Coach operators sending vehicles to the continent will “continue to benefit from CPT intervention at European level,” says the trade body, when the ‘Loi Macron’ for posted workers is introduced France.
The French Government is introducing a €40 fee per head for people to be registered to work in France on a temporary basis, from 1 January 2018 (routeone, News, 17 May).
The CPT says: “The Government has not, however, suggested that there will be any change to the scope of the law, so tourist coach drivers bringing tourists to or through France on behalf of a non-French company, and taking them home again, do not need to register and will not have to fork out the fee.”
CPT’s Director of Policy Development, Steven Salmon, who was instrumental in clarifying that tourist coach drivers are not, normally, posted workers, said: “CPT will do all it can to ensure that tourist coach drivers remain outside the scope of the French legislation.
“We also await with interest the outcome of the European Commission's actions against the disproportionate posting rules in France, Germany and Austria.”
