Activities of Minodora CLIVETI related to 2012/2234(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on an agenda for adequate, safe and sustainable pensions
Amendments (20)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A
Paragraph A
A. whereas the ageing of the population threatens to place a strain on public spending on social protection, since pensions account for the largest proportion of such expenditure, pensions being at the same time a human right and a pillar of social solidarity;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph B
Paragraph B
B. whereas pensions are the main source of revenue of older Europeans and are supposed to ensure that older people have a decent standard of living and enable them to be financially independent; whereas, however, around 22% of women over the age of 75 fall below the European Union’s poverty threshold, and women represent the majority of the population over 75;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph C
Paragraph C
C. whereas women take more frequent career breaks than men for the purpose of fulfilling family responsibilitiescaring for children and elderly, dependent or sick people in the family, which may lead them to opt for part-time work or more poorly paid work more often than is the case for men, and those periods are either not taken into account at all, or only partially taken into account, when their pension entitlement is calculated, and consequently women’s pensions are often lower than men’s and women are at greater risk of poverty;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph D a (new)
Paragraph D a (new)
Da. whereas the projected impact of pension reforms is usually based on a male, full time, full career, average earner profile; whereas actuarial gender-based life tables have a negative impact on women's pension calculations and provide a lower replacement rate for women;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph D b (new)
Paragraph D b (new)
Db. whereas women work and tend to put money aside, often for the benefit of the children's upbringing or family welfare, and therefore put less aside for their own future pension schemes, especially when relying on private schemes;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph D c (new)
Paragraph D c (new)
Dc. whereas women are often employed in more poorly paid jobs and have less flexibility on the labour market, particularly over the age of 50, making it much more difficult to put money aside for pension schemes;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the Member States should support research on the impact of different pension indexation formulas on the poverty risk in old age, taking account of the gender dimension; calls on the Member States to take particular account of the evolution in people’s needs when ageing, e.g. long-term care, in order to ensure that elderly people, mainly women, will be able to receive an adequate pension and live with dignity;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the need for Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay and income differential between women and men;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to promote flexibility in the retirement age, taking into account the gender dimension, increasing the security of pension funds and guaranteeing a minimum pension;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Member States to guarantee individual and adequate pension rights for all, including those with justified career breaks (mainly women), so as to ensure a dignified life for all in old age;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the need to adjust the retirement age for women and men, to take account of increased life expectancy while improving access to lifelong learning, making it easier for people to reconcile the demands of professional, family and private life and promoting active ageing;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into consideration that the raising of the pension age should be voluntary and not obligatory;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that periods in which women or men are obliged to take care of children or other dependent members of their families, as well as housework, should be treated as insured periods for the purpose of establishing, and calculating, entitlement to pension;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that the individualisation of pension rights is necessary from a gender equality perspective, and that the security of many older women currently relying on widow's pensions and other derived rights should be also ensured;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to strengthen the public pensions by developing the quality of employment and wages, the quality of social services and the perpetuity of the means to finance social protection systems;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to promote a European framework directive on minimum pensions which could define that every person from a certain age on, independent of the years he or she has worked is entitled to a minimum pension;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that the EU 2020 has set out to achieve 75% employment rate of persons aged 20-64; calls on the Member States to raise employment levels and increase in particular employment of older women and men; calls on the Member States to offer comprehensive advice and support for jobseekers and rehabilitation measures for long-term reintegration into the labour market;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets the fact that young people are entering late into the labour market and that the final contribution for a full pension is affected by this; considers, therefore, that the time spent in internships needs to be integrated in the final pension calculation;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to implement socially acceptable incentives for later retirement and, where desirable, development of attractive models for a flexible transition from work to retirement;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Observes that in countries with a strong second pillar not all categories of workers have access to funded occupational pensions; believes that funded occupational pensions should be also accessible for workers with a precarious or fixed term contract;