Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-10-18-Speech-1-096"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-10-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - Precarious women workers (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20101018.13.1-096"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-18-Speech-1-0972
lpv:speaker	lp:Britta Thomsen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; SEDE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would like to thank my fellow Members for their comments on my report on precarious women workers and the Commission for its willingness to take initiatives to improve the situation. As many Members have pointed out, women constitute the vast majority of those working under poor working conditions and for low wages. This not only means that women in Europe earn less than men, but also that women receive smaller pensions than men, and we will see many more poor women in the Europe of the future, because marriage no longer provides automatic financial security in old age. The most vulnerable group on the European labour market is that of female immigrants. Among this group, we see a high level of exploitation, especially among the 11 million women working as domestic workers. This group also includes au pairs. Au pair means ‘on equal terms’, but many of the women who come from the Philippines and the former Soviet Republics to work as au pairs do not come for cultural exchange. They come to earn money, and the scheme is exploited in many places in Europe as a way of obtaining cheap labour. This situation is one that I would like to call on the Commission to investigate. We should not allow this form of exploitation to be legal in Europe. We must therefore exercise greater stringency in connection with the au pair scheme. Pay differences between men and women begin, according to the Commission’s own pay statistics, when children come along. If we want to achieve complete equality between men and women on the labour market, women need to be fully compensated during maternity leave, and men need to be involved in looking after the children and thus granted paternity leave."@en1
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