The social partners are responsible for wage setting and therefore they are responsible for solving the problem. That was the government’s message to Efta’s surveillance authority ESA. ESA believes Norway is in breach of the EEA agreement when demanding that businesses that post workers there must pay compensation for travel, board and lodging in line with existing collective agreements. The government’s letter is unusual. It is a response to a so-called letter of formal notice, the first step in a process at the end of which ESA can take a country to the Efta Court.
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