Activities of Minodora CLIVETI related to 2013/0124(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Freedom of movement for workers (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers
Amendments (12)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Member States should remove obstacles to workers' mobility by offering women who follow their husbands or partners to another Member State appropriate services to facilitate their integration into their new social and cultural environment, such as language courses and vocational courses;
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Member States should ensure that the children of EU mobile workers do not face difficulties regarding their nationality or citizenship due to the working choices of their parents, and that the particular needs of the children of mobile workers should be adequately studied to ensure effective policy responses;
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Member States should improve the situation of children left behind by their parents and to help them develop normally and benefit from education and appropriate social life;
Amendment 60 #
1 d. Member States should pay special attention to the women workers moving abroad for jobs involving child or elderly care, such as babysitters, au-pairs, nannies or nurses, cleaning women, who are often employed by private entities such as families or family members and they work without a contract or illegally, and consequently have no rights and benefits linked to social security, healthcare etc. available to them;
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 e (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Member States should ensure an equal treatment of workers, combined with the adequate protection of labour rights, in accordance with the rules in force laid down in national legislation and collective agreements in the Member State concerned; The principle of 'equal pay for equal work' in conjunction with gender equality should apply throughout the EU in order to prevent wage and social dumping; Member States should make sure that free movement is never exploited with a view to unequal treatment, wage and social dumping;
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 f (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Member States should increase their joint efforts to control, prosecute and sanction forced labour and undeclared work and make sure that these are covered by sanctions; Member States should ensure the protection of victims of forced labour, especially women and children;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. These bodies should inform, facilitate and simplify the administrative procedures on issues linked to the free movement of workers such as obtaining the residential permit, the working permit, the portability of social security rights, the accessibility to medical care, the reimbursement of medical expenses, the avoidance of double taxation, the transfer of vehicle registrations, the transfer of children in the educational system, etc., with a special attention for women, and in particular for single mothers;
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) The Commission and Member States are encouraged to set up contact points with clear and detailed information and benchmarks for the Member States in relation to facilitating the free movement of workers.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. The bodies created or existing in the Member States should monitor the contracts concluded by women in particular, which they should correspond to the reality, in order that women do not become victims of forced prostitution and human trafficking;
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) Member States should ensure that officials responsible for applying Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 and this Directive are trained on a basis common to all the Member States.
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall provide clear, easily accessible, comprehensive and up- to-date information in all the official languages of the European Union on the rights conferred by the Union law on free movement of workers. This information should also be easily accessible through Your Europe and EURES.