Activities of Laura AGEA related to 2016/2221(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on working conditions and precarious employment PDF (569 KB) DOC (93 KB)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas on the labour market most women, unlike men, are employed on precarious contracts; whereas precariousness does not make it possible to live in a dignified manner;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas very often single women with dependent children are compelled to accept atypical and precarious work in order to reconcile their private and working lives;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU’s macro-economic and austerity policies have resulted in increasing levels of poverty and inequality, particularly affecting women, which has adverse repercussions on the conditions in which their families live, particularly their children;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas precarious employment is a contributory factor towards women’s poor mental and physical health, subjecting them to five times more stress, anxiety and depression than colleagues, both male and female, who are employed on indefinite contract;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas there is as yet no body of rules governing independent contracts and VAT identification numbers, meaning that such employment does not enjoy any form of protection;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Deplores the austerity policy pursued by the current Junker Commission, which is intended to overcome the economic crisis but in reality has contributed to an increase in precarious employment and hence poverty;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to monitor the labour market in order to protect women who are compelled to accept precarious and low- cost employment in order to survive;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to create childcare services infrastructure in order to promote the reconciliation of private and working life for the benefit of working women;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Understands standard employment to mean full-time, or part-time regular employment on the basis of open-ended contracts, and non- standard or atypical forms of employment to include, i.a., marginal part-time work, temporary agency work, fixed-term contract work, zero-hour contracts, internships that are not part of an education programme, and informal or undeclared work;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Where the choice to engage in forms of part-time work is one made by worker, it is necessary to ensure that such employment is economically and socially sustainable;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need to adopt counter- cyclical economic policies designed to protect workers’ purchasing power, in accordance with the constitutional traditions of the Member States;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that any form of contract liable to exacerbate a worker’s situation must be penalised uniformly in a manner to be established in line with the Member States’ legal systems;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that digitisation has transformed, and will continue to transform, the world of work, but this cannot serve to justify wage deflation mitigated by one-off payments; in actual fact, the levels of under-employment cannot be attributed to the technological revolution, but rather to the Ordoliberal policies implemented by the EU;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of labour inspectorates and the social partners in safeguarding workers’ rights, defining decent wages and incomes in accordance with Member States’ laws and practices, and in providing consultation and guidance to employers; strongly underlines that labour inspectorates should focus on the goal of monitoring and improving working conditions, and should not be used as migration control mechanisms; strongly condemns the practice of companies to employ migrants without securing their full rights and benefits; calls therefore for an increase in the number of labour inspectorates in order to ensure effective monitoring of the situation;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need for deficit- financed public investments promoting upwards convergenceexpanding sectors of the economy, which seek primarily to achieve the largest possible multiplier effect, the social cohesion of the Union and the creation of decent work;