Wild cats, discrimination, social dumping and barges

Contractors at two UK nuclear plants staged a walk-out today in support of protests over the employment of foreign workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire. The apparent connections between these continued demonstrations and the Laval and Viking cases of social dumping brought before the European Court of Justice in 2007 and 2008 makes [...]

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Social Dumping and EU Law

Last week a new ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) prevented the imposition of local minimum wages negotiated through collective bargaining on companies from   different member states of the European Union. It stated that these locally negotiated minimum wages which are higher than those set nationally or by industry, cannot be imposed on [...]

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