self-employed person | self-employed worker | self-employed

self-employed worker [ self-employed person | independent worker ]

Domestic Workers Recommendation | Recommendation concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers | Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers, 2011, of the International Labour Organisation (Convention No 189) | Domestic Workers Convention, 2011

corridor warrior | corridor cruiser | corridor worker

shift worker

knowledge worker [ knowledge specialist | information professional | information specialist | information handler ]

National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada [ Canadian Auto Workers | Canadian Automobile Workers | CAW-Canada | National Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers Union of Canada | International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Canadian Office ]

43. Urges the Council to break the deadlock with regard to the adoption of the amendment to the pregnant workers directive accepting the flexibility proposed by Parliament so that Europe can make progress in protecting the rights and improving the working conditions of pregnant workers and those who have recently given birth; underlines, in this connection, the importance of effectively protecting motherhood and fatherhood by combating i) dismissal from employment during or after pregnancy, ii) salary cuts during maternity leave, and iii) downgrading of job status or remuneration upon return to work; emphasises the need to ensure that ...[+++]non-typical employees of companies, such as locums, freelance workers and other temporary employees, can assert rights to an extent that reflects the individual employee's work contribution in the period prior to pregnancy and birth, and which ensures the greatest possible equality of treatment in relation to permanent colleagues in the sector in question;

43. Urges the Council to break the deadlock with regard to the adoption of the amendment to the pregnant workers directive accepting the flexibility proposed by Parliament so that Europe can make progress in protecting the rights and improving the working conditions of pregnant workers and those who have recently given birth; underlines, in this connection, the importance of effectively protecting motherhood and fatherhood by combating i) dismissal from employment during or after pregnancy, ii) salary cuts during maternity leave, and iii) downgrading of job status or remuneration upon return to work; emphasises the need to ensure that ...[+++]non-typical employees of companies, such as locums, freelance workers and other temporary employees, can assert rights to an extent that reflects the individual employee’s work contribution in the period prior to pregnancy and birth, and which ensures the greatest possible equality of treatment in relation to permanent colleagues in the sector in question;

The economic and physical vulnerability of pregnant self-employed workers and pregnant spouses and, when and in so far as recognised by national law, pregnant life partners of self-employed workers, makes it necessary for them to be granted the right to maternity benefits.

The European Parliament has consistently called on the Commission to review Directive 86/613/EEC, in particular so as to boost maternity protection for self-employed women and to improve the situation of spouses of self-employed workers.