Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-306"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of Directive 96/71/EC2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040114.8.3-306"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-14-Speech-3-3072
lpv:speaker	lp:Elisabeth Schroedter2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2003-08-29--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Bündnis 90/die Grünen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Glase is right to state in her report that the Posting of Workers Directive may well have been in place since 1996, but that, in practice, workers have no legal certainty in the workplace and that their employment relationships are often unfair. I know from my conversations over the past years on the largest building site in the centre of Berlin that the people we are dealing with here are the working poor. Building workers from the United Kingdom, Portugal and many other European States have built a railway station and office buildings for businesses and the government without having a regulated working day, on unequal pay in comparison to their German fellow-workers, not to mention not having sickness and accident insurance. Is it the case, then, that the Posting of Workers Directive is the wrong instrument, or is it just used wrongly? The Glase Report gives that question a clear answer: the Directive is the proper instrument for guaranteeing equal pay for equal work at the same place of work, but the way in which the Member States apply it is atrocious. I believe that this is primarily the result of the lack of effective sanctions. Even if it is found that a Portuguese company’s workers do not enjoy the same pay and conditions as those of the German firm next door, and this is confirmed by the Labour Office’s inspections, nothing happens. In a matter of a few weeks, the company is back in Portugal, where the imposition of a fine in Germany is of interest to nobody. This is where businesses make a net profit by circumventing the law, and so fines must be enforced on a Europe-wide basis; the Council decision to this effect is long overdue. We thank the rapporteur for adding her support to this amendment. It must no longer pay to circumvent the rules; black sheep must be branded. Only thus can the public lose their fear of eastward enlargement and of the social dumping that they believe will result from it."@en1

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