About Us
Learn more about the alliance and who the members are.
The first European Alliance
The posting of workers is a political, touchy and risky subject.
Our main objective is assisting our clients to understand and comply with their obligations under EU and national law in a way that is simple and efficient.
We are convinced that it’s possible to deal with posted workers while respecting all parties’ obligations, local laws and fight against social dumping.r
Each member part of this unique network is an expert in the local country. Many years of experience in theory and practice established a professional network when it comes to posting workers within Europe.
Our Goals
Make compliant business travel in Europe easy
+31
Countries
where we provide services
+27000
Notifications
handled in 2021
+18
Years
of experience with EU postings
Our Vision
Posting Workers beyond borders
Compliant workers can concentrate fully on their tasks and make the posting more efficient.
Members
After having lead the Netherlands department of an international immigration law firm in Brussels / Belgium as a Practice Leader, Nihat Kurt is one of the founding partners of the Expat Management Group, an international mobility firm in Amsterdam / the Netherlands…
Expat Management Group (Netherlands)
Nihat Kurt
After having lead the Netherlands department of an international immigration law firm in Brussels / Belgium as a Practice Leader, Nihat Kurt is one of the founding partners of the Expat Management Group, an international mobility firm in Amsterdam/ the Netherlands.
At the Expatise Academy and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Nihat teaches the topic European and Dutch immigration law (Master course) with a special focus on compliance and best practice.
In the Netherlands, posted workers is a hot topic, whereby we make clients aware on the options, obligations and moreover, on the risks for non-compliance.
Mobility Compliance Group (France)
Caroline Treuillard
Caroline is the Managing Director of Mobility Compliance Group, providing services in immigration, social protection and posted workers experts in France.
Caroline holds a Master degree in private law and languages and joined France Immigration, the Inbound immigration expert entity of MCG in 2006 as an immigration consultant.
She has a global expert vision of formalities and obligations in these fields.
France Détachement is Mobility Compliance Group’s expert entity for all topics related to posted workers. Our aim is to make companies (home employer and host company in France) understand their obligations and reduce their risk.
Arletti & Partner (Italy)
Alessandro Arletti
Alessandro is a chartered accountant and founder of Arletti & Partners. The Firm serves Companies and Individuals in their global mobility fulfillments since 1998.
He has been offering specialized consulting services in legal, fiscal and contribution issues related to the international mobility of employees and supports numerous multinational companies. He also collaborates as a lecturer with the industrial associations of the large trade association Federmacchine, with various territorial offices of Confindustria.
Furthermore, he has also collaborated with the Biagi Foundation and with the University of Bologna, Bologna Business School.
Immigration Law Associates (Belgium)
Tanel Feldman
Tanel is founding partner of Immigration Law Associates. His main concentration of practice is EU law, in particular, law concerning employment and social affairs.
He advises both EU and international companies (corporations, SMEs, non-profit organizations and, occasionally, individuals), in general matters related to employment relationship such as triangular employment relationships (i.e. temporary agency work, employment of record), platform work and other atypical forms of employment, employment conditions (i.e. working conditions, health and safety at work, discrimination), moving and working in Europe (free movement of EU nationals, posted workers, third-country nationals right of work), social affairs (EU social security coordination), and as regards application of EU law (implementation of EU law by Member States).
He is a member of different associations and networks such as the International Bar Association, the European Law Institute, the Friends of ERA Association, the European Labour Mobility Initiative, and the Posted Workers Alliance.
GD Global Mobility (Spain)
Jordi Roca
Since 2006, Jordi is Director of GD Global Mobility, the division of Gesdocument, specialized in advising and managing international mobility and assist international businesses and individuals to get established in Spain.
Jordi has a degree in Labor Relations at Universitat de Barcelona. Throughout his 19 years of experience advising major international corporations on global mobility issues, corporate and personal immigration laws and procedures in the European Union, Asia and America, he has been able to develop his professional skills in highly relevant companies such as PwC and E&Y.
During his professional activity, he has gained experience in the field of expatriate taxation, payroll, and international social security. Due to his international activity, he’s member of the most important international associations in this field such as EURA, ERC Worldwide and he’s also Chairman of Expat SIG at Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), one of the world’s largest professional law firm associations.
He was also an associate professor at both ESADE and ISDE, main business schools in Spain, and directs international conferences on expatriation issues related to Spain.
