4 Amendments of John Stuart AGNEW related to 2016/2221(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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1. StressNotes that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors, such as price and market fluctuations or even unpredictable weather, that make employment prospects precarious and insecure; considers that the Commission and the Member States must encourage the use of income-stabilisation and risk- management toolsthe drive to achieve efficiencies in agriculture in order to secure attractive working conditions and financially viable businesses inevitably means that fewer farm workers will be employed as mechanisation and the use of robotics to replace manual work becomes ubiquitous, which makes employment prospects for rural workers more precarious and insecure;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
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2. Draws attention to the specific case of seasonal workers, whose working conditions are particularly precarious; understands ‘seasonal workers’ to be workers who have entered into open-ended or fixed-term employment contracts, the duration and renewal of which are contingent to a major degree on seasonal factors, such as the changing weather, public holidays and/or the timing of harvests; calls on the Commission and the Member States to regulate the social and legal status of seasonal workers and to provide them with social security cover;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls on the Commission to put into practiceNotes the recommendations set out in the Andrieu report (‘How can the CAP improve job creation in rural areas?’), which was adopted by Parliament on 27 October 2016, and in particular that concerning the mobilisation of funds from the EAFRD in an effort to develop a genuine social economy in rural areas;