Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2012/2046(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on women’s working conditions in the service sector
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
– having regard to the Commission communication of 18 April 2012 entitled ‘Towards a job-rich recovery’ (COM(2012)0173) and its accompanying document on exploiting the employment potential of the personal and household services (SWD(2012)95),
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete steps towards a further deepening of the market for services in order to develop its significant jobs potential and to allow workers to benefit from the flexible working conditionarrangements specific to many jobs in this sector (with a view, for example, to reconciling work and care duties), while ensuring decent working conditions with respect to, inter alia, pay, health and safety, career prospects, social security and lifelong learning; Stresses the importance to enforce the principle of equal pay for women and men as enshrined in article 157 of the Treaty; reiterates its resolution of 24 May 2012 with the request to review Directive 2006/54/EC by 15 February 2013 at the latest;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Member States to ratify without delay the Convention No. 189 of the International Labour Organisation on domestic workers, adopted by the tripartite organisation in 2011 aiming at ensuring decent working conditoons for domestic workers and the same basic labour rights as those available to other workers;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for all workers in the service sector to have access to up-skilling programmes in order to improvand life-long learning in order to improve their future labour market opportunities and to reduce the mismatch between skills and work duties ;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that flexible working hours are becoming more commonplace: weekend work, irregular and unpredictable working hours and adding to them, and given that the demand for flexibility is greatest amongst part-time workers, who are mostly women, this means that more women than men suffer changes in their working hours from week to week, making it even harder for women to find a balance between work and family life; stresses on the other hand that the right to flexible working hours can be beneficial for balancing work, family and private life provided that workers have control over, and clarity on their working hours and that part-time work is voluntary;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to develop policies for the transformation of precarious workers in the informal economy into regular workers for instance by introducing tax benefits and Service Vouchers; calls for the development of a programme aiming to educate workers in the service sector on their rights and promote their organisation; calls for initiatives aimed at employers and the wider public raising awareness of the negative effects and impacts of precarious irregular work, including on occupational safety and health;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Commission to issue an independent study on the effects of liberalisation of the domestic care services sector on the position and conditions of workers;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is concerned about the situation of female immigrant workers in the service sector, in particular those employed in private households, as the vast majority work without a contract in domestic service, with very low wages and no social rights of any kind; calls on Member States to encourage these workers to report abusive working conditions without risk of any effects on residence status;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States to ratify without delay the Convention No. 189 of the International Labour Organisation on domestic workers, adopted by the tripartite organisation in 2011 aiming at ensuring decent working conditions for domestic workers and the same basic labour rights as those available to other workers;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that the economic crisis has led to a reduction in gender equality measures, which together with the fact that male employment rates tend to recover more quickly than they do for women, is having a negative impact on women's employment in the service sector; calls on the Commission and Member States to avoid any further negative impacts of fiscal consolidation measures on low pay and working conditions in the services sector for instance by shifting taxes from labour to environmentally harmful economic activities;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes with concern thatCalls on Member States to take measures against abuse of personal care services, such as massage and sauna, are often actuallys masking services of a sexual nature, frequently if provided under duress and controlled by human trafficking networks;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that, although there are increasing numbers of women using computers and surfing the Internet in an elementary way, the digital divide in terms of skills remains very widepersists in some Member States, hampering women's ability to seek and find skilled work; calls therefore, for the better incorporation of women in the use of new technologies giving them priorityby promoting access to free training courses;