Activities of Elisabeth SCHROEDTER related to 2009/2220(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on atypical contracts, secured professional paths, flexicurity and new forms of social dialogue PDF (211 KB) DOC (128 KB)
Amendments (33)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
- having regard to the Study on economically dependent work/parasubordinate (quasi-subordinate) work by Professor Adalberto Perulli, 2003,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas people working in this type of employment often face discrimination vis à vis their colleagues with traditional open-ended full-time contracts,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the financial and economic crisis mayhas lead to unstable labour markets and rising poverty and social exclusion, in particular for already vulnerable and disadvantaged workers,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the number of people living in in-work poverty is increasing, having reached 8% of the European workforce, and the number of low-wage earners currently is about 17%,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the unemployment rate within the EU 27 has risen to 10% (2009), which is the same level as that in the USA, and unemployment is unlikely to peak before the second half of 2010,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas, in the EU 27, 45% of all periods of unemployment last longer than one year, compared with about 10% in the USA,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas, within employment policies, equal opportunities for women and men, as well as non-discrimination principles, need to be actively promoted,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls upon the 2010 spring European Council for clear guidance and concrete measures towards safeguarding decent work and employment and creating sustainable job opportunities in the framework of an ambitious EU2020 Strategy;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomNotes the wide variety of labour traditions, contractual forms and business models existing in labour markets;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recommends that the priorities for labour law reform, where it is needed, should focus on: urgent extension of the protection of workers in atypical forms of employment; clarification of the situation of dependent employment; action against undeclared work; the problem of outsourcing that leads to false self- employment as identified in the EP Perulli study (2003), and the facilitation of transitions between various situations of employment and unemployment;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages Member States towhich develop new modes of access to employment through the framing of new labour law provisions covering, for example, "‘distance working"’, "‘specified- purpose"’ contracts and "‘mission"’ contracts to always ensure equal treatment with workers with full-time standard contracts;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls upon the Member States to implement Directive 97/81/EC on part- time work and Directive 99/70/EC on fixed-term work;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that recurrence to atypical forms of employment should be a personal choice, and not an imposition dictated by increasing barriers to access the labour market or the lack of quality jobs available;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the adoption of Directive 2008/104/EC agency work and calls for its swift implementation;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Member States to develop active intervention policies giving workers, in particular women, who re- enter the labour market an entitlement to individual support during the period strictly necessary for them to become more employable through training and requalification; unemployed people should re-enter the labour market quickly even if their contracts are atypicalunder decent working and employment conditions including job protection, the most important consideration being to keep people in the labour market; under working conditions allowing them a decent life;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls upon the Union and the Member States to eradicate illicit employment and believes that implementation of flexicurity strategies can help in fighting illicit employment and in making "very atypical" forms of work less precarious;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that combating undeclared work should be accompanied by measures to create viable and sustainable employment alternatives, and to support people in accessing the open labour market;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to create high-quality jobs, including green jobs, and to ensure social cohesion; considers, therefore, that people are more likely to accept the efforts required of them if those efforts are perceived to be fair, to ensure equal treatment and to facilitate employment and social integration;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that flexicurity should be defined as combining flexibility and security on the labour market, so as to help increase both productivity and the quality of jobs by guaranteeing security, while allowing firms the flexibility needed to create jobs in response to the changing needs of the market; is of the opinion that flexibility and security requirements are not contradictory and are mutually reinforcing;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Believes that flexicurity cannot function properly without strong social protection and support to re-enter the labour market, which are essential elements during transitions from education to employment, between jobs, and from employment to retirement;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes that, especially in the context of the present economic situation, implementing flexicurity is even more necessarysocial partners will only support labour law and labour market reforms if they also aim at effectively reducing differentiated treatment between different types of contracts, recalls that application of flexibility principles requires ambitious structural reforms based on a solid consensus, and needs to be accompanied by increased protection mechanisms to avoid hardship;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that companies do not trust the labour market and regard it as unreliable in the context of the current economic crisis, and that they lack long- term vision;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls, in the context of modern work organisation, for the creation of flexible and secure contractual arrangements ensuring equal treatment; nevertheless believes that employment contracts of an indefinite duration should stay the main form of employment, while bearing in mind that some people prefer atypical contracts, especially for students or young people who need a diversity of experienceunder the condition that they ensure equal treatment;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Firmly believes that, taking into account the different traditions in Member States, any form of employment should be accompanied by a core of rights, which should include: equal treatmentliving wages and the elimination of gender and ethnic pay gap; adequate social protection; non- discrimination and equal treatment while accessing and in employment,; workers"’ health and safety protection and provisions on working/rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action and access to training and career progression;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the EU and the Member States to step up their efforts to invest in skills and training to support sustainable employment; therefore calls upon the Member States to invest in people by vigorously implementing and financing lifelong learning strategies, and the recognition of non-formal skills and competencies, while respecting a lifecycle approach; also calls on Member States to introduce measures at national, regional and local level to guarantee that each young person leaving school has access to a job or to higher education or receives vocational training;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls upon the Member States to implement policies that enable people to balance flexible work and private and family life better, ensuring that the opening hours of childcare facilities are tailored to working hourthrough supporting measures such as maternity, paternity and parental leaves, flexible working time, and affordable, accessible childcare facilities;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls upon the Member States to reinforce activationsupport schemes, especially for the low-skilled, through pathway approaches, personalised advicecounselling, intensive (re-)training of workers, subsidised employment and start-up grants for the self-employed and businesses;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Is concerned however on the impact of the recent ECJ judgement Laval, Rüffert, Viking and Luxembourg on the freedom of association and the freedom to action to improve working conditions;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Believes that the contribution of the European and national social partners and civil society organisations to achieving the EU2020 Strategy is particularly important with regard to reaching the employment targets and implementing the flexicurity agenda;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls upon the national social partners to overcome reservations against "outsiders" (employees withfor a directive to ensure equivalent rights to atypical wor "very atypical"kers to their full-time countracts) and to balanceerparts in particular including their rights and social-protection requirements with those of "insiders" to join a union;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls moreover on the European Commission to create a legal framework for transnational collective bargaining at either enterprise level or sectorial level, in order to support companies and sectors to handle challenges dealing with issues such as work organisation, employment, working conditions, training in order to give the social partners a basis for increasing their capacity to act at transnational level;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Believes that people involved in measures of labour market inclusion or measures to prepare them to (re-)enter the labour market as well as civil society organisations providing these services to them or representing them should be part of the design, implementation and delivery of policies affecting them;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes that the involvement of the social partners and civil society organisations in policymaking and implementation varies widely across the Member States, but that generally the trend is towards the use of a wider mix of instruments to pursue policy objectives; believes that the quality of the social and institutional support which the social partners enjoy is probably the major determinant of the quality of their contribution;