7 Amendments of Anne-Sophie PELLETIER related to 2019/2186(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas platform work is the most visible form of a wider trend towards insecure jobs, as can be seen from the constantly rising number of atypical workers;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas workers who log on to platforms are legally independent of said platforms and would appear to be so since they are at liberty to log on and accept the working conditions offered there; whereas in reality matters are very different; whereas in their work they cannot, in fact, exercise the basic prerogatives of their independence such as to choose their customers or the conditions under which they perform their services;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas a growing number of judgments by European courts and administrative decisions record the fact that digital platform workers are wrongly regarded as self-employed; whereas this wrong classification limits the access of these workers to social protection and deprives them of the right to negotiate collectively minimum wages;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to consider the need for national definitions of self-employed workers, with a and the Commission to provide for a rebuttable legal presumption that places the burden of proof on platforms to prove that their workers are not in fact employees;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to supportand the Member States in finding policy solutions to determine the status of work for platform workers; remains sceptical of the addition of a third categoryto legislate to determine whether platform workers have to be employed by the platforms or whether they are to be regarded as genuinely self- employed and benefit from the ensuing rights; rejects all forms of a third status, as well as any intermediate solution such as freelance contract work; stresses that the dichotomy between self-employed workers and employees needs to be retained;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need for transparency and non-discrimination in transport and tourism platforms, specifically regarding algorithms that affect service, allocation of tasks, pricing, ranking and advertising; calls for the identity of customers using digital platforms to be verified to ensure the safety at work of drivers and delivery workers;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on Member States to encourage and facilitate social dialogue in the digital platforms sector; calls for workers and their representatives to be informed and consulted in advance about any change to their working conditions and any envisaged change to algorithms;