22 Amendments of Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN related to 2007/2290(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
- having regard to the legally binding UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW 1979), in particular Article 11.1(d) and (e) and Article 11.2(c),
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas a generic increase of the pensionable age, based on the general trend of an increase in life expectancy, insufficiently takes into account that there are still numerous branches of industry in which life expectancy of workers seriously lags behind,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas social partners in general, and in those branches of industry with workers with a lower than average life expectancy in particular, have a serious responsibility with regard to the in - and outflow of workers and can be the primary supporting parties in ensuring an effective age-conscious personnel policy,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, in general terms, women's careers tend to be more fragmented and the rate at which their pay increases is slow, while men tend to have a more continuous employment record and their pay tends to increase more steadily, which means that there is a discrepancy between their respective contributions to the pension system and an increased risk of poverty for women, which is in addition a longer-term risk, given their greater life expectancy,
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that equality between men and women must be one of the objectivprinciples of any reform of social security systems, given the current background of persisting inequality on the employment market, in pay and career prospects and in the way family and domestic responsibilities are shared;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses, therefore, the need for active policies on the employment of women and older people to ensure that inter alia contributions to pension systems entitle them to a decent pension;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that, under Article 141 of the EC Treaty, measures may be adopted to actively promotachieve equal pay and Community case law regards social security contributions as an element of pay;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to carry out more detailed research and studies concerning the impact of the individualisation of social rights on equal treatment for women and men and to make known its findings;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
– recognition of periods spent devotedin which it is necessary to reconcilinge work and family life, such as maternity leave, parental leave, periods spent looking after a dependent relative and educational responsibilities, for example by increascompensatory bridging periods of compulsory insurance to complete the period of social insurance coverage required for entitlement to a pension;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
– dividing up pension rights fairly in the event of divorce ('pension splitting');
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
– maintaining or creating derived rights for the surviving spouse in the form of fair widowers' or widows' pensions, particularly for spouses who have reduced or stopped their paid employment in order to take on family and domestic responsibilities;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
– the possibility of awarding a minimumcompensatory pension even to those who have not paid contributions continuously or whose contributions were based on low pay;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 6
Paragraph 6 – indent 6
– introducing systems to enable people to opt fortake gradual retirement whileor continuinge to work part-time before or after retirement age thereby earning better pension entitlements;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls its resolution of 21 February 1997 on the situation of spouses helping self-employed workers which called, among other things, for action to ensure that it was compulsory for spouses helping self-employed workers to be covered individually by a pension insurance scheme.
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that sources of economic growth will alter: eimployment will make a positive contribution to growth until 2010 and after 2030 a negative one, and labour productivityroved labour productivity and technological innovations will thus become a dominant sources of growtheconomic growth due to demographic changes; recognises that, to preserve a higher level of productivity, it will be essential to invest more in research and development, in which connection the synergy between technological and social innovation should be assigned high priority;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that a decreasing work force will, if the present situation continues, lead to a decrease in the total number of hours worked; considers that it may be necessary to compensate this development by increasing the hours worked by the remaining workers or reducing the number of people who work part-time; considers moreover that sections of the population which have a large labour potential, such as people with disabilities, women, younger people and older people, should be encouraged to undergo in-service training and retraining in order to promote participation in employment;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that it might be necessary for people to work past the age 65, remaining as long as possible Stresses the need to discuss at national level raising the labour force; stresses the need to discuss raising the legal retirement ageegal retirement age and/or encouraging people to remain at work;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. calls upon social partners, amongst others on the basis of experience gained in various sectors, to negotiate tailor made sector based measures in relation to the outflow of ageing workers in general and a age-conscious personnel policy in particular;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Draws attention to the existing discrimination against vulnerable groups in the labour market, which leads to lower employment rates and lower wages and therefore fewer opportunities for those groups to builtd up adequate pensions; considers, moreover, that younger people need to be more aware of the building-up of pension entitlements; insists on the need to provide equal opportunities for all;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls upon the Member States to take serious account of the need to redesign traditional pension systems which are based on systematic risk assessments and the assumption of a typical, standard life course, given that the assumed standard life course is changing rapidly and so-called patchwork biographies will become more and more common, leading to the new social risk of increasing unpredictability for many individuals and for vulnerable groups in particular, especially immigrants, women, low-skilled workers, and single parents; points out that it is also necessary to redesign pension systems in order to create a flexible labour market;