Activities of Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA related to 2013/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Effective labour inspections as a strategy to improve working conditions (short presentation)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas illicitly employed workers suffer from secondary negative consequences such as the lack of access to training, the psychological constraints of having an accident or being caught, which in return affects the productivity of companies and the economy as a whole as well as from long- term consequences such as lack of right to old- age pension or very low pension benefits leading to a higher poverty risk;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas undeclared work is responsible for distortions of competition in the single market because it allows certain countries and companies to compete unfairly against others;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the problematic nature of labour inspection in respect of migrant workers from both EU and third countries, particularly in relation to the role and remit of national inspectorates; points out that national-level electronic systems, such as Belgium's LIMOSA system16 for the compulsory advance registration of foreign workers by employers, could substantially facilitate the task of labour inspection; __________________ 16 https://www.socialsecurity.be/foreign/de/e mployer_limosa/home.html.
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that there is an important role to be played by the social partners, and particularly by workers' representatives, in ensuring that the existing rules are observed; calls on the Member States to institute the formal involvement of the social partners in labour inspection;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Draws attention to the specific situation of home workers and teleworkers who, in connection with their work at home or outside their employers’ place of work, can also be the subject of labour law abuses where employers fail to carry out their legal obligations towards them;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
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 chaincould constitute a useful tool for improved monitoring of public procurement, and that they should be introduced in all Member States;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on labour inspections to intensify well- targeted prevention and public education measures to increase the awareness of the importance of health and safety rules and procedures among citizens;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Agency fdevote adequate human resources to monitor 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 ofto develop further- training programmes for inspectorates and to identify new ways of circumventing the rules, and the organisation of cross-border controlscome up with measures to support Member States in tackling undeclared work;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to introduceconsider introducing, after a thorough impact assessment, a forgery-proof European social security card, onr another EU wide identity document which would be stored all the data needed to verify the bearer's employment relationship, including details of social security coverstatus and working hours, for example, and which would be subject to strict data-protection rules;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
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 A1 posting certificates to be entered in an EU-wide register in order to facilitate the control at national level of employment relationships among posted workers;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. PointCalls outn 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 companiee Commission to identify ways to better tackle social dumping cases in the EU and to come up with appropriate instruments;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29