11 Amendments of Jeroen LENAERS related to 2019/2186(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas platform work has also raised concerns about precariousness or poor working conditions, lack of access to adequate social protection, unfair competition, fragmented and unstable income, and a lack of occupational health and safety measures, especially for lower- skilled on-location platform workers and workers performing micro-tasks, as highlighted during the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the blurred distinction betweenmisclassification of workers and thes self-employed often seen in platform work causes uncertainty as regards their rights, entitlements, and applicable rules: whereas more and more sectors are likely to be impacted by this in the future;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the current European frameworkpractice is unsatisfactory, with EU legal instruments which do not cover all platform workers in their personal scope and which do not address the new realities of the world of work; regrets that this fragmentation places some platform workers in a legally precarious situation, resulting in some platform workers enjoying fewer or more limited rights than should be guaranteed to all platform workers regardless of their employment statuworkers;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that this legal uncertainty must be urgently addressed, while acknowledging that it cannot be easily solved by a one-size-fits-all approach; believes that any proposal must recognise the heterogeneity of platforms and of platformclarify that a digital platform company is either an employer, a temporary work agency or an intermediary; stresses in this regard that classification of a digital platform company as an employer automatically determines the rights of the workers, and take into account the current digital labour platforms model, wherehat therefore workers of such a platform company have the rights of employees or self-employed, depending of their relationship to the platform; acknowledges in this regard that some platform workers are genuinely self- employed and wish to remain so;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a legislative initiative to improve the working conditions of platform workers; calls on the Commission, if the social partners do not express the wish to initiate the process provided for in Article 155 of the TFEU, to put forward a new directive on platform workers in order to guarantee them a minimum setthe digital economy in order to clarify the nature of rdights regardless ofital platform companies end thereby clarifying their employment status, and to address the specificities of platform of workers;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to better combat bogus self-employment by means of a directive, so as to cover platform workers which are fulfilling the conditions characteristic of an employment relationship based on the actual performance of work, and not on the parties’ description of the relationship; is of the opinion that special attention should be given to digital labour platforms that strongly organise conditions and remuneration of online and on-location platform work, which could be used as guidance for determining the degree of responsibility of platforms towards platform workers;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
believes that the aforementioned communication should be made in a clear, comprehensive and easily accessible way in compliance with existing EU and national legislation on workers’ rights;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that some platform workers may be subject to increased health and safety risks; is of the opinion that the Commission proposal must address the occupational health and safety of platform workers as well as establish minimum requirements to enable them exercise a right to disconnect without any adverse consequences;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that platform workers should receive compensation in case of work accidents and occupational diseases, and be offered sickness and invalidity insurance coverage; welcomes, in this respect, the initiatives of some platforms to provide insurance as well as occupational health and safety measures;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that platformthe use of algorithms in workers should be entitled to transparent, non- discriminatory and ethical algorithmto all workers; believes that algorithm transparency should apply to task distribution, ratings and interactions, while respecting trade secrets, and that an intelligible explanation of the functioning of the algorithm on the way tasks are assigned, ratings are granted, the deactivation procedure and pricing should always be provided, as well as information in a clear and up-to-date manner on any significant changes to the algorithm; is of the opinion that ethical algorithm implies that all decisions are contestable and reversible, and that incentive practices or exceptional bonuses in particular should not lead to risky behaviours; is convinced that non-discriminatory algorithms are those which prevent gender and other social biases;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16