13 Amendments of Ilana CICUREL related to 2019/2181(INL)
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that constant connectivity combined with high job demands and the rising expectation that workers are reachable at any time can negatively affect workers’ fundamental rights, their work-life balance, and their physical and mental health and well-being;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that ‘an increasing body of evidence underlines that the effects of a reduction of regular long working hoursdelimitation of working hours, some flexibility in the organisation of working time combined with active measures to improve well-being at work include positive impacts on workers’ physical and mental health, improved workplace safety and increased labour productivity due to reduced fatigue and stress, higher levels of employee job satisfaction and motivation and lower rates of absenteeism’10; __________________ 10Messenger, ILO, quoted in the European Added Value Assessment study of the European Added Value Unit of the European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) entitled ‘The right to disconnect’ (PE 642.847, July 2020): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/et udes/BRIE/2020/642847/EPRS_BRI(2020) 642847_EN.pdf
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Acknowledges the importance of using digital tools for work purposes reasonably, properly and efficiently, with care to avoid any infringement of workers’ rights to fair working conditions, including a fair remuneration, the limitation of working time and work-life balance, as well as health and safety at work;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Union directive to ensure that workers are able to exercise their right to disconnect and that, as a result of a balanced social dialogue, employers and social partners introduce effective measures to regulate the use of existing and new digital tools for work purposes;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is of the opinion that the new directive should particularise and complement Directives 2003/88/EC, (EU) 2019/1152 and (EU) 2019/1158, and believes that it should provide for solutions to address existing models, the responsibilities of employers and, the expectationrole of the social partners and the needs of workers regarding the organisation of their working time when they use digital tools;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that the Commission, Member States, employers and workers must actively support and encourage the right to disconnect and promote an efficient, reasoned and balanced approach to digital tools at work, as well as awareness-raising measures, education and training campaigns relating to working time and, the right to disconnect and reasonable use of digital tools;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recital 8
Annex I – Recital 8
8. The expanding use of digital technologies has transformed the traditional models of work and has created an ‘ever-connected’ and ‘always on’ culture. In that context, it is important to address and combat psychosocial risks, and ensure the protection of workers’ fundamental rights, fair working conditions, including their right to a fair remuneration and the implementation of their working time, health and safety, and equality between men and women.
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recital 25
Annex I – Recital 25
25. Member States may lay down the arrangements for the exercise of the right to disconnect established in this Directive, in accordance with national law, collective agreements or practice. Member States should be able to provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for breaches of the obligations under this Directive.
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) the content and frequency of employers’ health and safety assessments, including psychosocial risk assessments, with regard to the right to disconnect and the alert procedures if there is a deterioration in workers’ physical and mental health;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 3
Annex I – Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Where Member States do not make use of the option provided for in paragraph 2, they shall ensure that the working conditions referred to in paragraph 1 are agreed in consultation with or between the social partners at the level of the employer undertaking.
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Article 8 – paragraph 1
Annex I – Article 8 – paragraph 1
Member States shallmay lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive, or the relevant provisions already in force concerning the rights which are within the scope of this Directive, and shall in that case take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented, particularly if workers’ physical and mental health is affected. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall, by ... [two years after the date of entry into force of this Directive], notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it, without delay, of any subsequent amendment affecting them.