Activities of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2013/2111(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social protection for all, including self-employed workers (short presentation)
Amendments (25)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, to tackle the crisis, some Member States have made severe cuts in public expenditure just whenwhile social protection needed to be strengthened in response tosystems have had to face a sudden rise in unemployment and, at the same time, national budgets for social security cover have been further squeezed as contributions have fallen in the wake of wide-scale job losses or wage cuts, thus placing the European social model at real risk;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas social protection coverage in the EU Member States is still inadequate; whereas cases of vulnerable workers being abused in the EU are still commonplace and labour-market compartmentalisation, with widely varying levels of protection for different types of contract and job relationship, is a glaring reality, leading to social maladjustment and inequalitymay in some EU Member States be still inadequate;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas most traditional social security systems, and particularly social cover and labour law, are designed to safeguard the social and employment rights of people in employment, and there is thus a risk that with the changing nature of employment, and increasingly commonly where people are self-employed, new groups of workers will lack proper social protectionmay in some situations lack social protection, however, the forms and the level of social protection is solely for the Member States to define;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is essential to lay down a clear definition of bogus self-employment and to prevent abuses in this regard so as to avoid any violation of workers' social rights, any distortion of competition and any risk of social dumping;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to develop and modernise at the Member State level social protection systems in order to ensure adequate social protection for all, based on the principles of universal access and non- discrimination and on the capacity to respond in a flexible manner to demographic changes and developments in the labour market;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to ensure responsible and sustainable long-term financing of social security systems, particularly in periods of economic crisis, in order to ensure the adequacy of social benefits and sustainability of pension systems and social security systems in general, while not overlooking the fact that one of the most important aspects of social investments is that they enable social and economic goals to be reconciled; considers, therefore, that they should be viewed as investment, rather than as expenditure;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to ensure core national social protection which, at a minimum, will safeguard the main sources of revenue in each country and guarantee access to basic social benefits, particularly in the event of illness, unemployment, maternity or disability, thus making it possible to combat poverty and social exclusion in the Member States; calls also on the Member States to draw up strategies for the development of social security in line with the ILO's proposals;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that effective social protection should include measures to promote the participation of beneficiaries in the labour market, and that lowering the level of social protection will not stimulate employment;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to make greater efforts to create jobs for young people and to ensure that young workers are not discriminated against through the limiting of their social security entitlements;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States especially to provide a guarantee ofin accordance with the principles of the national system concerned a social security for the most vulnerable social groups such as the unemployed, the disabled, single-parent families, the young, pensioners and young families; calls also on the Member States to ensure that social services are made more accessible for all members of vulnerable social groups and persons with long-term care needs, particularly in rural areas;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat discrimination against women on the labour market and to adopt social protection measures to ensure that women's wages and welfare entitlements are not lower than those for men doing the same job, and to safeguard their maternity entitlements; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the Directive on prenatal and postnatal leave;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to take practical steps to combat poverty and social exclusion, including an appropriate minimum income and a social security system, in accordance with their own national practices (collective agreements or national legislation);
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts to combat undeclared and insecure employment and to ensure that all workers enjoy appropriate social protection; deplores, furthermore, the practice of deliberately replacing standard recruitment procedures with non-standard employment contracts, at the same time reducing workers' social security cover, in order to save money in accordance with rules of the national social security system;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that self-employment needs to be recognised as a labour market flexibility measureform of work that helps to create jobs and reduce unemployment, and that the expansion of self-employment mustshould go hand-in-hand with appropriate social protection for the self-employed as defined in the Member States' national legislation;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises the need for up-to-date, more detailed statistics to be made available for the purpose of monitoring and assessing the economic significance of self-employed workers and the various categories of self- employment, as well as their market share by sector, social group, age and sex;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges Member States to ensure that self-employment does not become a tool of unfair competition or a means of preventing workers from benefiting from social and job security, and that the social and employment rights of self-employed workers depend as little as possible on their status: i.e. employed or self- employed; also aAsks that self-employed workers should not be assimilated with employed workers, so as to preserve the advantages of self-employment and economic activity of this kind and help to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and service quality;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on Member States to develop social protection in relation to retirement, disability, maternity/paternity leave and unemployment so that it is better adapted to self-employed workers, in particular those whose work is similar to that of employed workers;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on Member States and the Commission to make it compulsory to inform people wishing to become self-employed workers to be provided with appropriate information on the changes to their social protection and the labour law applicable to them that will arise from this change in status, as well as changes in other rights and obligations linked to their economic activity;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on Member States and the Commission to involve the social partners in a process of developing and modernising social protection and to develop the social dialogue at European and national levels; also calls on the social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workers on the agenda;