Let us meet in Krakow at the ELMC We decided the seventh European Labour Mobility Congress will be held, as per usual practice, on the premises of the ICE Krakow Congress Center, on 8-9 February 2022. Please kindly mark this date in your calendars! We very much hope that 2022 will prove a lucky year […]

At the beginning of this year, a leading Polish legal broadsheet Dziennik Gazeta Prawna published an article drawn up by LMIA experts, Marek Benio Ph.D. and Marcin Kiełbasa Ph.D., about home care services in Germany. You will find the most important issues raised in this article in a nutshell below. Germany’s home care market. Invariably, […]

Continuation of work on the revision of coordination regulations On Tuesday, 3 September, hearings and debates regarding revision of the Regulations on Coordination of Social Security Systems 883/2004 and 987/2009 were held. Two separate meetings took place within the EMPL Committee and in presence of two key officials: Joost Korte, the Dutch General Director of […]

Posting in the Orient Express In her novel ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, published in 1934, Agatha Christie did not broach the issue of the exact place where the murder had been committed. All that is known is that it took place on a train, the Orient Express, on its Simplon-route, which crosses several countries […]

The EPSCO Council on 13 June decided that Bratislava would be the seat of European Labour Authority (ELA). It marked the final stepping stone for the launch of the Authority. LMIA’s lawyer, Dr. Marcin Kiełbasa argues in his take published by EurActiv.com that there are fears the ELA might be trapped between the expectations of […]

Stefan Schwarz, president of the Labour Mobility Initiative Association has given the address, opening the plenary session of the VI European Labour Mobility Congress. Together with the introduction to the ELMC topics and main theme of the recent edition: ‘New posting rules. Problems solved? Fairness Guaranteed?’, he also referred to the issues which divide or unite […]

Problems solved? Fairness guaranteed? Above all – knowledge delivered. As for goods and capital, the European market is indeed unified. When it comes to services, it is not necessary: if a company from one country wants to provide its services in another country, it will experience a huge number of obstacles – the President of […]

The VI European Labour Mobility Congress passed under the slogan New posting rules. Problems solved? Fairness guaranteed? The European Commission initially had an ambitious plan to create a Labour Mobility Package. It should not be confused with the mobility package on international transport. The  Labour Mobility Package was to guarantee coherent rules of labour mobility […]

Internal market of the European Union in the context of the posting of employees, its future, individual sectors and the portfolio of the European Commission in the context of free movement of services were discussed during Citizens’ Dialogue with with Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. The beginning of the […]

Only 3 days left to the European Labour Mobility Congress 2019. This year it’s more interactive than ever! ELMC participants have a one-and-only opportunity to send and ask their questions to the experts and speakers of the Congress. There are a few ways to do that: sign up to the Experts’ Village for 15-minute free […]