12 Amendments of Annika BRUNA related to 2020/0310(COD)
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Legal and illegal immigration pushes wages down for workers, especially those who are minimum-wage earners or are low-paid, a category in which women and young and low-skilled workers are overrepresented. Regularising irregular workers 'through work' - which is what some Member States do - should end.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) The free-trade policies favoured by the Commission have brought about social dumping and promoted the posting of workers and relocation within the single market. These harmful policies have encouraged the employment of workers on low pay or minimum wages in low-cost countries. Low-paid workers and minimum-wage earners in European countries with the highest social standards - most notably young people, the least qualified and women - are the first victims of those policies.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 b (new)
Recital 12 b (new)
(12b) The free-trade policies favoured by the Commission and the free-trade agreements concluded by the European Union have led to the removal of almost all customs barriers. These policies have created unfair competition between European firms, low-paid workers and minimum-wage earners, and workers around the world. While inadequate and insufficient pay in the EU should be tackled, putting an end to free-trade policies that promote global social dumping is a prerequisite for improving working conditions and pay for Europeans, most notably for the low-paid, a category in which women are overrepresented.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Member States should aim to improve pay for formal carers, in particular through collective agreements, and to enhance the status of informal carers.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23 a (new)
Recital 23 a (new)
(23a) Member States should strengthen their systems for combating illegal or undeclared work and increase the penalties for such practices, which, on the labour market, are harmful to the low- paid and to minimum-wage earners, most notably women and young people. Furthermore, those employed in such circumstances are themselves victims.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23 b (new)
Recital 23 b (new)
(23b) Member States should strengthen their systems for combatting the employment of illegal workers. This practice is harmful, on the labour market, to the low-paid and to minimum-wage earners, most notably women and young people. The employment of illegal workers, which amounts to human trafficking, should be particularly heavily penalised.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The reforms and measures adopted by the Member States to promote adequate minimum wage protection of workers, while being steps in the right direction, have not been comprehensive and systematic. Moreover, individual countries may be little inclined to improve the adequacy and coverage of minimum wages because of the perception that this could negatively affect their external cost competitiveness. Some of those countries are against measures, such as a minimum wage, which would restrict the social dumping practices that the EU allows them to engage in through the single market. Since the objectives of this Directive cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can rather, by reason of their scale and effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on the European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 29 a (new)
Recital 29 a (new)
(29a) The aim of this Directive should be to combat social dumping and not to bring about a European convergence of minimum wages.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Member States with statutory minimum wages shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages are guided by criteria set to promote adequacy with the aim to achieve decent working and living conditions, and social cohesion and upwardensure that convergence is upward only. Member States shall define those criteria in accordance with their national practices, either in relevant national legislation, in decisions of the competent bodies or in tripartite agreements. The criteria shall be defined in a stable and clear way.
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may allow different rates of statutory minimum wage for specific groups of workers. Member States shall keep these variations to a minimum, and ensure that any variation is non- discriminatory, non-gender-related, proportionate, limited in time if relevant, and objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall provide for dissuasive penalties against private individuals, authorities or undertakings that engage in practices involving work that is undeclared or underpaid or has no social protection, or that employ illegal workers.
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. This Directive shall not constitute valid grounds for reducingbe accompanied by provisions preventing reduction of the general level of protection already afforded to workers within Member States.