1. Notes that the Commission, in its Guidance, recognises both the social objective of the Posting of Workers Directive and the full responsibility of the host country to put that objective into practice by guaranteeing the protection and rights of all employees temporarily posted abroad; notes that the Commission calls on Member States to assume this responsibility while guaranteeing the company rights under Article 49 of the EC Treaty to provide cross-border services;

3. Law No 65-555 of 10 July 1965 which grants to French nationals, who are pursuing, or who have pursued, a professional or trade activity abroad, the right to join the voluntary old-age insurance scheme, shall apply to nationals of other Member States under the following conditions: - the professional or trade activity giving rise to voluntary insurance under the French system should not be, or have been, pursued either on French territory or on the territory of the Member State of which the employed or self-employed person is a national, - the employed or self-employed person must produce evidence, when making his claim, either that he has resided in France for at least 10 years, consecutive or not, or that he has been continuously ...[+++]subject to French legislation on a compulsory or optional basis for the same length of time.

The fact is they still have to pay temporary foreign workers as much as they are paying their Canadian workers, so there is no benefit for them, from a wage standpoint, to go after a temporary foreign worker, other than that they need to fill some needed skills.

By keeping the flow of workers who are willing to accept the current wage high, we prevent wages from going up in the future because the wage of the marginal person is the wage of the temporary foreign worker.

There was a bit of flexibility to allow them to reduce the foreign worker's wage by those percentages to make them match up better with what they were paying Canadians.

Mr. Conrad: Wage flexibility gives employers paying Canadians a certain wage the ability to reduce the amount of pay for some temporary foreign workers.