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Amendments (10)

Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) Ambiguity exists as to whether Member States may requireMember States should ensure legally and without any ambiguity the takeover of staff upon a change of provider for groundhandling services to which access is limited. Discontinuity of staff can havehas a detrimental effect on the quality of groundhandling services. It is therefore appropriate to clarify tThe rules on the takeovransfer of staff beyond the application of Directive 2001/23/EC on transfers of undertakings enabling Member States to ensure adequate employment and working conditionshe change of groundhandling providers enabling Member States to safeguard employee´s rights, high labour standards and decent working conditions should be amended where necessary via provisions for the transfer of staff. Dismissal on economic, technical or organisational grounds should not be permitted in this context.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
(28) In a labour-intensive sector such as groundhandling, continuous staff development, education and training have a strong impact on service quality. Minimum training requirements should therefore be set to ensure and the safety of operations. The competent authorities in the Member States in cooperation with EASA, airport operators and the social partners should set ambitious minimum standards to ensure the highest quality for education and training of employees in the groundhandling sector. These standards should be regularly updated and developed in order to contribute to the quality of operations in terms of reliability, resilience, safety and security, and to create a level playing field among operators. No new service providers should be approved until the required standards are met at the respective airport.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. Where, following the selection procedure laid down in Articles 7 to 10, a supplier of groundhandling services mentioned in paragraph 1 loses its authorisation to provide these services or where a service provider ceases to provide groundhandling services to an airport user or where a self-handling airport user decides to cease self-handling, Member States mayshall require supplier(s) of groundhandling services or self-handling airport users which subsequently provide these services to grant staff previously hired to provide these services the rights to which they would have been entitled if there had been a transfer within the meaning of Council Directive 2001/23/EC17 . The provisions set out in Article 4(1), second sentence, of Directive 2001/23/EC shall not apply in these cases.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall limit the requirement in paragraph (2) to the employees of the previous supplier who are involved in the provision of services for which the previous supplier lost authorisation, and who voluntarily accept to be taken on by the new supplier(s) or self-handling airport user. The costs of redundancy plans for departing staff shall be borne by airport users in proportion to their share of traffic.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall limit the requirement in paragraph (2) so that it is to be proportionate to the volume of activity effectively transferred to the other supplier(s).deleted
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. Where a Member State imposes a requirement as referred to in paragraph (2), tTender documents for the selection procedure laid down in Articles 7 to 10 shall list the staff concerned and give the relevant details of employees' contractual rights and the conditions under which employees are deemed to be linked to the services in question. Staff and union representatives shall have access to those lists.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. Suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users shall ensure that all their employees involved in the provision of groundhandling services, including managing staff and supervisors, regularly attend specific and recurrent training to enable them to perform the tasks assigned to them and to prevent accidents and injuries. The competent authorities in the Member States shall monitor compliance with education and training standards. Recurrent training at the expense of the concerned groundhandling service provider or self-handling airport users may be required. No new service providers shall be approved until the required standards are met at the respective airport.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point n
(n) transfer of staff and its impact on the protection of employees, particularly the number of staff transferred where a change of groundhandling service provider occurred, the number of staff who accepted voluntary redundancy where a change of groundhandling service providers occurred; the development of wages in the case of transferred workers; the number of cases brought before employment tribunals in connection with transfers; the number of staff who accepted voluntary redundancy and are dependent on payments from national social security systems;
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point o
(o) employment and working conditions in the groundhandling sector, particularly trends in wages and salaries in comparison with trends in prices charged for groundhandling and in comparison with changes in the productivity of groundhandling services at the airport as a whole and those supplied by individual groundhandling service providers.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to the application of this Regulation, and subject to the other provisions of Union law, Member States may take the necessMember States shall ensure legally that the staff of undertakings providing third party groundhandling or self-handling services enjoy an adequate level of social protection, fair working conditions and decent living wages. No new service providers shall be approved until the required standards arye measures to ensure protection of rights of workerst at the respective airport.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL