EU Sources - Parliament stresses the need to tackle exploitative subcontracting - February 28, 2026

The European Parliament adopted the EMPL Committee’s own-initiative report “Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights”, sending a clear political signal to the European Commission on the imperative need to propose an ambitious EU Directive on Subcontracting and Labour Intermediaries as part of the Quality Jobs Act. The vote follows a powerful demonstration in Strasbourg, where hundreds of workers and trade unionists stood in front of the European Parliament demanding an end to exploitation and the restoration of fairness across the EU labour market. Union Federations EFBWW, EFFAT, and ETF welcome the vote as a decisive step towards tackling exploitation, social dumping and unfair competition that continues to plague construction, agriculture, food, tourism and transport sectors across Europe.

Read on: in English… Read on the resolution: in English (2)…

For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.