22 Amendments of Jeroen LENAERS related to 2016/2095(INI)
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. considering that, in order to obtain a fair single market, a solid core of social rights for workers should prevent competition on the basis of labour conditions;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive, where applicable on fair working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self-employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeship; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workers;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Calls for decisive steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platforms; underlines that open- ended contracts should remain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directive on fair working conditions to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured in more precarious forms of employment, in particular:
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
Paragraph 4 – point a
a. decent working conditions for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships, prohibiting those that awhere re munpaid or paid so little that they do not enable workers to make ends meet;eration is commensurate with the work provided and the personal skills and experience of the trainee or employee.
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Agrees with the importance of universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all workers must be covered by health insurance; emphasises furthermore the major importance of access to cross-border health care, in particular in cross-border regions;
Amendment 525 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Draws the Commission's attention to the increased number of workers with chronic conditions/diseases, especially as regards musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), and to the need to encourage and support employers so that they make reasonable accommodation in their work environment, in order to prevent those conditions from worsening and to provide scope for supported self-management;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers access to quality and affordable long-term care services, including home-based care, to be a right that should be upheld with the help of suitably qualified professionals employed under decent conditions; believes that low- income households should therefore be targeted by adequate public services and tax deductions; repeats its call for legislation on carers’ leave accompanied by adequate remuneration and social protectioncalls on Member States to focus more on long-term care and, in connection with integration, to promote the sharing and adoption of good practices;
Amendment 612 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for legislation to ensure thaton Member States to focus more on access to social housing or on ensuring that adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, obviously including homeless people, in particular the young homeless, and that vulnerable people and poor households are protected against eviction; calls on Member States also, in connection with integration, to promote the sharing and adoption of good practices; calls for tax incentives to help young people on low incomes set up their own households; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision;
Amendment 632 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for legislation Member States to focus more on ensuring fair access for all to good-quality and affordable social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e-communications, energy, transport and financial services; calls on Member States also, in connection with integration, to promote the sharing and adoption of good practices; highlights the role of social enterprises;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point a
Paragraph 19 – point a
a. social insurance schemes must be broadened in order to enable all workersall workers must be able to accumulate entitlements providing income security in situations such as unemployment, involuntary part-time work or career breaks for family or training reasons;
Amendment 714 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point b
Paragraph 19 – point b
b. all workers should have a personal activity account, easily accessible through a website and/or a smartphone application, where they could consult their social entitlements, in particular as regards their portability;
Amendment 750 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point a
Paragraph 22 – point a
a. Directive 2006/54/EC should be revised in order to strengthen existing mechanisms to ensure equal treatment between men and women, close should be strengthened, persisting gender gaps in pay and pensions and reduceshould be closed, and occupational segregation should be reduced;
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point b
Paragraph 22 – point b
b. there is a need for new legislative proposals onMember States should be encouraged to share and adopt good practices and establish family leave schemes, including maternity leave, paternity leave, parental leave and carers’ leave, encouraging equal take-up of leave arrangements by men and women across all categories of workers in order to improve women’s access to and position within the labour market and facilitate work-life balance; asks the Commission furthermore to support Member States in sharing and adopting good practices;
Amendment 776 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 989 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
30. Reiterates its call for the raising of the MFF 2014-20 ceilings in order to cope withutmost attention to be paid, within the current limits of the MFF 2014-20, to increased needs; calls, in particular, for:
Amendment 1002 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point b
Paragraph 30 – point b
b. an increase in the volume ofeasier access to the European Social Fund, the EGF and the FEAD;
Amendment 1008 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point c
Paragraph 30 – point c
Amendment 1024 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to refocus the EFSI on job creation and social investment and adapt its risk/return requirements accordingly;
Amendment 1037 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 1079 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33