Activities of Roberts ZĪLE related to 2019/2186(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers – new forms of employment linked to digital development
Amendments (5)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the platform economy has become an integral and rapidly growing part of the European transport sectorglobal and European economy, including transport sector, contributing to business formation and job growth, facilitating offers of new products and services, and fulfilling individual customer wishes;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the unfair competitive advantages ofe lack of social security that these platform economy over the traditional economy, based on social dumping and tax avoidance and evasion, are unacceptableworkers often face, as most of work is carried out as some form of non-standard work, notably by independent self-employed or “own- account” workers and in many cases only as a part-time job;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to come up with a strategy to align the working conditions of platform workers with those of regular employeeson how to make social protection coverage for platform workers more sustainable, inclusive, effective and adaptable, taking into account wide variety of these new forms of work, while avoiding creation barriers for these forms of work to develop, with full respect for the diversity of national labour market models and the autonomy of social partners;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to support Member States in assessing the different characteristics of workers and finding policy solutions to determine the status or category of work for platform workers; remainds sceptical of the addition of a third categoryabout non-standard nature of these working formats that may require new and innovative, but at the same time simple and easy implementable solutions that would help platform workers to continue their professional activity with their preferred flexibility to organise and control their own status (for example, as secondary source of income), workload and schedule;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. At the same time invites the Commission and Member States to consider innovative, effective and socially beneficial cross-border solutions, for example creation of some sort of cross- border digital system, that would collect contributions from platform workers professional activities and transfer these contributions to respective national social security system professional is attached to, thus ensuring necessary country-specific social coverage and protection.