15 Amendments of Thomas MANN related to 2013/2111(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, to tackle the crisis, Member States have had to madke severe cuts in public expenditure just when social protection needed to be strengthened in response to a sudden rise in unemployment and, at the same time, national budgets for social security cover have been further squeezed as contributions have fallen in the wake of wide-scale job losses or wage cuts, thus placing the European social model at real risk;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas social protection coverage in the EU Member States is still inadequate; whereasof a very high level in comparison to the rest of the world; whereas, however, cases of vulnerable workers being abused in the EU are still commonplace and labour-market compartmentalisation, with widely varying levels of protection for different types of contract and job relationship, is a glaring reality, leading to social maladjustment and inequality;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas most traditional social security systems, and particularly social cover and labour law, are designed to safeguard the social and employment rights of people in employment, and there is thus a risk that with the changing nature of employment, and increasingly commonly where people are self-employed, new groups of workers will lack proper social protection;Does not affect English text. Linguistic correction to German version. See Ams. 19 and 111.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the needat it may be necessary to develop and modernise social protection systems in order to ensure adequate social protection for all, based on the principles of universal access and non-discrimination and on the capacity to respond in a flexible manner to demographic changes and developments in the labour market;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to ensure core nationalminimum social protection which, at a minimum, will safeguard the main sources of revenue in each country and guaranteeand access to basic social benefits, particularly in the event of illness, unemployment, maternity or disability, thus making it possible to combat poverty and social exclusion in the Member States; calls also on the Member States to draw up strategies for the development of social security in line with the ILO’s proposals;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat discrimination against women on the labour market and to adopt social protection measures to ensure that women’s wages and welfare entitlements are not groundlessly lower than those for men doing the same job, and to safeguard their maternity entitlements; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the Directive on prenatal and postnatal leave;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to take practical steps to combat poverty and social exclusion, including an appropriate minimum income and a social security system, in accordance with their own national practices (collective agreements or national legislation);
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts to combat undeclared, illegal and insecure employment and to ensure that all workers enjoy appropriate social protection; deplores, furthermore, the practice of deliberately replacing standard recruitment procedures with non-standard employment contracts, at the same time reducing workers’ social security cover, in order to save money;.
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention to the fact that the absence of a clear definition of self- employment considerablyan hampers the coordination of social security for self- employed workers among the Member States and may consequently restrict the free movement of workers; stresses that ‘self-employment’ must not be equated with ‘freelance employment;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to draw up a conceptual framework that will provide a legal definition of the nature and different forms of atypical employment in general and self-employment as its most widespread form, applying labour law and social protection measures in line with the various forms of employment and providing for the possibility of properly regulating social security for self- employed workers; also considers it appropriate to clearly identify false self- employment and to sanction employers if such cases are identifiedproviding definitions for various forms of employment in close cooperation with the Member States;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges Member States to ensure that self-employment does not become a tool of unfair competition or a means of preventing workers from benefiting from social and job security, and that the social and employment rights of self-employed workers depend as little as possible on their status: i.e. employed or self- employed; also asks that self-employed workers should not be assimilated with employed workers, so as to preserve the advantages of self-employment and economic activity of this kind and help to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and service qualitycombat false self-employment;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on Member States, where necessary, to develop social protection in relation to retirement, disability, maternity/paternity leave and unemployment so that it is better adapted to self-employed workers, in particular those whose work is similar to that of employed workers;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on Member States and the Commission to make it compulsory for, where necessary, to ensure that people wishing to become self- employed workers to bare provided with appropriate information on the changes to their social protection and the labour law applicable to them that will arise from this change in status, as well as changes in other rights and obligations linked to their economic activity;