MEPs discuss common EU-wide conditions to protect the seasonal workers coming to the Union from outside Europe and define the details of their stay.

Seasonal Worker Regulation

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Often exploited, some four million people  come to find seasonal work in Europe.

are the sectors most desperately  in need of staff

which resort  to non-EU seasonal workers.

The EP is working on  common entry and residence conditions

One of the strongest elements  of this proposal is to ensure

that the many hundreds of  thousands of seasonal workers,

avoid the extreme exploitation  that we know they suffer.

With nearly 25 million  Europeans unemployed,

MEPs must define the sectors  allowed to employ seasonal workers.

We have difficulty finding locals  to do those jobs.

But this is not so much about  taking away the jobs of the locals

as much as it is filling the jobs  that the locals don’t want to do.

At this stage,  Member States could decide on

the number of seasonal workers  to allow in their countries.

To avoid temporary stays  turning into permanent ones,

the length of seasonal work  would be fixed at six months.