15 Amendments of Ole CHRISTENSEN related to 2013/2112(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas labour inspection plays an important role in protecting employees' rights, insuring health and safety standards and combating unsafe working environments, in preventing abusive practices on the part of employers and promoting fair and socially responsible economic growth inasmuch as it helps to ensure that wages are actually paid and social security contributions are made, thus increasing tax revenue and the inflow of money to social security systems;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that labour inspection is a public service task which, in the absence of any equivalent body to do the job, should be carried out only by independent public servants. This should not, however, preclude labour inspectors being assisted by representatives of the social partners;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to criminalise the most serious non-respect of working conditions;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that a system of electronic networking of all relevant social security authorities, along the lines of the Belgian ‘Crossroads Bank for Social Security’, making it easier for them to exchange data, is a useful tool for giving national labour inspectorates and the social partners access to data they need in order to make inspections;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that it is particularly common for employees on fixed-term contracts to have inadequate working conditions by comparison with permanent employees; notes that, in order for contract work to be subject to proper inspection, the rights of inspectors to inspect companies that provide contract labour must be extended and inspections must cover the observance of rules on rates of pay and working conditions as well as the application of the minimum wage where it is required by Member State law or national collective agreements;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that particular attention should be paid to the transport sector which due to its mobile character may pose additional challenges for labour inspectorates; calls for labour inspectorates to be adequately equipped in order to undertake effective inspections of this sector;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the national labour inspectorates or other relevant authority, such as the police or tax authorities, to draw up action plans to combat undeclared work, covering all forms of abuse in relation to employment and self- employment;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that national programmes for the further training of labour inspectors should, where national labour inspectorates are responsible for dealing with such questions, include specific modules on undeclared work and on related topics such as migration and human trafficking;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for better guidance by national labour inspectorates in relation to employees' basic rights, stiffer penalties for companies that fail to meet their obligations in relation to employees' basicthese rights, and considers that such penalties must have a sufficiently deterrent effect to ensure that employers cannot gain from circumventing the existing rules on employment and health protection;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers effective cooperation between national authorities and the social partners to be important in the effort to end social dumping and ensure that competition in the single market is fair; welcomes the Commission's initiative to create a European Platform for labour inspectors;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission, without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity, to introduce a European Agency for cross- border matters concerning the abuse of employment protection rules and undeclared work, with a remit including inter alia the identification of letter-box companies, the control of transnational service providers, the introduction of further-training programmes, the identification of new ways of circumventing the rules, and the organisation of cross-border controls;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Points out that the right of national inspection authorities to carry out inspections within non-national companies has hitherto been severely restricted and should be expanded; calls for A1 posting certificates to be entered in an EU-wide register - which should complement existing national registers - in order to facilitate the control at national level of employment relationships among posted workers;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Highlights the lack of emphasis, in existing social security and employment directives, on improved implementation and on the role of labour inspectorates; considers that the existing directives need to be thoroughly reviewed and revised where necessary and that the role of labour inspectorates and the social partners needs to be taken account in social security and employment related matters in such a way as to afford effective protection;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission, without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity, to propose a directive underpinning the role of labour inspectors and laying down European labour-inspection standards, which should take into account the differences between national labour markets;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Considers it important that the Commission's rules against social dumping should be enshrined in a binding legal instrument; deems it necessary to introduce an EU-level labour inspection system for implementing the Commission's powers in this regard in cooperation with national authorities and the social partners;