Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2013/2111(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on social protection for all, including self-employed workers PDF (266 KB) DOC (132 KB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas in 2012, self-employment represented more than 15% of total employment in the European Union;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas economically dependent self- employed workers are rarely organised or represented by trade unions even if they are more likely targets of working time and other abuse;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas in many member states it is difficult for self-employed to acquire sufficient pension rights; whereas this increases the future risk of poverty for self-employed;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas self-employment is in many cases not the preferred option of the person concerned, but rather a necessity because of lack of other job opportunities or sufficiently flexible working arrangements to combine working and care;
Amendment 51 #
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, and retirement 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 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to ensure that all citizens have access to information regarding their rights to social protection;
Amendment 72 #
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, including pensions, 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 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Strongly supports the proposed establishment of a scoreboard of key employment and social indicators, which could be a first step to identify concrete benchmarks in the form of an EU social protection floor;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that voluntary self- employment needs to be recognised as a labour market flexibility measn option laboure that helps tocan create jobs and reduce unemployment, and that the expansion ofstresses that self- employment must go hand-in-hand with appropriate social protection for the self- employed;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on Member States to facilitate the combination of work and care responsibilities by providing workers with flexibility with regard to working hours and working place in order to avoid that they have no other possibility for flexibility than to resort to dependent self- employment;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all workers and self-employed have access to lifelong learning by redistributing existing EU and national funding from workers with permanent contracts only, to workers with all contract types and self-employed;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on the Social Partners, Commission and Member States to analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strategies on how to include the concerns of self- employed workers in cases where national law does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers as well as how to foster interest representation of self-employed;
Amendment 109 #
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 and dependent voluntary and involuntary self- employment, as well as their market share by sector, social group, age and sex; and asks for the inclusion of questions concerning dependent self-employment in the European Union Labour force survey.
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention to the fact that the absence of a clear national definitions of self- employment considerably hampers the coordination of sociincreases the risk of fal security for self- employed workers among the Member States and may consequently restrict the free movement of workersment among EU workers and hamper their access to adequate social security;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to draw up a conceptual framework that will provide a legal definition of the nature and different forms of atypical employment in general and self-employment as its most widespread form, applying labour law and social protection measures in line with the various forms of employment and providing for the promote exchanges between Member States in order to create common understanding on what constitutes self-employment and false self-employment, stresses however that it should remain the legal resposnsibility of properly regulating social security for self- employed workers; also considers it appropriate to clearly identify false self- employment and to sanction employers if such cases are identifiedthe host member state where the work is done to determine the employment or self-employed status;
Amendment 127 #
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, or a means for employers to circumvent labour and social security law 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 asks 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 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Encourages social partners to exchange of good practices between trade unions and professional associations on services provided to self-employed, on fighting bogus self-employment, and on organising own-account self-employed workers.
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on Social Partners, the Commission and Member States to analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strategies on how to include the concerns of self- employed workers in in cases where national law does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers,
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to link social security and social protection rights to the individual rather than the working contract, thereby enabling decent social protection for all including self-employed and workers regardless of their contract type or employment status;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on Member States to promote and support group insurance for occupational accidents and illness; calls on Member States to ensure access to collective and solidarity based insurance and pension schemes for self-employed;