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14 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2013/2112(INI)

Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that labour inspection is a public service task which, in the absence of any equivalent body to do the job, should be carried out only by independent public servantbodies;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that all categories of worker, employed and self-employed and irrespective of their status, employment relationship or origin, come under the responsibility of the national inspection authorities and must enjoy the same degree of protection;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States, in cases where labour inspections uncover abuse, to protect the workers concerned and enable them to assert their rights at no cost; points out that measures to that end, such as a direct right of complaint for victims or a collective right of complaint, are effective means of protecting workers affected;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to criminalise the non-respect of working condienforce legal provisions with sanctions;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that there is an important role to be played by all 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;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that it is particularly common for employees on fixed-term contracts to have inadequate working conditions by comparison with permanent employees; notes that, in order for contract work to be subject to proper inspection, the rights of inspectors to inspect companies that provide contract labour must be extended and inspections must cover the observance of rules on rates of pay and working conditions as well as the application of the minimum wage;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Deplores the marked rise in theproblematically high incidence of bogus self-employment, particularly in the construction sector; 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;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recognises that there is a growing trend towards self-employment, outsourcing und subcontracting; considers that systems of general contractor liability for the entire subcontracting chainors constitute a useful tool for improved monitoring of public procurement, and that they should be introduced in all Member States;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recognises that there is a growing trend towards self-employment, outsourcing und subcontracting; considers that systems of general contractor liability for the entire subcontracting chain constitute a useful tool for improved monitoring of public procurement, and that they should be introduced in all Member States, although checks by labour inspectors remain essential;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Agency for cross-border matters concerning the abuse of employment protection rules and undeclared work, with a remit including inter alia the identification of letter-box companies, the control of transnational service providers, the introduction of further-training programmes, the identification of new ways of circumventing the rules, and the oganisation of cross-border controlenable already existing and successful EU agencies, such as the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, to identify and keep a record of letter-box companies and similar operations;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
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 affordpermit effective protection;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive providing for the comprehensive control of employment agencies, whereby such companies will be subject to certification and to a requirement of central reporting of their activities;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Points out that competition policy is implemented at European level; considers that, by the same token, measures to combat social dumping should be included in the EU treaties with provision for the Commission to implement them; considers that the Commission’s powers in this regard should extend, as they do in the field of competition law, to the imposition of penalties on non-compliant companies;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Considers it important that the Commission’s rules against social dumping should be enshrined in a binding legal instrument; deems it necessary to introduce an EU-level labour inspection system for implementing the Commission’s powers in this regard;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL