22 Amendments of Ole CHRISTENSEN related to 2016/2095(INI)
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
– having regard to articles 151-156 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas social dialogue can contribute positively to growth, employment and competitiveness; whereas the Union is obliged to recognise and promote the role of the social partners, facilitate dialogue between the social partners and respect their autonomy according to TFEU 152;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the Commission must consult the social partners before taking any action in the social policy field, according to Article 154 TFEU;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 – 1 a (new)
-1a. Calls for the European Pillar of Social Rights to include but not be limited to an introduction of a social protocol in the case of a treaty change or revision; highlights that such a protocol would clarify that neither economic freedoms nor competitions rules shall have priority over fundamental social rights and social progress, in case of conflict, social rights shall take precedence;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls the obligation of all participating parties, including the EU institutions, to fully respect and promote the autonomy of social partners at national level, national collective bargaining systems as well as national labour market models and traditions, including the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements and to take collective action in accordance with national law and practices; underlines the respect for the Member States’ competence and national labour law, in particular the governance of legal or contractual provision concerning employment conditions, working conditions and the relationship between employers and workers; stresses the exclusive competence of the Member States to define the legal concepts of ‘worker’ and ‘employment’ under the EPSR in accordance with their national labour law;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CRecalls for the enactment of a directive on fair working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rightsthe core set of enforceable rights guaranteed to every worker, individually or collectively, which Member Sates apply in accordance with national and EU law, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, the right to strike, collective bargaining, collective action, access to education and training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in throughout subcontracting chains, and a prospect of stabilising the working relationship as open-ended employment after a certain period of time; calls for effective enforcement of the existing EU law ensuring fair working conditions for every worker; underlines that this EU aquis also should apply to non-standard forms of employment, such asincluding but not limited to fixed-term work, part-time work, and on-demand work, self-employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeship; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workersin the light of changes in the labour market while respecting the competence of the Member States to define the legal concepts of ‘worker’ and ‘employment’;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Calls for decisive steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platformInvites the Member States to take decisive steps to promote increased legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work especially in the light of digitalisation and changing labour market conditions; underlines that open- ended employment contracts should remain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directive on fair working conditions to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured inemphasises the need to ensure that existing standards also apply to more precarious and atypical forms of employment, in particular:;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
Paragraph 4 – point b
b. for workrecognition of an employment relationship between the worker and intermediated bying digital platforms, a definition of employment that is less dependent on full cumulation of the relevant criteria where such a relation de facto exists under national labour law;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. EIs concerned about the declining labour share of total income in Europe over the past decades; emphasises the need for renewed upward social convergence in wages throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining; considers that to ensure decent living wages, minimum wages set at a decent level are necessary; in order to boost demand, enable sustainable growth and reduce inequality; calls on the Commission and Member States to respect the autonomy of the social partners and actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining; while respecting national labour market models; considers that to ensure decent wages, national minimum wages can be introduced, where social partners want them; with due respect for the practices of each Member States and set with the involvement of social partners, recommends the establishment of national wage floors through legislation or collective bargaining, with the objective of attaining at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is aware that rising life expectancy and workforce shrinking pose a challenge to the sustainability of pensions systems and to intergenerational fairness; reaffirms that the best response is to increase the overall employment rate; reiterates the need to close the current pension gap between men and women around 39% by ensuring equal pay for equal work and increased labour participation by women; considers that pensionable ages should reflect, besides life expectancy, other factors including labour market trends, the economic dependency ratio, the birth rate and differences in job arduousness;
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers access to quality and affordable long-term care services, including home-based care, to be a right that should be upheld with the help of suitably qualified professionals employed under decent conditions; believes that low- income households should therefore be targeted by adequate public services and tax deductions; repeats its call for legislation on carers’' leave accompanied by adequate remuneration and social protection;
Amendment 613 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for legislation to ensure that access to social housing for adequate housing benefits are provided for those in needll , obviously including homeless people, and that vulnerable people, families and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for tax incentives to help young people on low incomes set up their own households; calls for greater use of the EFSI, ERDF and ESF to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision;
Amendment 687 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
19. Is alarmed at the spread of precariousness arising from the excessive use of ‘'atypical’' contracts especially effecting women and migrants; stresses the importance of ensuring sufficient institutional and budgetary capacities to provide adequate protection for people in non-standard forms of employment; considers in particular that:
Amendment 728 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for full implementation of the Youth Guarantee for all people under 3025 and of the recommendation on the long- term unemployed; highlights these as important structural reforms and social investments that are in need of adequate financing;
Amendment 738 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 21 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses the importance of access to formal, informal and non-formal education for underrepresented groups; encourages the Commission to promote and support the social dimension of education as part of the EPRS;
Amendment 747 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – introductory part
Paragraph 22 – introductory part
22. Considers that decisive progress is urgently needed in the area of gender equality and work-life balance; welcomes the social partners attempt to reach agreement on better reconciliation of work, private and family life and gender equality to reduce the gender pay gap, as stated in the European Social Partners Work programme 2015-2017; encourages the Commission to consider, in particular:
Amendment 819 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that labour mobility within the EU is a right whose exercise must be supported but which should not be forced on workers by poor conditions in their home regions, and should not undermine host countries’ social standards; stresses the principal of equal pay for equal work;
Amendment 859 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
26. Considers that the objective of upward social convergence should be underpinned by a set of targets, building on the Europe 2020 strategy and the, Sustainable Development Goals and the Eurofound metrics of 'job quality' serving to guide the coordination of economic, employment and social policies in the EU; believes that these targets could also form part of the Convergence Code currently being discussed for the euro area, and could be based on the following indicators which are directly affected by public policies:
Amendment 923 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 26 – point j a (new)
ja. quality of jobs
Amendment 959 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for a ‘'silver rule’' on social investment to be applied when implementing the Stability and Growth Pact, namely to consider certain public social investments havingthat have a clear positive impact on economic growth (e.g. childcare or education and training) as being eligible for favourable treatmentin the short and long-term as being excluded when assessing government deficits and compliance with the 1/20 debt rule;
Amendment 990 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
30. Reiterates its call for the raevising of the MFF 2014-20 ceilings in order to cope with increased needs; calls, in particular, for:
Amendment 1069 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point b
Paragraph 32 – point b