Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2010/2018(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Precarious women workers
Amendments (18)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the individualisation and increasing flexibility of the labour market – resulting in a reduction in collective bargaining – puts employees, and in particular women, who often have to balance family obligations, in a more vulnerable position which can leads to precarious jobs, since it makes it easier for employers to lower employment conditions,
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 17 June 2010 on gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis1,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas it is primarily women who work in precarious employment, and whereas there continue to be major differences for women throughout the world with regard to employment opportunities, quality of work, income and pay1,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out the gendered nature of precarious employment and recalls the shift in the labour market from standard to non- standard, often precarious types of employment; types of employment, making it necessary to prevent non-standard types of employment becoming precarious work; in order to combat these problems, the Member States and social partners must be asked to align to a large extent their legislative and contractual rules on standard work and atypical work, so as to prevent the most convenient and least expensive forms of work from taking precedence, taking into account however the risks of a possible increase in undeclared work;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the over-representation of women in precarious work is a key contributing factor to the gender pay gap, which remains at a persistent high level; whereas therefore improving the job quality for women will reduce the gender pay gap,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses disappointment that the EU employment law package and the aforementioned directives on fixed-term, part-time and temporary agency work do not adequately address the precarious nature of employment; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to take further specific legislative measures, such as introducing binding minimum social standards for employees and granting all employees equal access to social services and benefits, including maternity leave, health care and retirement pensions, as well as to education and training, regardless of their employment conditions; calls on Member States, in addition, to implement legislation ensuring reasonable limitation of working hours, rest and leisure for workers;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for unionisation ofproviding the women in precarious jobs, since with the option for unionised protection of entitlements such as decent pay, maternity leave, fair and regular working hours and a non- discriminating working environment is, which are crucial for these women; calls on the Member States to penalise the imposition of obstacles to trade union participation in general; calls on the Social Partner to improve gender parity in their bodies at all levels;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to break down professional and sectoral segregation on the labour market segregation through awareness- raising and education from an early age, for instance by promoting jobs associated with female skills to men, and vice versa, by motivating girl students towards sciences, and by combating the perception of women as second-earners, with the involvement of the European Institute for Gender Equality;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to encourage the Member States to exchange best practices and make full use of the co- financing opportunities offered by the Structural Funds, in particular the European Social Fund, to ensure broader access to affordable, quality childcare and elderly care facilities in order to transform domestic care jobs into decent, long-term public-sector jobs and to avoid women being forced into involuntary part-time employmentso that women are not forced to undertake these duties on an informal basis; stresses, in addition, the need to ensure that precarious domestic care jobs are transformed, wherever possible, into decent, long-term jobs;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the over-representation of women in precarious work is a key contributing factor to the gender pay gap, which remains at a persistent high level; whereas therefore improving the job quality for women will reduce the gender pay gap,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to propose a new European agreement on the rules onregarding au pairs, which lowerings the age limit from 30 so that adult breadwinners in their late 20s cannot be placed as au pairs, and which emphasisinges that au pairs are young people on cultural exchanges who will help out with day-to-day family duties, which must not exceed five hours per daytheir role is to help out with day-to-day family duties and to take part in family activities, which must not exceed 30 hours per week, and that the aim is to develop the au pair's cultural understanding and language skills;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out the gendered nature of precarious employment and recalls the shift in the labour market from standard to non- standard, often precarious types of employment, making it necessary to prevent non-standard types of employment becoming precarious work;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to create childcare and carers' networks so as to facilitate full-time work and avoid part- time work which is an unwilling choice; and to deliver on the Barcelona childcare targets to facilitate work and improve labour market participation and economic independence of women; calls on Member States to overcome the obstacles which keep women from working the number of hours they want - be it part-time work or full-time work; stresses the need for a living wage and access to full social security benefits whether working full- time or part-time; stresses the danger of recent developments showing that part- time work has in some Member States driven especially women with young children into poverty;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to gear pensions, tax, social security and social and family law to independent living for women and men inside and outside marriage;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls again on the European Commission and the Member States to strengthen the instruments and to improve the legislative framework to overcome the gender pay gap;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for unionisation of women in precarious jobs, since protection of entitlements such as decent pay, maternity leave, fair and regular working hours and a non-discriminating working environment is crucial for these women; calls on the Member States to penalise the imposition of obstacles to trade union participation in general; calls on the Social Partner to improve gender parity in their bodies at all levels;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the two sides of industry to extend the opportunities for trade union participation and codetermination rights for precarious workers, and to penalise obstacles to trade union participation; calls on the Social Partners to improve gender participation in their bodies at all levels;