Activities of Iliana IOTOVA related to 2010/2018(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Precarious women workers
Amendments (8)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aа. whereas women in precarious employment are less likely to know their rights and are exposed to a greater risk of exclusion from legal protection and/or of wrongful dismissal,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the importance should be emphasised of the right of all workers, including women in precarious employment, to vocational education and training,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the growing number of women in precarious employment increases the risk of poverty among women,
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to use the new employment strategy to strive for the inclusion of women in precarious employment in social security systems and employment protection systems, irrespective of the status of their work; Considers it highly important for women in precarious employment and their families to be guaranteed unemployment and maternity benefits; Calls on the governments of the Member States to extend the range and duration of benefits with a view to providing an adequate social security net;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to create childcare and carers'’ networks so as to facilitate full-time work and avoid part- time work which is an unwilling choice; Calls on the Member States to create a body for monitoring and imposing penalties on employers offering employment contracts with precarious working conditions;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Advocates standard jobs being arranged in future in accordance with 'good work' principles, and not being converted into precarious jobs; considers that job markets should be better regulated through stringent labour inspections, with the aim of reducing precarious employment;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the two sides of industry to extend the opportunities for trade union participation and codetermination rights for precarious workers, and to penalise obstacles to trade union participation and to facilitate access to information on the workers’ rights;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 а (new)
Paragraph 8 а (new)
8а. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt legislation regulating the social and legal status of seasonal workers and to provide them with social security cover. Understands seasonal workers to be workers who have concluded open-ended or fixed term employment contracts whose duration and continuation is affected by seasonal factors, such as the climatic cycle, public holidays and/or agricultural harvests.