18 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2015/2094(INI)
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y a (new)
Recital Y a (new)
Ya. whereas the contribution of domestic workers and carers to social protection systems is substantial, their role is often underestimated, misunderstood or ignored in debates on reforms in this field;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y b (new)
Recital Y b (new)
Yb. whereas ever longer waiting lists for domestic care services is increasing dependency on carers and domestic workers, often condemning those dependent on these services to poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Stresses the need for a normative concept regarding domestic work and care and calls on the Commission to produce a legislative initiative in this direction; believes that such an initiative should focus on:, establishing quality guidelines for domestic work and care in the EU, that include recommendations to Member States;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a
Paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b
Paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Strongly supports ILO convention 189 concerning decent work for domestic workers, supplemented by Recommendation No 201, as it globally addresses the needs for workers to be covered by labour law and asks for social rights, non-discrimination and equal treatment; asks the Member States therefore to adopt, ratify and implement the ILO convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers it essential to combat precarious and undeclared work, given that this phenomenon severely affects domestic workers and, including migrant women workers in particular, thus worsening their already vulnerable positionposition in instances of vulnerability;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Member States to undertake the necessary efforts, and to find innovative inspection methods, in order to eliminate mistreatment, financial exploitpossible cases of mistreatment, wage discrimination and actsny form of violence or sexual abuse against domestic workers;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on trade unions to approach all those performing domestic work and care with appropriate attention, using methods adapted to the specific working environment of these workers and the precariousness of their jobs; stresses the important role that trade unions can play in organising and informing workers on their rights and obligations; notes that this is a way for domestic workers to be represented with one voice, to be able to collectively bargain their contracts and to defend their rights and interests;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Strongly uUrges the Member States not to penaliseto support and protect undeclared domestic workers or carers when they decide to come out of the vicious circle of ‘hidden’ work, but instead to support and protect them;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to establish an EU observatory on domestic and care work in order to better monitor and document the vulnerable and underestimated profession of domestic workers and carers, and to propose actions to tackle the phenomenon;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Commission and the competent European agencies to conduct a study comparing different systems of regularised domestic work and to collect data with regard to the situation in the Member States; asks the Commission to commission a study on the contribution domestic workers and carers make to social protection systems in the EU;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the need for the Member States to ensure broader access to easily available, suitably funded and affordable high-quality, inclusive childcare, disability care and elderly care facilities, thus minimising the reasons to undertake these duties on an informal or precarious basis and improving the recognition of the value of the work undertaken by professional care-givers;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that adopting and adjusting best practices from certain regions or Member States could lead to regular forms of employment for domestic workers and carers;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to include domestic workers and carers in their educational systems and to make sure that domestic workers of a young age do not abandon school in order to take up work;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, and the Commission and the ILO.