16 Amendments of Anthea McINTYRE related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that many Member States still have large deficits and that there is a need to develop fiscal responsibility programmes that are fully compatible with quality job creation, economic growth and welfare state sustainabilitycompetitiveness; calls on the Commission, which has already received the national budget proposals for 2016, and within the framework of COM(2015)00121, to provide where appropriate a flexible process of fiscal responsibility at national level that allows for the adoption of socially responsible and economically efficient policies aimed at decent job creation; __________________ 1 COM(2015)0012, ‘Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the SGP’.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the country-specific recommendations (CSR) to include the Commission’s recommendation2 on private debt aimed at creating second chances for enterprises; calls for these programmes to be extended to families at risk of eviction from their first home and for these to be guaranteed, in particular, in banking entities within bank restructuring programmes supported by public money; __________________ 2 Recommendation of 12 March 2014 on a new approach to business failure and insolvency.
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fostering of a European investment policy aimed at boosting growth and, job creation; considers it regrettable and competitiveness; notes, however, that Parliament’s call3 to promote social investment not only in pursuit of financial profit but also with the aim of promoting a positive social impact has been neglecyet to be implemented; __________________ 3 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraphs 10 and 18.
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the immense opportunities afforded by the digital economy for innovation, growth and job creation particularly for SMEs and start-ups;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note of the recommendations on the need to move forward within newstructural labour reforms, and calls for such reforms, if carried out, to guarantee social dialogue and to ensure necessary political consensus in order to be sustainable and effective; considers it regrettable that manywhere appropriate social dialogue in line with Member States’ customs and practices; Recognises the need to ensure that Member States’ labour market reforms have not ensured the requirestrike a good balance between flexibility and security, resulting in, for example, the exclusion of millions of workers from collective bargaining for both employees and employers, resulting in, for example higher rates of productivity and employment levels; calls for ambitious labour reforms capable of reducing fragmentation, putting an end to insecurity and labour market rigidities and increasing the productivity and competitiveness of our economy while ensuring decent jobs and living wages through investment in human capital;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recognises that setting minimum wages is a Member States’ competence which must be respected in line with the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that some labourMember States’ labour market reforms have introduced new contractual formulas that, according to the Commission, have increased precariousness in the labour markets; of particular concern are some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90 % for new contracts, w; recognises that the availability of non-standard forms of employment provides numerous benefits for workers who cannot or chose not to commit to 'standard' full-time employment which results in hicgh particularly affects young people and women and which, according to the OECD1, is one of the direct causes of increasing inequality; __________________ 1 OECD inequality benefits all’, 21 May 2015.ipation rates amongst groups that might otherwise be excluded from work altogether, such as mothers returning to work; report ‘In it together: Why less
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that according to the European Commission's Quarterly Review (March 2015), Employment in the Union continues to improve moderately but consistently, although development at the Union level hid marked differences between Member States; stresses that it also noted that the increase in permanent and full-time contracts was higher than that for temporary and part-time contracts in absolute terms and that for the third and consecutive quarter, the increase in permanent and in full-time employment has outnumbered the increase in temporary and part-time employment.
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take note of the IMF2 report on the causes and consequences of inequality, which states that the increase in the income gap is negatively affecting economic growth and the potential for job creation; calls for effective action on labour taxation, labour markets and redistributive policies to facilitate greater and upward economic and social convergence; __________________ 2 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’, June 2015.
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that many Member States have already launched important reforms, including strengthening and improving the efficiency of active labour market policies and by creating a hospitable business environment which can play a key role in re-shoring jobs back to Europe;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that high rates in long-term unemployment in the EU, especially in some Member States, are resulting in an increasing number of workers losing their benefits before finding a new job; considers it regrettableNotes that many Member States have limited access to such benefits or have reduced the amount available and/or the eligibility period for them; considers it important to maintain a balance between adequate social protection and adequate incentives for active job searching; calls for a specific study on such incentives at EU level, and calls on the Member States to guarantee minimum income schemes to avoid pockets ofmade innovative changes to their benefits systems to help in particular young people into work; considers it important for the Union to examine ways in which Member States can learn from each other in order to strike a balance between adequate social exclusprotection and ensure a minimum income to familiesadequate incentives for active job searching;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the reduction in youth unemployment rates, but points out that they are still at alarming levels in many Member States and not necessarily based on net job creation; stresses that job insecurity and underemployment have also risen and that 43 % of young people work in precarious conditions with involuntary part-time contracts or as bogus self- employed workers;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers it regrettable that, although the Commission has acknowledged that ‘poverty and marginalisation have increased’5, there is no reference in the CSR to the fight against poverty, and that no comprehensive strategy to fight it has been preparedMember States’ initiatives in the fight against poverty; __________________ 5 COM(2015)0250 final.
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is deeply concerned by the limitedNotes the role that national parliaments, social partners and civil society have played in the drafting of the national reform programme (NRP) and the convergence programme (CP); calls on the Commission to favour, within the revision of the economic governance mechanisms, a reform that grants adequate democratic legitimacy to the European Semester.