Activities of Arne GERICKE related to 2016/2017(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Creating labour market conditions favourable for work-life balance (A8-0253/2016 - Tatjana Ždanoka, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on creating labour market conditions favourable for work-life balance PDF (496 KB) DOC (192 KB)
Amendments (33)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1
Heading 1
on creating labour market conditions favourable for work-life balancto reconciling work and family life
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4
Citation 4
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13
Citation 13
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23
Citation 23
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28
Citation 28
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the political aim must be to adapt the world of work to the specific needs of families with children, and not the other way around;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas even today there is still no uniform definition of parental and maternity leave, only a range of differing national concepts;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas family-related types of leave are still often grounds for discrimination and stigmatisation despite existing legislation, and whereas the term 'leave' is in itself entirely misleading, in that it in fact denotes a period spent performing family duties which involves work and benefits society;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas access to childcare services for young children is the mainone factor influencing the participation of women in the labour market, although a woman's decision to stay at home and bring up children should be accepted and should not give rise to discrimination; whereas only 11 Member States have met the first Barcelona target (childcare available for at least 90 % of children between the ages of 3 and the mandatory school age) and only 10 Member States have achieved the second target (at least 33 % of children under three years)19; whereas raising children is still not properly recognised and supported as a form of work; __________________ 19 Progress report on the Barcelona objectives of 29 May 2013 entitled ‘The development of childcare facilities for young children in Europe with a view to sustainable and inclusive growth’ (COM(2013)0322).
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas allowing people time outside of work for family and, in that connection, personal development in the context of life-long learning without them suffering discrimination as a result benefits their wellbeing as well as their contribution to the economy with more skills and higher productivity20; __________________ 20 CEDEFOP Research Paper: Training leave. Policies and practices in Europe, 2010.
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the EU is facing unprecedented demographic challenges – an ageing population, low birth rates, changing family structures and migration; stresses that the promotion of families with children and their full recognition in society are of critical importance in this situation; is concerned that austerity measures have had a negative impact on the sustainability of public finances needed for work-life balance policies and services that foster demographic renewal;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s approach to work-life balance policies as key in addressing socio-economic challenges; calls on the European Social Partners to come forward with an agreement onCommission to draw up a 'European Family Strategy' as a comprehensive package of legislative and non- legislative measures regarding the reconciliation of professional, private and family life; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for such a package in the context of the announced European pillar of social rights should it not be possible for an agreement between the social partners to be reached;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in place policies that acknowledge the increasing diversity of family relationships and parenting arrangements, in particular to guarantee that a child is not discriminated against because of its parents’ marital status, with due respect for the subsidiarity principle, to put in place policies that improve the position orf family constitutioies with children;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to address at national level inequalities in paid and unpaid work and ideally to promote an equal sharing of responsibilities and costs for children and care for dependants between women, men and society as a whole;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. UrgesCalls on the Commission to adopt a post-2015 Gender Equality Strategy and to implement it through the European Semester, including the Annual Growth Survey and the country-specific recommendationsstrategy for equal rights for women and men;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to put in place proactive policies designed to support womenmothers or fathers, after a period of parental leave, entering, returning to and staying in the labour market with stable and quality employment;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve the social partners and civil society in gender equality policies; and stresses the importance in this of collective agreements in combating discrimination and promoting equality between women and men at work, and of research and exchanges of good practicesand free collective bargaining;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Strongly regrets that the CommissCalls on the Commission, in close cooperation withdrew the revision of the Msocial partners, to put forward a new proposal for a realistic maternity Lleave Ddirective and calls as a matter of urgency for it to return with an ambitious proposal; calls on the Commission andpplicable in all Member States, with viable minimum standards on maternity protection; calls on the Member States to ensure that women are paid for the duration of maternity leave; stresses that maternity leave must be accompanied by effective measures protecting the rights of pregnant and breast-feeding women and new mothers, reflecting the recommendations of the World Health Organisation21; __________________ 21 http://www.who.int/topics/breastfeeding/en /
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that improved coordination and coherence of and access to different types of leave in Member Statesrecognition of the existing, different types of parental leave in Europe increases employment participation and overall efficiency in the Member States;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to publish an implementation report on the Parental Leave Directive and urges it to use the review clause to extend the minimum duration of paid leave from four to at least six months;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that promoting the individualisation of the right to parental leave as well as the role of fathers is essential to achieving gender-balanced reconciliation of work and private life, but such action is a national competence in line with subsidiarity;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 1
Paragraph 15 – point 1
(1) a paternity leave directive with a minimum ofnon-legislative ‘European family strategy’ to promote the family, family- friendly working conditions and a family- friendly environment in Europe as well as two-week fully paid leavhe reconciliation of work and family life;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 2
Paragraph 15 – point 2
(2) a carers’ leave directive which supplements the provision of professional care, enables care for dependants and offers the carer adequate remuneration and social protectionfeasible maternity protection directive guaranteeing practicable minimum standards;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to fully recognise family work in the home without discrimination, but at the same time to effectively implement the Barcelona targets by 2020 and to endorse the 2014 quality framework on early childhood education and care;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for the introduction of targetcommon European minimum standards on care for elderly and other dependants, with monitoring tools within the European Semester; calls on Eurostat and Eurofound to collect relevant data and to carry out studies;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out the high levels of working poor throughout Europe, with people having to work more and longer, even combining several jobs, in order to earn a decent income; calls on the Member States and social partners toencourages free collective bargaining by the social partners, as that is a crucial factor in developing measures ensuring adequate wages for all workers, and to closeing the gender pay gap that primarily stems from having and raising children;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Supports ‘smart working’ butwhile rejectsing - in keeping with theright to be uncontactable - a shift from a culture of presence to a culture of permanent availability; calls on the Member States, when developing smart working policies, to ensure that these do not impose an additional burden on the worker and that they underwrite the principle of a right to be uncontactable;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls for a political rethink that recognises caring for families and raising children as real work that is measurable and constitutes, not only in demographic terms, a service to society;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that time for the family, time spent with children and a proper division between family life and work markedly enhance quality of life;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Stresses the importance - with regard to reconciling family life and work and to quality of life - of having days off work together;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Member States to putStresses the importance of free collective bargaining by the social partners and their contribution towards putting in place adequate income schemes toin order to value work and enable people to live a life in dignity, to support full participation in society and to ensure independence throughout the life cycle;