EU労使が建設業の偽装自営業に取り組む

EirOnlineから、ＥＵレベルの建設業労使団体が、偽装自営業問題に取り組む共同宣言を出したという記事。

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2010/03/articles/eu1003049i.htm（European social partners tackle bogus self-employment in construction sector）

>The European social partners in the construction sector have issued a joint text to help tackle the prevalence of bogus self-employment in the sector – a problem which puts workers at risk as well as resulting in unfair competition in the market. They recommend actions such as establishing common European criteria on guidelines for determining the nature of workers’ employment status, and suggest creating a social security identity card that shows their employment status.

興味深いのは、偽装自営業が三者間関係から生み出されているらしいことです。

>However, they also state that bogus self-employment is a problem, often resulting from a trilateral relationship between the contractor, an intermediary (such as an agency or ‘gangmaster’) and the worker. Essentially, a gangmaster provides the contractor with workers who have a bogus self-employed status yet none of the legal, professional, financial, regulatory and administrative knowledge and skills of genuinely self-employed workers. This means that the workers are at risk as they are not adequately covered by social insurance. Moreover, unfair competition is created between genuine and bogus self-employed workers, thus distorting the market.

「ギャングマスター」（「組の親分」とでも訳しますか）が仲介する三者間関係で、法的、職業的、財務的、規制的、行政的知識もなければ純粋に自営業者としての技能も持たないような労働者を偽装自営業者に仕立て上げて、社会保険の適用を逃れ、不公正競争をしている、と。

建前上自営業者の紹介(、派遣、請負？)なので、労働法の規制もかぶらないということなのでしょう。