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The European Federation of Cleaning Industries (EFCI) and UNI Europa, representing more than 160.000 companies and more than 3.75 million workers in an extremely labour intensive sector, welcomed the intention of the European Commission to enforce the application of the Posting of Workers’ Directive (PWD). However, the establishment of a common framework to prevent the abuse of existing rules needs to be reinforced and ultimately benefit the workers in the sector, through the elimination of the existing legal uncertainty.



UNI Europa and EFCI have submitted comments on a piece of legislation that will affect the working conditions of the sectors’ employees and the competitiveness of the companies. The submitted comments address the issues of ‘Monitoring Compliance’ and the capacity of national authorities to carry out inspections and controls in the application of the PWD. UNI Europa and EFCI demand stricter monitoring mechanisms to effectively guarantee compliance with the legal provisions of the host Member State, in view of ensuring fair competition as well as the equal treatment of posted workers.