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9 Amendments of Philip BUSHILL-MATTHEWS related to 2008/2035(INI)

Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to consider improving incentives for regular work which may include increasing the tax-free base for income and, as an incentive to employers, reducing the non- wage costs associated with legal employment;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #
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 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on those Member States who have applied transitional arrangements to the free movement of workers in the European Union to open up their employment markets to workers from all the new Member States, given that any restrictions – even partial ones – on access to the labour market, do not only run counter to the European spirit but also risk increasing recourse to undeclared work and creating territorial imbalances;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Is of the opinion that simplifying or reducing administrative burdens, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, cwould diminish the use of undeclared labour;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that unless it is followed up by specific harmonisation measures among Member States, a policy that is exclusively punitive could concentrate undeclared work in the less structured States and in the less regular economies;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the European Union to play a greater role in promoting better and increased cooperation and coordination between labour inspectorates, by strengthening the economic and technological resources of inspection services and by providing for the possible establishment of some kind of European ‘social hub’;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to assess the possibility to establish 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 135 #
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 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Considers that anreform of the labour market accompanied by appropriate training policyies is a first step towards combating undeclared work;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL