15 Amendments of Thomas MANN related to 2009/2220(INI)
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. (New) types of contract with one or more of the following characteristics are classified as ‘atypical’ employment: fixed term, part-time employment on 20 hours or less, temporary work, limited part-time employment. Atypical employment includes, for instance, part-time work, casual work, temporary work, work under fixed-term contracts, self-employment, independent working, home working and teleworking.
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recommends that the priorities for labour law reform, where it is needed, should focus on: extension of the protection of workers in atypical forms of employment; the sustainable creation of normal employment relationships; clarification of the situation of dependent employment; action against undeclared work; and the facilitation of transitions between various situations of employment and unemployment;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages Member States to develop new modes of access to employment through the framing of new labour law provisions covering, for example, ‘distance working’, ‘specified-purpose’ contracts and ‘mission’ contracts; the Framework Agreement on Telework signed by the European social partners in July 2002 should be applied and taken into consideration here;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the increase in the proportion of non-standard or atypical contracts has a strong gender and intergenerational dimension, as women, older and also younger workers are disproportionately represented in non-standard employment; calls upon the Member States and the Commission to combat and monitor the imbalanceinvestigate the reasons for this trend, to take appropriate, targeted measures in the relevant areas to combat this imbalance, and to monitor the success of those measures;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Member States to develop active intervention policies giving workers who re-enter the labour market an entitlement to individual support during the period strictly necessary for them to become more employable through training and requalification; unemployed people should re-enter the labour market quickly even if their contracts are atypical, the most important consideration being to keep people in the labour market; workers’ entitlements must not, however, result in intolerable financial and bureaucratic burdens particularly for small businesses, whose staffing structure means that they cannot automatically release workers for (lengthy) further training;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls upon the Union and the Member States to eradicate illicit employment and believes that implementation of flexicurity strategies can help in fighting illicit employment and in making ‘very atypical’ forms of work less precarious;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Emphasises that flexicurity is a labour market instrument that can be of particular benefit to highly trained workers who adapt relatively quickly to new situations and undergo further training, and points out that people who are disadvantaged on the labour market because of a lack of training or other limitations need special support if they are to make flexicurity work for them as a labour market instrument;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises that the demand for a high degree of flexibility at work should not reach a point where it excessively restricts people’s lives and development and where it makes it very difficult for them to establish and support a family, care for and look after relatives and participate in life in society;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls, in the context of modern work organisation, for the creation of flexible and secure contractual arrangements; is nevertheless believesfirmly convinced that employment contracts of an indefinite duration should stay the mainmust stay by far the main and most frequent form of employment, while also bearing in mind that some people prefer atypical contracts, especially for students or young people who need a diversity of experiencenew types of contracts, and calls on the Member States and the Commission to take appropriate steps to ensure that this is the case; recognises that the definition of the legal framework for employment contracts of an indefinite duration and how they are geared to the concept of flexicurity in national labour law is crucially important for their acceptance by businesses and employees;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CStrongly condemns the abusive replacement of regular employment with forms of atypical contracts that are at the expense of the general public, employees and competitors; stresses that such forms of contan abusive practice violates and could destabilise the European social model, and calls on the Member States and the Commission to use all necessary means to fight this abusive practice in the long term;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls upon the Member States to reinforce activation schemes, especially for the low-skilled, through personalised advice, intensive (re-)training of workers, subsidised employment and start-up grants for the self-employed and businesses; specifically emphasises, however, that this aid must be structured in such a way that regular jobs are not replaced;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Believes that the formal recognition of the role of the social partners in the new Treaty constitutes progress, as it recognises their autonomy and reaffirms the importance of their support in promoting the social dialogue, and highlights here the particular importance of sectoral social dialogue, where 40 sectors are now represented;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls upon the national social partners to overcome reservations against ‘outsiders’ (employees with atypical or ‘very atypical’new types of contracts) and to balancetake equal account of their rights and social-protection requirements with those of ‘insiders’during negotiations;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls upon the social partners at European and national level to support investment in lifelong learning strategies and welcomes the ‘Framework of actions for the lifelong learning development of competencies and qualifications’ already negotiated by the social partners;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes that the involvement of the social partners in policymaking and implementation varies widely across the Member States, but that generally the trend is towards the use of a wider mix of instruments to pursue policy objectives; believes that the quality of the social and institutional support which the social partners enjoy is probably the major determinant of the quality of their contribution; particularly stresses, however, that the quality of social dialogue varies greatly from country to country and from sector to sector, and strongly urges the social partners to develop a genuine ‘social partnership’ at all levels;