23 Amendments of Phil BENNION related to 2013/2111(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the right to social security is a fundamental human right which is an integral part of the European social modelarket economy; whereas the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has adopted recommendations on ‘national floors of social protection’ with the aim of safeguarding the right of every individual to social security and to a decent standard of living;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas social security is a national competence, coordinated at EU level;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas social protection is an investment in human resources, enablingenables adaptation to changes in the labour market and effective action against poverty and social exclusion, as well as labour market integration; whereas social security has a stabilising effect on the economy and an anticyclical function that can boost domestic demand and consumption;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, to tackle the crisis, some Member States have made severe cuts in public expenditure just when demand for social protection needed to be strengthenincreased in response to a suddenthe rise in unemployment and, at the same time, national budgets for social security cover have been further squeezed as contributions have fallen in the wake of wide-scale job losses or wage cuts, thus placing the European social modelarket economy at real risk;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas social protection coverage in thsome EU Member States is still inadequatecould be improved; whereas cases of vulnerable workers being abused in the EU are still commonplace and labour-market compartmentalisation, with widely varying levels of protection for different types of contract and job relationship, is a glaring reality, leading to social maladjustment and inequalityexist;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas most traditional social security systems, and particularly social cover and labour law, are designed to safeguard the social and employment rights of people in employment, and there is thus a risk that with the changing nature of employment, and with an increasingly commonly where people are number of self-employed workers, new groups of workers willmay lack proper social protection;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is essentiawould be useful to lay down a clear definition of bogus self- employment and to prevent abuses in this regard so as to avoid any violations of workers' social rights, any distortions of competition and anythe risk of social dumping;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, given that the working conditions of those self-employed people who are not economically independent are changing in ways not radically different from those of salaried workers, their social security and employment rights ought more closely to resemble salaried workers' rights where appropriate;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to develop and modernise social protection systems in order to ensure adequate social protection for all, based on the principles of universal access and non- discrimination and on the capacity to respond in a flexible manner to demographic changes and developments in the labour market;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to ensure responsible long-term financing of social security systems, particularly in periods of economic crisis, in order to ensure the adequacy of social benefits, while not overlooking the fact that one of the most important aspects of social investments is that they enable social and economic goals to be reconciled; considers, therefore, that they should be viewed as investment, rather than as expenditure;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to ensure core national social protection which, at a minimum, will safeguard the main sources of revenue in each country and guarantee access to basic social benefits, particularly in the event of illness, unemployment, maternity or disability, thus making it possible to combat poverty and social exclusion in the Member States; calls also on the Member States to draw up strategies for the development of social security in line with the ILO's proposals;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that effective social protection should include measures to promote the participation of beneficiaries in the labour market, and that lowering the level of social protection will not stimulate employment;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to make greater effortimplement structural reforms and measures that will allow and encourage companies to create jobs for young people and to ensure that young workers are not discriminated against through the limiting of their social security entitlements;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States especially to provide a guarantee ofccess to social security for the most vulnerable social groups such as the unemployed, the disabled, single-parent families, the young, pensioners and young families; calls also on the Member States to ensure that social services are made more accessible for all members of vulnerable social groups and persons with long-term care needs, particularly in rural areas;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat discrimination against women on the labour market and to adopt social protection measures to ensure that women's wages and welfare entitlements are not lower than those ofor men doing the same job, and to safeguard their maternity entitlements; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the Directive on prenatal and postnatal leave;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to take practical steps to combat poverty and social exclusion, including through an appropriate minimum income and a social security system, in accordance with their own national practices (collective agreements or national legislation);
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts to combat undeclared and insecure employment and to ensure that all workers enjoy appropriate social protection; deplores, furthermore, the practice of deliberately replacing standard recruitment procedures with non-standard employment contracts, at the same time reducing workers' social security cover, in order to save moneyabuse of non-standard employment contracts in order to avoid having to comply with employment and social protection obligations;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to review legislation on the coordination of social security systems and draws Member States' attention to the fact that mobile workersEU migrant workers working in another Member State should not be subjected to discriminatory social protection rules aimed at curbing benefit abuses; believes that all mobile worker; believes that those migrant workers of the same status should enjoy the same social security entitlements and cover as decided by each Member State;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to incluconsider in all its proposals the four targets set in the ILO's Decent Work Agenda, and to include in the annual growth review the targets set in the ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation, so that all workers in Europe may enjoy these guarantees throughout their lives;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to draw up a conceptual framework that will provide a legal definitionprovide guidance ofn the nature and different forms of atypical employment, in general andcluding self-employment as its most widespread form, applying, so as to assist Member States to properly apply the relevant labour laws and social protection measures in line with the various forms of employment and providing for the possibility of properly regulating social security for self-to workers so employed workers; also considers it appropriate for Member States to clearly identify false self- employment and to sanction employers if such cases are identifiedproven;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges Member States to ensure that self-employment does not become a tool of unfair competition or a means of preventing workers from benefiting from social and job security, and that the social and employment rights of self-employed workers depend as little as possible on their status: i.e. employed or self- employedself- employed workers benefit from adequate employment and social security rights; also asks that self-employed workers should not be assimilated with employed workers, so as to preserve the advantages of self-employment and economic activity of this kind and help to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and service quality;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on Member States and the Commission to make it compulsory for peoplto make available to those wishing to become self- employed workers to be provided with, appropriate information on the changes to their social protection and the labour law applicable to them that will arise from this change in status, as well as changes in other rights and obligations linked to their economic activity;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on Member States and the Commission to involve the social partners in a process of developing and modernising social protection where appropriate and to develop the social dialogue at European and national levels regarding this issue and where national law and practice so provides; also calls on the social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workers on the agenda;