He is also co-author of the Immigration Guide for Investors of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
Oberhammer Attorneys (Austria)
Ewald Oberhammer
Ewald Oberhammer is the founding and managing partner of Oberhammer Attorneys based in Vienna and admitted to the Austrian Bar Association. Ewald specializes in corporate immigration matters and has handled corporate immigration matters since 1999 together with his team.
He assists international and local Austrian companies in obtaining work and residence permits and work visa.
Since 2004 Ewald Oberhammer has a special focus on the posting of workers regime.
In addition, Ewald and his team assist clients in monitoring and maintaining their compliance with immigration laws and regulations and has successfully fought cases at the Court of Justice of the European Union.
One focus point of Ewald Oberhammer is the compliance with the document retention requirements under Directive 2014/67/EU on the enforcement of the Posting Workers Directive 96/71/EC. This task is managed and monitored through the firm’s own developed Immigration Service Tool – comic.IST.
Co-founder of WorkisrOund (Bulgaria)
Peter Boyukliev
Peter is a co-founder of WORKISROUND, a legal tech company developing a potent technology automating the main processes and paperwork related to posting of workers. He is a law graduate and is admitted to the Bulgarian Bar since 2004. After 5 years in Deloitte, where he worked on various projects in the field of company and commercial law, business transactions, labour and employment, Peter moved to the Sofia-based Yordanova, Rizova and Partner slaw office where he is a partner since 2007.
Being passionate about digitization and law in 2018, Peter, together with other legal professionals and a software development company, co-founded WORKISROUND to create a multi-modular platform that facilitates compliance with posting legislation. The platform largely automates all the major processes and paperwork necessary to arrange a legally compliant posting, including:
- identifies the specific terms & conditions of employment for any given posting situation,
- specifies the applicable exemptions, if any,
- describes the required documents to be kept throughout the posting and beyond,
- generates an assignment letter,
- submits posting notifications, where necessary, and
- enables GDPR-compliant storage of posting-related documents.
In the rare cases where technology falls short to deliver, WORKISROUND provides specialized human support and assistance on specific issues related to posting of workers, as well as on matters of labour and employment generally.
Founder of JRD (Poland)
Malgorzata Rentflejsz
Our JRD group was established in 2004.
We render our consultancy services by 3 companies:
Malgorzata Rentflejsz i Wspolnicy Sp.k. provides legal consultancy services and tax advisory.
JRD Tax Sp. Z o.o., which is focused on VAT compliance.
JRD Sp. Z o. o. it’s an audit company.
We have specialized consulting skills to support corporations and medium-sized enterprises in the field of polish labour law, commercial and civil law as well as Polish and international tax law. Over the past few years, we have become one of the leading Polish medium-sized consulting companies in terms of operational efficiency.
Thanks to the professionalism, flexibility and individual approach to each client, we have gained the trust of corporate clients as well as small and medium-sized companies and individual entrepreneurs
Our principal asset is professional knowledge and experience of a well-coordinated team stemming from a long history of work at major multinational consulting firms.
Our philosophy is to provide individually tailored top quality services as expected by our clients, in an independent and objective manner.
In each case the key objective is to keep our clients satisfied with the services the order.
At the request of our clients our services are handled either in German or English.
HAVEL & PARTNERS (Czech Republic)
Jan Koval
Jan Koval is equity partner of HAVEL & PARTNERS based in Prague and admitted to the Czech Bar Association.
Jan specializes in labour law, employee benefits, compliance and corporate immigration.
He leads the employment and immigration practice at HAVEL & PARTNERS, which is with a team of 290 lawyers and tax advisors in 6 offices across the Czech and Slovak Republics the largest independent law firm in Central Europe.
Jan and his team provide consultations on immigration law, including assistance in obtaining work permits, residence and employee permits, drafting required documents (such as applications and notifications) and liaising with administrative authorities and the Czech Police.
In the area of labour law and employee benefits, Jan has been involved in a number of projects, primarily dealing with contractual arrangements between companies and their top managers, restructuring of human resources, and setting complex employee remuneration systems.
He is fluent in Czech, English and Polish.
ABV ADVOGADOS
Ana Prates
Ana Prates holds a LLM in Law, and, as a member of the Portuguese Bar Association, is a licensed Lawyer in Portugal. She has further developed and honed her skills not only through experience but also through participation in several specific courses regarding immigration.
Ana works in the global mobility/immigration industry as a Lawyer, and she is an associate at ABV ADVOGADOS, where she has been head of the immigration department since 2018.
Along with the rest of the ABV ADVOGADOS team, Ana has assisted many individuals and corporations to navigate the challenges of global mobility.
