Activities of Gesine MEISSNER related to 2010/2018(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on precarious women workers PDF (211 KB) DOC (135 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the individualisation and increasing flexibility of the labour market – resulting in a reduction in collective bargaining – puts employees, and in particular women, who often have to balance family obligations, in a more vulnerable position which can leads to precarious jobs, since it makes it easier for employers to lower employment conditions,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out the gendered nature of precarious employment and recalls the shift in the labour market from standard to non- standard, often precarious types of employment; types of employment, making it necessary to prevent non-standard types of employment becoming precarious work; in order to combat these problems, the Member States and social partners must be asked to align to a large extent their legislative and contractual rules on standard work and atypical work, so as to prevent the most convenient and least expensive forms of work from taking precedence, taking into account however the risks of a possible increase in undeclared work;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses disappointment that the EU employment law package and the aforementioned directives on fixed-term, part-time and temporary agency work do not adequately address the precarious nature of employment; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to take further specific legislative measures, such as introducing binding minimum social standards for employees and granting all employees equal access to social services and benefits, including maternity leave, health care and retirement pensions, as well as to education and training, regardless of their employment conditions; calls on Member States, in addition, to implement legislation ensuring reasonable limitation of working hours, rest and leisure for workers;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the individualisation and increasing flexibility of the labour market – resulting in a reduction in collective bargaining – puts employees in a more vulnerable position which can leads to precarious jobs, since it makes it easier for employers to lower employment conditions,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for unionisation ofproviding the women in precarious jobs, since with the option for unionised protection of entitlements such as decent pay, maternity leave, fair and regular working hours and a non- discriminating working environment is, which are crucial for these women; calls on the Member States to penalise the imposition of obstacles to trade union participation in general; calls on the Social Partner to improve gender parity in their bodies at all levels;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to break down professional and sectoral segregation on the labour market segregation through awareness- raising and education from an early age, for instance by promoting jobs associated with female skills to men, and vice versa, by motivating girl students towards sciences, and by combating the perception of women as second-earners, with the involvement of the European Institute for Gender Equality;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to encourage the Member States to exchange best practices and make full use of the co- financing opportunities offered by the Structural Funds, in particular the European Social Fund, to ensure broader access to affordable, quality childcare and elderly care facilities in order to transform domestic care jobs into decent, long-term public-sector jobs and to avoid women being forced into involuntary part-time employmentso that women are not forced to undertake these duties on an informal basis; stresses, in addition, the need to ensure that precarious domestic care jobs are transformed, wherever possible, into decent, long-term jobs;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to propose a new European agreement on the rules onregarding au pairs, which lowerings the age limit from 30 so that adult breadwinners in their late 20s cannot be placed as au pairs, and which emphasisinges that au pairs are young people on cultural exchanges who will help out with day-to-day family duties, which must not exceed five hours per daytheir role is to help out with day-to-day family duties and to take part in family activities, which must not exceed 30 hours per week, and that the aim is to develop the au pair's cultural understanding and language skills;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas involuntary part-time work is widespread in the services sector, in particular the hotel and restaurant industry, education, health and social work and other community, social and personal care services, where the majority of employees are women,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the economic and financial crisis has had a dual effect on precarious employment, since many companies’ first reaction was to cut down on temporary employment, and whereas, furthermore, it is feared that many of the permanent jobs lost during the recession will not be re- established, but replaced by atypical – if not precarious – employment schemes,
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas most domestic workers performing duties such as domestic care, cleaning, and catering are women; whereas domestic work in industrialised countries accounts for between 5 and 9% of all employment, whereas such work is mostlyoften precarious, undervalued and informal, and whereas domestic workers’ vulnerability means they can easily be subjected to unequal, unfair or abusive treatment,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the Council of Europe’s agreement of 24 November 1969 on au pair placement is outdated and consequently does not address the problems that can arisinge in relation to the use of au pairs in many Member States today,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses disappointment that the EU employment law package and the aforementioned directives on fixed-term, part-time and temporary agency work do not adequately address the precarious nature of employment; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to take further specific legislative measures, such as introducing binding minimum social standards for employees and granting all employees equal access to social services and benefits, including maternity leave, health care and retirement pensions, as well as to education and training, regardless of their employment conditions;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to break down labour market segregation through awareness- raising and education from an early age, for instance by promoting jobs associated with female skills to men and by better motivating girls towards sciences and ‘male’ jobs;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to encourage the Member States to exchange best practices and make full use of the co- financing opportunities offered by the Structural Funds, in particular the European Social Fund, to ensure broader access to affordable, quality childcare and elderly care facilities in order to transform precarious domestic care jobs into decent, long-term public-sector jobs and to avoid women being forced into involuntary part-time employment;