Activities of Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS related to 2015/2255(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social dumping in the EU (A8-0255/2016 - Guillaume Balas) EL
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on social dumping in the European Union PDF (540 KB) DOC (186 KB)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the decision of the European Parliament and the Council on establishing a European Platform to enhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the scale of mass unemployment in Europe, the difference in wage levels between countries and the tactic of pitting workers against one another necessarily leads to lower wages for everyone and an increase in unemployment;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Court of Justice of the European Union, in its judgment in the C- 341/05 Laval case of 18 December 20073, highlighted the legitimacy of the struggle against social dumping, but whereas the first strikes and protest actions held to denounce this type of practice were sharply criticised by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which found that they ‘hampered the free movement of persons’; whereas the Laval judgment found against the Swedish trade unions that had paralysed the workshop of a Latvian construction company, which was building a school in Sweden and paying Latvian wages; __________________ 3 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/showPdf.jsf?te xt=&docid=71925&pageIndex=0&doclang =FR&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1& cid=498309
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for a thorough review of the 1996 directive on the posting of workers, rather than a simple strengthening of controls in the event of breaches of the rules;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for social contributions to be calculated in accordance with the rules in force in the host country and to be paid into the social security fund of the country of origin;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to increase the staffing levels and resources ofor their labour inspectorates and their liaison offices, in particular for interpretation and translation and not to impose restrictions on the scope for carrying out checks, including by trade unions;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the main contractor to be held fully liable in the event of social fraud in the organisation, at all levels;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce legislation for compulsory and automatic inclusion of posted workers in the relevant collective agreements at their place of work; where no local collective agreement exist, posted workers shall covered by the relevant sectorial collective agreement or law of the country they work in;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for the setting up of a framework to prevent fundamental social rights being weakened and argues for the establishment of a social progress clause during the revision of the Posted Workers Directive;
Amendment 602 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that a social protocol is necessary to ensure the primacy of fundamental rights over economic freedoms and that a social progress clause needs to be included in directives relating to working conditions for workers in the European Union;
Amendment 603 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that a social protocol is necessary to ensure the primacy of fundamental rights over economic freedoms; calls, in this respect, for the EU to complete the process of accession to the European Convention of Human Rights and to systematically align its legislative and policy-making proposals with the European Social Charter, while starting the process for a future accession of the EU to the European Social Charter;
Amendment 644 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Desires that wage floors be established, possibly in the form of a minimum wage; emphasises that this instrument should be set up on the basis of legislation or convention, in accordance with national practices, with due respect for the role of the social partners; believes that these wage floors should represent at least 60% of the average national wage; calls on the Commission to consult the social partners with a view to introducing, where appropriate, a minimum wage in some border areas associated with highly mobile workers, a compulsory and automatic inclusion of posted workers in the relevant collective agreements at their place of work; where no local collective agreement exist, posted workers shall covered by the relevant sectorial collective agreement or law of the country they work in;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Demands a thorough revision of the Posted Workers Directive, and calls for the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ to be laid down in black and white and for the host country to be entitled to apply to foreign workers its own legislation on working conditions and collective labour agreements;