5 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2013/2011(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need to provide better universal social security and to promote social insurance for self-employed; calls on the Commission and Member States to link social security and social protection rights to the individual rather than the working contract, thereby enabling decent social protection for all including self-employed and workers regardless of their contract type or employment status, including the unemployed and irregular immigrants;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Warns that the budget cuts and privatisations being carried out by many Member States in their public health systems are destroying their social welfare systems and undermining the rights to social protection of workers and citizens in general; particularly deplores the cutbacks in sexual and reproductive healthcare which primarily affect women, with smear tests, mammographies and gynaecological checks no longer being offered annually but at longer intervals;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Council to unblock adoption of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 92/85/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on Member States to facilitate the combination of work and care responsibilities by providing workers with voluntary flexibility with regard to working hours and working place in order to avoid that they have no other possibility for flexibility than to resort to dependent self- employment;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to guarantee access to fertility and assisted reproduction treatments for single women and lesbians;