Definition
Social dumping (labour law) (Ro.: dumping social, Fr.: dumping social, n.m., Gr.: κοινωνικό ντάμπινγκ, Cz.: sociální dumping) (See also: equal payment, equal treatment, labour exploitation, social protection, working conditions, workers’ rights) = the practice used by employers aiming to increase their profit, by using cheaper workforce than the one available in their country/region, by two means: employment of migrant workers in less favourable terms, or movement of the production onto another area, where the accepted labour and payment conditions are less favourable.
Useful links
Legislation
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12012E/TXT - Consolidated Version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Article 56
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32006L0123&from=FR - Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32014L0067 - The New Enforcement Directive: DIRECTIVE 2014/67/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 May 2014 on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System ('the IMI Regulation')
Case Law
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62005CJ0438 - International Transport Workers’ Federation and Finnish Seamen’s Union v. Viking Line ABP and OÜ Viking Line Eesti, Case C-438/05, 2007
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2009-02/cp070098en.pdf - Laval v. Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet, Case C-341/05, 2007
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&num=C-346/06 - Dirk Rüffert v. Land Niedersachsen, Case C-346/06, 2008
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62013CJ0549&lang1=en&type=TXT&ancre= - Bundesdruckerei GmbH v. Stadt Dortmund, Case C-549/13, 2014
Organisations and associations
http://www.stopsocialdumping.eu/social-dumping – Social Dumping, European Federation of Building and Woodworkers
http://www.etuc.org/sites/www.etuc.org/files/publication/files/flyer_social_dumping_en_06.pdf - Social Dumping, European Trade Union Confederation
http://www.labourlawnetwork.eu/national_labour_law/national_legislation/legislative_developments/prm/109/v__detail/id__1345/category__3/index.html - 2011, Law Combating Wage (and Social) Dumping, European Labour Law Network
Online Publications
http://reflexions.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_354113/en/social-dumping-what-is-the-european-union-doing-about-it?portal=j_55&printView=true – 2013, Social dumping: what is the European Union doing about it?, Université de Liège
http://www.wk-rh.fr/actualites/detail/76941/dumping-social-la-france-prend-les-devants.html -Izard, Sabine, 2014, Dumping social: la France prend les devants - concurrence sociale déloyale, Semaine Sociale Lamy
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/feb/03/trade-unions-lindsey-strikes - Wintour, P., 2009, Cabinet veterans challenge ministers to address 'social dumping', The Guardian
http://www.flanderstoday.eu/business/ryanair-accused-social-dumping – Hope, Alan, 2013, Ryanair accused of social dunping, Flanderstoday.eu
http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/entreprises/le-dumping-social-de-ryanair-lourdement-condamne-par-la-france_1350700.html – 2013, Le 'dumping social' de Ryanair lourdement condamné par la France, lexpansion.lexpress.fr
Publications
Bernaciak, Magdalena, 2014, Social dumping and the EU integration process, Bruxelles, Working Paper 2014.06, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
Chaumette, P., 2008, Les actions collectives dans le maillage des libertés communautaires des entreprises, Revue Dr. social, no 2, p. 210
Hennion, S., Le Barbier-Le Bris, M., Del Sol, M., 2010, Droit social européen et international, Puf, Thémis droit
Saydé, Alexandre, 2014, Abuse of EU Law and Regulation of the Internal Market, United Kingdom, Hart Publishing
By Diana Buzilă