11 Amendments of Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA related to 2019/2186(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the platform economy has become an integral and rapidly growing part of the European transport, hospitality and delivery sector;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas precarious self-self-employment and other flexible forms of employment in the platform sector is increasing, particularly for low-skilled platform-determined on-location work1 , including driving and delivery; _________________ 1Eurofound (2018), Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.including driving and delivery;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas many platform workers, such as ride-hailing drivers or couriers, belong to social groups often discriminated against on grounds of nationality, ethnicity, education background, fluency in local language, gender or age in the labour market, and platforms have been able to offer them professional opportunities;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the unfair competitive advantages of the platform economy over the traditional economy, based on social dumping and tax avoidance and evasion, are unacceptable leads to growing popularity of flexible models of employment; stresses the need for the Commission to develop a common set of rules at EU level to bring clarity and certainty to businesses and workers across the continent;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to come up with a strategy to align the working conditions of platform workers with those of regularand self- employed with those of employees working within the traditional model of employeesment, with full respect for the diversity of national labour market models and, the autonomy of social partners and labour market demands;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that access to social protection should be equal for all workers, regardless of the type of their work – be it employment, self-employment, or micro- entrepreneurship; those safety nets shall include access to sick-leave, holidays, pensions, insurance and unemployment benefits; in order to enable this, platforms should be allowed to pay and deduct mandatory social contributions on behalf of self-employed contractors;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to consider the need for nationalCommission to increase legal certainty for platforms and self-employed by developing a clear definitions of self-employed workers, with a rebuttable legal presumption that places the burden of proof on platforms to prove that their workers are not in fact employeesment, including the contractor's level of control, flexibility to decide when and where to work, possibility to chose multiple employers, as well as the ability to adapt plans in real time;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. encourages the Commission to issue recommendations to the Member States on how to simplify legal and taxation structures surrounding self- employment;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need for transparency and non-discrimination in transport and, tourism, hospitality and delivery platforms, specifically regarding algorithms that affect service, allocation of tasks, pricing, and advertising, and the key operating principles behind their technology, as well as the security of data;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to modify EU competition rules to ensure that platform workers and the bogus self-employed gain access to collective bargainingthe self-employed and contractors gain possibility to join associations that represent contractors in order to engage in dialogue on cooperation models with platforms;