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