83 Amendments of Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ related to 2015/2094(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 (new)
Citation 1 (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 May 2011 on the proposed ILO convention supplemented by a recommendation on domestic workers,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 2 (new)
Citation 2 (new)
- having regard to ILO Convention No 189 and Recommendation n° 201 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers adopted on 16 June 2011 by the ILO's International Labour Conference,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 3 (new)
Citation 3 (new)
- having regard to Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)1 a, __________________ 1a OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas domestic work and carers contribute greatly to gender equality targets of the Europe 2020 strategy by effectively providing infrastructure to achieve work-life balance for many families in the EU; whereas, on the other hand, domestic work and carers´ constitute a big sector of employment in itself where 83 % of employees are women and which is largely undeclared work,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-Ab. whereas despite the added value it brings to the society and the economy and the potential it holds, domestic work remains undervalued in monetary terms, often informal, undocumented and perceived as something other than regular employment,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)
Citation 2 b (new)
– having regard to the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas the ILO Convention n° 189 and Recommendation n° 201 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers represent a historical set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide; whereas most domestic workers are women and the new standards set up in the ILO Convention are an important step to advance gender equality in the world of work and ensure women's equal rights and protection under the law; whereas, however, the ILO Convention n° 189 has to date been ratified by 22 States, of which only 6 are Member States of the EU,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 c (new)
Citation 2 c (new)
– having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A d (new)
Recital -A d (new)
-Ad. whereas to this day domestic work and carers work in the EU are very scarcely and unevenly regulated in the Member States, and although being a growing sector due to demographic change in Europe, very little is known about its´ real size in the economy and there is a lack of reliable statistical data on it,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 d (new)
Citation 2 d (new)
– having regard to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No 189 Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers (2011),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 12 May 2011 on the proposed ILO convention supplemented by a recommendation on domestic workers1 e, __________________ 1e OJ C 377E, 7.12.2012, p. 128–131.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. having regard to the varyingwhereas, the conditions under which wdomen are employed as domestic workers or carers, which can be asstic workers or carers are employed vary greatly from one Member State to another from undeclared workers, undocumented, casual or and undeclared migrant workers with no contract, or no recognition of their qualificationto domestic work and care being provided as public social service or as private social service provided by businesses, agencies, associations and cooperatives, or as direct employment by private entities,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 16 October 2014 on developing services to the family to increase employment rates and promote gender equality at work,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 13 May 2015 on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 20151 b, __________________ 1bTexts adopted, P8_TA - PROV(2015)0218.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas domestic workers are affected by significant discrimination regarding the level of the rights and protection that applies to them if compared to a country's general standards, especially where domestic work is regulated through specific legislation and/or collective bargaining instead of being simply covered by general labour law; whereas the most important forms of discrimination regard domestic workers' limited coverage by social security (particularly unemployment benefits, sickness and accident pays as well as maternity, parental and other care leaves) and their frequent exclusion from dismissal protection,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 c (new)
Citation 11 c (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 10 March 2015 on progress on equality between women and men in the European Union in 20131 c, __________________ 1c Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0050.
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 d (new)
Citation 11 d (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 4 February 2014 on undocumented women migrants in the European Union1 d, __________________ 1d Texts adopted, P7_TA(2014)0068.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
– having regard to the opinion of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship of the European Economic and Social Committee of 126 May 2010 on ‘The professionalisation of domestic work’7 , __________________ 7 SOC/372 – CESE 336/2010 fin.
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to the 2015 report by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions titled 'Working and caring: Reconciliation measures in times of demographic change',
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas according to the ILO Convention 189 a "domestic worker" is any person engaged in domestic work within an employment relationship, whether for one or more households, but a person who performs domestic work only occasionally or sporadically and not on an occupational basis is not a domestic worker,
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas "care" means work carried out in public or private institutions or in private household(s) to provide personal care for elderly, ill or disabled people and whereas care work can be performed by professional carers who can be employed by public or private entities or families or be self-employed, and or it can also be performed by non-professional carers, who are usually family members,
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the growing number of older people, the declining number of working age people, and public budget constraints are having a strong impact on social services and whereas this will also have an impact on persons having to combine work and care responsibilities often in challenging circumstances,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas in industrialised countries domestic work acnd carers counts for between 5 and 9% of all employment and, according to the ILO findings, the majority of workers employed in this sector are women, the percentage figure of ovribute greatly to gender equality targets of the Europe 2020 strategy by effectively providing infrastructure to achieve work-life balance for many families in the EU; whereas, on the other hand, domestic work and carers´ constitute a big sector of employment in itself where 83 % translating into 2.5 million in the EUof employees are women and which is largely undeclared work;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in most Member States current policy models for long-term care are not suitable for meeting the needs of our ageing societies and whereas most Member States to this day have not addressed demographic change in their policy initiatives;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas dependant people also live in areas affected by the lack of public resources, isolation or by other circumstances which make it difficult to have access to professional carers or public or private care institutions, and whereas these dependants might be only looked after by non-professional carers who, very often but not always, are family members,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas according to the ILO Convention 189 a "domestic worker" is any person engaged in domestic work within an employment relationship, whether for one or more households, but a person who performs domestic work only occasionally or sporadically and not on an occupational basis is not a domestic worker;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas professionalization means granting workers of certain sector employment and social protection rights that are equivalent to those held by employees working under employment contracts regulated by law, including decent wage, regulated working hours, paid leave, health and safety at work, pension, maternity/paternity and sick leaves, compensation in the event of invalidity, rules governing dismissal or termination of the contract, redress in the event of abuse and access to training; whereas domestic work and care sector can be professionalised through a combination of public finance (tax breaks), social finance (family allowances, aid to businesses, mutual societies and health insurance, works councils, etc.) and private finance (payment for services by private individuals),
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas "care" means work carried out in public or private institutions or in private household(s) to provide personal care for children, elderly, ill or disabled people and whereas care work can be performed by professional carers who can be employed by public or private entities or families or be self-employed, and or it can also be performed by non- professional carers, who are usually family members;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas professionalisation means granting workers of certain sector employment and social protection rights that are equivalent to those held by employees working under employment contracts regulated by law, including decent wage, regulated working hours, paid leave, health and safety at work, pension, maternity/paternity and sick leaves, compensation in the event of invalidity, rules governing dismissal or termination of the contract, redress in the event of abuse and access to training;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. having regard to the difficulties womenwhereas domestic workers and carers encounter difficulties in entering the regular labour market owing to legal, administrative or linguistic obstacles, difficulties combining work and personal life, or the fact of being under 18, among other barriers,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas it is estimated that most care in the EU is currently being provided by informal, unpaid carers who themselves can be considered a vulnerable group due to increasing pressures to provide more sophisticated and technical levels of care; whereas 80 % of all caregivers are women, and that this challenges employment levels amongst women, work- life balance, gender equality and healthy ageing;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas attention must be paid to child labour, harassment and extensive working rights abuses in the sector of domestic work, particularly in the diplomatic households of third countries established in the EU Member States, where domestic workers in most cases enter EU on a different work permit than other domestic migrant workers and where households enjoy ex-territoriality principle,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas many jobs in the health and care sector in some Member States are still poorly paid, often not offering formal contracts and other basic labour rights and have low attractiveness because of the high risk of physical and emotional stress, the threat of burnout, and a lack of career development opportunities; whereas the sector offers little training and, moreover, its employees are predominantly ageing people, women and migrant workers;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas a number of Member States lack a quality care service that is available to all regardless of income, i.e. services need to be accessible and affordable for all users and their families;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the current Directive on Safety and Health at Work (Directive 89/391/EEC) covers formally employed domestic workers and carers with the exceptions of workers directly employed by private households,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas domestic workers often work in deplorable or hazardous conditions or lack appropriate training to perform specific tasks that might result in on-the-job injuries, for which, moreover, they lack access to healthcare; whereas the same provisions on health and safety should be guaranteed at work for all domestic workers and carers regardless the employment type, i.e. for formally employed workers and for workers directly employed by private households;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas au pairs are a group of domestic workers who are often not regarded as regular workers; whereas numerous reports indicate that this can lead to abuse by, for example, forcing au pairs to work excessive hours; whereas au pairs must receive protection equal to other domestic workers;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas migrant workers such as domestic workers may be exposed to multiple discrimination, since they often work under poor, irregular conditions; whereas concrete efforts should be made to avoid mistreatment of, irregular payments to, and acts of violence or sexual abuse against migrant workers;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas third-party agencies are sometimes connected to women trafficking and forced labour networks or to other criminal activities that involve illegally recruiting women and manipulaexploiting them in different forms; whereas Eurostat date show that 80% of registered victims of trafficking are female, while 19% of them are exploited for labour exploitation including domestic work;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas the financial and social crisis in the EU has severely affected its citizens and residents, aggravating job precariousness, poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, and leading to limited or no access to social care and household- relatedpublic and social services;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas dependant people also live in areas affected by the lack of public services, isolation or by other circumstances which make it difficult to have access to professional carers or public or private care institutions, and whereas these dependants might be only looked after by non-professional carers who, very often but not always, are family members;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q b (new)
Recital Q b (new)
Qb. whereas the right to a range of in- home, residential and other community support services, including personal assistance, is enshrined in Articles 19 and 26 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the habits, customs and forms of families have all considerably evolved, leading inevitably to new needs for care and support within modern households, especially for women working outside the home and single-parent families;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas the European Commission in August 2015 published a Roadmap on New start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families; whereas affordable women domestic workers and carers free up other women, allowing them to purensure their careers and enjoy their social life; private live and work balance;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. EncouraUrges the Member States to ratify ILO Convention 189, and urges those who have already done so to apply it stringently; recalls that, in accordance with the ILO's Constitution, governments have the obligation to submit the Convention and Recommendation to their national legislatures in order to promote measures for the implementation of these instruments, and that, in the case of the Convention, the submission procedure also aims to promote ratification;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that ratification by all EU Member States would be an important step forward in the promotion and protection of human rights and a strong political signal against all forms of abuse, harassment and violence committed against all workers and namely women domestic workers;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that there is a need for a common EU recognition of value of domestic work and care as real work and not simply as an extension of unpaid household and care work;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to propose urgently Carers´ Leave Directive and a framework for recognition of non- professional carers' status which offers them minimum standards of social protection during the time they perform the care tasks and support in terms of training and specific actions helping them improve their living and working conditions;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Urges the Commission and Member States to revise any European Directives and national legislation which contain discriminatory policies towards domestic workers and carers, such as specifically excluding them from certain rights; calls on those Member States which have not yet done so develop clear framework regulation in their national law allowing for legal and organised employment of domestic workers and carers, in order to provide legal certainty for both – workers of this sector and their potential employers;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recommends Member States that clear regulation for legal employment of domestic workers and carers should be supported by incentives for domestic workers as well as their potential employers to choose the legal way of employment;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Stresses the need for a normative concept regarding domestic work and care and cCalls on the Commission to produce acome forward with legislative initiatives in this direction;both sectors – domestic work and care and believes that such an initiatives should focus on:
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Highlights that training, support and protection for non-professional carers is also important given the important task they carry in areas where other resources are not available; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop initiatives, involving training courses, access to minimum social protection and income, addressed to this particular group in order to offer them adequate living and working conditions in carrying out their tasks;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote the creation of workers' cooperatives in the care and household services sectors, with special attention to the rural areas, given the positive effects that this will have on the creation of quality and sustainable jobs, especially for those workers who have difficulties in integrating the labour market;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b
Paragraph 2 – point b
(b) introducing the necessary steps for the professionalisation of domestic work and cara general framework to encourage the emergence and development of a professionalised sector for services to the family, in accordance with the specific features and cultural practices of each Member State, leading to the recognition and standardisation of the relevant professions and skills;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) urgently proposing Carers´ Leave Directive and a framework for recognition of non-professional carers' status which offers them remuneration and minimum standards of social protection during the time they perform the care tasks and support in terms of training and specific actions helping them improve their living and working conditions;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for measures to be takenon the Member States to encourage the transition from the informal to the formal economy and to ensure full compliance with the law on issues affecting this group,sector and to step up labour inspections so as to clamp down on unlawful behaviour and to facilitate and incentivise legal hiring practices, especially regarding cases of human trafficking and labour exploitation and those involving companies providing domestic and care services using undeclared and bogus self- employment, so as to clamp down on the considerable amount of illegal work in this sector and protect workers, with especial attention to migrant women; hopes that the situation of domestic workers and carers will be sufficiently addressed in the future work of the European Platform against Undeclared Work;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to guarantee the same provisions on health and safety at work for all domestic workers and carers regardless the employment type, i.e. for formally employed workers and for workers directly employed by private households;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that austerity measures should not under any circumstances deprive citizens of their access to basic social and health services or innovation and quality in social service provision and should not reverse