25 Amendments of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2012/2257(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas fiscal consolidation must continue in view of the high debt levels and long-term challenges to public finances; whereas fiscal consolidation can can have negative growth and employment effects in the short term, especially in countries in recession or with marginal growth rates, compromising future growth and job- creation potential; whereas fiscal consolidation must therefore continue in a growth-friendly manner;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Considers that the Europe 2020 Strategy, and in this context the Commission must recognize that changes of existing macroeconomic policies are necessary, (i.e. discontinue the fiscal pact, stop the privatisation and liberalisation processes, etc) to give priority to the creation of quality work with rights, with better wages, less poverty and more social inclusion and progress;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers it regrettable that last year most Member States did not respect their commitment to submit a National Job Plan (NJP) as part of their 2012 NRPs; calls on the Member States to respect this commitment in 2013; stresses that NJPs should include comprehensive measures for job creation and green employment, a link between employment policies and financial instruments, labour market reforms, a cleNotes that the neoliberal measures, so- called austerity, which have been reinforced, notably as part of the so-called National Reform Plans, Economic Governance and the European Semester, are contributing to the deepening of the social and economic crisis in a number of countries with more fragile economies, making life more and more difficult for families of the working class and in par timetable for rolling out the multiannual reform agenda over the next 12 months and an indcular for women and children, who are the main vicationms of both the fields and regions experiencing specialisation shortages and surplusesthe increase of poverty, unemployment and precarious and poorly paid work;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to adopt measures favourable to job creation such as labour tax reforms that provide employment incentives, promote and support self-employment and business start-ups, improve the framework for doing business, facilitate access to financing for SMEs, transform informal and undeclared work into regular employment, reform labour markets to make them more adaptive, dynamic and inclusive, with rights, recovery of wages and modernise wage- setting systems to align wages with productivity developments, exploit the high employment potential of sectors such as the green economy, health and social care, and the ICT sector to create jobs;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Warns that so called austerity measures should notare compromiseing the quality of employment, northe social protection and health and safety standards.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States, while pursuing fiscal consolidation, to secure efficient investment in education and training.
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the fact thatTakes note the 2013 AGS addresses poverty and social exclusion, as well as tackling the social consequences of the crisis; calls on the Commission to stress these measures in the country-specific recommendations and, in particular, to address in-work poverty, poverty among people with limited or no links to the labour market and poverty among elderly people; calls on the European Council to endorse this guidance as a priority;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Stresses that fiscal policies must have as its main objectives the use of resources of Member States in productive investment and job creators, particularly in agriculture and industry, in targeted support for exporting companies that innovate, a fairer distribution of income and sacrifices and end with the fiscal privileges to the big economic groups;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Acknowledges the need to continue fiscal consolidation programmes in order to guarantee the sustainability of public finances, but warns about thhave negative short-term growth and employment effects thereof, especially in countries in recession or with marginal growth rates;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Emphasises that Europe needs a macroeconomic framework to support sustainable development, and an increase in employment and social cohesion; considers that monetary and tax policies in the EU have had a negative impact on the growth of the economy and employment, and recalls that monetary policy should contribute to strengthening economic recovery and fighting unemployment, locking in the immediate destruction of thousands of jobs in the EU and creating quality jobs with rights;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Stresses the need for reforms in the labour market to increase labour productivity and efficiencput a strong focus on promoting quality in worder tok, improve the EU economy's competitiveness and guarantee sud social security and social inclusion, enhancing existainable growth and job creation; believes that reforms in labour markets should be implemented in such a way as to promote job qualityg and introducing new workers rights, promoting health and safety at work, better social risk management and the reconciliation of work and non-work life;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Underlines that measures to enhance security by phasing out precarious employment and those atypical contractual arrangements related to such insecure forms of employment should be strongly launched by Member States,, with a view to restrict and reduce atypical forms of employment, whose misuse should be punished. Member States must therefore introduce a combination of secure and reliable employment contracts, active and integrative labour market policies, effective lifelong learning, high quality social security systems to secure professional transitions accompanied by clear rights for the unemployed to be entitled to adequate benefits and tailor- made measures to find quality employment or training and upgrading of their skills and competencies if needed;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses the need to undertake the necessary reforms in order to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems; believes that retirement age should be linked to the evolution of life expectancy, but recalls that there is still scope to raise the actual retirement age without raising the mandatory retirement age by reducing early exit from the labour market; believes that, if actual retirement ages are to be raised successfully, reforms in pension systems 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 ensuring public social security systems aiming fair reforms allowing to live with dignity;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Regrets that absolutely no mention is made of steps to implement gender mainstreaming in the priorities of the Annual Growth Survey 2013; considers that significantly increasing women's participation in the labour market is key to achieving the Europe 2020 headline target for the employment rate; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt the necessary measures to promote higher employment rates among women, such as affordable care and child care, adequate maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes and flexibility in working hours and places of work;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on the Member States to improve the environment for businesses, especially for SMEs, and calls on the Commission and the European Council to step up efforts to improve the Single Market, to enhance the digital economy and to focus on smart regulation in order to reduce unnecessary red tape; welcomes the Single Market Act II and calls for swift and full implementation thereof;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42 a. Stresses the need to combat with effective measures, discrimination in access to employment and wages suffered by young girls, even when they have higher academic qualifications than young boys;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Calls on the EU and Member States to foster cooperation and synergies between theonsiders that the institutions of education and/or training sector and enterprises to anticipate skills' needs and adapt education and training systems to the needs of the labour market, with the aim of providmust ensure internships to complement the curriculum to their students as a way to gain experience ing the workforce with the necessary skills andfield they have chosen to facilitatinge the transition from education and training to workir learning and connection labour practice;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Believes that structural labour market reforms should be introduce internal flexibility to maintain employment d to create an inclusive labour market, promoting times of economic disruption, and ensure job quality, security in employment transitions, unemployment benefit schemes based on strict activation requirements that maintain work incentives while ensuring sufficient inche quality of work, improving levels of education and expanding training programs and recycling, improving gender equality and the integration of women, contractual arrangements to combat labour market segmentation, anticipate economic restructuring, and ensure access to lifelong learningmigrants, young workers and older workers and other disadvantaged groups in the labour market;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)
Paragraph 53 a (new)
53 a. Notes that the increase of atypical employment as a result of greater flexibility excludes a growing number of workers social benefits, since eligibility for benefits depends on the worker's employment status, whereas this way, the flexibility also endangers the financial sustainability of social security systems;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Calls on the Member States to simplify employment legislation and support and develop conditions for more flexible working arrangements, especially for older and younger workers, and to promote workers' voluntary mobility through mobility support schemes;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Calls on the Member States to increase the coverage and effectiveness of active labour market policies, in close cooperation with social partners, mutually supported by activation incentives, such as welfare-to-work programmes, and adequate benefit systems in order to maintain employability, support people back into work and safeguard decent living conditions;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 a (new)
Paragraph 61 a (new)
61 a. Emphasizes that, to emerge stronger from the economic crisis, be more competitive and convergent, have higher levels of growth and ensure our systems of welfare in the long term, Europe should promote quality public services, making full use of its workforce potential work to ensure workers' rights, promote collective bargaining and public social security and universal;