5 Amendments of Thomas HÄNDEL related to 2013/2177(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (d) (new)
Recital A (d) (new)
Ad. Points out how planned works closure and redundancies threaten to bring about the irrecoverable loss on a huge scale of individual workers’ knowledge and experience as well as the experience of an entire sector of industry built up in Europe over centuries;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (i) (new)
Recital A (i) (new)
Ai. Points out that works closures and/or redundancies in the steel industry often affect large numbers of employees, and that in many cases there is also a knock- on effect of redundancies in supplier industries and other companies; points out further that, in the past, this effect has had severe consequences for the economic structure of entire regions and that, therefore, a sustainable employment policy should be regarded inter alia as a form of structural-policy investment at regional level;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 (d) (new)
Paragraph 3 (d) (new)
3d. Demands that its resolutions on information and consultation of workers and anticipation and management of restructuring (P7_TA-PROV(2013)0005) and on cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue (P7_TA-Prov(2013)0386) be implemented as soon as possible so that those who work in the sector are not left to bear the brunt of the restructuring it is undergoing;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 (i) (new)
Paragraph 3 (i) (new)
3i. Calls for the existing directives on the individual and collective rights of workers and their representatives (Directive 98/59 on collective redundancies, Directive 2001/23 on transfers of undertakings, Directive 2002/14 on a general framework for informing and consulting employees, Directive 2009/38 on European works councils and Directive 2001/86 on involvement of employees, etc.) to be applied in a timely manner and in full in all management decisions, and for management not to present employees and their representatives with faits accomplis;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 (b) (new)
Paragraph 5 (b) (new)
5b. Calls on all stakeholders to support the concept of steel industry employers undertaking to create a funding pot from which to finance measures for mitigating the impact on employees of the sector’s restructuring; these would cover, as a priority, effective schemes for further training and/or retraining, employment and health protection and rules on early retirement (on health grounds); redundancy with severance pay should be a last resort;