European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
9 – 9.30 a.m. Registration
9.30 – 9.45 a.m. Opening of the conference:
- Pavel Trantina, President of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC)
- Carlos Trindade, President of the Labour Market Observatory (LMO)
9.45 – 11.30 a.m. Panel 1 – Principle of labour mobility and findings from research
9.45 – 10.45 a.m. Moderator: Dorthe Andersen, co-rapporteure of the EESC opinion " Fairer labour mobility within the EU"
Speakers:
- Doede Ackers, Deputy Head of Unit, Free movement of workers, DG EMPL, European Commission
- Maria-Luisa Cabral, Head of Unit, Social Security Coordination DG EMPL, European Commission
- Isabella Biletta, Research Manager, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)
- Laura González de Txabarri Etxaniz, Rapporteure of the EESC opinion "Fairer labour mobility within the EU"
10:45 – 11:30 a.m. General discussion
11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Panel 2 – Labour mobility in practice
11.30 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. Moderator: Krzysztof Pater, vice-president of the Labour Market Observatory (LMO)
Speakers:
- Domenico Campogrande, Director, Social Affairs, European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC)
- Patrick Liébus, President, European Builders Confederation (EBC)
- Werner Buelen, European Secretary, European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW)
- Marek Benio, Lecturer, Department of Public Economy and Administration, Cracow University of Economics and Vice-president, Labour Mobility Initiative Association
12:15 – 1 p.m. General discussion
1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Light lunch
2.30 – 5.50 p.m. Panel 3 – The way forward, including the implementation of the Enforcement Directive and the proposed review of the Posting of Workers Directive
2.30 – 4.15 p.m. Moderator: Indrė Vareikytė, President of the study group of the EESC opinion on "Fairer labour mobility within the EU"
Speakers:
- Agnes Jongerius, Member of the European Parliament (S&D, The Netherlands), Rapporteure of the EP report on Posting of workers (ongoing)
- Matthias Busse, Researcher, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
- Tamás Kocsondi, EU Representative, Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Philippe Vanden Broeck, Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue (Belgian labour inspection)
- Magdalena Bober, Adviser, BusinessEurope
- Séverine Picard, Adviser, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
- Vladimíra Drbalová, Rapporteure of the EESC opinion on Posting of workers (ongoing)
- Cinzia Del Rio, Member of the study group of the EESC opinion on Posting of workers (ongoing)
4.15 – 5.50 p.m. General discussion
5.50 – 6 p.m. Closing of the conference:
- Carlos Trindade, President of the Labour Market Observatory (LMO)
Interpreting:
Participants can speak : English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Polish
and can listen to: English, French, German and Portuguese