Activities of Ulrike TREBESIUS related to 2017/2260(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2018 PDF (397 KB) DOC (94 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas according to Eurostat (2017) from 2013 to 2016 involuntary part-time employment in the EU-28 as a percentage of the total part-time employment has decreased from 26% to 24.6%;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the primary responsibility for tackling youth unemployment rests with the Member States in terms of developing and implementing labour market regulatory frameworks, education and training systems and active labour market policies;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas in some Member States, unemployment remains high due to a lack of growth and structural weakness that derive to a large extent from ineffective and in many cases rigid labour market regulatory frameworks; Believes in this regard that insufficient labour market reforms are the main reason for high unemployment;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas other Member States are faced with structural challenges in the labour market such as low participation as well as skills and qualification mismatches; whereas there is a growing need for concrete measures for the integration or re-integration of inactive workforce to meet labour market demands;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas wage-setting is a matter of national competence;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the provision and management of social security systems are a Member State competence which the Union coordinates but does not harmonise;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas the capacity of the EU's economy to drive long-term growth is below that of our major competitors; whereas the Commission has estimated that potential growth is around 1.4% in the EU, compared with of 2% in the US;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that reforms to social protections systems by the Member States must aim to facilitate labour market participation for those who can work, by making work pay; stresses in this regard that income support should be targeted at those most in need;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights and believes its 20 key principles regarding equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions and social protection and inclusion should serve as a point of reference when implementing the European Semester policy coordination cycle; stresses that these principles must not be used as a vehicle for further initiatives at EU level which clearly fall within the competence of the member states;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its concern at the level of youth unemployment, which remains high, with the number of NEETs having stagnated; welcomstresses, in this respect, an increase in funding for the gard the European Court of Auditors special report no. 5 "Youth EUnemployment Initiative by EUR 2.4 billion for the period 2017-2020- have EU policies made a difference" which emphasises that expectations on the YEI need to be managed and interventions should be redesigned in light of the available funding and based on better gap assessments and market analyses;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the YEI was designed as a temporary response to an economic crisis and should not become a permanent transfer mechanism;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take all the necessary measurespropose appropriate measures in line with the principle of subsidiarity to improve the services and national legislation that areis important for a improperving work-life balance; calls for the development of accessible and affordable childcare and early education services, and for the creation of favourable conditions for parents and carers by allowing for advantageous family leave take-up and flexible working arrangements which tap into the potential of new technologies; underlines, in this respect, the potential of public-private partnerships;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on Member States to ensure that active labour market policies are efficient and effective and are designed to support mobility between sectors and the re-training of workers, which will become increasingly important as our labour markets adapt to the digital transformation of our economies;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recognises that women continue to be under represented in the labour market; believes in this regard that flexible employment contracts including voluntary temporary and part-time contracts can play an important role in increasing the levels of participation from groups that might otherwise have been excluded from the labour market including women;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest in research and promote the development of new production technologies and services; underlines their potential to increase productivity, create new jobs and stimulate long-term growth;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the fact that the non- alignment of labour demand with labour supply is a problem that encompasses all EU regions, including the most developed; calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle this issue by introducing measures to facilitate the mobility of workers across jobs, sectors and locations in order to meet labour demand in less and better developed regions alike; acknowledges that intra EU labour mobility across member states helps to meet supply and demand but stresses that high labour mobility can bring social stress on receiving regions; calls on the Commission and the Member States, furthermore, to devote particular attention to the unique circumstances of cross-border workers and workers in peripheral regions;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Believes that in order to maintain and increase global competitiveness, the labour market regulatory framework in Member States needs to be clear, simple and flexible while maintaining high labour standards;