The EU’s employment commissioner Vladimir Spidla rapped the Netherlands on the knuckles on Wednesday for not complying properly with EU regulations on temporary, seconded workers.

These regulations allow foreign employees of EU-based companies to work temporarily in all EU member states. A Ukrainian working legally for a German company who is then seconded to the Netherlands, for example, does not need a work permit.
The Commission found that in many cases the Netherlands wrongly requires such workers to provide a permit.
The EU Commission has sent a warning letter to the government and in a worst case could take the Netherlands to the European Court of Justice.
A social affairs ministry spokeswoman said Spidla’s statement is still being studied.
She pointed out that in March this year the cabinet had made it easier for non-EU nationals to be seconded in the Netherlands, following earlier criticism on this front by the EU.