Transnational cooperation facilitates monitoring of companies and posted workers across countries. Formal and informal interaction across Member States’ inspectorates is described as essential, playing a crucial role in resolving cases. However, several challenges hinder this process, including differences in national laws, bureaucratic processes, divisions of labour, lack of trust, limited knowledge and access to data, and language barriers.

Currently, cross-border information sharing related to posted work typically occurs through ad hoc exchanges of information about individual workers or companies, for instance via The Internal Market Information System (IMI) or personal contacts.

The Lithuanian and the Norwegian inspectorates are presently engaged in a collaborative project addressing work-related crimes. Lithuania has enacted legislation granting foreign inspectors the right to exercise their powers during cross-border joint inspections within its territory.

In this webinar, we addressed the following questions:

• What are the main barriers to transnational cooperation between labour inspectorates?
• What improvements are possible?
• What have been the experiences from the cooperation between the inspectorates in Norway and Lithuania?