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". – Mr President, today's agreement is a major step forward in addressing the new transnational, increasingly complicated problems facing both companies and workers.
In order to take into account your concerns, and after our consultation with the social partners, I confirm that the Commission has launched a study which should provide an overview of the legal, social and economic position of economically dependent people in the 15 Member States. Once this study has been finalised, the Commission will organise a joint hearing with the European Parliament for three reasons: to exchange views and practices, to evaluate the results of the study and to raise the awareness of all concerned.
Consideration could be given to inviting representatives of the accession countries to participate in this joint hearing. After this joint hearing, the question is whether we will go further: is the Commission going to propose concrete Community action? After all this information and the reactions, the Commission will consider the forms of Community action needed. We will propose them to establish a broader framework and then see how it might be done.
I would like to start by congratulating Mr Bouwman on the commitment, the conviction and the great determination he has shown in dealing with this very difficult directive through the co-decision procedure. I have realised that it would be impossible to have a positive product without the cooperation and the strong support of the members of the Committee of Employment and Social Affairs and I would like to thank all the members of the committee.
I believe that this excellent cooperation, not only in the Committee, but also between the three institutions, will soon lead to the final adoption of the insolvency directive, probably without the need for the conciliation procedure. I am pleased to announce that the Commission is willing to accept all the amendments to the common position of 18 February in their entirety. It takes the view that all the amendments which have been tabled supplement and improve the text of the common position.
With regards to the concerns which have been expressed by Members concerning the new forms of employment, I would like to confirm to Members of this House that the Commission is aware of the problem and is dealing with it in a new way and in a much broader context than in the directive with which we are dealing today.
Indeed the forms of the employment and the way in which work is organised are undergoing rapid and far-reaching changes. New types of employment are emerging. There are new types of worker, half-way between the traditional models of the employee and the self-employed worker.
Various terms have been used to describe or designate these workers. The terms used most often are economically dependent workers or para-subordinate workers and persons who perform work similar to that of an employee.
What these workers have in common is that they resemble self-employed workers in the autonomy they have to organise their work and/or the fact that they take an economic risk. At the same time, they are economically dependent in the sense that they depend more or less on just one client firm and are very often highly integrated into the internal organisation of the company.
The Commission raised the problem of these economically dependent workers with the social partners. There was a consultation with the social partners, and they revealed their sensitivity to the problem, but it was obvious that they did not have a concrete approach or a concrete proposal. It was clear that there was a need for further information about the phenomenon in all Member States.
I must reassure you that in the existing text we take into account the concrete forms of employment which have already been legislated for – I mean part-time work, temporary employment contracts and fixed contracts. But there are other forms of employment, to which I have already referred, that cannot be covered by this directive."@en1
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