6 Amendments of Hiltrud BREYER related to 2008/0192(COD)
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5
Article 5
Without prejudice to the specific conditions for access to certain activities which apply equally to both sexes, Member States shall undertake steps to grant both spouses/life-partners an equal legal status recognising their joint ownership and take the measures necessary to ensure that the conditions for the establishment of a company between spouses or life partners, when recognised by national law, are not more restrictive than the conditions for the establishment of a company with other persons.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6
Article 6
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that assisting spouses can, at their request,and life partners have mandatory social protection cover with the possibility at their request of opting out on a voluntary basis and that they benefit from at least an equal level of protection as self- employed workers under the same conditions applicable to self-employed workers.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 1
Article 7 — paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that female self- employed workers and assisting spouses can, at their request, be entitled to the same period of maternity leave as provided for in Directive 92/85/EEC and any subsequent legislation amending that Directive. Member States shall ensure that the mandatory period of leave laid down in such legislation is granted, at their request, to self employed workers and assisting spouses or life partners.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 3
Article 7 — paragraph 3
3. The allowance referred to in paragraph 2 shall be deemed adequate if it guarantees income at least equivalent to that which the person concerned would receive in the event of a break in her activities on grounds connected with her state of healthof the most recent declared earnings or, if not applicable, any equivalent allowance established by national law, subject to any ceiling laid down under national legislation.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 4
Article 7 — paragraph 4
4. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that female self- employed workers and assisting spouses have access as far as possible to services supplying temporary replacements or to any existing national social services, as an alternativein addition to the allowance referred to in paragraph 2.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 — paragraph 4 a (new)
(4a) Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that self employed workers and assisting spouses or life partners are entitled to parental leave measures including paternity leave.