Vehicle-mounted work platform

attachment of working platforms | working platform attachment | attaching working platforms | construct working platform

work platform

inspection platform

blog platform | blogs platform | blogging platform | blog publishing platform | weblog platform | weblogs platform | weblogging platform | weblog publishing platform

microblogging platform | microbloging platform | micro-blogging platform | micro-bloging platform | microblog platform | micro-blog platform

Platform suspended boom

agriculture auditor | farm inspector | agricultural inspector | farm assessor

create working guidelines | define a set of standards | develop work procedures | develop working procedures

Assistive woodwork bench

The Platform could work on specific projects to help the Commission in its objectives which include a better implementation of the EU animal welfare legislation or the promotion of EU standards at the global level.

Within these categories, a variety of forms can be identified, for example casual work (i.e. zero-hour contracts, such as for instance a shelf-stacker in the supermarket who only gets called when there is a lot of business), temporary agency work (i.e. interim positions) or platform work (i.e. people working for digital platforms, without having a fixed work place).

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.

Considers it essential to combat precarious and undeclared work, given that this phenomenon severely affects domestic workers, including particularly migrant women workers, thus worsening their already vulnerable position; stresses the importance of eradicating and prosecuting such practices, including child labour; in this regard, supports tackling the precarious situation of domestic workers and carers within the framework of the European platform against undeclared work; recalls that undeclared work deprives them of social security cover and has a negative impact on their working conditions in terms of health and safety; expects, ...[+++]therefore, that the European platform against undeclared work will prevent and discourage undeclared work, as the undeclared economy threatens job security, affects the quality of care and working conditions for many undeclared carers, puts the sustainability of the social welfare system at risk and reduces tax income for states’ coffers.