15 Amendments of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2010/2273(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls upon the Commission, to further promote labour mobility by presenting a long-term, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, mobility strategy to ban all existing legal, administrative and practical barriers to free movement of workers; requests a consistent, efficient and transparent policy focused on the requirements of the labour market and economic trendsneeds of employees; any changes to policy, law or any other regulations should further strengthen the rights, pay, working conditions and living conditions of workers, the right of workers to form and join a trade union and for that union to be recognised by the employer must also be defended;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Insists, with a view to the possibility of further changes to the Treaty, on the introduction of a Social Progress Clause in EU primary law, stipulating that fundamental rights in general, the right to strike and industrial action, and to collective bargaining always have primacy over the "fundamental freedoms of the internal market" of the market;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to promote the streamlining of administrative practices and administrative cooperation so as to allow synergies between national authorities whilst protecting public service jobs and protecting the data of individuals;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the right of free movement of workers cannot be viewed in isolation from other rights and basic principles of the EU and that respect for the Europeanrights under the 'welfare state' social model and the rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights, as reflected in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, will offer the possibility of decent jobs, adequate working conditions, social security rights, equal treatment, and respect for family life and the freedom to provide services;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that both EU and Member State legislation should be bridged in order to prevent any types of barriers to implementation and use of the right of free movement of workers; this must not diminish the pay and conditions of workers or the right of workers to form and join trade unions and to strike; in Member States where minimum wage legislation exists or other minimum wage rates that are protected by a collective agreements, these must also be protected and under no circumstances considered a barrier to the implementation of the right to the free movement of workers;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that, for the efficient implementation of all policies tackled by the free movement of workers, action must be coordinated, especially in the fields of completion of the internal market, coordination of social security systems, supplementary pension rights, protection of workers, education and vocational training, tax measures such as those designed to avoid double taxation, and anti- discrimination; under no circumstances must this coordination lead to a diminishing of pay, pensions, or any social security measures including the right to strike;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that adequate social protection systems with a high degree of wealth redistribution greatly facilitate the geographical and occupational mobility of workers and that the social inclusion of mobile workers and the social reintegration of returned workers must be included in the policy on labour mobility;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to eradicate the existing transitional barriers regarding free movement of workers for the Member States who joined in 2004 and 2007; takes the view that these barriers are counterproductive and represent discriminatory measures against European citizens, calling for the preference clause to be effectively enforced for the whole Union;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Council to urgently agree an EU target for minimum wages (statutory, collective agreements at national, regional or sectoral level) to provide for remuneration of at least 60% of the relevant (national, sectoral, etc.) average wage and, further, to agree a timetable for achieving that target in all Member States; collective agreements and minimum wage regulations have to be strictly applied for all workers in order to ensure that the free movement of workers cannot be easily used for wage dumping;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Stresses that a thorough revision of the posting of workers directive is needed, in order to ensure the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value at the same workplace and clarifying that its stipulations on minimum wages are minimum requirements that can not be interpreted as maximum levels, as has been done by the European Court of Justice;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Believes that the trade union movement has a vital role to play in the integration of migrant workers, in particular in terms of educating workers about their rights; calls for all workers, migrant and indigenous, to have the right to form, join and be active in trade unions including the right to strike and the right for bargaining rights and recognition by employers;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. In welcoming the training of youth in the skills necessary for working and living in other countries; takes the view that people have a right to live and work in a country of their choice; migration should be completely voluntarily and not forced due to economic conditions, in particular mass unemployment;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate on achieving higher comparability of school and University curricula and more standardisation of European education by large-scale public investment in high quality education funded through progressive taxation systems, thereby preventing that education is reduced to economic utility;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Takes the view that a better synergy must be found between programmes aimed at encouraging the free movement of students, persons undergoing vocational training and trainees and programmes specifically aimed at fostering the free movement of workers; the savings from any synergies should be used to improve the programmes and not to cut jobs or increase profits for private companies;