European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility since November 2014. She obtained a degree in law at the Catholic University of Leuven (1979). She was successively legal adviser, head of a research department and acting Secretary-General at UNIZO (a Belgian organisation for the self-employed and small and medium-sized businesses). She entered European Parliament in 1991 and was re-elected 5 times. During her almost 23 years as a member of European Parliament, she mainly focused on economic and social issues. Between 2008 and 2010 she was also the President of her party, CD&V (the Flemish Christian Democrats in Belgium).

Member of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Member of the eighth European Parliament. Co-author of the report on social dialogue. She participated actively in debates on the revision of legislation concerning posted workers. Winner of the prestigious MEP award in recognition of contribution in the field of employment and social affairs.

One of the most prominent authorities in the field of European Internal Market and Labour Law

Dr. Mijke Houwerzijl (F) is a professor of Labour Law at Tilburg University and chairs the Department of Labour Law and Social Policy at Tilburg Law School. Mijke Houwerzijl was appointed at Tilburg Law School as a professor in November 2011. She also holds a chair in comparative and European labour law at the University of Groningen (since 2010) and chairs the Dutch department of the International society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL).
Mijke Houwerzijl has published widely on legal aspects of labour mobility within the EU, with an emphasis on posted workers mobility, labour migration and issues of compliance and enforcement of labour law and social security law. She has been involved in many national and international research projects, e.g. as a lead researcher and coordinator in major commissioned research projects of the European Commission on posting of workers and the protection of workers’ rights in situations of subcontracting.

Lawyer. Professor at the Jagiellonian University. Author of approx. 90 publications in the field of labour law and social security law, including two books on the freedom of movement of workers. Specializes in labour law of the European Union. Member of the European Labour Law Network – a platform for dialogue between European labour law experts and European Commission’s official advisory board on issues relating to the labour law. Lecturer at many postgraduate trainings and trainings for judges. Member of the editorial board of the magazine ” Labour Law Monitor “.

Magdalena Bernaciak is a Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels. Her academic interests lie in the socioeconomic aspects of EU eastern enlargement and industrial relations in Central-Eastern Europe.

Magdalena completed her PhD studies in Political Science at Central European University in Budapest. She was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (WSI) in Düsseldorf and the University of Warwick’s Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU)

Frederic De Wispelaere is currently senior research associate at HIVA-KU Leuven . He holds a Master in Business Administration (EHSAL – Brussels) and a Master in corporate law (Ghent University – Law Faculty).

He is currently involved in the Network Statistics on free movement of workers, social security coordination and fraud and error. This network is set up by the European Commission DG EMPL to collect and analyse statistics and administrative data on those three fields. Within this network he is among others responsible for the annual report on the posting of workers. Furthermore he has published several papers and reports on the use and impact of posting from a perspective of sending and receiving Member States.

PPhD in Legal Studies, working in Expert Department for the Social Dialogue and Social Policy of the KK NSZZ “Solidarność” (TU). She specializes in labour law, collective labour law in particular. Member of the International Dialogue Council. Member of European Trade Union Institution, in charge of amendments to the Posting of Workers Directive (ETUC taskforce on posting).

Law graduate of the Warsaw University. He completed his legal counsel’s training in The Circuit Chamber of Legal Counsel in Warsaw and obtained his legal counsel qualifications.

In 2004-2016 he worked in Labour Law Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, where since 2013 he held the post of Chief of International Labour Law Department. Participant in legislative works at the EU level (inter alia, Working Time Directive, Posting of Workers Directive) and national level (amendment of working time provisions and terminal contracts specified in Labour Code)

He has been specialising in practical aspects of labour law, leading workshops and lectures on labour law. Author of publications on Polish and EU labour law.

In Konfederacja Lewiatan accountable for coordination of social security systems and the area of international and labout law.

He is part of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe. Member of the “Group on South Asia”,”South Asia Peace Forum” and “Forum for Balochistan” in the European Parliament.

Author of the 2014 French law preventing dumping social by tackling illegal posting of workers.

Gilles Savary is a member of the French National Assembly since June 2013. He has been rapporteur on the French railway reform. He is also Chairman of the Board of Civil Aviation since December 2012.From 1999 to 2009, he was a member of the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Regional Policy of the European Parliament. From 2004 to October 2013, he was Vice-Chairman of the Gironde Departmental Council.

He is a specialist in the European Law of the public services and public services in networks, in the European Transport policies Gilles Savary is an author of numerous publications and media interventions on major European subjects

Prominent practitioner and consultant. Expert on social security of workers posted abroad within the framework of free provision of services. First-rate expert in determining the applicable law and implementation of the Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems.

Expert, advises companies in planning international transfers of employees in the light of Polish and international tax law and social security in Poland and EU. Participant of preparation for individuals seconded to work policy in companies.

She runs a workshops in the scope of personal income tax and social security in the light of Polish and international law

Played a key role in drafting the enforcement directive on posting of workers. For this, she was nominated by the Labor Mobilis Competition Jury to the Labor Mobilis Award 2013. Honorary Member of the Labour Mobility Initiative Association. President and co-founder of Contact Europe – Poland’s first professional company engaged in business lobbying.

From 12 years he has been advising Polish and foreign entrepreneurs in the scope of Polish tax settlement of posted workers

Author of press articles on taxation on individuals and co-author of “Agreements on evasion of double taxtion. Comment” (Wolters Kluwer SA, 2011). He runs a seminar on the taxation of employees’ cash benefits and benefits in kind.

The winning-party’s adviser at the Polish Supreme Court in the case concerning the percentage of economic activity required to accept it as performed locally.

He advises Belgian and multinational companies as well as executives, both in connection with court proceedings and in other contexts. He deals with current aspects of Belgian individual and collective employment law and assists his clients in their contacts with Belgian social security authorities (e.g. in the framework of social inspections).
Brecht also assists companies and individuals in cross-border matters such as simultaneous employment in multiple jurisdictions, secondments, expatriation,…
Brecht holds a master in law from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL, 2000) and an additional master in social law from the University of Brussels (ULB, 2001).

Joanna Jasiewicz, advocate in Warsaw, specialized in labour and social security law. Advises in the field of collective labour law (clause actions, collective agreements, stikes) andin the trade union law. She is also providing help to clients from the the heavy industry and logistics sector. Associated with a polish employers’ union “TLP” (“Transport and Logistics Poland) through a legal complaint regarding the minimum wage in France, filed to the European Commission.

She is an author of numerous journalistic and legal publications and co-author of the commentary on polish Labour Law Code and has participated as a speaker in numerous conferences at the Warsaw University or Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France

Also a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).

He specialises in employment law, social security insurance and regulations regarding overseas employees. On a day-to-day basis he advises clients on various aspects of employment law, including recruitment and termination decisions, employee discipline, personnel policies and procedures, wage and hour matters.

Lawyer, attorney-at-law since 1998, Geschäftsführer (CEO) at ETL Rechtsanwälte Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft. Certified specialist for labour and employment law as well as commercial and company law, head of the association employment law amongst ETL lawyers. He has particular experience in representing and advising several employers including nursing service companies especially concerning transborder issues. Currantly he is increasingly engaging himselfself in minimum wage law and his realization.

Legal counsel, graduate of Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and University of Orlean (within the framework of the School of French Law in Krakow), practising lawyer, author of numerous publications on labour law. She has a 5-year professional experience in providing legal services for entrepreneurs, including companies undertaking posting of wokers.

Lawyer, President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce in France, member of the MEDEF Paris, French Confederation of Employers. Owner of the H.S.G Avocats law firm. Specializes in international business transactions and contracts as well as in French and European labour law. She has experience in providing legal advice in European disputes concerning labour law. In 2012 she was appointed by the Paris Bar Association to the position of Franco-Polish friendship Commission Representative in order to strengthen the relations between the Paris and Warsaw Bar Associations, and to promote the exchange of experiences between advocates of the two countries.

German attorney at law, founder of German legal and tax office KOZLOWSKI, specializes in providing legal services to Polish companies in Germany. He has broad professional experience in the field of German and international tax law, cross-border activities of Polish and international capital groups.

With participants of IV European Labour Mobility Congress he will share his practical experience of posting of workers from Poland to Germany and its current accounting. He will present tax obligations associated with the posting of workers, most frequently emerging problems and ways of resolving them.

Piotr Kozłowski graduated in Polish law from University of Szczecin and German law from Humboldt University of Berlin. He completed the multi-disciplinary post-graduate law and economics studies in Rostock (LL.M. in international business law). He completed his attorney’s training in the Landgericht Berlin.

He received scholarships from federated state Mecklemburg-Vorpommern, University of Szczecin, international programme Socrates-Erasmus and Catholic University of America. He participated in “Columbus School of Law, The 2003 International Business and Trade” programme organized by The University of America.

In addition to the headquarter in Berlin, KOZLOWSKI legal and tax office has agencies in Szczecin and Warsaw.

He is fluent in Polish, German and English (and provides services in these languages)

Since 1995 associated with the National Labour Inspectorate. Served as Deputy District Labour Inspector for legal and organizational matters. Currently she is employed in the Chief Labour Inspectorate as the Chief Specialist in the Department of Legality of Employment where she is responsible mainly for issues related with the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services, compliance with the provisions related to temporary work, as well as for combating and preventing human trafficking and exploitation.

Author of numerous publications on company and labour law dedicated to, intera alia, posting of workers issues.

Vice President of Labour Mobility Association

PhD in economics

Chairman of the Organizing Commitee of the IV European Labour Mobility Congress

Honorary member of Polish Association of Social Insurance (PSUS)

Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Economics and Administration at the Cracow University of Economics

Social insurance and labour law expert. Participated in international research programmes dedicated to pension systems. Author of publications on social security, labour law, public economics and administration. Supervised to a successful conclusion over two hundred masters theses and other papers.

One of top ten lecturers at  Cracow University of Economics

Co-founder and President of the Labour Mobility Initiative Association

Co-organiser of the European Labour Mobility Congress

Vice President of the Management Board of Polish HR Forum

Member of “Labor Mobilis” Chapter

The initiator succesful fight against provisions of the proposal on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC

Active participant in public consultations. He took part in, among others, round-table discussions on European Commission proposal on guidelines on the respect of human right in the HR industry

Expert on labour market. Promoter of responsible business

Economist. Graduate of Cracow University of Economics.