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4 Amendments of Jan CREMERS related to 2008/2249(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
1 OJ C 102 Ε, 24.4.2008, p. 321.Ca. whereas the production process in several industries nowadays takes the form of a fragmented chain of production that has lengthened and broadened, a chain constituting a logistical chain (both horizontal and vertical), as well as a value-chain of an economic and productive nature with single specialities or tasks often ‘externalised’ to small firms or self-employed workers, and whereas the effect in company accounts is a substitution of direct labour costs by subcontracting, services or supplier costs based on invoices and ‘commercial contracts for services’, Or. en
2008/12/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas these changes have had far- reaching consequences for labour relations and sometimes make it difficult to clearly determine the branch of law applying to the relationships between the various elements of a production chain, and as a consequence the pricing and allocation of labour is no longer governed by the industry’s regulatory framework,
2008/12/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas subcontracting and outsourcing to legally independent firms does not lead to independency, and companies at a lower level in the value chain, with the exception of specialised subcontractors with high tech or other sophisticated activity, are often not in a position to act on an equal footing with main contractors,
2008/12/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Invites both sides of the industry to take the lead in the promotion of cooperative subcontracting for specific one-off tasks on the one hand, and for the restriction of the multiplication of subcontracting on the other, and welcomes the development of framework agreements that define social responsibility and liability in the chain as a complement to the necessary regulation;
2008/12/12
Committee: EMPL