9 Amendments of Daniela AIUTO related to 2014/2210(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas little information is, however, available concerning women employed in family businesses, given that the actual concept of the family business is still relatively undocumented;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in many countries the problem resides in the fact that society is permeated by a culture of male dominance in all walks of life and not only at the workplace;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, in many European countries, women are frequently required to act as figureheads, either for tax reasons or because of legal obstacles preventing a male entrepreneur from holding any position within the business or placing it in his own name;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women have difficulty in taking over family businesses as successors, given that preference is given to sons and daughters are nearly always excluded, save under exceptional circumstances dictated by the absence of a male heir or a crisis affecting the company;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas women seeking to combine their roles as mothers and business operators frequently find themselves forced to sideline the former or even abandon the notion of motherhood in order to run the business;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding horizontal and vertical segregation, wage and job discrimination (invisibility and ‘figurehead’ treatment), providing both genders with equal opportunities, social rights and access to health, as well as ensuring fair remuneration, contribution payments, pensions and benefits;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the adoption of an unambiguous definition of family businesses for all the Member States, providing a solid career base for both genders;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for all possible measures to be adopted to prevent and penalise acts of abuse or coercion, situations conducive to blackmail and/or subjugation, or violence against women at the workplace, pointing out that, in addition to acts of physical violence, seclusion and discrimination are also forms of mental cruelty or psychological aggression;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b Welcomes the Commission's intention to encourage the study and statistical analysis of the presence of women in family businesses in Europe;