Activities of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2012/2258(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
Amendments (5)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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3. Stresses the need to create the appropriate conditions for people to work longer and to be more productive, both by improving labour-market flexibility through the introduction of time accounts and part-time possibilities and by making provision for modern forms of employment contract, including temporary oneat elderly people have a right to economic security through decent retirement, having earned this right with contributions made throughout their working lifetime, and to enjoy family and community life in conditions which respect their individual autonomy and which prevent and overcome social isolation or marginalisation; they have the right to access a quality network of facilities providing support for the elderly, accessible to all citizens regardless of their socioeconomic status, particularly day centres, residential homes and home help; they have a right to quality public health services allowing universal access to a healthy ageing process;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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4. Is convinced that comprehensive reforms are necessary in order to prevent and avoid serious shortages on our labour maovide equal rights to all worketrs, which would result eliminating a further economic slowdown and a threat to the level of prosperity in Europell forms of precarious employment and investing in the creation of permanent jobs and lifelong learning and professional training;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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5. Points out the essential role of investing more in the education and training of young people in order to accomplish the objective of combating youth unemployment, with priority for lifelong learning, in order to prepare an active and productive ageing workforcethe creation of jobs with rights; points out that everyone should have access to lifelong education and culture and that this calls for investment in quality public cultural services available to all;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
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6. Maintains that further reforms of pension systems are necessary in order to make them sustainable; more coherence must be established between the effective retirement age, the official retirement age and life expectanc, upholding universal and supportive public social security systems able to guarantee decent retirement conditions for all, reflecting true inter-generational solidarity;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
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6a. Believes that priority should be given to fighting social inequality, especially economic inequality in terms of income and wealth distribution and labour market inequalities, and social insecurity, unequal access to the social functions of the state such as welfare, health, education, the legal system, etc;