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REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States PDF (220 KB) DOC (353 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 64 #
Recital 5
(5) In accordance with the Treaty provisions, the Union has developed and implemented policy coordination instruments for fiscal policy and macro- structural policies. To date, these policies have resulted in an alarming trend of stagnation and deflation in large parts of the Union which is discouraging growth and employment. In this regard it is vital to take into consideration the new social indicators and the asymmetric shocks that all Member States will experience as a result of the economic crisis. The European Semester combines the different instruments in an overarching framework for integrated multilateral economic and budgetary surveillance. The streamlining and strengthening of the European Semester as set out in the Commission's 2015 Annual Growth Survey will further improve its functioning.
Amendment 100 #
Recital 10
(10) The broad guidelines for economic and social policies give guidance to the Member States on implementing reforms, reflecting interdependence. They are in line with the Stability and Growth Pact. The guidelines should form the basis for country-specific recommendations that the Council may address to the Member States.
Amendment 109 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 1
Member States should facilitate job creation, reduce barriers for business to hire people, promote entrepreneurship and in particular support the creation and growth of small enterprises in order to increase the employment rate of women and men. Member States should also actively promote white and green sector jobs, the social economy and foster social innovation.
Amendment 117 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 2
The tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation that are less detrimental to employment and growth, such as taxation on financial transactions, high earners and the use of fossil fuels, while protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth enhancing expenditures. Reductions in labour taxation should be aimed at the relevant components of the tax burden and at removing barriers and disincentives to labour market participation, in particular for those furthest away from the labour market.
Amendment 187 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Access to the labour market should facilitate entrepreneurship and sustainable job creation in all sectors, including green employment, the social economy and social innovation.
Amendment 193 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 2
Member States should closely involve National Parliaments and, social partners and civil society organisations in the design and implementation of relevant reforms and policies, in line with national practices, while supporting the improvement of the functioning and effectiveness of social dialogue at national level.
Amendment 217 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 1
Member States should modernisimprove their social protection systems to provide effective, efficient, sustainable and adequate protection throughout all stages of an individual’s life, ensuring fairness and addressing inequalities as well as ensuring active inclusion in order to eliminate poverty, in particular for people excluded from the labour market and for the more vulnerable groups. There is a need for simplified and, better targeted and more ambitious social policies complemented by affordable quality childcare and education, effective training and job assistance, guaranteed housing support and accessible health carehigh quality health care accessible to all, access to basic services such as bank accounts and the Internet and for action to prevent early school leaving and fight social exclusion. extreme poverty, social exclusion and, more generally, all forms of poverty.
Amendment 229 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 3
The pension systems should be reformed in order to secure their sustainability and adequacy for women and men in a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, including by linking statutory retirement ages to life expectancy, by increasing effective retirement ages, and by developing complementary retirement savings.