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"en.20140114.37.2-447-000"2
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"Mr President, I agree with the title of the report, which is ‘Social protection for all, including self-employed workers’, but a series of fundamental flaws in its content means that I voted against it.
The report fails to offer solutions for bogus and involuntary self-employment. With over 15 % of the workforce now self-employed, a growing proportion of these people are in that situation not by choice but because of an inability to find decent employment. Well over half of all the jobs created in Ireland over the past year have been in self-employment, the vast majority of them being self-employed workers who have no employees. Fundamentally, the solution is to strengthen contracts and create decent employment through a massive programme of investment.
The report calls for more general implementation of so-called ‘flexicurity’. That is the driving principle that has seen a range of unstable, insecure job programmes created throughout Europe, undermining wages and conditions across the board. The report also calls for greater efforts on neo-liberal so-called ‘structural reforms’ and pension reform. In effect, this report supports the on-going dismantling of social security systems. What would be left would be generalised insecurity."@en1
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