Activities of Kateřina KONEČNÁ related to 2020/2007(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on impacts of EU rules on the free movements of workers and services: intra-EU labour mobility as a tool to match labour market needs and skills
Amendments (5)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that, in the present health crisis, free movement of workers in the field of health services clearly demonstrates the benefits of the PQD; whereas at the same time the current crisis has shed light on and exacerbated existing short-comings in the protection of posted workers in the framework of the provision of services;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that insufficient national implementation of existing legislation continues to seriously hamper the free mobility of workers and the effective protection of their rights within the EU to the detriment of workers and the European economy as a whole; stresses however that the free movement of workers has to be a choice rather than the outcome of economic pressure;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that while it is a competence of Member States to regulate a certain profession, they must respect the limits of the principles of non- discrimination and proportionality, as explicitly stipulated in the Proportionality Test Directive; while at the same time also recognising regulation on grounds of public interest objectives;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the Services Directive and the PQD build on the principle of mutequal trecognition to facilitate free movement of services; calls on theatment and the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality; whereas the Service directive allows Member Sstates to extend mutual recognition to more levels of education and to improve or introduce the necessary procedures as soon as possible;restrict the freedom of services for reasons of public policy, public security, public health or the protection of the environment
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)
(1) Urges the Commission to take action against the so-called letterbox companies, which are artificially set up to circumvent applicable legislation in a host country, while clearly abusing the freedom of establishment;