Tallinn talks reach compromise on low-cost labour dispute

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The ongoing dispute among European Union governments over the posted workers directive – which regulates people employed in one EU country, but sent to temporarily work in another and said to be threatening jobs in richer, west European countries – appears to be on the path to being resolved – if talks in Tallinn yesterday are anything to go by. It is particularly relevant to firms operating pan-European trucking, with eastern hauliers blamed for taking western jobs due to far lower wage levels. It ...