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, pleaselet the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the materialinaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letterto: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Youwill be contacted as soon as possible.Download date:09 Mar 2023    www.clr-news.org    European Institute for    Construction Labour Research CLR No 1/2011 CLR News  Recruitment  Practices in Europe   The European Parliament re-served a substantial budget line in the EU budget for 2009-2010 for research in the field of the free movement and the posting of workers. The European Commission ten-dered this budget in the au-tumn of 2009. In the mean-time the first results have been published. The outcome of this research could have a major impact on the Commis-sion’s preparation for a legal instrument with regard to posting that has been an-nounced for the end of 2011.  Colleagues from the CLR-Network have been involved in several of these projects. Two important studies are still pending:  A legal assessment (12 countries) executed by the Radboudt University, lead by Mijke Houwerzijl (her PhD was based on our ar-chives and she has contrib-uted in the past to our publications). The planning was for a report at the end of the summer (end of Au-gust) of 2011. This has been postponed and in the meantime the EC has de-cided to add an additional study on the 15 countries not covered. The focus was and is the national imple-mentation, problems with coordination, cooperation and compliance with the rules covering twelve coun-tries, and two industries: construction and temporary agency work.  The socio-economic assess-ment, lead by a Belgian con-sultancy, called ideaconsult, member of the Ecorys-group. From the start I had my doubts about their ex-pertise and they had serious trouble to finalise the re-port (that is still not availa-ble). Also here the planning was a report shortly after the summer of 2010. The focus was on the economic and social impact of posting in 8 countries, with 4-5 in-dustries targeted: agricul-ture, construction, tempo-rary agencies, transport, hotel/restaurants. CLR was directly involved in another research project com-missioned by the EFBWW. With a team of experts, we investi-gated the functioning of the principles formulated by the Posting of workers directive  Jan Cremers,  AIAS, clr@mjcpro.nl 06-03-2011  Note from the editor CLR News 1/2011 4  (Directive 96/71/EC) in practice on worksites. In the resulting 12 country reports, information is collected on national compliance with the post-ing rules and on experiences with monitoring, enforcement and sanc-tioning.   During a meeting at the Westmin-ster University the book version of our final report was launched (In search of cheap labour in Europe - Working and living conditions of posted workers - CLR-Studies 6). On Friday 25 February Jan Cremers (University of Amsterdam), Line El-dring (Fafo, Norway), Justin Byrne (CEACS, Madrid), Kjell Skjærvø (Fellesforbundet TU, Norway) and Ian Fitzgerald (University of North-umbria) contributed to the regular monthly seminar of the British Uni-versities Industrial Relations Associa-tion (BUIRA) Central London Branch. The title of our talk was Posted workers in Europe and we discussed and presented the results of the re-search, including comparative per-spectives on the new realities of posting, organising posted workers locally and the clash between work-ers’ rights and economic freedoms in practice – one that continues to place a critical role in industrial rela-tions.  In this issue of CLR-News, we have collected the contributions of the London meeting and completed the issue with several reviews that fit in the theme. CLR-Studies 6 with a synthesis of the research, short country reports and conclusions and recommendations is available in English: http://www.antenna.nl/i-books . Extended syntheses are available in German and French: www.clr-news.org    CLR News 1/2011 5 Note from the editor 

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