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20 Amendments of José Albino SILVA PENEDA related to 2008/2035(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas undeclared work is a particularly worrying and persistent feature of European labour markets which risks destroyingcould endanger the financial sustainability of the European social model by obstructconstraining growth-oriented economic, budget and social policies; whereas, equally, it is responsible for distortions of competition in the internal market because it creates unfair competition in respect of other States or companies,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas undeclared work is the mainone of the factors behind social dumping and is therefore one of the key issues as far as modernising European labour law is concerned,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas the problem of immigration is linked to undeclared work, given that immigrants,immigrant people, namely the ones who are oftein an illegal, are used to do undeclared jobs, often situation, are more vulnerable to become undeclared workers and to working in bad conditions,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas domestic workers are very often a major source of undeclared labour, are often victims of mass exploitationpeople who perform domestic services often work undeclared and a large number of these workers are essentially migrant workermigrants, many of whom are in an illegal or clandestinesituation,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas undeclared work is not included in the fiscal base and undermines the funding and distributprovision of social welfare and public services, also limiting the Member States’ capacity to offer social servic by Member States,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas to combat clandestinefight illegal employment effectively, it is vital to strengthen supervisory and sanction mechanisms with the assistance of labour inspectorate services, tax administrations and the social partners,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the strong asymmetry between the instruments the European Union can use for quality work policies and the instruments used for policies to safeguard market freedoms;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls, therefore, for European action to combat undeclared work to be more pro- active and incisive, in order to prevent the modernisation of labour law in Europe from remaining on a purely theoretical level;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to consider establishing a database on the various approaches and measures implemented nationally by each Member State, to assess their feasibility and transferability to othodologies used to measure undeclared work by Member States aiming at promoting ther sectors and areas of work haring other Member Statf best practices;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to frame policies to provide for both general measures and sectoral measures in order to prevent and regulate undeclared work with the full involvement of the social partners and with special reference to the most affected sectors, such as the hotel and catering industry, farming, domestic services and the construction industry;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the Commission’s approach, aiming to reduce the economic attractiveness of undeclared work by better defining tax and social protection systems, to be backed up by efficient policies to create more and better jobs;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to provide strong incentives for those who undertake to put undeclared work on a formal economic footing and to use atypical contracts for a limited period of time (two years)mote the regularisation of undeclared work;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Takes the view that the Commission should provide support, also by means of a directive, for transnational collective bargaining aiming to ensure decent, uniform minimum salaries throughout the European Union;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Strongly believes that bringing undeclared employment relationships into line with the law must always include an obligation to pay contributions, which, should there be a desire to facilitate matters for employers, could be charged to the Inland Revenue in advance, but which in any case must always be paid;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Is of the opinion that simplifying or reducing administrative burdens, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, could diminish th will promote buse of undeclared labouriness activity in Europe;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Takes the view that there is a need to raise awareness amongst both workers and potential usemployers on the risks and costs relating to undeclared work and on the benefits of decregularising that work;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to assess the possibility of establishing a specific ‘European fund for the declaration of undeclared work’, in support of regional and local plans to combat undeclared employment;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Takes the view that the channel of state aid exempted from the notification requirement should be pursued also for the phenomenon of undeclared work, by broadly interpreting the expression ‘job creation’ and in the light of the meaning of ‘creation of a regular job’; notes that undeclared employment is not equivalent to a proper job and therefore any incentive to regularise it could be deemed ‘employment creation aid;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Takes the view that the issue of the illegal employment of illegal immigrantsmmigrant people in an illegal situation is a complex one which cannot be resolved simply by punishing employers, but which calls for cross-sector, wide-ranging measures;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
38. Considers that the fight against a growing informal economy and, in particular, against the exploitation of clandestine migrant workers in an illegal situation, can be based not only on a policy of prosecution and deportation but also on preventive instruments and mechanisms to prevent and combat the exploitation of migrant workers, making provision for the recognition of and respect for fundamental human rights and the work of illegal immigrants;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL