self-employment voucher

tuition voucher [ tuition-fee voucher | education voucher | training account | completion voucher ]

education voucher | training credit | training voucher

exchange voucher | voucher

voucher | bookkeeping voucher | source document

voucher register | register of vouchers

redeem voucher | redeem ticket | redeem coupon | reimbursement voucher | reimbursement ticket | reimbursement coupon

Employment detail

whereas some sectoral supporting measures, such as the Swedish tax deduction for domestic services, the French ‘service employment voucher’ or the Belgian ‘service voucher’, have proven their effectiveness in reducing undeclared work, improving working conditions and granting regular labour rights to domestic and care workers.

By using the definition of worker from the case-law of the Court, this Directive would ensure that the same broad categories of workers will be covered. Bringing within the scope of the Directive forms of employment that are now often excluded. This includes domestic workers, marginal part-time workers or workers on very short contracts, and extending it to new forms of employment, such as on-demand workers, voucher-based workers and platform workers. Ensuring that workers are provided with an updated and extended information package ...[+++]directly at the start of employment from day one, instead of two months following the starting date as is currently the case. Creating new minimum rights, such as the right to greater predictability of work for those working mostly with a variable schedule, the possibility to request transition to a more stable form of employment and receive a reply in writing, or the right to mandatory training without deduction from salary.

The Commission wants to broaden the scope of the current Directive on employment contracts (the so-called Written Statement Directive), extending it to new forms of employment, such as on-demand workers, voucher-based workers and platform workers, so that no one is left behind.

Asks the Member States to consider incentives to encourage the use of declared domestic workers and carers; encourages the Member States to put in place simple declaration systems so as to discourage and tackle the issue of undeclared employment, as recommended by the European Economic and Social Committee in its opinion on developing services to the family to increase employment rates and promote gender equality at work (SOC/508); recommends that the Commission promote the exchange of best practices between the Member States, following the example of successful models that have had a positive impact on the sector in social and labour terms, e.g. the ...[+++] ‘service vouchers’ introduced by Belgium and the ‘universal service employment cheque (CESU)’ in France.