12 Amendments of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2013/2011(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women who chose to become entrepreneurs, more often than men cite a better work-life balance and/or economic necessity as the main motivation;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas self-employment is, in many cases, not the preferred option of the person concerned but rather a necessity because of a lack of other job opportunities or sufficiently flexible working arrangements to combine work and care; whereas these circumstances have worsened in times of crisis, increasing the number of people who are self-employed out of necessity, particularly among women;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas self-employed women are in the minority among the self-employed but have a higher probability of falling into poverty;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas a lack of access to adequate pension rights, sick pay, paid leave and other forms social security for the self- employed aggravates the gender pay gap for self-employed women, especially after retirement;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas an increasing number of self- employed persons with too little work or work that is very low paid, women in particular, are falling below the poverty line while they are not officially registered as unemployed;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas there is a lack of reliable, accurate and comparable information and data on the situation, working conditions, social security arrangements to combine work and care of the self-employed;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all workers and self- employed persons have access to lifelong learning by redistributing existing EU and national funding from workers with permanent contracts only to workers with all contract types and the self-employed;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the European social partners, Commission and Member States to study the issue of dependent self-employment and find practical solutions, particularly in those sectors where trans-border activities play an important role and among vulnerable groups such as domestic workers and low-paid workers;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to promote and facilitate self-organisation of self- employed persons, especially of women, to increase their possibilities of defending their collective interests;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Encourages social partners to exchange of good practices between trade unions and professional associations on services provided to self-employed workers, on fighting bogus self- employment and on organising own- account self-employed workers;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious revision of Directive 2010/41/EU1 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self- employed capacity in order to guarantee higher, minimum maternity and, paternity, adoption, filial and care leave rights; __________________ 1 OJ L 180, 15 July 2010, p.1
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on Member States to facilitate the combination of work and care responsibilities by providing workers with flexibility with regard to working hours and working place in order to avoid that they have no other possibility for flexibility than to resort to dependent or involuntary self- employment;