Activities of Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS related to 2015/2255(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social dumping in the EU (A8-0255/2016 - Guillaume Balas) ES
Amendments (7)
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to enhance social dialogue in the transport sector as a whole to ensure trade union recognition in all companies and the ability of social partners to negotiate collective agreements, both at the national and European levels; Calls on the Commission to promote the compliance with collective bargaining agreements as a requirement for assessing the good repute of transport undertakings;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to suspendenforce and introduce regulation, in close dialogue with trade unions, to eliminate such business practices as precarious contracts (bogus self-employment, zero-hour contracts, pay- to-fly-schemes, etc.), letter-box companies and flags of convenience in order to ensure the social protection of workers; Calls on the Commission to take appropriate legislative action to promote direct employment and to ensure the recognition of "bogus" self-employed as employees;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need for the Commission to treat social aspects as a major priority of the road package, including measures to ensure legal clarity and better implementation of rules governing working conditions, social and welfare rights, wages and social responsibility; stresses that supply-chain operators should be held jointly responsible for social protection infringements; stresses the need to limit the use of sub-contracting chains to fight social dumping and ensure adequate enforcement of legislation across sub- contracting chain; underlines the need of using control devices mentioned in point 5 to properly assess in which Member State the real work of a road operator takes place and therefore which national social legislation should apply;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the EU and the Member States to cooperate across borders in relation to enforcement information, to give monitoring authorities access to data registered in the Member States’ national electronic registers and in the European Register of Road Transport Undertaking (ERRU) and to consolidate the list of infringements leading to the loss of good repute and immediate withdrawal of authorisation to perform road transport activity of road transport operators by including illegal cabotage and non- compliance with Community social and labour legislation;
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the creation of a European Road Transport Agency to ensure proper implementation and enforcement of EU legislation and promote standardisation across all Member States, including the social dimension, such as working conditions and labour issues in road transport;
Amendment 190 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need for a newbetter ground handling regulation, that will provides social protection for workers including by means of binding social provisions on transfer of staff in case of call for tenders or partial loss of activities, in line with Directive 2001/23/EC; calls for an improved Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 to ensure binding application of national labour legislation for airlines having European operational bases and to improve the definition of ‘'home base’' for crew members , as well as to ensure that properly-defined "substantial aviation activities" are a requisite for the definition of "principle place of business" and for granting an operating license;
Amendment 197 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for the Creation of an EU observatory for Civil Aviation on jobs and working condition, to be managed by the Commission and the social partners, to ensure proper implementation of EU legislation and to supervise the social dimension of the EU aviation market, including working conditions and labour issues in aviation;