Activities of Philippe BOULLAND related to 2013/2112(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on effective labour inspections as a strategy to improve working conditions in Europe PDF (226 KB) DOC (115 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas there is a growing need for labour inspection in connection with the posting of workers around Europe;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas labour inspections should also be carried out in partnership with businesses;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas labour inspections should be stepped up at SMEs and small construction sites;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas illicitly employed workers suffer from secondary negative consequences such as the lack of access to information, occupational health services, training, the psychological constraints of having an accident or being caught, which in return affects the productivity of companies and the economy as a whole;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that labour inspection can be effective only if the relevant authorities are adequately funded and have enough staff; voices its concern at the understaffing of Member States’ inspection authorities and the lack of further training, in particular on Europe-wide issues;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points to the need for uniform training for labour inspectors and others in this field, with a view to tightening up enforcement of EU labour law;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages the Member States to introduce a ‘social label’ to encourage companies to maintain higher labour standards, which could in the long run reduce the need for labour inspections and allow inspection resources to be targeted at sensitive areas;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the problematic nature of labour inspection in respect of migrant and posted workers from both EU and third countries, particularly in relation to the role and remit of national inspectorates; points out that national-level electronic systems, such as Belgium’s LIMOSA system for the compulsory advance registration of foreign workers by employers, substantially facilitate the task of labour inspection;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that there is an important role to be played by the social partners, and particularly by workers’ representatives, in ensuring that the existing rules are observed; calls on the Member States to institute the formal involvement of the social partners in labour inspection;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Deplores the marked rise in the incidence of bogus self-employment, particularly in the construction sector, including under worker posting arrangements; calls on Member States to introduce appropriate inspection measures to combat bogus self- employment, for example by laying down criteria to determine what constitutes employment;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that national programmes for the further training of labour inspectors should include specific modules on undeclared work and on related topics such as migration and human trafficking and the posting of workers, as well as language modules;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights attention to the problem of implementing workplace health and safety rules in the case of employees doing undeclared work; stresses that the right to health and safety protection in the workplace applies irrespective of the employee’s or self-employed person’s status and that improved implementation of the existing rules will give substance to that right; suggests that Member States look into the possibility of introducing compulsory medicals for all workers, conducted free of charge once a year or once per contract, in order to give them basic protection;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission to set up a European platform for labour inspectors, focusing on undeclared work, inside the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), as an additional task for that agency, with a view to facilitating exchanges of experience and best practice by supplying objective, reliable and comparable data that are updated on a regular basis and to improving cross-border cooperation aimed, in particular, at identifying and supervising ‘letter-box’ service firms;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Points out that the right of national inspection authorities to carry out inspections within non-national companies has hitherto been severely restricted; calls for A1 posting certificates to be entered in an EU-wide register in order to facilitate the control at national level of employment relationships among posted workers on a multilingual basis;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Points out, in connection with the directive on the enforcement of the directive on the posting of workers, that documents must be translated, irrespective of their length, where this is called for during an inspection;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Highlights the lack of emphasis, in existing social security and employment directives, on improved implementation and on the role of labour inspectorates; considers that the existing directives need to be thoroughly reviewed and revised where necessary and that the role of labour inspectorates needs to be taken account in social security and employment related matters in such a way as to afford effective protection and to promote the voluntary introduction of higher labour standards by companies through the establishment of a system of free-of-charge ‘social labels’ that are recognised at national or EU level;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission, without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity, to propose a directive underpinning the role of labour inspectors and laying down European labour-inspection standards and uniform training requirements in this area;