Activities of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2014/0124(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Establishment of a European Platform to enhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work (debate) DE
Amendments (5)
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) In the 2015 Draft Budget, Parliament proposed a pilot project on the feasibility of an EU social security card – a forgery- proof electronic document on which would be stored all the data needed to verify the bearer’s employment relationship, including details of social security cover and working hours, for example, and which would be subject to strict data-protection rules;
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Over the past few years there has been a perceptible uptake of an enabling approach that provides incentives such as income tax relief, tax reduction and subsidy schemes aiming to regularise employment relationships so that these can be included in the formal economy; an interactive knowledge base, as developed by Eurofound, could help Member States to identity new approaches in that respect. However, it should be noted that such approaches may have only limited impact: if undeclared work forms only one part of a business model based essentially on the conduct of illegal practices and the illegal generation of large profits, supportive approaches are generally ineffective. Such businesses operating with illegal practices can only be tackled by means of more effective dissuasion and sanctions. The sanctions must be such that the discovery of illegal practices will lead to the imposition of financial penalties on businesses which far outweigh any profit they might gain from flouting existing laws.
Amendment 391 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – i a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – i a (new)
(ia) Draw up proposals for more effective instruments and rules to reduce the amount of undeclared work and opinions on legislative and administrative initiatives where such initiatives might have an impact on undeclared work.
Amendment 392 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(ib) Draw up a European early-warning system for signalling breaches of employment protection rules and cases of undeclared work, which would promote the rapid exchange of information between Member States and would be accompanied by a blacklist so that abuses by employers could be nipped in the bud; points out that such an early-warning system could be modelled on the existing European consumer-protection early- warning system (RAPEX);
Amendment 458 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
In addition, the Platform shall study the possibility of establishing a European agency for cross-border issues related to the abuse of employment protection rules and undeclared work, the tasks of which might include identifying letterbox companies, monitoring transnational service providers, introducing further training programmes for labour inspectors, identifying new ways of circumventing the rules and organising cross-border checks;