13 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2016/2221(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas agriculture and the agrifood industry account for 6% of EU GDP, 15 million businesses and 46 million jobs;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas non-standard, atypicalew forms of employment have been emerging, whereby the number of workers with – often involuntary – fixed termed and part- time contracts has increased considerably in the EU over the past 15 years; whereas standard employment across a number of sectors has shifted to non-standard or atypical forms of employment, and whereas, if this trend continues, it is likely that the risk of precariousness will increase8 ; __________________ 8 Study for the EMPL Committee on precarious employment in Europe, July 2016, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e tudes/STUD/2016/587285/IPOL_STU%28 2016%29587285_EN.pdf and employment in general became more flexible;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the new forms of employment that are emerging are blurrbring a number of advantages, f.e. more flexibility ing the boundary between dependent employment and self-employment9 , leading to a decline in the quality of employment and the rise of bogus self- employment; __________________ 9ILO report of 2016 on Building a social pillar for European convergence.erms of workplace and working hours; calls the Member States to update their social security systems in order to fit the characteristics of the new forms of employment and quasi self-employment;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Understands standard employment to mean full-time, regular employment on the basis of open-ended contracts, and non-standard or atypical forms of employment to include, i.a., marginal part-time work, temporary agency work, fixed-term contract work, zero-hour contracts, internships that are not part of an education programme, and informal or undeclared workCalls for the various forms of employment that exist to be defined and clarified, in order not only to move beyond current generalisations and to combat illegal and precarious employment effectively but also to facilitate people in achieving work-life balance and to use the opportunities afforded by the collaborative economy;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that over 4.5 million farmers are over 65 and that farmers aged under 35 account for only 6% of those in charge of farms; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement more vigorously the measures provided for under the common agricultural policy to help young farmers set up;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recalls also the importance of a strong common agricultural policy which is able to help young farmers play a bigger role in the market and also to create living conditions conducive to their remaining in farming in the long term;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that short contracts in the agriculture sector reflect the seasonal nature of farm work; calls for this major natural constraint to be respected by enabling farmers to continue recruiting on a seasonal basis and sparing them the burden of additional red tape in the recruitment and management of their workforce;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Draws the attention of the Commission and the Member States to the inhuman working conditions of herders in areas where livestock farming is subject to predation by large carnivores and other animals;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Understands precarious work to mean, as a minimum definition, a non- standard, atypical form of employment having any of the following characteristics:
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- little or no job security owing to the non-permanent nature of the work, as in some fixed-term contracts, involuntary and often marginal part-time contracts, contracts containing poor conditions, unwritten contracts, unclear working hours, and duties that change owing to work on demand;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that numerous factors, such as digitalisation, are contributing to a radical transformation of work, with an increase in non-standardew forms of employment trends that will intensify unless new regulation is put into place; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that work being transformed through digitalisation, and new employment being created as a result of it, is decent;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to combat non-standard, atypical and prdevelop appropriate social secauriousty schemes for new forms of employment, in line with the ILO Decent Work Agenda and the European Social Charter;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need for public investmentsto support start-ups and SMEs in order to promotinge upwards convergence, the social cohesion of the Union and the creation of decent work;