Ad hoc Group on Self-employed Persons | AHG Self-employed Persons

Highlights of Self Employment of Ethnocultural Groups in Canada

National Insurance Institute for Self-employed Persons | National Social Insurance Institute for the Self-employed

self-employed person | self-employed worker

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

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

self-employed person [ adviser | consultant | expert | free-lance | independent | self-employed worker ]

self-employed fisherman [ self-employed person engaged in fishing | self-employed fisher ]

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

10. Enhance its services to meet the needs of specific categories of workers (long-term unemployed, young workers[26], older workers, women, researchers, self-employed workers, seasonal workers).

35. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to involve social partners, in accordance with national practises, in a process of developing and modernising social protection and to develop the social dialogue at EU and national level; calls also on social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workers on the agenda, in order to introduce adequate social protection framework provisions for the self-employed, based on reciprocity and the principle of non-discrimination, and analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strat ...[+++]egies on how to include the concerns of self-employed workers in cases where national law does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers; encourages social partners to exchange good practices among trade unions and professional associations on services provided to the self-employed, fighting bogus self-employment, and organising own-account self-employed workers;

36. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to involve social partners, in accordance with national practises, in a process of developing and modernising social protection and to develop the social dialogue at EU and national level; calls also on social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workers on the agenda, in order to introduce adequate social protection framework provisions for the self-employed, based on reciprocity and the principle of non-discrimination, and analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strat ...[+++]egies on how to include the concerns of self-employed workers in cases where national law does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers; encourages social partners to exchange good practices among trade unions and professional associations on services provided to the self-employed, fighting bogus self-employment, and organising own-account self-employed workers;

28. Draws attention to the fact that the absence of a clear national definition of self-employment increases the risk of false self-employment among EU workers and can hamper their access to adequate social security; notes that the different statuses attributed to self-employed workers among the Member States require solutions leading to better coordination of social security for self-employed workers so as not to restrict the free movement of workers;