Activities of Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA related to 2012/2046(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women's working conditions in the service sector (short presentation)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on women’s working conditions in the service sector PDF (224 KB) DOC (141 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. Whereas women tend to be disproportionately represented in flexible employment, probably because care of the family is still considered to be their prime responsibility and they are therefore deemed to be more suited than men to working on a temporary, casual or part- time basis or to working from homwhich helps them to reconcile work and family life;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. Whereas the difference in pay between men and women for the same work or for work of equal value is at one of the highest levels in the services sector;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that there is also a concentration of women working in the public sector, with 25 % of women compared with 17 % of men; it must be highlighted that in this sector women are more vulnerable to loss of employment due to budget cuts;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that in the public sector, which is characterised by transparent and clear recruitment criteria and promotion terms, women are more likely to advance through different career levels and hold positions corresponding to their qualifications, while in the private sector this trend is reversed; in this regard stresses the need to introduce transparent rules for the selection and recruitment of employees in the private sector;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that among women employed in the services sector there are more women who find employment in the social, care and telecommunications sectors, which tend to require lower qualifications, enjoy little social prestige and correspond to women’s traditional roles in society, while men dominate the most prestigious and lucrative sectors: finance and banking;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that flexible working hours are one of the elements which enable women to reconcile work and family life, however such a form of employment must be the woman’s decision, and not be imposed and enforced by the employer;
Amendment 48 #
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 balan; highlights that flexible working hours should be the woman’s decision, and not be imposed and enforced between work and family lifey the employer;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights that on the one hand increasing flexibility of working conditions increases women’s opportunities to actively participate in the services sector through the creation of opportunities to work from home (various forms of telework), however on the other hand it can result in negative consequences for women in employment, such as lack of formal contracts, social security and employment security; it can also result in employers providing insufficient occupational health and safety conditions;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that in relation to the growing trend of employing women in part-time work and employers’ preferences to invest in employees with permanent employment, women have clearly limited access to a wide range of training and retraining courses, which decreases their opportunities for professional development;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Points out the limited opportunities women have to adapt to the requirements of labour markets in a modern, highly globalised world, in which a worker’s key attribute is mobility and ease of moving to take up positions outside of their place of residence, which in the case of women who are more involved in caring for children and the home is often impossible and does not allow them to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the labour market;