4 Amendments of Kinga GÖNCZ related to 2012/2046(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete steps towards a further deepening of the market for services in order to develop its significant jobs potential and to allow workers to benefit from the flexible working conditions specific to many jobs in this sector (with a view, for example, to reconciling work and care duties), while ensuring decent working conditions with respect to, inter alia, pay, health and safety, accessibility, career prospects, social security and lifelong learning;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in consultation with the social partners, to develop strategies to set minimum standards in the service sector, including regular contracts, collective bargaining and statutory wage floors, putting special emphasis on the principle of equal pay for equal work and trying to tackle the negative consequences of horizontal and vertical segregation; calls for a special tax and benefits regime for the personal and household service sector in order to regularise the widespread phenomenon of undeclared work and thereby ensure decent working conditions;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for all workers (with particular attention paid to vulnerable groups of people) in the service sector to have access to up-skilling programmes in order to improve the mismatch between skills and work duties;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the drastic budget cuts in many Members States are affecting female workers disproportionately and calls on the Commission to undertake an assessment collection of data ofn the impact of austerity measures on women in the labour market, with particular emphasis on the service sector;