Council of the European Union adopted the common position in the law of amendment of social safety legislation. Europe and the European Commission can agree on further steps this month. The aim is to amend a number of regulations aimed at weakening the position of Polish business in the sectors where we lead the primary in Europe, i.e. construction, transport and care industries.
Eurokołchoz hits further Polish industries. The economical sectors in which Poles impose a pace on another EU countries are not much and are all based on cross-border provision of services. This common denominator is the starting point for an effective attack by the EU Germans on our fellow countrymen. This is about the Council adopting the European Union a fresh definition of the seat of an undertaking for the establishment of government applicable to social safety matters. This change will be peculiarly painful for the already experienced Polish transport industry.
When this solution enters into force, depending on the number of orders in a given financial year on the different routes of transport, carriers will registry their employees annually in subsequent abroad social safety institutions (the equivalents of the Social safety Office). Each time they will gotta rediscover their reporting obligations, learn fresh principles of cooperation with another insurance institution, and solve problems related to the subjection of employees to different legal systems. This will make additional, immense costs for employers.
The changes will, of course, hit tiny carriers who cannot afford extended bureaucratic support. The problem will besides affect entrepreneurs from another sectors, specified as construction and care. Many Poles go to Germany, France or Austria, for example, where they take care of older and sick people. They will gotta pay their pension contributions there, which will, to a large extent, consequence in the inefficiencies of this kind of work.
– The fresh rules mean that a Polish driver working for a carrier whose majority of turnover is linked, for example, to the German market, carrying out road transport from Italy to France, will at the same time be subject to Italian and French labour law in connection with the posting in the territory of those countries, German social safety law in relation to the proposed regulations and Polish taxation law on grounds of residence.
The burden of resolving problems arising from the collision of these legal systems will be on employers – says Maciej Wroński, president of the Transport and Logistics Poland Employers' Association.
According to the carriers, changes in the definition of the company's office will besides lead to a situation where Polish citizens will have paid pension contributions in another country, through which they only pass, but in which they spend the most time. This means immense losses for the Polish pension system. Polish drivers going to the largest global ports in the Netherlands or Germany will, of course, be completely assigned to the German pension system, and that is where the pension contribution will should be paid.
Furthermore, the work to notify the sending State in advance of the intention of posting workers abroad may besides be introduced. This is simply a regulation that paralyzes the transport industry, as courses are frequently set hot, and drivers frequently find out where they are going just before the start of the journey. In this way, the introduction of an information work will paralyze their work.
The Transport and Logistics Association of Employers Poland wrote to Donald Tusk, in which he warned against the effects of the European Union Council. If the Prime Minister does not halt work on this regulation, for many thousands of Polish entrepreneurs and their employees, the current Polish Presidency in the European Union will associate only as a failure of the current government.
The changes will be another blow to the Polish transport industry, which has already been severely weakened by unfair competition from Ukraine. It will be a strong asset in the hands of the Germans and the French. Their citizens work in their countries, so they will have little problems. In addition, German and French pension systems will benefit, as Poles will add millions of euros to them. This is what the common marketplace in Eurokołchoza looks like in practice. Whoever has much will be added to him, and who has small will take distant even what he has.
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