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Activities of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2013/2112(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2112(INI)

Amendments (17)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas labour inspection plays an important role in protecting employees’ rights, preventing ~~abusive practices on the part of employer~~breaches of employment protection rules and promoting fair and socially responsible economic growth inasmuch as it helps to ensure that wages are actually paid and social security contributions are made, thus increasing tax revenue and the inflow of money to social security systems;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights the fact that labour inspection is a public service task ~~which, in the absence of any equivalent body to do the job, should be carried out only by independent public servant~~and that it falls solely within the remit of the Member States;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that ~~all categories of worker, employed and self-employed and irrespective of their status, employment relationship or origin,~~national rules prescribe what work is carried out under an employment contract, what groups come under the responsibility of the ~~national~~ inspection authorities and ~~must enjoy~~how the aim of according them the same degree of protection is to be achieved;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on Member States, in cases where labour inspections uncover abuse, to protect the workers concerned and enable them to assert their rights at no cost; points out that measures to that end, such as a direct right of complaint for victims or a collective right of complaint, are effective means of protecting workers affected;deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Calls on the Member States to criminalise the non-respect of working conditions;~~deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Points out that there is an important role to be played by the social partners, and particularly by workers’ representatives, in seeking to ensur~~ing~~e that the existing rules are observed; ~~calls on the Member States to institute the formal involvement of the social partners in labour inspection;~~

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Points out that workers who provide domestic services are often undeclared, but that, in many cases, this situation lies outside the remit of the national inspection authorities; calls on Member States to enable inspections to be carried out in private homes and to introduce effective sanctions;deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Recognises that there is a growing trend towards self-employment, outsourcing und subcontracting; considers that systems of general contractor liability for the entire subcontracting chain constitute a useful tool for improved monitoring of public procurement, and that they should be introduced in all Member Statit important that public procurement contracts should automatically be sent to the labour inspection authorities;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Highlights attention to the problem of implementing workplace health and safety rules in the case of employees doing undeclared work; stresses that the right to health and safety protection in the workplace applies ~~irrespective of the~~to every employee’s or self-employed person~~’s status~~, and that improved implementation of the Member States’ existing rules will give substance to that right;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Calls for~~Advocates stiffer penalties for companies that fail to meet their obligations in relation to employees’ basic rights, and considers that such penalties must have a sufficiently deterrent effect to ensure that employers and employees cannot gain from circumventing the existing rules on employment and health protection;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Agency for cross-border matters concerning the abuse of employment protection rules and undeclared work, with a remit including inter alia the identification of letter-box companies, the control of transnational service providers, the introduction of further-training programmes, the identification of new ways of circumventing the rules, and the organisation of cross-border controls;deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Commission to ~~introduce~~carry out a pilot project for a European early-warning system~~, for~~ aimed at signalling breaches of employment protection rules and cases of undeclared work, which would promote the rapid exchange of information between Member States and would be accompanied by a blacklist so that ~~abus~~breaches byof employ~~ers could be~~ment protection rules could be more effectively nipped in the bud; points out that such an early-warning system could be modelled on the existing European consumer- protection early- warning system (RAPEX);

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Points out that the right of national inspection authorities to carry out inspections within non-national companies has hitherto been severely restricted; calls for A1employee posting ~~certificates~~information to be entered in a~~n EU-wide~~ register available to authorities throughout the EU in order to facilitate the control at national level of employment relationships among posted workers;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. C~~riticises the Commission’s suggestion~~onsiders it important, in relation to the directive on the enforcement of the Posting of Workers Directive, ~~for closed lists of measures restricting national powers of inspection; considers it important~~ that national labour inspectorates should be able to conduct inspections in every case where they deem it needful to do so;

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

~~27. Calls on the Commission, without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity, to propose a directive underpinning the role of labour inspectors and laying down European labour-inspection standards;~~deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Points out that competition policy is implemented at European level; considers that, by the same token, measures to combat social dumping should be included in the EU treaties with provision for the Commission to implement them; considers that the Commission’s powers in this regard should extend, as they do in the field of competition law, to the imposition of penalties on non-compliant companies;deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Considers it important that the Commission’s rules against social dumping should be enshrined in a binding legal instrument; deems it necessary to introduce an EU-level labour inspection system for implementing the Commission’s powers in this regard;deleted

2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL