Glossary
The EMN Glossary – as one of the key products of the EMN - improves comparability by enabling a common understanding and use of terms and definitions relating to asylum and migration. The Glossary draws on a variety of sources, but primarily on the legislation of the EU asylum and immigration acquis, and makes terms available in the majority of EU Member State languages.
The online version is regularly updated and available in various languages.
- BG: трансграничен работник
- CZ: přeshraniční pracovník; příhraniční pracovník
- DE: Grenzgänger
- EE: piiriülene töötaja
- EN: cross-border worker
- ES: trabajador transfronterizo
- FI: rajatyöntekijä
- FR: travailleur transfrontalier
- GA: oibrí trasteorann
- GR: διασυνοριακής εργαζομένων
- HU: határ menti ingázó munkavállaló
- IT: lavoratore frontaliero
- LT: tarpvalstybinis darbuotojas
- LV: pārrobežu darba ņēmējs
- MT: Ħaddiem transkonfinali / jaqsam fruntiera
- NL: grensarbeider
- NO: grensependler (b) / grensependlar (n)
- PL: pracownik transgraniczny
- RO: lucrator transfrontalier
- SE: gränsarbetare
- SK: cezhraničný pracovník
- SL: čezmejni delavec
A person who works as an employee or self-employed person in one EU Member State but is recognised as residing in another (neighbouring) EU Member State.
2. The concept of cross-border workers covers different circumstances, depending on whether one takes the Community meaning (set out, in particular, in connection with social security) or the various definitions included in bilateral double-taxation agreements.
3. Where tax is concerned, bilateral double-taxation agreements determining the tax arrangements applicable to frontier workers use more restrictive definitions which additionally impose a spatial criterion: the fact of living and working in a frontier zone.
4. Often 'cross-border workers' and 'frontier workers' are considered as synonyms. However, cross-border workers are distinct from frontier workers to the extent that they do not necessarily work in the frontier zone of the host country.
- BG: пограничен работник
- CZ: přeshraniční pracovník
- DE: Grenzarbeitnehmer
- EE: piiriala töötaja
- EN: frontier worker
- ES: trabajador transfronterizo
- FI: rajatyöntekijä
- FR: travailleur frontalier
- GA: oibrí trasteorann
- GR: συνοριακός εργαζόμενος
- HU: határmenti ingázó (munkavállaló)
- IT: lavoratore straniero frontaliero
- LT: pasienio darbuotojas
- LV: pārrobežu darba ņēmējs
- MT: Ħaddiem ta’ mal-fruntiera
- NL: grensarbeider
- NO: arbeidstaker som grensependler (b) / arbeidstakar som grensependlar (n)
- PL: pracownik przygraniczny
- PT: trabalhador fronteiriço
- RO: lucrător transfrontalier
- SE: gränsarbetare
- SK: pracovník z prihraničnej oblasti
- SL: obmejni delavec
In the EU context, a worker who is employed in the frontier zone of an EU Member State but who returns each day or at least once a week to the frontier zone of a neighbouring country in which they reside and of which they are nationals.
2. Contrary to 'cross-border workers', frontier workers work in the frontier zone of the neighbouring country.