Activities of Ángela VALLINA related to 2015/2107(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU Strategic framework on health and safety at work 2014-2020 (A8-0312/2015 - Ole Christensen) ES
Amendments (20)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the right to work ing conditions are deteriorating and inequalities between Member States in terms of working conditions are increas a proper health and safety environment is a fundamental employment right that is constantly under challenge as a result of the working conditions currently on offer for workers, who, faced with the prospect of unemployment and impoverishment, are forced to accept anything; whereas the economic crisis has been contributing to the aggravation of working conditions;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas preventing occupational risks and promoting health and safety at the workplace are fundamental ways of creating and maintaining healthier and safer working environments, improving working conditions and effectively combating workplace accidents and occupational diseases;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas men have more workplace accidents than women, but women, because of their exposure to particular risks, suffer from occupational diseases to a greater extent;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas there is a stereotype of women as having lower-risk jobs, whereas the overall view in Europe is that the division of labour between men and women is never neutral, and whereas, in general, that division obscures women's health problems, as a result of which less preventive action is taken in connection with women's jobs;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas women in particular can face specific risks, such as musculoskeletal disorders or specific types of cancer, as a result of the nature of some jobs where they are over-represented;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas work-related stress is the second most frequent health problem in Europe - after musculoskeletal disorders - and almost half of all workers consider it to be common at their workplace; whereas it accounts for almost half the number of working days lost each year and represents an annual cost to society put at EUR 240 billion;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas, because of the austerity policies advocated by the EU, the most common causes of work-related stress, in particular among women, are precarious employment, longer working times, shorter rest periods, more intensive work patterns and competition among workers, bullying or harassment at work, and labour market discrimination against women, contributing to the dehumanisation of work;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
Ag. whereas identifying at-risk workers and detecting symptoms early are vital strategies for preventing musculoskeletal disorders, as is the introduction of a follow-up and monitoring system based on clinical assessments, in order to produce a more up-to-date reference model;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
Ah. whereas the cost of stress at work and of accidents at work is borne by the whole of society, in general, while liability ought to lie with employers who are responsible for stress and accidents;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital A i (new)
Recital A i (new)
Ai. whereas, at a time when the EU and Member States are pursuing policies of austerity, it is more essential than ever to discuss the 'social' cost of workplace accidents resulting from failings or negligence on the part of employers, who still regard health and safety at work as a cost to be avoided;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital A j (new)
Recital A j (new)
Aj. whereas combating accidents at work as a whole can succeed only by promoting a people-centred approach, in every respect, to the production process;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas employment segregation, pay gap, working time, workplaces, precarious working conditions, domestic division of labour, sexism and sex discrimination, as well as the physical differences between women and men, including in regard to reproduction, are factors affecting the hazards women face at work;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to pass on to employers the costs relating to treatment of occupational diseases and to accidents at work - the cost of drugs, sick-leave- related social security costs, the cost of rehabilitating and reintegrating workers, especially where occupational diseases that are work-related are involved, the cost of occupational-disease-based invalidity pensions, and the cost of exemptions in connection with transport and other public services for pension holders and persons with a disability - where those costs are attributable to poor working conditions;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on Member States to step up public investment in appropriate and essential human, technical and financial resources in order to verify compliance with labour standards and penalise any violations thereof, in promoting specialised professional training in health and safety at work, and in campaigns to raise awareness and provide information and advice with regard to industrial relations;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on undertakings to ensure home health care services for all their employees, including for women with differing needs, such as women with a disability, pregnant women, migrant women and women of all ages;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to address the increasing number of musculoskeletal diseases among women resulting from working conditions, as well as from household chores;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission to conduct a study, broken down by gender and age, into workplace well-being and exposure to stress at work;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to conduct studies, broken down by gender, age and area of economic activity, into the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders among the working population at national level, with a view to determining how best to monitor those disorders;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for an upgraded role for the social partners, in particular the trade unions, given their importance in providing information on, preventing, reporting and combating working practices which, in addition to being a serious affront to human dignity, are harmful practices contrary to corporate social responsibility and to the concept of decent work;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on Member States to link the work of labour standard monitoring authorities with the work of judicial authorities so as to hold firms to account which immorally violate the most basic human rights at the workplace;