11 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2014/2222(INI)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas older workers are the most likely group to be long-term unemployed; whereas only half of the workers aged between 55 and 65 were working in 2012; whereas older people suffer more from the reduction of public expenditure in social and health services and in social benefit; whereas some categories of older people, such as people aged 80+, older women, older migrants or older members of ethnic minorities are especially at risk of falling into poverty;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that decisive investment plans for growth and job creation can only be fully realised if they are coupled with national reforms that enhance quality labour participation, boost productivity and develop human capital in all age groups; points out that the decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on enhancing co-operation in the network of Public Employment Services (PES) is a key element for improving the labour markets; believes that structural labour market reforms should introduce internal flexibility measures aimed at maintaining employment in times of economic disruption, ensure job quality and security in employment transitions, and provide unemployment benefit schemes that are based on realistic activation requirements and linked to reintegration policies;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is concerned that the Commission’s strategy to regain competitiveness has been more focused on reducing costs than on raising productivity via investments in human capital; sStresses that more than 20 Member States have reduced their education expenditures in relative terms (as percentages of their GDPs), thereby jeopardising their growth, job potential and competitiveness;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses the need to adequate working skills to markets needs and welcomes that the Commission emphasises vocational training, dual education and lifelong learning systems to reach that goal, involving public and private actors; points out that social partners must be involved in the assessment of the skills needs; calls Member States to consider lowering fiscal burden to enterprises, specially SME's, that establish a working contract with an higher degree worker, in cases where employers do not contract people according to their qualifications and skills;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Stresses that, according to the Commission, despite high unemployment rates there are 2 million job vacancies in the EU, and that only 30.3 % of the active population works in another Member State; recalls that divergences in labour mobility rates range up to 10 percentage points, notably in those Member States hardest hit by the crisis, can be overcome also using the tool of the EURES platform;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the fact that the Joint Employment Report annexed to the AGS includes a scoreboard for employment and social policies; considers it regrettable, however, that these indicators are not sufficient and that they have not been made binding, which would allow them to be used more forcefully; asks the Commission to remedy this situationalls on the Commission to assess its scope and effectiveness;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Points out that emerging new forms of poverty – such as in-work poverty compounding difficulties such as e.g. paying mortgages, or high utility prices creating energy poverty – have resulted in an increase in the number of evictions, foreclosures and homeless people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement integrated policies favouring social and affordable housing, effective prevention policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, and policies tackling energy poverty;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Reminds the Commission that in order to ensure both the sustainability and the adequacy of pensions, pension reforms need to be accompanied by policies that: develop employment opportunities for older workers; limit access to early retirement schemes and other early exit pathways; develop employment opportunities for older workers; guarantee access to life-long learning for both employed and unemployed people of all ages; enhance healthy ageing at the workplace, considering physical and psycho-social risks to health and safety; introduce tax benefit policies offering incentives to stay in work longer; and support active healthy ageing; stresses that pension reforms require national political and social cohesion, and should be negotiated with the social partners and representatives of younger and elder generations as the directly affected population groups in order to be successful;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. calls to foster, strengthen and develop effective health prevention measurements such as "lifetime healthy ageing", in order to increase life quality and at the same time to reduce costs of the national health systems for medical treatments and pharmaceutics in the late years;