12 Amendments of Ole CHRISTENSEN related to 2009/2220(INI)
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages Member States to 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’ contractslabour law provisions that effectively safeguard the rights of people who are employed in atypical forms of work and ensure that atypical forms of work are not used to force out traditional forms of work;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recommends that workers on atypical contracts be covered by existing EU Directives that cover worker categories within the EU, including ‘the Working Time Directive’(1993/104/EC), ‘the Directive on temporary agency work’(2008/104/EC), ‘the Directive on part-time work’ (1997/81/EC) and ‘the Council Directive concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work’ (1999/70/EC);
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Member States to develop active intervention policies giving workers 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 atypical, the most important consideration being to keep people in the labour market; if the re-entry takes place through atypical contracts, these contracts must guarantee well- regulated and secure working conditions for salaried employees;
Amendment 116 #
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 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that flexicurity should be defined as combining flexibility and security and an active labour market policy 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 also of the opinion that flexicurity can help to make labour markets more robust in the event of structural changes; is of the opinion that flexibility and security requirements and an active labour market policy are not contradictory and are mutually reinforcing;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points out that there is a steadily increasing problem with regard to ‘false’ self-employed persons, who are often forced by their employer to work under wretched conditions; recommends that the Commission provide a clear definition of ‘false’ self-employed persons, so that this group of workers can be identified and covered by existing EU legislation for workers; employers that utilise the working capacity of ‘false’ self-employed persons must also be subject to sanctions;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Believes that a flexicurity pathway will not resolve the problems associated with atypical appointments;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Condemns the abusive replacement of regular employment with forms of atypical contracts that contribute to poorer and more uncertain working conditions than regular employment conditions and that are at the expense of the general public, employees and competitors; stresses that such forms of contract violate the European social model;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls upon the Commission and the Member States to eliminate administrative burdens in order to facilitate the business environment, especially for SMEs, without any implications for the safety or health of salaried employees;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls upon the national social partners to overcome reservations againstsecure ‘outsiders’’ (employees with atypical or ‘very atypical’ contracts) and to balance their rights and social-protection requirements that are in line with those of ‘insiders’;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes that the involvement of the social partners 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 supportrecognition which the social partners enjoy is probably the majoran important determinant of the quality of their contribution;