Objectives
The principal objective and sub-goals of the FORMULA Project was to study, at EU and national levels, key EU regulation pertaining to the internal market and free movement, in particular the Posted Workers Directive and the Services Directive, and interconnecting issues and processes to attain, by way of comparative and interdisciplinary approaches, deepened understanding of how interacting political, legal, socio-institutional and economic logics are influencing the interplay between the different institutions and organised actors shaping supra-national decision-making and national adjustments in the emerging multilayered European polity, with particular regard to the formation, adaptation, and application of legal regimes in the labour market.
Topics
This Project has focused on the elaboration of the Posted Workers Directive, the Services Directive, and also the Temporary Agency Work Directive, and interconnecting issues and processes. This includes political decision making processes, the implementation of the directives at national levels, cross-cutting issues of wage setting, enforcement, sanctions, public procurement, temporary agency work, third country nationals, and private international law, as well as analyses of the conundrum of conflicts between EU/EEA Law, international (ILO and Council of Europe) Law, and national Labour Law and industrial relations systems.
The FORMULA project focused primarily on eight countries - Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The project research team included researchers from those countries; in addition, a number of external international researchers contributed at various stages. The FORMULA project was headed by Professor Stein Evju, of the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, where the project was situated.
Funding
The FORMULA Project was funded by the Research Council of Norway.