Author (Corporate) | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights |
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Publisher | Publications Office of the European Union |
Series Title | FRA Reports: Justice |
Publication Date | June 2015 |
ISBN | 978-92-9239-885-9 |
EC | TK-02-15-319-EN-1 |
Content Type | Report |
Summary: Worker exploitation is not an isolated or marginal phenomenon. But despite its pervasiveness in everyday life, severe labour exploitation and its adverse effects on third-country nationals and EU citizens – as workers, but also as consumers – have to date not received much attention from researchers. Further information: The extensive fieldwork and desk research carried out by FRA for the report is the first to look comprehensively into various criminal forms of severe labour exploitation of workers who move from one EU Member State to another or from a third country. It aims to fill the knowledge gap, thus challenging the current climate of implicit acceptance of severe labour exploitation. The report identifies risk factors contributing to such exploitation and discusses means of improving the situation. It highlights the challenges faced by EU institutions and Member States in making the right of workers who have moved within or into the EU to decent working conditions a reality. It aims to support them in preventing severe labour exploitation, monitoring situations where severe labour exploitation occurs and making victims’ right to have access to justice a reality. An EU-level consensus is needed which states that severe labour exploitation is unacceptable and that all workers are entitled to the effective protection of their rights. If the EU and its Member States are serious about maintaining national and international labour standards, accepting systemic labour exploitation is not an |
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https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2015/severe-labour-exploitation-workers-moving-within-or-european-union
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Subject Categories | Employment and Social Affairs, Values and Beliefs |
International Organisations | European Union [EU] |