Activities of Laura AGEA related to 2016/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A European Pillar of Social Rights (debate) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Pillar of Social Rights PDF (513 KB) DOC (93 KB)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) cannot be limited to a declaration of principles or good intentions but must consist of real matter (legislation, policy-making mechanisms and financial instruments), delivering positive impact on citizens’ lives in the short term and enabling support for European construction in the 21st century by effectively upholding social rights and Treaty objectives, strengthening cohesion and upward convergence, and helping to complete EMUwith the priority and urgent objective of resolving the poverty problem affecting 120 million European citizens today;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the EPSR should equip European citizens with stronger means to keep control over their lives andto enable them to live a dignified life and realise their aspirations and to make markets work for wellbeing and sustainable development;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on fair working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self-employment, crowd-working, internship and/or traineeship; requestcommends that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workers;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
Paragraph 4 – point b
b. for work intermediated by digital platforms, a definition of employment that is lessnot dependent on full cumulation of the relevant criteria;
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is aware that rising life expectancy and workforce shrinking pose a challenge to the sustainability of pensions systems and to intergenerational fairness; reaffirms that the best response is to increase the overall employment rate; considers that pensionable ages should reflect, besides life expectancy, other factors including labour market trends, the economic dependency ratio, the birth rate and differences in job arduousness; disagrees, therefore, with the policies being pursued in the Member States under the guidance of the Commission aimed at arbitrarily raising the pensionable age;
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that all workers should be covered by insurance against involuntary unemployment or part-time employment, coupled with job-search assistance and investment in (re)-training; as such instruments are a key means of combatting the rise in poverty;
Amendment 577 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. ConsidersFirmly believes that access to quality and affordable long-term care services, including home-based care, to beis a right that should be upheld with the help of suitably qualified professionals employed under decent conditions; believes that low- income households shouldmust therefore be targeted by adequate public services and tax deductions; repeats its call for legislation on carers’ leave accompanied by adequate remuneration and social protection;
Amendment 586 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Firmly believes it is necessary to ensure that persons with disabilities can enjoy the right to determine their own life style by guaranteeing they can lead an independent life and providing them with the requisite assistance through the granting of professional status to trained carers providing quality services;
Amendment 605 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create the conditions to guarantee all EU citizens basic social rights, such as the right to housing, and to contribute to ensuring that the universal concept of human dignity is reflected at every moment in the life of every individual;
Amendment 624 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that one possible solution is to reduce mortgage or rent payments for families living in inadequate housing as an incentive and means of enabling them to spend money on refurbishing and improving their home instead; also urges the Commission and the Member States to establish in law that a primary residence is immune from seizure, thereby making it mandatory to protect EU citizens’ right to housing;
Amendment 627 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Points out that 22 348 834 households (representing around 11% of the EU population) spend over 40% of their disposable income on meeting housing costs; notes that as part of the European Semester, excessive household costs have been singled out as a societal trend to be monitored, and that 21 924 491 households (representing around 10.8% of the EU population) are finding it difficult to keep their homes at an acceptable temperature; calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to urgently identify, implement and continue measures that enable them to meet those costs, including housing allowances;
Amendment 670 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Expresses strong concern at the country-specific recommendations issued by the Commission and the impact these have had in guiding the labour reforms that have destabilised the job market in the Member States;
Amendment 725 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that secure professional transitions require adequate investment, both in the institutional capacity of public employment services and to assist individual job-search and upskilling; stresses that these objectives can only be achieved by freeing public investment from budgetary constraints;
Amendment 736 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for full implementation of the Youth Guarantee for all people under 30 and of the recommendation on the long- term unemployed; highlights these as important structural reforms and social investments that are in need of adequate financing; points out, however, that initiatives such as the Youth Guarantee must be put into effect with a comprehensive understanding of the employment regions in which they are to be implemented; this means redefining the role of job centres – i.e. to assist users, taking into account all their specific circumstances, to update skills and to focus attention on developing sectors through direct contact with businesses in order to ascertain the competences that the latter require potential employees to possess;
Amendment 780 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls onUrges the Commission to set out new concrete measures to ensure non- discrimination and equal opportunities;
Amendment 816 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. EIs extremely concerned about the ‘brain drain’ problem and emphasises that labour mobility within the EU is a right whose exercise must be supported but which should not be forced on workers by poor conditions in their home regions, and should not undermine host countries’ social standards;
Amendment 857 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
26. CIs extremely concerned about the social impact of the economic policies pursued at EU level and considers that the objective of upward social convergence should be underpinned by a set of targets, building on the Europe 2020 strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals and serving to guide the coordination of economic, employment and social policies in the EU; believes that these targets could also form part of the Convergence Code currently being discussed for the euro area, and cshould be based on the following indicators which are directly affected by public policies not covered by budgetary restrictions:
Amendment 936 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for a rebalancing ofsubstantial policy shift in the European Semester so that the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators and the new Convergence Code are directly taken into account in formulating CSRs and the euro area recommendation as well as for the activation of EU instruments; urges a stronger role for the Macroeconomic Dialogue with social partners; considers ‘macro-social surveillance’ to be of great importance for avoiding that economic imbalances are reduced at the expense of worsening the employment and social situation;
Amendment 958 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for a ‘silver rule’ on social investment to be applied when implementing the Stability and Growth Pact, namely to consider certain public social investments having a clear positive impact on economic growth (e.g. childcare or education and training) as being eligible for favourable treatment when assessing government deficits and compliance with the 1/20 debt rule;
Amendment 992 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
30. Reiterates its call for the raising ofto review the MFF 2014-20 ceilings in order to cope with increased needs; calls, in particular, for:
Amendment 997 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point a
Paragraph 30 – point a
a. the strengtheningbetter implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative;
Amendment 1003 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point b
Paragraph 30 – point b
b. an increase in the volummore effective use of the European Social Fund, the EGF and the FEAD;
Amendment 1033 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to refocus the EFSI on job creation and social investment and adapt its risk/return requirements accordingly, and in particular to boost investment in SMEs and micro-enterprises operating in green and blue economy and social and circular economy sectors;
Amendment 1045 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – introductory part
Paragraph 32 – introductory part
32. Considers that the specific dynamics of economic adjustment within the euro area call for the development of two financial instruments, within the euro area’s fiscal capacity, that would be particularly relevant for the implementation of the EPSR: to be essential;
Amendment 1057 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point a
Paragraph 32 – point a
a. a fund for renewed structural convergence, supporting the implementation of socially just reforms and investments that are necessary for increasing the growth potential of crisis- affected areas and restoring upward social convergence, including for implementation of the Youth Guarantee, Skills Guarantee and Child Guarantee;
Amendment 1074 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point b
Paragraph 32 – point b
b. a European unemployment insurance scheme, complementing national schemes in cases of severe cyclical downturn and helping prevent the translation of an asymmetric shock into structural disadvantage;