the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the Commission to assess the conditions of employment, occupational safety and health for cross-border and seasonal workers. This includes the role of intermediary agencies, identify gaps in the EU legislation and its possible revision.
the text of the resolution also calls for better coordination of social security systems, which is necessary to combat social fraud and abuse of rights of mobile workers. The resolution was approved by a majority of deputies.
"the pandemic emphasizes the instability of working conditions for 17 million mobile workers in the EU, of which hundreds of thousands of TRANS — border, border and seasonal workers. Improving social protection was necessary even before this crisis, but the lack of security measures on asparagus and strawberry farms or slaughterhouses in the Netherlands or Germany opened a lot of eyes," said Petra de Sutter, member of the European Parliament.
In early April, seasonal workers practically stormed the airports to go to Germany, where every year to work travel 300 thousand people.
Quarantine measures forced Germany to reduce the intake of hired workers up to 40 thousand. The alarm sounding and other European countries.
Previously, the lack of about 200 thousand seasonal workers said France. This means that part of the crop this year may be lost.
