Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-17-Speech-4-249"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-05-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Works councils and redundancies2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010517.13.4-249"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-17-Speech-4-2502
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie-Hélène Gillig2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, this morning, the President of the European Parliament received employees from the Strasbourg branch of Marks [amp] Spencer. They are seated in the gallery and I should like to welcome them. My fellow Members and I thought this morning that we would be able to reassure them that the dossier of the works councils and the information of workers was finally back under discussion. I hope that this evening’s debate clearly demonstrates our will to produce a piece of work that is consistent and which will lead to the directives in this field being updated. As you pointed out, Commissioner, we can no longer wait a new crisis to be announced to reassure ourselves that the legal instruments from which employees should benefit are at last appropriate, effective and provide for penalties in the event that European-level regulations are not respected. The Marks [amp] Spencer employees, like those from the other companies mentioned by Harlem Désir, demand, as European citizens, that Europe establishes frameworks for protection and for organising collective action, which as we all know is the only guarantee of individual rights in the field of employment law. They are demanding that these frameworks be established, recognised and protected and they are placing great hope in your words, Commissioner. The Commission and Parliament should also, however, demonstrate their political will by making any further development of economic union and of any new regulations conditional on the implementation of social provisions that stipulate new forms of regulation such as those that we are expecting today with the revision of the directives that has been announced. The workers of the European Union, Commissioner, must not suffer as a result of European integration. They must instead be the main beneficiaries of it. Respect for workers’ rights and the building of a social Europe are the pillars which, unless strengthened, could dash all our hopes for building democracy in our Union."@en1

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