4 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the focus of the 2014 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) has shifted from solely boosting fiscal consolidation to strengthening the conditions for sustainable growth and employment; recalls that within the current Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) there are still margins intended to facilitate economic growth in the EU, and that differences in the Member States’ economic and social situations need to be taken into account; calls for greater flexibility margins in order to boost job crean uninterrupted continuation of consolidation; takes the view, however, that some of the structural reforms promoted by the Commission – especially labour reforms, wage devaluation, pension reforms, etc. – may result in the same contractionary effects on the economy or on internal demand as the excessive austerity conducted up to now; calls on the Commission, therefore, to assess the economic and social impact of such policies before recommending themo reduce the budgetary deficit of the EU Member States as means to guarantee consolidation while ensuring growth will have to be established, considering an adequate social compatibility of measurements; calls for greater flexibility margins in order to boost job creation;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s use of the new employment and social scoreboard for this year’s CSRs; considers it regrettable, however, that these indicators have not been made binding in view of the current employment and social alls on the Commission and Membergency; calls on the Commission, therefore, to put them on an equal footing with macroeconomic indicators, and to include additional indicators – such as child poverty levels, access to healthcare, homelessness, and a decent work index – in the scoreboard in order to allow more effective analysis of Member States’ employment and social concerns States to strengthen the awareness for implementing CSRs in the European economy;
Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Calls for obligatory bench-learning of EU Member States policy especially as regards European labour market policy, which means implementation of binding monitoring and recording of best practice models and methods in Europe focusing on the reduction of unemployment rates, primarily of youth unemployment, which shall result in mandatory bench-marking and ranking of all national examples, leading to concrete political consequences to be drawn from these findings by all EU Member States;
Amendment 212 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Observes with concern that employees aged 40+ often no longer have appropriate training and further education on their job; calls therefore on employers, social partners and national governments to execute true life-long learning (LLL) concepts and measurements on the labour market to achieve marked improvements in qualification of elder workers as soon as possible;