42 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2017/2039(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the financial and economic crisis and its subsequent austerity measures caused the youth unemployment rate to rise from 15 % in 2008 to a peak of 24 % in early 2013, with this average rate masking huge divergences across Member States and regions; whereas youth unemployment rates in 2013 stayed close to 10 % in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands while peaking at close to or well over 40 % in Italy, Spain, Croatia and Greece;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the crisis measures directed towards reduced public spending in the crisis countries have already shown a direct negative impact, in particular on young people due to cuts in education, training, employment creation and support services;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas policies affecting young people have been developed without involving the concerned and their representatives;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas young people, and young women in particular, were the hardest hit during the recent financial crisis, which had a severe impact on young people’s employmentwomen’s economic empowerment and young people’s employment as well as mental and physical well-being, and could also be the root cause of ‘scarring effects’, meaning that individuals who have been unemployed will be more likely to suffer from negative labour market experiences in the future than other individuals who have not been unemployed;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas long spells of youth unemployment can makrisk to marginalise and exclude young people feel isolated from society and to lose a sense of belonging, and can cause ‘scarring effects’, meaning that there is a long-term effect on their mental and physical health and well-being and a higher probability that they will become unemployed again, and face poverty, social exclusion, lower earnings and worse career prospects during their working lives; whereas the side-lining of young people represents a huge loss of income, talent/potential and social protection as well as public and private investment, given the unused and faltering human capital that it entails;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, in 2012, one out of three European employees where either over- or under-qualified for their jobs1a;and whereas young employees are typically more likely to be formally over-qualified, whilst also more likely than older workers to work in jobs less matched to their skills; _________________ 1a European Commission (2013), Employment and Social Developments in Europe
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas having a first real job empowers young people, helping thema successful school-to- work and inactivity-to-work transition and having a first quality job that matches their abilities and interests empowers young people, helping them develop their personal and professional skills to become independent, and self-confident citizens and make a positive start in life, whilst ensuring their economic security and social protection;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas care and family responsibilities as well as the paternity leave gap and the gender bias in the labour market as a consequence thereof still restrict women’s opportunities as regards education, inhibit their participation in the labour market and affect their career choices;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, having peaked at 24 % in 2013, the youth unemployment rate in the EU-28 has steadily dropped, reaching below17 % in 2017; whereas these numbers do not give information about the current employment status of those who recently dropped out of the youth employment statistics as they have reached the age limit for being considered as youth;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas as a statistical given, the youth unemployment rate regrettably is generally about twice the average overall unemployment rate, both during periods of economic growth and during recessions;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in February 2013 the Council agreed to create the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), which was launch was created as the main EU budgetary instrument for the implementation of the Youth Guarantee – linked to the European Social Fund (ESF) – to help Member State regions experiencing particularly high levels of youth unemployment, in particular by introducing YG schemes;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Commends the well-focused, targeted approach and the stronger focus on individualised assistance, which contributed to the general success of the YEI and, in particular, to the success in ensuring gender balance, which has a bigger impact on women’s participation in the labour market; encourages the promotion of gender awareness in guidance and lifelong learning with public employment services to sustain women’s participation in the labour force and their return to the labour market after career breaks;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the YG is an EU-wide commitment, while the YEI is targeted to only those Member States and regions where youth unemployment rates are particularly badabove 25%, with a total of 20 Member States either partly or totally eligible;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to develop new, innovative and more personalised ways to reach inactive NEETs, who are facing barriers such as poverty, social exclusion, disability or multiple discrimination, as well as to find ways to support young women’s re-entry into the labour market or education through the provision of childcare and adult care; ensuring gender equality in access to employment, career progression, reconciliation of work and private life, the provision of childcare and adult care, and promoting equal pay for work of equal value;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas one main ambition of the YEI and YG is to reach out to those young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs), even if they are not actively looking for a jobwho are at the highest risk of exclusion, whilst taking into account that the term “NEETs” covers various subgroups of young people with diverse needs;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that effectively challenging gender stereotypes is crucial to increase women’s participation in all segments of the labour market; calls on the Union to be a champion in challenging gender stereotypes especially in the area of education, work, and further training;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the YG is designedaims to achieve the sustainable integration of NEETs into the labour market by offering an individualised approach, leading to a good-quality offer and enhancing young people’s employability, while in a broader context helping to address skills mismatches on the (regional) labour marketimproving their personal and economic development and creating opportunities to deepen and enhance their skills;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to focus on the quality and sustainability of offers; encourages initiatives aiming at tackling gender segregation in education, training and in the labour market; points out the importance of supporting the inclusion of girls and young women in all sectors of the economy, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM);
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas in 2015 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated the cost of implementing the YG throughout the EU-28 to be EUR 45 billion; whereas the YEI for the 2014-2020 programming period was endowed with a modest budget of EUR 6.4 billion, with the aim of complementing national funding and not replacing it;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the ECA raised concerns about the lack of accomplishment of the partnership approach in the development of the Youth Guarantees as enshrined in the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the cost-effectiveness of the YEI and the ultimate goal of the YG to havmake young people entering sustainable employment can only be achieved if operations are properly monitored on the basis of reliable and comparable data quality jobs can only be achieved if regular adjustments based on reliable and comparable data are the political consequence in cases where ineffective and cost-intensive measures were detected;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph –1 (new)
Paragraph –1 (new)
-1. Believes that the Youth Guarantee must be a first step towards a rights-based approach to young people’s needs with regards to employment; recalls the obligation of employers to participate in the process of providing young people with accessible vocational training programmes, entry level jobs and quality internships;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph –1 a (new)
Paragraph –1 a (new)
-1a. Stresses that the qualitative aspect of decent work for young people must never be compromised; underlines that the core labour standards and other standards related to the quality of work, such as working time, the minimum wage, social security, and occupational health and safety, must be central considerations in the efforts that are made;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the significant divergence in economic performance in terms of both economic and employment growth across the EU-28; urges the Member States that continue toacknowledges that certain Member States lag behind tohe implement the necessaryation of structural reforms in order to catch up with other EU economies; notes that it is sound economic policies, which are ultimately a Member State responsibility, that create jobdue to severe economic struggles in the aftermath of the financial crisis; notes that the creation of quality jobs requires willingness and commitment of both political and economic actors;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the YEI aims to complement national funding and not to replace it; stresserecalls that the YEI budget cannotaims to support young people, in particular NEETs residing in the eligible region and wais onever meant to shoulder on its own the ambition of offering all young people a good-quality offer of the main EU financial resources to support the implementation of YG schemes to ensure that young people up to the age of 25 receive a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for the YEI to be a driver for policy reform in particularfor the young and for better coordination in the fields of employment and education, especially in those Member States experiencing high rates of youth unemployment, with a view to ensuring that those Member States introduce integrated, comprehensive and long-term approaches to tackling youth unemployment which enhance the employability of young people and lead to sustainable employment, as opposed to having a range of fragmented (existing) policies, which often target NEETs who are relatively easy to integrate anywayaiming at better prospects and opportunities for young people;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Deplores that the Member States chose to commit themselves only by the non-binding instrument of Council Recommendation; points out that the aim of the Youth Guarantee is far from being achieved in many Member States;
Amendment 127 #
5. Stresses that reaching out to NEETs requires strong and sustained efforts by national authorities and cross-sectoral cooperation as well as a partnership strategy including youth organisations, as NEETs are a heterogeneous group with diverse needs;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Deplores that a partnership approach fully integrating social partners, youth organisations and other relevant stakeholders in the design, implementation and evaluation of the YEI has been scarcely respected; reiterates the idea that the partnership approach is aimed at better reaching the target population and ensuring the provision of quality offers;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recalls that the involvement of youth organisations in the communication, planning, implementation and evaluation of the YEI is crucial for its success;
Amendment 141 #
6. Is concerned about initial observations which show that improvements need to be made in the registration of and outreach to NEETs who are proving difficult to re-integrate, especially inactive NEETconsidering that young people being subsumed under this term have diverse needs; urges the Member States to pay special attention to the needs of vulnerable NEETs; reminds that there is a risk that young persons with disabilities are neither targeted by the YEI nor the Youth Guarantee and asks to have this remedied as fast as possible;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on Public Employment Services (PES) to provide high-quality, tailored services to young NEETs in vulnerable situations and implement awareness-raising trainings for employment office servants in order to raise sensitivity towards the multiply intersecting disadvantages of young NEETs in vulnerable situations to eliminate prejudiced and negative attitudes towards them;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the need of tailoring the measures to local context needs in order to increase their impact, for example through closer involvement of local employers’ representatives, local training providers and local authorities;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Endorses the call to define what athe term ‘quality offer’ should be, but cautions that such a definition should not lead to unnecessary restrictions or administrative burdensand to implement measures to create those in all Member States ;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates that the Council Recommendation on establishing a Youth Guarantee considers partnership-based approaches as a crucial key to implementing YG schemes; Calls on the Member States to actively identify the relevant stakeholders needed for a partnership approach and to better promote the YG programme among businesses, in particular SMEs and smaller, family-run companies; stresses that evidence from Member States that had already adopted YG-like approaches prior to the programme’s introduction demonstrates that a successful stakeholder approach is key to successful implementation;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to provide a country-specific estimation of the yearly cost for each Member State to implement the YG effectively, taking into consideration the estimate of the ILO;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for a discussion about the future status of the YEI which does not question its continuation but addresses the question of transforming it from a crisis instrument into a more permanent, main EU financing instrument for tackling youth unemployment, and which establishes a co-financing requirement in order to underline the primary responsibility of the Member Stateand/or continuation of the YEI as it currently is the main EU financing instrument for tackling youth unemployment beyond the European Social Funds by specifically targeting regions in urgent need while ensuring a quick and uncomplicated deployment of funds;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for more transparency in the monitoring of the implementation of the YG and for more ambition with regard to addressing the Member States showing no progress in this regard;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for a future discussion aboutEmphasises the need to improve the quality of offers under the YEI and YG and about the positive impact ofrecommends to extending the eligible age bracket under the YEI to 25-29;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recognises that the YEI is a financial instrument meant to support Member States’ initiative to tackle youth unemployment and that greater efforts from the Member States to provide a better link between educational systems and labour markets in order to make more young people enter quality jobs while avoiding skills mismatches are highly necessary;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Reiterates its commitment to closely monitor all Member State activities to make the YG a reality and invites youth organisations to keep the European Parliament updated on their analysis of Member State actions; urges the Member States and the Commission to involve youth stakeholders in policy making;