14 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2012/2257(INI)
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the gender dimension is crucial to achieving the EU 2020 headline targets, as women form the greatest reserve of as yet unused labour force; whereas women form the majority of those living in poverty in the EU; whereas specific attention needs to be paid therefore to gender mainstreaming and specific policies targeted at women throughout the European Semester process; stresses the need to align the legal retirement age of women to the one of men;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Regrets that the 2013 AGS does not address the quality of jobs and that too little attention is paid to putting in place the necessary preconditions for increasing labour market participation, notably that of women, notably workers at the age 45 +, people with disabilities and the most deprived;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Calls on the Member States to enforce health prevention measures already from childhood on a lifelong perspective in order to ensure people are leaving in a healthy condition during their work life.
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Calls on Member States to incorporate the mechanisms of the European exchange programmes for education, training, youth and sports into measures taken in the framework of the European semester;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the European Council to ensure coherence between the different priorities in its policy guidance, so that fiscal consolidation does not compromise growth and job creation potential, increase poverty and social exclusion, or prevents the provision ofuniversal access to public services of quality; believes that the main priority must be to put into place integrated reform measures and investments that promote growth and job creation while guaranteeing the sustainability of public finances;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Is concerned about the fact that the European Parliament and, national parliaments, social partners and the civil society continue to play a limited role in the European Semester; hHighlights the fact that policy guidance in the AGS initiated by the Commission, and to be endorsed by the European Council, lacks parliamentary and civil involvement and, therefore, democratic legitimacy;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses the need to undertake the necessary reforms in order to guarantee the sustainability of the pensions systems; bBelieves that retirement age should be linked to the evolution of the healthy life expectancy, but recalls that there is still scopmargin of manoeuvre to raise the actualeffective retirement age without raising the mandatory retirement age by reducing early exit from the labour market; bBelieves that, if actual retirement ages are to be raised successful to successfully higher effective retirement ages, reforms in pension systems, notably to restrict access to early, reforms in pension systemstirement schemes and other early exit pathways, need to be accompanied by policies that develop employment opportunities for older workers' access to life-long learning, and introduce tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work, and support active healthy ageing must become obligatory provided;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Welcomes the attention given ton exploitation of the job-creation potential of key sectors such as the green economy, health and social care (the so called white sector), and the ICT sector in the AGS priorities for 2013; cCalls on the Commission and the Member States to support initiatives that facilitate the development of theses sectors with high employment potential;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40 a. Calls on the European Commission that Social Entrepreneurship should be strongly supported under the Multi Annual Framework 2014-2020, as there is an evident high potential for new jobs and innovative growth;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Calls on the EU and Member States to foster cooperation and synergies between the education and -training sector and enterprises to anticipate skills' needs and adapt education and training systems to the needs of the labour market, with the aim ofobjective to providinge the workforce with the necessary skills, accordingly to changing working environments and individual needs of ageing workforce, and facilitatinge the transition from education and training to work;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the low level of labour market participation of people aged from 55-65, disadvantaged groups, including people belonging to minorities (e.g. Roma) and people with disabilities;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Draws attention toRecalls about the increase in poverty and unemployment amongst all age groups; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, too consequently adopt new commitments to address this situation, especially with regard to in-work poverty, poverty among people with limited or no links to the labour market, including long-term unemployed older workers and poverty among eolderly people;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64 a (new)
Paragraph 64 a (new)
64 a. Calls on the Member states to ensure decent housing and access to adequate social services to all, notably to the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 a (new)
Paragraph 73 a (new)
73 a. Calls for an obligatory involvement of social partners and civil society to increase the adequacy and effectiveness of social policies;