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"Mr President, I would also like to thank the rapporteur and Mrs Attwooll for providing the opinion for the Employment and Social Affairs Committee.
It is a pity that this is beginning to sound like a British debate, because a number of the issues here actually apply right across the European Union. As we have heard, the case provides an example of just one of the many anomalies which occur in employment law in many of our Member States.
Generally of course these only come to light when people want to cross borders to work and find that their employment status changes and thus their rights to social security and employment-related rights change as well. In this case, as we have been hearing, we are looking at a national situation in which historical anomalies, and to some extent theological anomalies, have led to an unacceptable situation which has already been clearly outlined.
We found that the Reverend Owen discovered that the means open to him to seek adjudication of his case lay either within the body against which he wished to complain – thus making this body judge, jury and defendant, one of the minimum standards that we do not want to see applied across the European Union – or with a judicial review which can examine the process but not the content of the complaint.
As the Commissioner has already pointed out, it appears that the situation is legally correct. Morally, however, it is certainly is not correct. The European Union seeks to establish at least satisfactory core standards in its employment law and expects Member States to implement these standards, and the spirit of them, across the board.
My group therefore fully supports the call for Member States to review their employment practices to ensure that situations where individuals are denied access to normal dispute resolution procedures in employment are as few as possible, can be fully and objectively justified, and that redress is available in other forms. We also support the call for clear definitions of employment status to be used. We raised this issue in the discussions on the insolvency directive and will be doing so again in connection with the coordination of social security systems."@en1
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