Translation of "régime des travailleurs indépendants " (French → English) :

schemes for the self-employed

special social security scheme for self-employed persons

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

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

Highlights of Self Employment of Ethnocultural Groups in Canada

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

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

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

independent floating | independent float arrangement

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 strategies 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 strategies 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;

On a point closely related to recognition of their work, it called (EP Ams 14 and 40) for recital 13 and Article 6 of the proposal to be amended so as to provide for the possibility of joining insurance schemes – on the understanding that there would be no opt-out and membership would hence be compulsory – under the same conditions as self-employed workers, even if contributions had to calculated on a flat-rate basis; it also sought to ensure that contributions would be tax deductible and treated as, say, operating expenditure.

We are certainly not imposing these benefits on self-employed Canadians.