02153nas a2200229   4500008004100000022001400041245013100055210006900186300001000255490000700265520134700272653001601619653002001635653002301655653001501678653001301693653001401706100002301720700002801743700002001771856013201791       2026                        eng d  a2300-168200aThe Posting of Workers in an Eastern European Labour Market: From Social Dumping to a Multi-Faceted Labour Mobility Instrument0 aPosting of Workers in an Eastern European Labour Market From Soc  a61-820 v153 a<p>The posting of workers has been fiercely discussed and analysed as a mechanism of social dumping in the Western European labour markets. This paper takes a reverse perspective and analyses the posting of workers in Slovakia as an Eastern European case whereby posting is presented as a multifaceted labour mobility instrument. We combine a review of the national regulatory framework and administrative data with stakeholder interviews to provide a rich account of why and how posting is used by employers and regulated and enforced by public authorities. We show that, while posting is a specific instrument of short-term intra-EU mobility formally enabling the mobility of services, it effectively plays a much wider role, transcending the low-cost competitiveness objective. We argue that the rise and embedding of posting in Slovakia is sustained by a specific regulatory and labour market context which is reliant on a flexible workforce with a weak enforcement of labour rights and characterised by erratic policy changes. Our study illustrates that the divide in the posting literature between sending and receiving countries is becoming outdated because supposed &lsquo;sending&rsquo; countries like Slovakia are receiving substantial numbers of posted workers; they are also increasingly posting in a different way to earlier.</p>10aflexibility10alabour mobility10aposting of workers10aregulation10aSlovakia10aworkforce1 aKováčová, Lucia1 aMýtna-Kureková, Lucia1 aStudená, Ivana  uhttps://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/content/posting-workers-eastern-european-labour-market-social-dumping-multi-faceted-labour-mobility