20 Amendments of Maxette PIRBAKAS related to 2020/2007(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1
Citation 1
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to Directive 2014/54/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
– having regard to the report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee of 4 December 2018 on the implementation of Directive 2014/54/EU on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
– having regard to the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report No 6/2018 entitled ‘Free Movement of Workers – the fundamental freedom ensured but better targeting of EU funds would aid worker mobility’;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
– having regard to the publication in the Official Journal on 11 July 2019 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1149 establishing a European Labour Authority, and the entry into force of that regulation on 31 July 2019;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, according to the study entitled ‘The EU farming employment: current challenges and future prospects’, temporary workers account for just 8% of all workers in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas, in 2011, the share of foreign labour in the EU agricultural sector was 1.6% for workers from Member States (intra-EU labour) and 2.7% for workers from non-EU countries (extra-EU labour);
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the European Union has already introduced a host of instruments to promote labour mobility, including EURES, Your Europe and Solvit, of which the public is largely unaware, meaning that the point of those instruments has to be called into question;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas labour mobility is specifically covered by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the EU programme for employment and social innovation (EaSI), and whereas the European Court of Auditors has pointed out that ‘the similarity of the respective objectives of the two EU funds supporting labour mobility (ESF and EaSI) makes complementarity between them challenging’ and that 'the way in which the ESF is used by all Member States for the support of labour mobility is not known by the Commission’;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets the fact that this opinion aims to highlight the fact that European workers are finding it difficult to move around, when attention has already been drawn to the matter in previous texts;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Takes this opportunity to reiterate the following observations set out in the minority opinion tabled on 20 November 2018 when the vote was taken on the proposal for a regulation establishing a European Labour Authority: ‘This new text is intended to make up for the inadequacy or inability in a number of areas, which the Commission acknowledges in its explanatory statement, by bringing them together to make them more efficient; however, the centralisation of failed tools can no more achieve the objectives that the Agency has set itself than was possible when those tools were independent; consequently, the current text would quickly prove to be inadequate; furthermore, in the form proposed, the Agency would not have the resources to tackle the major challenges it purports to address’;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that betterthere is an urgent need to rethink legal frameworks and place a greater focus on the implementation and enforcement of labour law are urgently needed, including with regard to employment rights and social security coverage, especially for atypical work and exploited labour so as to prevent unfair competition among Member States;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that better targeting of EU funds would support worker mobility, enabling better use of the information available and improving the collection and use of data on the patterns of labour mobility flows and imbalances within the labour marketand exchanges of information among Member States would, where justified, support worker mobility in the agricultural sector, worker mobility;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission, in line with the recommendations made by the European Court of Auditors in Special Report No 6 2018, to refine its monitoring framework for EaSI-EURES cross- border-partnership projects, so that there is a clear link between targets, outputs and results at the application stage, in order to guarantee that funds are used efficiently and are genuinely useful;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that family workers still represent the vast majority of agricultural labour in Europe, and that insufficient generational renewal is one of the major challenges faced by the farming sector across the EU, resulting, among other factors such as the lack of services in rural areas, in fewer farmers in the sector year after year;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that the complete lack of a fair wage, which has long been the case and is directly linked with European and international market legislation, is one of the major causes of the problems with regard to generational renewal and maintaining the attractiveness of farming;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that technological innovation is aone of the drivers of structural change within farms and agricultural labour markets, and that many holdings across Europe are not sufficiently prepared for taking up technological innovation owing to the low level of agricultural training of their farm managers, a level which differs significantly among Member Statadapted when it comes to embracing technological innovation, and points out, with that in mind, that action should be taken in vocational agricultural training courses to step up training and support in the use of new technologies;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that maintaining farming employment plays a key role in keeping rural economies alivepreserving the life and economies of rural, mountainous and outermost areas and is therefore of significant importance;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes with regret the COVID-19 infections that have occurred at plants that make extensive use of posted workers;