EU Directives
Relevant Summary of Article 13 of the EU directive.
Below you find links to and shot description of articles for A1 for business travelers:
Are you a business that frequently sends employees on international trips within the European Union?
If so, you’re likely familiar with the complexities of A1 filings, which are crucial for compliance with EU regulations.
A European citizen can freely travel to any EU/EEA country and take employment. That is the rights under the movement of free workforce in the EU and EEA countries.
In short this can be described in this way: Witth the employee, the employee brings the earned rights within child maternity leave, unemployment sick leave and unemployment leave to have on the same level as the other people in the country after app. 3 months of work, providing that an unemployment fund is joined, or the new employer pays the social security contribution – depending on country.
If an EU citizen travel for private reasons to another EU-country they are entitled to get health care treatement on the same level as the people living in the country with the Blue Health Card.
For work, this is not so, as the Employer in most countries pays for social security coverage on behalf of the employees.
It is hence a legal requirement that all business travellers have an approved A1 social security coverage application with them on all business travels. The A1 certificate is an approval from the authorities that the employee has the right to remain under social security in their home/work country while being at work in another EU country. The A1 application is needed for travels in all European countries and it needs to be accurate.
The application can be done either by the company or by the employee. It can be a comprehensive task, which is not always easily understood by the employees. In Sweden or Denmark, the process time takes from 10 to 60 min per application once the employee has understood the requirements.
Navigating the legal landscape can be a daunting task, but Relocare Compliance App and the legal expert team behind is here to help. Our expert team specializes in assisting businesses like yours with A1 filings for your business travelers and when we saw the complexity increasing we build the Relocare Compliance App.
All employees travelling need to bring the A1 application on business travels. Also, the not frequent travelers who tend to fly more easily under the radar, and who has a meeting for one hour or a day in another EU/EEA country once a year. Employees not in control of or handling the A1 application process oppose a risk to the company with possible heavy fines and non-compliant status for the company.
But, more importantly, employees traveling without an A1 is at risk of loosing their rights to child maternity leave, unemployment benefits and sick unemployment benefits. The Relocare Compliance App is providing True Care for your employees.
Although the A1 application form has the same name all over Europe, the different European countries have different needs for data and different processes for filing the A1 application.
Some countries demand online filing, whereas other countries demand manual filing of the form.
In 2019 this has changed, and all countries are expected to have an online filing option in the future.
The employee is under another country’s social security coverage without an approved and valid A1
The moment an employee set foot on ex. Czech republic without an approved A1 certificate from their country of social security, the employee is under Czech social security with similar health care payments as Czech employees.
The Blue Health Card only covers business trips if an employee has an approved A1 certificate.
We ensure that your employees are legally covered under EU regulations, allowing them to work in other EU member states seamlessly and without legal complications.
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