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14 Amendments of Phil BENNION related to 2013/2112(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Member States employ a range of models in delivering different specific inspections of the workplace;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States, in cases where labour inspections uncover abuse, to protect the workers concerned and enable them to assert their rights at no cost; points out that measures to that end, such as a direct right of complaint for victims or a collective right of complaint, are effective means of protecting workers affected;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to criminalisesanction the non-respect of working conditions;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the problematic nature of labour inspection in respect of migrant workers from both EU and third countries, particularly in relation to the role and remit of national inspectorates; points out that national-level electronic systems, such as Belgium's LIMOSA system16 for the compulsory advance registration of foreign workers by employers, substantially facilitate the task of labour inspection; __________________ 16 https://www.socialsecurity.be/foreign/de/e mployer_limosa/home.html.
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that there is an important role to be played by the social partners, and particularly by workers' representatives, in ensuring that the existing rules are observed; calls on the Member States to institute the formal involvement of the social partners in labour inspection;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that workers who provide domestic services are often undeclared, but that, in many cases, this situation lies outside the remit of the national inspection authorities; calls on Member States to enable inspections to be carried out in private homes and to introduce effective sanctions;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recognises that there is a growing trend towards self-employment, outsourcing und subcontracting; considers that systems of general contractor liability for the entire subcontracting chain could constitute a useful tool for improved monitoring of public procurement, and that they should be introduced in all Member States;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Agency forcoordinate and facilitate cooperation between Member States on cross-border matters concerning the abuse of employment protection rules and undeclared work, with a remit including inter alia the identification of letter-box companies, the control of transnational service providers, the introduction of further-training programmes, the identification of new ways of circumventing the rules, and the organisation of cross-border controls;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to introducmake available a forgery-proof European social security card, on which would be stored all the data needed to verify the bearer's employment relationship, including details of social security cover and working hours, for example, and which would be subject to strict data-protection rules;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that a European databaseincreased cooperation and sharing of information between Member States on illegal employment can offer significant European added value in the effort to combat undeclared work;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Criticises the Commission's suggestion, in relation to the directive on the enforcement of the Posting of Workers Directive, for closed lists of measures restricting national powers of inspection; considers it important that national labour inspectorates should be able to conduct inspections in every case where they deem it needful to do so;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive providing for the comprehensive control of employment agencies, whereby such companies will be subject to certification and to a requirement of central reporting ofdesign and provide Member States with best practice guidance and facilitate the cooperation and exchange of information between them so they could more effectively scrutinize and control their activities of employment agencies;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission, without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity, to propose a directiveguiding principles underpinning the role of labour inspectors and laying down European labour-inspection standards;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Points out that competition policy is implemented at European level; considers that, by the same token, measures to combat social dumping should be included in the EU treaties with provision for the Commission to implement them; considers that the Commission's powers in this regard should extend, as they do in the field of competition law, to the imposition of penalties on non-compliant companies;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL