Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-11-15-Speech-3-147"
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"The Services Directive will have a profound impact on the lives of workers and consumers, lowering the standard of service provision and increasing the risks of social dumping. It gives exclusive prominence to the freedom to provide services across borders, whereas freedoms such as social rights and collective bargaining are excluded or dismantled.
The directive puts downward pressure on wages and provides companies with numerous loopholes which they can exploit to pay less than the minimum wage. It provides an incentive to service providers to establish themselves in low-wage, low-tax countries, and encourages a race to the bottom in relation to wages and employment conditions.
Regulatory requirements are an integral part of the functioning of all services, and the need for such requirements increases with the amount of private-sector involvement. The directive challenges the right of Member States and local authorities to regulate services.
Finally, Parliament has capitulated to the Commission and the Council in its refusal to uphold its already inadequate first reading position.
Unfortunately I was unable to vote on this occasion due to the hospitalisation of my son."@en1
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