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"Mr President, I welcome the proposal before us tonight. I welcome the compromise reached between Parliament, the Council and the Commission. We are still left, however, with the ongoing difficulty of so-called self-employed workers who do not have the protection of social legislation which people covered by this amended directive will have. We all know that many companies use so-called self-employment as a means of avoiding their social responsibilities. That is not acceptable. It is a false flexibility. Those companies and those Member States which support this position with regard to self-employment are impeding the modernisation of our labour relations, the modernisation of our labour market and the development of a single labour market across the European Union. It is my view that it is a false saving and a false protection of flexibility.
I welcome the agreement to have an in-depth study into the legal, economic and social situation of people who are self-employed in this way. I suggest that it would be worthwhile also to examine the impact that this kind of self-employment is having on the development and modernisation of the single labour market that we aspire to. It seems to me that what is happening is that more and more workers are resisting change precisely because they fear this form of flexibility, because they are then left without the protection of social legislation which generations of workers have fought for."@en1
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