The Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations 2016

PART 1 General

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 18th June 2016.

(2) These Regulations extend to England, Wales and Scotland.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“Directive 96/71/EC” means Council Directive 96/71/EC of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services(1);

“Directive 2014/67/EU” means Council Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and the Council 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’)(2).

Review

3.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations,

(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c) publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to what is done in other Member States to implement Directive 2014/67/EU.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by those Regulations,

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

(1)

OJ No L 18, 21.1.1997, p. 1.

(2)

OJ No L 159, 28.05.2014, p. 11.