7 Amendments of Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN related to 2013/2111(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to develop and modernise social protection systems in order to ensure sound, sustainable and 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;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to make greater efforts to create jobs for young people and to ensure that young workers are not discriminated against through the limiting of their social security entitlements; notes that funding from the guaranteed youth employment scheme is a suitable way of achieving this;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need to make clear that older people are not an economic and social burden but that, on the contrary, their experience acquired over a lifetime and their knowledge are an asset. In the context of intergenerational solidarity, employees over 60 should be encouraged to remain available on the labour market with a view to transmitting their knowledge and experience to successive generations, for example. Young people are the future, but the input of older people is also indispensable;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States especially to provide a guarantee of social security for the most vulnerable social groups such as the unemployed, the disabled, single-parent families, the young, the elderly pensioners and young families; calls also on the Member States to ensure that social services are made more accessible for all members of vulnerable social groups and persons with long-term care needs, particularly in rural areas;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to review legislation on the coordination of social security systems and draws Member States' attention to the fact that mobile workers (including border workers) should not be subjected to discriminatory social protection rules aimed at curbing benefit abuses; believes that all mobile workers (including border workers) should enjoy the same social security entitlements and cover; in accordance with the provisions of Directive 96/71/EG, workers posted in connection with the free movement of services must, prior to their posting, be informed by their employer of pay and working conditions;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to draw up a conceptual framework that will provide a legal definition of the nature and different forms of atypical employment in general and self-employment as its most widespread form, applying labour law and social protection measures in line with the various forms of employment and providing for the possibility of properly regulating social security for self-employed workers; also considers it appropriate to clearly identify false self-employment and to sanction employers if such cases are identified; in order to prevent such individual cases of false self-employment it is necessary to enable Member States to introduce a comprehensive system of prevention and control mechanisms;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on Member States and the Commission to make it compulsory for people wishing to become self-employed workers to be provided with appropriate information on the changes to their social protection and the labour law applicable to them that will arise from this change in status, as well as changes in other rights and obligations linked to their economic activity; in particular, the self-employed must be informed of their rights and obligations in connection with migration, immigration and cross-border work;