9 Amendments of Thomas MANN related to 2012/2234(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – indent 6
Recital A – indent 6
- the need in some Member States to consider linking the statutory retirement age to life expectancy while at the same time enabling workers to lead longer, healthier working lives with a view to extending working careers until the statutory retirement age;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas even set apart from the economic crisis, long-term demographic and productivity trends point to a low- growth economic scenario for Europein some EU Member States, with economic growth rates significantly lower than those attained during previous decades;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the lowering of pension benefits in many Member States as a consequence of the severe escalation of the financial and economic crisis; deplores the severose cuts in the Member States hardest hit by the crisis that have pushed many pensioners into poverty or put them at risk of powhich have been unjustified in their severity;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the likelihood of a long- term, low-growth economic scenario, which will require many Member States to consolidate their budgets and reform their economies under austere conditions; subscribes, therefore, to the view expressed in the Commission’s White Paper that people will need to build up complementary occupational and if possible private pension savings;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that first-pillar pensions remain the most important source of income for pensioners; calls on those Member States which have considerable ground to make up to implement reforms to their first-pillar systems aligning contributory years to the changing ratio between pensioners and people in working age, also to prevent public pension costs crowding out other important government spending; calls on the Member States to ensure first-pillar pensions - if necessary complemented by minimum income provisions - to provide a decent minimum income;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point ii
Paragraph 4 – point ii
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that implementing structural reforms aimed at having people work more and longer is the only feasible way to generate the tax revenues and social and pension premiums needed to consolidate Member State budgets and to fund adequate, safe and sustainable pension schemes; stresses the central role of equitable treatment of different generations here; points to the risk of part- time work leading to only partial pension entitlements; calls on the Member States to put funds aside to combat the rising public costs of the retiring population;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the call in the White Paper for developing funded, complementary occupational pensions and private savings; stresses, however, that the Commission should rather recommend collective mandatory occupational pension savings, which give employees an entitlement to access to second-pillar pension products and under which employers’ contributions to occupational pension schemes remain subject to the principle of optionality; as collective (second pillar) pension systems - usually governed by (sectoral) social partners - allow for solidarity within and between generations, whereas individual schemes do not; stresses the need to start building up complementary occupational pension systems now, despite the crisis;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recognises the significant heterogeneity of pension schemes across the EU yet emphasises the importance for workers changing jobs within or outside their Member State not to have their mobility hampered by concerns about acquiring and preserving occupational pension entitlements; endorses the approach advocated by the Commission to focus on safeguarding the acquisition and preservation of pensions entitlements, aiming at ensuring that dormant pension rights of mobile workers are treated in line with those of active scheme members or those of retirees; is of the opinion that mobility on the labour market is hampered by long vesting periods and calls on Member States to lower those; rejects harmonisation of minimum conditions for occupational pensions (such as a minimum age, vesting or adjustment of entitlements), as these could result in large cost increases which would jeopardise the survival of second-pillar systems and are therefore not in the interests of employees, either;