positive trends in policy development;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to gather, analyse and publish reliable statistical data broken down by age, sex and nationality so as to enable informed discussions while looking for best solutions on how to professionalise the sector of domestic work;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recognises the huge social and economic contribution made by family members acting as carers and volunteers (informal care), and the increasing responsibilities placed upon them by reductions in service provision or the rising costs thereof;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on the Commission to include discussions on the situation of domestic workers and carers sectors in the agenda of the Employment Committee (EMCO);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the social partners at European and at national levels, and in particular trade unions, to intensify sectorial collective bargaining in order to effectively advance and enforce decent working conditions in these sectors; stresses the important role that trade unions can play in organising and informing workers on their rights and obligations; notes that this is a way for domestic workers to be represented with one voice, to be able to collectively bargain their contracts and to defend their rights and interests;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Member States to promote recruitment in social care services and to work on increasing the attractiveness of the sector as a viable career option;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Member States to combat stereotypes to ensure that care work and household tasks are seen as activities for both men and women;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Member States to immediately apply guidelines deriving from Directive 2006/54/EC on equal pay andCalls on the Commission to review Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment ofor men and women in employmentmatters of employment and occupation; also calls on the Member States to implement this Directive consistently;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that there is an increase in the number of people living in long-term institutional care and further social exclusion of persons with disabilities in the EU, which is in direct violation of the EU's commitments under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recommends theat Member States, in cooperation with social partners, should consider establishment of an office, a helpline and a website providing assistance and information on the rights and obligations of wdomenstic workers in each Member Stateand carers as well as their employers, perhaps also offering model employment contracts in each Member State; recommends that national information campaigns should be organised to raise the awareness of the public about the possibilities of legal employment in domestic work and care sector, rights and obligations of both workers and employers, especially where schemes exist to incentivise legal employment in this sector;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reminds Member States that under Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, it is the duty of diplomatic delegations to respect the laws and regulations of their host State, including labour law, and encourages Member States to enforce it effectively so as to avoid impunity of diplomatic households when domestic workers are abused;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to endorse road madevelop programmes aiming to inform and educate workers on the impact of precarious work; suggests that Member States, in cooperation with social partners, should also consider establishment of information centres and, helplines for domestic workers so that they can obtain easily accessible information about their rightsand a website providing assistance and information on the rights and obligations of domestic workers and carers as well as their employers, perhaps also offering model employment contracts in each Member State;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the promotion of organisations working to safeguard the labour rights of women workerCalls on the social partners at European and at national levels, and in particular trade unions, to intensify sectorial collective bargaining in order to effectively advance and enforce decent working conditions in these sectors; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote and support trade union actions to organize domestic and care workers and to raise public awareness for their working conditions, in order to empower them to collectively stand up for their rights and to defend their employment and social protection rights;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to establish an EU observatory on domestic and care work in order to better monitor and document the vulnerable and underestimated profession of domestic workers and carers and to propose actions to tackle the phenomenon within the European Platform against Undeclared Work;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage and promote innovative solutions and investment in social and healthcare services which have great potential for job creation, are essential for addressing the needs of our ageing societies and demographic change in general, as well as necessary to avert the negative social consequences of the crisis;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Commission and the competent European agencies to conduct a study comparing different systems of regularised domestic work and to collect data with regard to the situation in the Member States; also calls on the Commission to launch a study on the contribution of carers and domestic workers to social protection systems throughout Europe;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses how important it is to ensure the professionaliszation of the sectordomestic work and care sector, as well as the recognition of qualifications and work experience so as to foster the creation of quality jobs and bring betterdecent working conditions and access to training;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Member States to place EU and non-EU au pairs on equal footing, by granting them combined residence/work permit that specifies working hours, type of contract, terms of payment; calls on the Member States to ratify the Council of Europe Agreement on au pair placement; demands that Member States to improve the accreditation system and control mechanisms on au pair placement agencies;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Reminds Member States that under Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, it is the duty of diplomatic delegations to respect the laws and regulations of their host State, including labour law, and encourages Member States to enforce it effectively so as to avoid impunity of diplomatic households when domestic workers are abused;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on theRecommends Member States to enforce simplified administrative procedural systems to be applied to all domestic workers and carers, thus allowing employers to establish easily a legal labohat clear regulation for legal employment of domestic workers and carers should be supported by incentives for domestic workers as well as their potential employers to choose the legal way of employment; also calls on the Member States to eliminate the legal barriers that are cur relationship with themntly significantly reducing the declared, direct employment of employees by families;
Amendment 184 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission for the establishment of a European legal framework, encompassing the rights set out in along the lines of ILO Convention No 189, that covers female carers and those providing care services on a casual, occasional oro protect the employment rights of domestic workers and hoc basicarers.