ABV ADVOGADOS provides advice both to national and international companies concerning all immigration matters related with the relocation of employees to and from Portugal, as well as general employment law, including advice on the fulfilment of all legal requirements related with posting workers and assists on general relocation matters.
The firm also provides tax and social security, corporate, real state, litigation and contractual consultancy.
ABV ADVOGADOS owes its long experience in the field to its commitment to focusing on the client to assist them in achieving their goals.
Corporate Relocations
Maria Kouri
Who
Maria is an immigration enthusiast who never ceizes to be amazed about how immigration shapes the world. Being lucky enough to belong to a lovely family, she is a spouse, a biological mum of 2 human beings and mum of will of another child, a cat and a dog.
How
She passes most of her time (since 1999) assisting new enterers to Greece gaining and enhancing knowledge on a constant changing environment both in immigration and destination services while she gets inspired by her team members and their creative ideas.
Where
She lives in a -used to be green- suburb outside Athens. Summer of 2021 the area was burnt but nature is already doing her magic.
Loves
apart from discovering the forest and seas in the summer with her family:
-Participating in immigration discussions with the industry’s like minded people ie eura (https://www.eura-relocation.com) , owl immigration parliament (https://owlimmigration.com), xpath (https://xpath.global)
Belonging/networking/shaping ideas within fascinating networks such as Posted Workers Alliance (https://postedworkeralliance.eu/about-us/), TIRA (https://tira.wildapricot.org), Partners in Immigration (http://www.partnersimmigration.com),
Education
Back in the 90’s:
Bachelor in European community studies (South Bank University London)-1994
Master in European public policy (South Bank University London)-1997
Troisieme cycle in Management des Affaires Europeennes (Leonard De Vinci-Paris)-1998
Recently:
EARP 1 2 3 (Eura Academy)
Certification (Investment Migration Council)-2020
Growth Challenge (Cambridge University Business School)-2020
Hates/can not understand
Violence/war
Child abuse
Gender/other discrimination
Fires/natural disasters caused by human hand
Admires
People that respect others and assist humans to see the bright side of life i.e https://www.coachingwithmaude.com
Dr Mifsud started his career by joining one of the largest law firms in Malta and was assigned maritime, civil and commercial litigation cases.
Mifsud & Mifsud Advocates
Malcolm Mifsud
Dr Malcolm Mifsud read law at the University of Malta. He specialised in maritime and shipping law at the IMO’s International Maritime Law Institute.
Dr Mifsud started his career by joining one of the largest law firms in Malta and was assigned maritime, civil and commercial litigation cases. In December 1998, he co-founded his own law, which developed into Mifsud & Mifsud Advocates. Dr Mifsud is a director of Aegis Corporate Services Limited a leading corporate services provider.
He is also the author of a number of publications such as The International Comparative Legal Guide to Litigation & the Dispute Resolution and the Corporate Immigration Review. He is a weekly contributor to a local newspaper, analysing and explaining court judgements
Dr Mifsud held a number of public posts. He was director of public owned company, Gozo Channel Company Limited (1999-2003), Legal Reviser at the Translations Unit at the Ministry of Justice and Local Government (2002-2003) and Advocate for Legal Aid (2000-2015). Dr Mifsud is on the Board of World Link for Law, an international network of medium sized law firms. He sits on the board of a number of corporate structures representing clients and their interests.
Dr Mifsud has assisted a large array of commercial and corporate clients, both in giving legal advice, but also representing clients in the Courts and Tribunals. He has successful represented clients in landmark judgements and disputes. He has assisted and advised clients on restructuring of corporate structures and on mergers and acquisitions.
Nestler
Andreea Gheorghe
Andreea became a Nestler in 2016. Her first role here was that of an expatriate tax manager and in just about 3 years she became our Nestler-in-charge.
With an experience of over 13 years in tax consultancy, she knows her legal updates better than the palm of her hand and she’s always eager to guide both businesses looking for consultancy and HR professionals seeking help for their expatriates.
Her reliability is what gains our partners’ trust and her management is what makes our team run like clockwork. And even after so many years of experience, Andreea knows she can never stop learning as new regulations emerge and new needs appear. And that’s the exact reason why she can smoothly steer your business through tax laws and regulations.
Our Vision
Posting workers beyond borders
The posting of workers is a political, touchy and risky subject.
We want to help our clients understand and respect their obligations in a way that is simple, efficient and compliant with local laws.
We are convinced that it’s possible to deal with posted workers while respecting all parties’ obligations, local laws and fight against social dumping.
