News / Angry transport sector may pass €40 French foreign worker fee to customers

European road transport operators continue to voice their opposition to French plans to impose a €40 fee on foreign temporary workers.

However, The Loadstar has established that the European Commission has known about the plans for more than 10 months.

It had been made aware of them last July. An EC spokesperson told The Loadstar the fee is France’s transposition of the EU’s Posting of Workers Directive for tackling fraud.

“This is how French legislators have interpreted the directive,” said the spokesperson. “The commission ...