The Case of Alpenrind – The Posting of Workers and the Binding Nature of Portable Document A1

The Alpenrind case (C-527/16) revealed opposing positions between the Member States providing services feely across Europe and the Member States fearing for social dumping. A tension the Union is grappling with for a certain time, and that increased in the last years. Many (mostly western) Member St...

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Main Author: Peter Schöffmann

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Published: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law 2020-09-01
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Online Access:http://www.pf.uni-lj.si/media/zzr.2020.psv.schoffmann.pdf
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description The Alpenrind case (C-527/16) revealed opposing positions between the Member States providing services feely across Europe and the Member States fearing for social dumping. A tension the Union is grappling with for a certain time, and that increased in the last years. Many (mostly western) Member States believe that the posting of workers is un-dermining their social standards and hampering their labour markets. They are not con-vinced that Union law provides an adequate level to prevent abusive practices. Therefore, these Member States try to take countermeasures by implementing restrictive legislation: imposing obligations on employers to provide documents and comply with notification requirements. This leads to an additional burden potentially impeding the freedom of movement of workers and services; an effect the Social Coordination Regulations actu-ally intend to prevent.The Alpenrind case deals with two questions regarding the postal rule’s impact on so-cial security coordination. It addresses the condition of non-replacement as well as the binding effect of Portable Document A1. However, set in a broader context, it reveals the inherent contradiction of social security coordination. The Union finds itself having to strike a balance between the freedom to provide services and the protection against social dumping.
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0 Institute for Austrian and European Labour Law and Social Security Law, Vienna University of Economics and BusinessThe Alpenrind case (C-527/16) revealed opposing positions between the Member States providing services feely across Europe and the Member States fearing for social dumping. A tension the Union is grappling with for a certain time, and that increased in the last years. Many (mostly western) Member States believe that the posting of workers is un-dermining their social standards and hampering their labour markets. They are not con-vinced that Union law provides an adequate level to prevent abusive practices. Therefore, these Member States try to take countermeasures by implementing restrictive legislation: imposing obligations on employers to provide documents and comply with notification requirements. This leads to an additional burden potentially impeding the freedom of movement of workers and services; an effect the Social Coordination Regulations actu-ally intend to prevent.The Alpenrind case deals with two questions regarding the postal rule’s impact on so-cial security coordination. It addresses the condition of non-replacement as well as the binding effect of Portable Document A1. However, set in a broader context, it reveals the inherent contradiction of social security coordination. The Union finds itself having to strike a balance between the freedom to provide services and the protection against social dumping.http://www.pf.uni-lj.si/media/zzr.2020.psv.schoffmann.pdfalpenrindposting of workerssocial security coordinationportable docu-ment a1freedom to provide servicesabusive practicesretroactive effect
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Zbornik Znanstvenih Razprav
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posting of workers
social security coordination
portable docu-ment a1
freedom to provide services
abusive practices
retroactive effect
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