Translation of "Scheinselbstständigkeit" in English

We need clarity and certainty on definitions of workers and an end to false self-employment.

There are precarious employment contracts or bogus self-employment.

Mr Arno Metzler clarified that self-employment and bogus self-employment were two different concepts.

However the current opinion is well balanced and helps defining the problem of bogus self-employment.

Bogus self-employment should be combated through better registration and monitoring of the real position in the labour market

Reliable regulation and a definition of bogus self-employment would help bona fide self-employed and micro businesses.

Reliable regulation, and a definition of sham self-employment, would help bona fide self-employed and micro businesses.

Also, concerns were raised that the e-card could potentially support quasi self-employment, wage dumping and tax evasion, as it would make controls in the host country more difficult.

In Germany, most migrant work is employed in moonlighting, precarious employment contracts or bogus self-employment.

In questions to the Commission, I have endeavoured to obtain clarity as to what action the Commission plans to take against the use of 'false' self-employed workers.

This is an abdication of responsibility and an open invitation to unscrupulous employers to constantly search for new forms of 'false' self-employment to avoid the law.

This leaves a serious problem: who is self-employed and who is a 'false' self-employed person?

The European Commission had proposed that we lay down criteria so that we can distinguish 'false' self-employed persons.

If, therefore, European legislation stipulated who was a 'false' self-employed person and who was not, this could not be made visible from national controls.

I would like to draw attention to the fact that 'false' self-employed drivers weaken the overall labour market, and the main problem is that in practice, it is difficult to prove 'false' self-employment.

In certain EU countries, there is justified concern on the part of the trade union movement about phoney selfemployment in connection with the Working Time Directive and selfemployed drivers.

The right way to resolve the problems associated with phoney selfemployment would be to agree on a definition for selfemployment between worker and employer organisations at EU level.

I am very glad to see that the rapporteur shares the Commission's concern over the weak enforcement of the rules and the general problem of false self-employment, and I appreciate Mrs Bauer's constructive proposals.

I should like to emphasise once more that a definition of the pseudo self-employed, devised at European level, can play a vital role in solving problems of this kind, because we do not have a European definition of this at the moment. However, the Member States, including the new countries, use their own definitions.

Accordingly, certain administrative measures (for example, social inspection of bogus self-employment, collective labour agreements) can no longer be seen as restricting the free movement of employees within the EU's labour markets, an opinion also shared by the Court of Justice.

The definition of a self-employed driver put forward in the directive also makes a valuable contribution to preventing the creation of new forms of false self-employment during the period of temporary exclusion of self-employed drivers.

Such cooperation shall in particular consist in replying to reasoned requests from those authorities or bodies for information on the transnational hiring-out of workers, and in tackling manifest abuses or possible cases of unlawful activities, such as transnational cases of undeclared work and bogus self-employment linked to the posting of workers.

In the face of this situation, ILO recommendation No. 19810 calls on governments to adopt clear criteria in their legislation for distinguishing an employment relationship in order to combat bogus self employment.

In the face of this situation, ILO recommendation No 19810 calls on governments to adopt clear criteria in their legislation for distinguishing an employment relationship in order to combat bogus self employment.

In the face of this situation, ILO recommendation No. 198 6 calls on governments to adopt clear criteria in their legislation for distinguishing an employment relationship in order to combat bogus self employment.

Bogus self-employment occurs when a person is declared as self-employed while fulfilling the conditions characteristic of an employment relationship, in order to avoid certain legal or fiscal obligations.