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"Mr President, despite considerable time pressure, the rapporteur Mr Protasiewicz has achieved a compromise that strikes a balance between security and flexibility in current labour law. Some formulations, however, are still not precise enough, such as those in Article 35, which gives varying definitions of a worker’s status under labour law. How is the principle of ‘self-employed at noon, employed in the evening’ supposed to function? Economically dependent self-employed workers are also self-employed when they have one single employer. They are usually people making their living from micro businesses, and they are responsible for a large proportion of work places in the EU. Attempts to make a clear-cut delineation between employees and the self-employed in my country, Germany, in the 1990s resulted in a collapse of new business start-ups and thousands of micro businesses.
I have the greatest doubts regarding the joint and several liability for general and principal undertakings, which gives rise to many practical problems. General undertakings are burdened with state tasks. They are being subjected to further red tape and considerable costs. For this reason I have tabled an amendment that will clearly remove such far-reaching obligations.
In a further amendment I underscore the competence of the European Union and its Member States for labour law, as provided for in Articles 127 and 137 of the EC Treaty. We must reject any further regulation or harmonisation at European level.
I recommend that we vote in favour of the report tomorrow when the amendments have been included, not least because of the rapporteur’s efforts to be so balanced."@en1
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