Working Party on Foreign Workers

Implementation Task Force on Foreign Worker Redesign [ Implementation Taskforce | Implementation Task Force ]

Foreign Worker and Labour Market Crisis Operations Unit [ Crisis Operations and Foreign Worker Initiatives ]

FLMM Older Worker Working Group [ Forum of Labour Market Ministers Older Worker Working Group ]

Working Party on Social Assistance and Housing for Migrant Workers and their Families

Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and their Families

* The better integration of legal migrants living and working in the EU, with a special emphasis on the equal treatment of legally employed foreign workers and the policies which aim at non-discrimination of third country nationals; special attention should be given to the fight against racism and xenophobia and to education and training including the vocational integration of students in their countries of origin; ways of regulating demand and supply of low skilled labour, e.g. through temporary working permits, in view of a radica ...[+++]l reduction of the pull factor for illegal migration into the EU.

The RAN recommendations, and in particular those provided by the working group on foreign fighters, will also contribute to the EU’s efforts to strengthen the synergies between internal and external security policies.

The Article specifies that this is also the case when the worker "is temporarily employed in another country": the law applicable to the contract of a worker sent abroad for a given duration or for the needs of a specific job does not change, whereas expatriation entails the application of the law of the new country as that is now the country in which the worker habitually carries out his work.

36. Calls on the authorities to improve the working conditions and treatment of immigrant workers, with special attention to the situation of women working as domestic helpers, who are at particular risk of sexual violence and who often find themselves in conditions of virtual slavery; encourages the Saudi government to continue the reforms of the labour laws and notably to fully abolish the sponsorship (‘Kafala’) system, and welcomes the recent appeal by the National Society for Human Rights to the government to recruit foreign workers under a Labour Ministry agency instead; welcomes recent efforts to introduce national labour laws in ...[+++] order to provide standardised protection for domestic workers and ensure the prosecution of employers responsible for sexual, physical and labour rights abuses;