7 Amendments of Benoît LUTGEN related to 2019/2186(INI)
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the social partners, to come up with a strategy to align the working conditions of platform workers with those of regular employees, with full respect for the diversity of national labour market models and the autonomy of social partners; stresses that Directive 91/533/EEC and Directive EU 2019/1152 brought in a list of essential aspects of the employment contract or the employment relationship of which workers have to be informed in writing, but that it may be deemed necessary for Member States to adapt that list to take account of developments in the labour market, in particular the growth of non- standard forms of employment;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on EU Member States to encourage innovative forms of work which guarantee quality working conditions and prohibit working relationships that lead to insecure working conditions, including non- standard contracts such as 'zero hours' contracts;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on Member States to ensure that platform workers are able to refuse a work assignment if this takes place outside the reference hours and days or if they have not been informed of the work assignment within the agreed minimum period of notice, without suffering any adverse consequences as a result of their refusal;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to consider, in close cooperation with the social partners, the need for national definitions of self-employed workers, with a rebuttable legal presumption that places the burden of proof on platforms to prove that their workers are not in fact employees;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to support Member States in finding policy solutions to determine the status of work for platform workers; remains sceptical of the addition of a third category; recalls that the Court of Justice of the European Union has already established criteria for determining the status of a worker1 a _________________ 1aJudgments of the Court of Justice of 3 July 1986, Deborah Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg, C-66/85, ECLI:EU:C:1986:284; 14 October 2010, Union Syndicale Solidaires Isère v Premier ministre and Others, C-428/09, ECLI:EU:C:2010:612; 9 July 2015, Ender Balkaya v Kiesel Abbruch- und Recycling Technik GmbH, C-229/14, ECLI:EU:C:2015:455; 4 December 2014, FNV Kunsten Informatie en Media v Staat der Nederlanden, C-413/13, ECLI:EU:C:2014:2411; and 17 November 2016, Betriebsrat der Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH v Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH, C-216/15, ECLI:EU:C:2016:883.
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises the importance to workers of portability of data and, where applicable, of acquired social rights between platforms;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages platform companies to develop training pathways in order to broaden their workers’' professional options. and seeks to ensure that when an employer is required, pursuant to EU law or national law or collective bargaining, to provide a worker with training to carry out the work for which he has been employed, this training is given free of charge, counted as working hours and, where possible, takes place during working hours;