14 Amendments of Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA related to 2013/2111(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the right to social security is a fundamental human right which is an integral parkey element of the European social model; whereas the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has adopted recommendations on ‘national floors of social protection’ with the aim of safeguarding the right of every individual to social security and to a decent standard of living;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the aim of social protection is an investment in human resources, enabling adaptation toto react in case of negative changes in the labour market and effective, action against poverty and social exclusion, as well as secure labour market integration; whereas social security has a stabilising effect on the economy and an anticyclical function that can boost domestic demand and consumption;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, to tackledue to the crisis, Member States have made severe cuts in public expenditure just when social protection needed to be strengthened in response to a sudden rise in unemployment and, at the same time, national budgets for social security cover have been further squeezed as contributions have fallen in the wake of wide-scale job losses or wage cuts, thus placing the European social model at real risk;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, social protection coverage in the EU Member States is still inadequate; whereas cases of vulnerable workers being abused in the EU are still commonplace and labour-market compartmentalisation, withs a competence of the Member States, widely varying levels of protection for different types of contract and job relationship, is a glaring reality, may leading to social maladjustment and inequality;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is essential to lay down a clear definitionprevent abuses in case of bogus self- employment and to prevent abuses in this regard so as to avoid any violation of workers' social rights, any distortion of competition and any risk of social dumping;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, given that the working conditions of self-employed people who are not economically independent are changing in ways not radically different from those of salaried workers, their social security and employment rights ought more closely to resemble salaried workers' rightsneed to be further looked at;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas social protection schemes for the self-employed need to take into consideration the fact that the self- employed represent an important force for innovation and economic growth in the EU and any intervention therein should enhance its development rather than jeopardise its existence;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to further develop the preventive arm of social security systems and put greater emphasis on activating measures;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to ensure responsible long-term financing of social security systems, particularly in periods of economic crisis, in order to ensure the adequacy of social benefits, while not overlooking the fact that one of the most important aspects of social investments is that they enable social and economic goals to be reconciled; considers, therefore, that they should be viewed as investment, rather than as expenditurein order to ensure their sustainability and the adequacy of social benefits;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that effective social protection should include measures to promote the participation of beneficiaries in the labour market, and that lowering the level of social protection will noto stimulate employment;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States especially to provide a guarantee ofdequate social security for the most vulnerable social groups such as the unemployed, the disabled, single-parent families, the young, pensioners and young families; calls also on the Member States to ensure that social services are made more accessible for all members of vulnerable social groups and persons with long-term care needs, particularly in rural areas;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to review legislation on the coordination of social security systems and draws Member States' attention to the fact that mobile workers should not be subjected to discriminatory social protection rules aimed at curbing benefit abuses; believes that all mobile workers should enjoy the samappropriate social security entitlements and cover;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention to the fact that the absence of a clear definitiondifferent statuses of self- employment considerably hampers theed among Member States require solutions for better coordination of social security for self- employed workers among the Member States and may consequentlyin order not to restrict the free movement of workers;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to draw up a conceptual framework that will provide a legal definition of the nature and different forms of atypical employment in general and self-employment as its most widespread form, applying labour law and social protection measures in line with the various forms of employment and providing foridentifying the possibility of properly regulating social security for self-employed workers; also considers it appropriate to clearly identify false self-employment and to sanction employers if such cases are identified;