25 Amendments of Ernest URTASUN related to 2015/2094(INI)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
– having regard the 2015 FRA report "Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union",
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 b (new)
Citation 20 b (new)
– having regard the 2011 FRA report "Migrants in an irregular situation employed in domestic work: Fundamental rights challenges for the European Union and its Member States",
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas domestic and care work has been socially constructed by patriarchal societies as a gender activity and it has been traditionally characterised by its low recognition and invisibility, and still current societies do not consider this work, a work with a value; whereas paid domestic and care work is also undervalued, underpaid, unprotected and poorly regulated despite of the contributions that domestic workers make to the care and welfare of millions of households;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the term domestic and care workers includes diverse groups of workers such as, but not only, life-in workers, external workers, hourly workers in several households, family workers, daily or night care workers, babysitters, au pairs, gardeners, the reality and conditions of which may vary in a significant manner;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the Fundamental Rights Agency has considered domestic and care work as one of the sectors with higher risks of severe labour exploitation in the EU; whereas this exploitation is often shown by a lack of formal contract or contracts that are not equivalent to the real tasks performed, by too low salaries, irregular payments and often even absence of payment, by too long working hours and absences of leaves and by experiences of sexual, racial and/or sexist abuses;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas more than one-third of women domestic workers are not entitled to maternity leave and related rights and allowances10 and in some countries domestic and care workers have no unemployment benefits rights; __________________ 10 Ibidem.
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the majority of domestic workers and carers are migrant women, and are therefore often big percentage of which are in an irregular situation, and in the first stages of the migration process they might be unaware of their rights, have restricted access to public services or encounter problems accessing these services, have limited knowledge of the local language and lack social inclusion;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the access to justice mechanisms is often difficult for labour law violations as well as for victims of abuse or exploitation; whereas fear of deportation, isolation at the work place and difficulties in accessing legal support may play a determinant obstacle for migrants domestic and care workers in irregular situation;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the growing demand for domestic help has led to the rising feminisation of migration into Europe, that is linked to the increasing feminisation of poverty in developing countries; whereas there is a specific gender dimension that relates recruiting migrant workers to fill jobs in the care and domestic work sector in developed countries creating a 'global care chain' that contributes to the gender division of labour all over the world;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas there have been reported cases of severe labour law infringements, of severe forms of labour exploitation and of working and living conditions that amount to forced labour and slavery-like practices experienced by migrant domestic workers in foreign diplomats households; whereas the employer diplomatic immunity aggravates the rights violations and restrictions of freedom experienced by domestic workers as it severely limits the victims access to justice;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas the financial and social crisis and the austerity measures implemented in the EU hasve severely affected its citizens and residents, aggravating job precariousness, poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, and leading to limited or no access to social care and household- related services;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
V. whereas domestic workers and carers have the right to a decent life, taking into account their needs to have a good work, family and life balance, especially for the live-in domestic workers, and must enjoy the same social and employment rights as other workers;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
Recital X
X. whereas ILO Convention 189 concerning decent work for domestic workers aims to provide legal recognition for domestic work, extend rights to all domestic workers and prevent violations and abuses; whereas only 6 EU member states (Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Portugal) have ratified this convention until now;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that there is a need for a common EU recognition of domestic work as real work and not simply as an extension of unpaid household and carnd care as real and valuable work;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a
Paragraph 2 – point a
(a) establishing quality guidelines for domestic work and care in the EU, after reviewing the good practices that exist within EU Member States, including specialised recommendations on women and migrants since domestic workers mainly fall under these two major subcategories and, in most cases, belong to both;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to promote domestic and care work systems that go beyond the private relationship between employer and employee (given that this relationship occurs in the private sphere leaving the worker with less protection and in a more vulnerable situation) and to encourage Member States not to transfer responsibility for welfare to individuals, but to be more present in this relationship as a means of better regulate and protect the rights of domestic and care workers;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Member States to undertake the necessary efforts, and to find innovative inspection methods, and mechanism to control, monitor and submit complains in order to eliminate mistreatment, financial exploitation and acts of violence or sexual abuse against domestic workers; asks the Member States to revise those regulations that exempt the domestic workplace from inspections and to implement all the necessary measures to assure that all domestic and care workers victims of abuses and of gender based violence will have the necessary information and mechanisms to access to the Judicial system, providing the adequate level of protection;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to endorse road map programmes aiming to inform and educate workers on the impact of precarious work and to fund and launch campaigns to raise awareness of the rights and duties of domestic and care workers and employers and to promote the recognition of the domestic and care work; suggests that Member States should also establish information centres and helplines for domestic workers so that they can obtain easily accessible information about their rights;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Urges the Member States to promote the empowerment of domestic workers for reporting a crime or discrimination, as well as training for the police and judiciary to identify racist and xenophobic motives when faced with a migrant or an irregular victim;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Asks the Commission to exchange information and best practice of associations and cooperatives of domestic and care workers inserted in social economy models in the EU;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. SCalls on the Commission and Member States to promote regularisation schemes based on lessons learned from past experiences as a means to reduce the exposure of migrant workers in an irregular situation to exploitation and abuse; strongly urges the Member States not to penalise undeclared domestic workers or carers when they decide to come out of the vicious circle of ‘hidden’ work, but instead to support and protect them;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Commission and the competent European agencies to conduct a study comparing different systems of regularised domestic work and to collect data with regard to the situation in the Member States; also calls on the Commission to launch a study to determine the wealth, value and contribution of carers and domestic workers to the EU and Member States economies;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Asks the European Commission and Member States to enlarge the instruments and mechanism established to address trafficking such as referral mechanisms or temporary residence permits – and to review them with a view to broadening their scope of application to cases of severe labour exploitation that do not involve trafficking;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to promote the investigation of cases of trafficking for human exploitation, and more specifically in the domestic work, to improve the mechanism of identification and protection of this victims and to involve NGOs, trade unions, public authorities and all citizens in the detection process of the trafficking and severe exploitation phenomena;