26 Amendments of Thomas MANN related to 2015/2255(INI)
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. having regard to the importance ofwhereas the principle of ‘ equal pay and social protection for the same work at the same place' for all European workers’ jeopardises the freedom to engage in collective wage bargaining;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal forMember States to make more staff and resources available in the area of labour inspection and achieve the goal of one labour inspector per 10 000 workers, in accordance with ILO recommendations; calls on the Commission to support the Member States in establishing effective and efficient labour inspectorates and to draft a directiveommendation based on ILO Convention No 81 on labour inspection;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Warmly welcomes the agreement to establish a European platform to combat undeclared work which brings together the Commission, the social partners and national authorities in order to step up the fight against undeclared work throughout the Union; regards the platform as a prime example of the added value which the Union brings to social policy;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the creation of a European body ofmeasures to promote cross- border labour inspectors to carry out on-the-spot checks in suspected cases of social dumping, including by identifying 'letterbox companies', which body would work incooperation between labour inspectors in close coordination with the work of the platform againsto combat undeclared work in order to limit the financial burden involved;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for checking whether implementation byt would be effective and efficient if Member States ofwere to set up electronic systems for the registration of the prior declaration of posting missions;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a directive based Member States to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No 189 of 2011 concerning decent work for domestic workers and to ensure fair and decent working conditions for domestic workers; abuse and violence must be prevented; calls on the Commission to investigate the situation of domestic workers in the EU;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Requests that information on postings should not beCalls for an assessment of the opportunities and risks which would arise if information on postings were not to be submitted retroactively and that it isif it were to be entered in an electronic register; stresses that care should be taken to check that the competent authorities of the host Member State shwould be able to revise form A1 in the event of serious doubts about whether a posting is genuine;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Calls on the Commission to take action to remove shortcomings which have been identified in the current rules, in order to combat social dumping and social and fiscal fraud effectively;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading II
Subheading II
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Ccalls on the Commission to combat the phenomenon of letterbox companies by applying more generally the principle that each company should have a single corporate headquarters; recalls the rejection by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the proposal for a directive on single-person limited liabilityand the Member States to intensify their efforts to combat letterbox companies;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that the notion of 'minimum wage' contained in Directive 96/71/EC should be revised to ensure equal pay for posted workers and local workers in similar positions; sStresses the need to respect the collective agreements of the host country and to ensure, through the revision of Regulations (EC) No 883/2004 and (EC) No 987/2009, the payment of gross earnings corresponding to the remuneration paid by the employer before the deduction of taxes and social security contributions payable by employees and withheld by the employer; recalls that specific postings bonuses should be paid on top of remuneration;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Wishes periods of postings to be limited in Directive 96/71/EC and temporary employment agencies to be excluded from the scope of the directiveStresses the need to take a nuanced view of the temporary employment industry and its collective agreements in particular; the Commission and Member States should support all forms of temporary employment, particularly those which act as a bridge to permanent employment ;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for increased controls on the implementation of working time and rest times in the transport sector; calls fourges the Commission to analyse whether the introduction of automatic digital records and the development of '“smart tachographs'” for all means of transport, including inland waterway transport; recalls the wish expressed in its resolution from 3 July 2012 that “until 2020 (...) all vehicles that are not exempt from Paragraphs 2 and 3 of this regulation (mutransport makes sense; in doing so, it should also take account of the administrative burdens and costs for honest) be equipped with a smart tachograph” 12usinesses; __________________ 12 www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do? type=TA&reference=P7-TA-2012- 0271&language=DE&ring=A7-2012- 0195#BKMD-7.
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Commission toand Member States to work on clearify the provisions so that a distinction can be drawn and transparent distinctions between employees and self- employed workers to combat 'bogus self employment'; emphasises that airline pilots and train drivers cannot be considered to be independent of the companies for which they workwhich are practicable and which cover the many forms which employment relationships can take, and which also do not discriminate against genuinely self-employed workers with a small number of clients, which create legal certainty and which prevent abuse of the rules;
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 514 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the need for a new regulation on ground-handling at airports to ensure mandatory social and wage protection for workers in the event of new calls for tenders or the partial loss of work; supports the introduction of rules to ensure the effective implementation of laws with regard to airlines with 'operational bases' on the territory of a Member State; calls for the clarification of the definition of 'home base' to protect the social rights of flight cabin crews, in particular their rest periodat there is no need for ground-handling at airports;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18. Calls for social rights of flight and cabin crew to be protected;
Amendment 569 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to rapidly draw up proposals to combatinvestigate the extent, and consequences, of unfair competition in the digital and sharing economy;
Amendment 596 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that a social protocol is necessary to ensure the primacy of fundamental rights over economic freedomsurgent action is needed to help the social market economy become established in all the EU Member States, to protect the freedom of all market participants and, at the same time, to ensure social balance;
Amendment 616 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls the Commission's commitment to proposing a basis of minimum social rights; emphasises that the establishment of criteria for comparing the various national social systems cannot provide such a basis, but can only serve as a preliminary analytical framework represent the first step towards such a basis;
Amendment 633 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Wishes that wage floors be establishedSupports the establishment of wage floors, possibly in the form of a minimum wage; emphasises that this instrument should be set up on the basis of legislation or convention, in accordance with national practices, with due respect for the role of the social partners; believes that these wage floors should represent at least 60 % of the average national wage; calls on the Commission to consult the social partners with a view to introducing, where appropriate, a minimum wage in some border areas associated with highly mobile workers;
Amendment 660 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Supports the development of effective and efficient national unemployment benefit arrangements as a mechanism for absorbing asymmetric social shocks within the euro area;
Amendment 665 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a.Sees no need to develop an EU-wide unemployment benefit system; fears that this would represent the first step towards the establishment of a transfer union;
Amendment 670 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 687 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Emphasises that in its resolution of 6 February 2013 on Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, (2012/2097 (INI)), the European Parliament made it absolutely clear that charitable activities shall never be an obligation in a free society within the framework of CSR; firmly believes that a commitment to CSR would lead people to be less receptive to charity;
Amendment 689 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28 b. requests that enterprises, particularly SMEs, must not in any way be required to disclose non-financial information about their voluntary social engagement; emphasises that this leads to unreasonably high bureaucratic costs and would jeopardise social commitment instead of promoting it;