7 Amendments of Jean Marie BEAUPUY related to 2008/2249(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas subcontracting may also be carried out by pure manpower firms that sometimes operate as so-called letterbox companies, which highlights the nature of the construction industry as a sector of rapidly changing, often fixed term employment relationships where the position of workers is often precarious,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas employment relations in the construction sector have been redefined and, at the same time, have reduced the direct social responsibility of the 'principal contractor', as labour has been externalised by the use of subcontractors and employment agencies, making the supply of cheap, often unskilled labour an integral part of lower level subcontractingthe externalisation of activities or labour by the use of subcontractors and employment agencies is reducing the direct social responsibility of undertakings when it is used extensively,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas thesome sectors, in particular construction sector, hasve been especially vulnerable to abuses in itstheir often complicated subcontracting chains,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Takes note of the Commission's proposal for a Directive providing for sanctions against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals, in which the Commission introduces into Community legislation the idea of joint and several liability into Community legislationof the principal vis-à- vis its direct subcontractor if it has failed to carry out certain checks;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcom Notes the fact that eight Member States (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) have responded toendeavoured to resolve the problems connected with the duties of subcontractors as employers by establishing national liability schemes; encourages other Member States to consider similar schemes applicable to the principal or even the client;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Reiterates its message by callingCalls on the Commission to establish a clear-cut Community legal instrument introducing at European level joint and several liability at European levelof the client vis-à-vis the principal contractor or of any contractor vis-à-vis its direct subcontractor if it has failed to carry out certain checks, while respecting the different legal systems in place in the Member States and the principles of subsidiarity of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that more effective measures can be taken to counter the potential negative social consequences of subcontracting can be tackled byby improving enhanced social dialogue between employers’ organisations and trade unions, also with the participation of socially active NGOs and civil society organisations;