14 Amendments of Jana TOOM related to 2019/0000(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 43 a (new)
Citation 43 a (new)
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas there are disparities in life expectancy by socioeconomic status; whereas these gaps largely reflect differences in exposure to risk factors (including at work), whereas low-income households are more likely to report unmet health needs than high-income households; whereas it is therefore important to further promote and take into account health in employment and social policies;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note of the Commission’s 2019 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) and welcomes the stronger focus on investment; notes that almost one third of the CSRs issued until 2018 have not been implemented; welcomes the fact that considerable progress has been achieved in legislation governing labour relations and employment protection; is concerned that progress on the 2018 CSRs is worse than performance in previous years and urges the Commission to put the necessary pressure on Member States to implement the recommendations; believes that strong reform implementation is crucial to strengthen the growth potential of EU economies and to foster social inclusion;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for well- designed labour market policies and reforms that create quality employment, promote equal opportunities and the equal treatment of workers, facilitate equal access to the labour market and social protection, facilitate labour mobility, reintegrate the unemployed and tackle inequalities and gender imbalances; calls, in this respect, on the Member States and the Commission to make the fight against youth unemployment their priority and to fully use the financial instruments such as the Youth Guarantee, the EU programs such as Erasmus + and tailored measures to tackle youth unemployment and to foster youth employability;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that participation of women in the labour market continues to grow but that gender inequalities in terms of employment and pay persist; takes the view that efforts should be strengthened to reduce the gender pay gap, the gender pension gap and disincentives to work, improve work-life balance and provide access to affordable childcare, early childcare and long-term care facilities; calls on the Member States to fully and quickly implement the recently adopted directive on work-life balance for parents and carers;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up efforts for the further inclusion of people with disabilities, long-term illnesses or chronic diseases in the labour market, by removing legislative barriers to creating incentives for their employment and ensuring the accessibility of workplaces;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls on the Member States to continue their efforts to ensure the accessibility, availability, affordability, quality and cost-effectiveness of their healthcare systems; stresses the importance of prevention and health promotion campaigns, especially towards young people from disadvantaged populations; recalls the importance of facilitating the reintegration of people of working age recovering from illness into the labour market;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen efforts against discrimination based on ethnicity, membership of a minority or minority language by raising awareness, implementing national diversity strategies and collecting and analysing reliable disaggregated data on discrimination;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that a transformation of the education and training systems is necessary in order to make full use of the opportunities offered by information and communication technologies and the media and to develop the skills and competences required to meet the demands of the labour market of the future; considers that skills shortages and mismatches can be major investment obstacles; emphasises that in order to acquire adequate skills it is necessary to improve the quality, availability, affordability and accessibility of education and training, including vocational training, and improve the mutual recognition of qualifications; calls on the Member States to prioritise comprehensive training in digital and entrepreneurial skills, taking into account the shift towards the digital economy and to a greener economy; believes that the challenges of climate change and the transition to a greener economy demand support to help workers to adapt, especially in the most affected regions by improving training and education in order to adapt skills and create new jobs in the environmental and digital sectors;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that the Union’s social and economic goals should have equal priority and that the European Semester process should be enhanced to include a social dimension all throughout its period, involving the competent bodies of the EU and member states which deal with social policies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce social rights by delivering the European Pillar of Social Rights and including its components and implementing theits social aspects with the help of the Country Specific Recommendations;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 g (new)
Paragraph 10 g (new)
10 g. Calls on the Member States to ensure that workers who experience new forms of work, in particular platform workers, have access to a social protection system and are guaranteed all their social rights;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 h (new)
Paragraph 10 h (new)
10 h. Urges the European Commission to enhance the Country Specific Recommendations for the eurozone members by creating a matrix framework where social policies related to the European Pillar of Social Rights such as inclusive acces to education, health, nutrition, employment, housing, and preserving social rights are analysed per social segments such as children, youth, seniors, minorities, migrants, persons with disabilities therefore creating a much more accurate image of the economic and social health of the member states and examine extending this new component of the CSRs to the non-eurozone members;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 i (new)
Paragraph 10 i (new)
10 i. Welcomes the inclusion in CSRs of various social indicators but notes that they are currently insufficient and that solely annual reporting leads to a loss of tempo; calls on the Commission to produce trimestrial reports on the evolution and implementation of finalized European Pillar of Social Rights policies, making note of the progress of the member states and including recomendations for the future period;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the social situation continues to improve and that poverty is in decline, but that it still remains unacceptably high; stresses that while the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU continued to decrease in 2017, some 113 million people in the EU and 74 million in the euro area were AROPE in 2017; urges the Commission and the Member States to take the necessary steps to reduce poverty, including child and in-work poverty, in order to achieve the Europe 2020 goal; stresses the need to reduce poverty and situations of exclusion of children in the EU, in particular through the implementation of a child guarantee; emphasises that decent job creation, access to social protection regardless of employment relationship or contract type, wage growth and well-resourced, quality public education systems have a significant impact on reducing inequalities, the risk of poverty and social exclusion;