8 Amendments of António MARINHO E PINTO related to 2017/2277(INI)
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas good occupational safety and health practices are crucial for a productive and motivated workforce, which helps companies remain competitive and innovative and helps to maintain valuable skills and work experience, reduce staff turnover and prevent exclusion; whereas SMEs have particular needs in this regard, demanding support measures in order to attain their OSH objectives; whereas, on the other hand, good OSH practices are crucial for SMEs to stay in the market and keep ensuring employment;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the improved health and reintegration of workers increases the overall wellbeing of society, has economic benefits to Member States, employees and employers and helps to retain; whereas to retain and to reintegrate older workers is key to secure skills that would otherwise be lost;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas older workers, despite being more subjected to chronic illness, also are proved to have a lower degree of exposure to physical risks and greater working time autonomy;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses in this regard the importance of developing and updating workers’ skills, matching the company and market needs, with special emphasis on digital skills, by providing workers with relevant training and access to lifelong learning;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that financial incentives, including financial incentives for SMEs, should be in place to keep people with reduced working capacity in employment;, in particular workers with reduced working capacity, if medical conditions allow, them to work; strongly encourages the integration of workers through re- training and upskilling into the open labour market; underlines that support should be available in particular to SMEs in order to allow the delivery of efficient training;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recognises in this regard that flexible working arrangements, such as telework, flexitime and reduced working hours, play an important role in returning to work; stresses the importance of encouraging early return to work (if medical conditions allow) through flexible working arrangements and reduced working time arrangements, which could be accompanied by partial sickness benefit; stresses that these arrangements, that include geographical, temporal and functional flexibility, must be positive both for workers and employers, helping on the management of the work organization and taking into account the variations in production cycles;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes the view that EU-wide campaigns play an important role in shifting popular opinion, increasing awareness of the demographic challenges facing the European labour markets as well as fighting existing myths and stereotypes that still exist about older workers; considers regrettable that older persons are still often exposed to age discrimination, stereotypes and barriers;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that national policy frameworks have a decisive impact on the policies and practices that enterprises develop to support active aging and to secure comprehensive age diversity on the work force;