20 Amendments of Astrid LULLING related to 2010/2239(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas pension system actuarial calculations are based on insured salaryies and on work period and whereas there is a significant disadvantage in the retirement amount received due to work interruptions and part- time work on one side and the gender pay gap have a negative impact on the level of retirement pensions,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas during their career women are more often interrupting their career to take care of children, or ill or elderly family members and given their family obligations, tend to take up more often the part-time and precarious job then men,tend to interrupt their work or to work part-time more often than men in order to devote themselves to their family obligations;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Having in mind that a sustainable and well functioning pension system is extremely important to the stability of public finances, calls on the Commission to promote a system which would fairly take into account full costs of pension reforms when initiating decisions linked to the excessive deficit procedures;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas equality in male and female pensions, including as regards the retirement age, has been set as a goal and whereas there is a pension gap between women and men as a continuation and consequence of the persisting gender pay gap, which is still about 17%mplies that the retirement age is the same for men and women,
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that sustainable public finances require including the total of public and private debt in the assessment; recalls that pension savings are not only savings earmarked as pension; requests that the full scale of unfunded public sector pension liabilities is made transparent by including these in the government debt-to-GDP ratio;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the legal retirement age is being postponed in most European systems and whereas women have a highermost European systems have raised the legal retirement age, or are preparing to do so, based inter alia on life expectancy than men,
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the period spent by women on taking care ofs during which women interrupted their work to devote themselves to bringing up a children or otherto a dependent family members should be recognised in the calculation systems and taken into account totaken into account as effective insured periods counting towards their period of work as well as all kind of contractsnsion entitlement and for the calculation thereof; these ‘baby years’ should be at least 24 months per child;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Observes that pension reforms are necessary in the context of demographic ageing and the financial and economic crisis, but notes at the same time that the first objective of a reform should be to ensure adequate retirement income for all;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States - particularly the new Member States - to review their pension systems, taking into account the higher life expectancy of women and the major pay differentials between men and women, which are reflected in the amount of the pensions granted, often pushing them below the poverty linefollowing the 2004 enlargement - not to discriminate against women in setting the retirement age on account of the higher life expectancy of women than men;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that the increase in retirement age needs to be correlated with life expectancy and working conditions;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to closely follow the implementation of this Directive, take action against Member States where justified and when reviewing the Directive to take account of the specific situation concerning the financing obligations of the employer vis-à-vis the employee or its pension fund; is of the opinion that as a principle employee's pension rights provided by employers should be fully funded and separated from that employer;
Amendment 186 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Realises that pension knowledge of employees is very limited; is of the opinion that employees need to be better informed of any pension right they build up, the conditions to which it is subject, the security and portability of this right and the possible need for further savings to reach a target level;
Amendment 191 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 203 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24