Name: Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
Uploaded: 2026-10-01T07:00:00+00:00
Duration: 3967 s

04:05 - 07:23

Speaker 1

Okay colleagues, it's four past so I think we are ready to start. And we will start with the adoption of the agenda and if there are no objections, the agenda of the meeting is deemed adopted. And it is adopted. For chair's announcements, you have been informed via the technical notes about the interpretation provided today. And also dear colleagues, please be informed that speech-to-text automatic transcription and translation is available for accessibility purposes.

Please scan the QR code on posters and select the channel with the language being spoken, and for translation, you can choose your preferred language from the available options on the menu. I would also like to inform you that there is a corrigendum needed to ensure an unequivocal interpretation in one of the provisions of Directive 2025/2450 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the 26th of November 2025, amending the directive as regards to the establishment and operation of European Works Councils and the effective enforcement of transnational information and consultation rights. Political groups and non-attached have been informed about this change and no objections have been raised. Subsequently, the corrigendum will be announced in the next plenary session according to Rule 251(4). Thirdly, with regards to official notifications, I would like to inform you that on the 13th of September 2026, MEP Elena Donazzan left the EMPL Committee as a full member, and on 14th of September she assumed the role as substitute member.

And as of 14th of September, MEP Elena Yoncheva from the ECR assumed the role as full member in the EMPL Committee. And as of 13th of September, MEP Pál Szekeres from the Patriots left the EMPL Committee as a full member.

And finally, please note that Idoia Mendia from the S&D has been appointed as rapporteur for the INI report on European Semester for economic policy coordination, employment and social priorities, annual report 2027. Then for the adoption of the minutes, if there are no objections, the minutes of the EMPL meeting of 2nd of September 2026 are deemed adopted, and they are adopted. Then we have some reports back from missions. Firstly, from 21st to 22nd of September, an EMPL delegation carried out a mission to the European Labour Authority in Bratislava and to Vienna to participate in an ELA-organised labour inspection. This delegation was co-chaired by Marit Mai and Dennis Radtke and included George Falca and Branislav Ondruš.

The aim of the mission was to discuss ELA's cooperation with the EMPL committee and to exchange views on key issues within the Authority's remit that are on the EMPL committee's agenda, particularly in the context of the forthcoming fair labour mobility legislative package. I was informed that this was a highly insightful and useful mission, so I will now give the floor firstly to Marit Mai for reporting back.

07:23 - 09:19

Speaker 2

Yes, thank you very much, Chair, and also thanks to the rest of the delegation.

It was indeed a very interesting mission. We had the first day and the second morning briefings by the ELA, by several parts of the ELA on their mandate, on challenges, on the work of the national liaison officers. And I think it was good for us to understand, also to learn about the relation to the new proposal of the Commission on the mandate of ELA. So I think that was very pertinent and timely, the debate that we, the discussions that we had and the information that we got. And on the second day, we did, we participated in a joint inspection from the Austrian and the Slovak authorities in Vienna, which was also super interesting.

I think when we have more time, we can share more of the insights that we got there, but it was very interesting to see how, let's say, at first sight, something looks good and looks according to the rules, but once the inspections dig a little bit deeper into it, you see that there is all kinds of levels of, well, let's say, organizations involved, which in the end show you that there is loopholes in our regulations and that in this case, there was bogus self-standing people working as, what do you call them, as, ah, what is the word in English? I'm looking for the word in English. Self-employment, thank you very much. Yeah, I couldn't find it. It was bogus self-employment where at first sight it looked like it was very well organized.

So I think this is the kind of thing that the inspection brings to sight and also showed us what good work ELA does. Thank you.

09:19 - 09:22

Speaker 3

And then Dennis, please.