Objective: To develop an evidence-based understanding of the challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis for posting of workers in the construction sector, from the perspective of involved companies and workers

Outputs:

1. 6 country reports, covering the following aspects:

1. Contextual information on the measures restricting movements of workers between areas of the country and at transnational level;
2. Information on how the pandemic affected the posting of workers in the construction sector:

• Have the restrictions affected the international mobility / posting of workers?
• Which were the specific challenges for the construction companies?
• Which were the specific challenges for the posted workers?
• Have there been evidences of COVID-19 outbreaks in construction sites?

1. A comparative EU report identifying common challenges on the EU level

Objective: To evaluate the measures put in place to address the situation created by COVID-19, both on the national and European level

Output: EU Handbook based on national contributions, containing the results of the evaluation of 4 categories of measures:

1. Health and safety (at work)
2. Social security benefits and social aids
3. Vocational training
4. Transversal issues (if not covered above) – g., have the overall measures considered the particularities of posted / foreign workers (language barriers etc.)?

Objective: understanding how monitoring activities can benefit from the new digital tools by analysis of the existing tools for public administrations, sectoral funds and clients of construction works, through the implementation of:

• case study analysis of existing digital tools;
• ad-hoc experiment of monitoring online job ads targeting posted workers and employers;

Output: Discussion Paper (EU level) to feed discussion on: working and living conditions of posted workers, existing tools to monitor them, possible new tools to monitor and enforce them

Objective: to formulate policy recommendations at transnational and EU level, following the analysis of the information collected in previous phases (and the identification of best practices in the different Member States and challenges not sufficiently addressed so far), in order to:

• address the risks of future emergency situations on the posting of workers in the construction sector;
• better support posted workers in the event of future pandemics;
• better prevent and monitor key aspects of working and living conditions of posted workers

Output:

• EU toolkit that includes structured policy recommendations to better support posted workers in the event of a pandemic and other similar risks
• Final report summarizing the contributions to the project