12 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2013/2111(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas most traditional social security systems, and particularly social cover and labour law, are designed to safeguard the social and employment rights of people in employment, and there is thus a risk that with the changing nature of employment, and increasingly commonly where people are self-employed, new groups of workers will lack proper social protection;Does not affect English version. Linguistic correction to German text replacing ‘freiberuflich’ (freelance) with ‘selbständig’ (self-employed). See Am. 111 below.
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Social security for all, including self- employed persons
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to develop and modernise social protection systems in orderconstantly to optimise and modernise social systems and to ensure adequate social protection for all, based on the principles of universal access and non-discrimination and on the capacity to respond in a flexible manner to demographic changes and developments in the labour market; workers; considers that such standards should particularly be raised in areas where they do not meet European targets, and that all of this should take place in accordance with the principles of universal access and non-discrimination.
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to ensure coreminimum national social protection which, at a minimum, will safeguard the main sources of revenue ina basic income established by each country and guarantee access to basic social benefits, particularly in the event of illness, unemployment, maternity or disability, thus making it possibleetc., in order to combat poverty and social exclusion in; notes that responsibility for establishing this protection rests solely with the Member States concerned; calls also on the Member States to draw up strategies for the development of social security in line with the ILO’s proposals;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat discrimination against women on the labour market and to adopt social protection measures to ensure that women’s wages and welfare entitlements are not lower than those for men doing the same job, and to safeguard their maternity entitlements; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the Directive on prenatal and postnatal leave;to ensure minimum social protection guaranteeing a basic income established by each country or an income set as a result of collective bargaining,
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to take practical steps to combat poverty and social exclusion, including an appropriate minimum income or income set as a result of collective bargaining and a social security system, in accordancefalling solely within their own national practices (collective agreements or national legislation) remit of the Member State concerned;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to include in all its proposals the four targets set in the ILO's Decent Work Agenda, and to include in the annual growth review the targets set in the ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation, so that all workers in Europe may enjoy these guarantees throughout their lives;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention to the fact that the absence of a clearsufficiently precise definition of self- employment considerably hampers the coordination of social security for self- employed workers among the Member States and may consequently restrict the free movement of workers;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges Member States to ensure that self-employment does not become a tool of unfair competition or a means of preventing workers from benefiting from social and job security, and that the social and employment rights of self-employed workers depend as little as possible on their status: i.e. employed or self-employed; also asks, since there is no justification for such treatment, that self-employed workers should not be assimilated withtreated in the same way as employed workers, so as to preserve the advantages of self- employment and economic activity of this kind and help to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and service quality;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on Member States to developalign social protection in relation to retirement, disability, maternity/paternity leave and unemployment with the EU standard where this has not already been done, so that it is better adapted to self-employed workers, in particular those whose work is similar to that ofand is equivalent to the standard applying to employed workers;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on Member States and the Commission to involve the social partners in a process of developing and modernising social protection and to develop the social dialogue at European and national levels; also calls on the social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workDoes not affect English text; linguistic correction to German vers ion the agenda;.