Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation for the 2003 Spring summit (Brussels, 21-22 March 2003) (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.3.3-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-12-Speech-3-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean Lambert2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I will begin by responding to the comment from Mr Bushill-Matthews. Firstly, Birmingham City Council is a Labour council, not a socialist council. More importantly, his comment raises many questions about the current employment practices of councils within the UK. A lot of the information we have received, for example from the low pay unit, indicates that many of the people working through agencies at the moment are poorly paid, poorly protected and very badly served. We need to look at this clearly. For example, the school where I used to work has now brought back in-house its cleaning staff because it can pay them more and it works out cheaper than employing them through an agency. So there is a win-win situation. But the question I particularly want to raise with the Council and Commission this morning is linked to the issue of sustainable development, which is an overarching and not just an additional concept, and the place of Göteborg and not just Lisbon within this whole process. Since Johannesburg, private companies have been seen as a means of delivering government policy. There is a need to think again about corporate social responsibility and a strong legal framework for this when examining how companies behave in emerging democracies or countries with repressive regimes, often backed by governments through export credit guarantees. We need to ask them to look at this and assess whether the present 'free for all' really encourages sustainability, democracy and openness in many of the regimes and countries within which they are operating."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Lambert (Verts/ALE )."1

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