Activities of Patrick LE HYARIC related to 2015/2255(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social dumping in the EU (A8-0255/2016 - Guillaume Balas) FR
Amendments (9)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the scale of mass unemployment in Europe, the difference in wage levels between countries and the tactic of pitting workers against one another necessarily leads to lower wages for everyone and an increase in unemployment;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Court of Justice of the European Union, in its judgment in the C- 341/05 Laval case of 18 December 20073, highlighted the legitimacy of the struggle against social dumping, but whereas the first strikes and protest actions held to denounce this type of practice were sharply criticised by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which found that they ‘hampered the free movement of persons’; whereas the Laval judgment found against the Swedish trade unions that had paralysed the workshop of a Latvian construction company, which was building a school in Sweden and paying Latvian wages; __________________ 3 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/showPdf.jsf?te xt=&docid=71925&pageIndex=0&doclang =FR&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1& cid=498309
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for a thorough review of the 1996 directive on the posting of workers, rather than a simple strengthening of controls in the event of breaches of the rules;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for social contributions to be calculated in accordance with the rules in force in the host country and to be paid into the social security fund of the country of origin;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to increase the staffing levels and resources ofor their labour inspectorates and their liaison offices, in particular for interpretation and translation and not to impose restrictions on the scope for carrying out checks, including by trade unions;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the main contractor to be held fully liable in the event of social fraud in the organisation, at all levels;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for the setting up of a framework to prevent fundamental social rights being weakened and argues for the establishment of a social progress clause during the revision of the Posted Workers Directive;
Amendment 602 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that a social protocol is necessary to ensure the primacy of fundamental rights over economic freedoms and that a social progress clause needs to be included in directives relating to working conditions for workers in the European Union;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Demands a thorough revision of the Posted Workers Directive, and calls for the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ to be laid down in black and white and for the host country to be entitled to apply to foreign workers its own legislation on working conditions and collective labour agreements;