30 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2016/2061(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 9 June 2015 on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the gender pension gap would probably be even greater if account were taken only of contributory pensions, and not of the final-salary pensions obtained by women in the public sector;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the aim of pension policies is to make sure that pension systems give all EU citizens a decent income that safeguards them against the risk of social exclusionso as to guarantee social, cultural and political participation, and life with dignity, in old age;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the pension gap tends to leave women more at risk of economic vulnerability and, dependence or permanent poverty than men;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the average pension gap for the European Union as a whole in 2012 concealed major disparities between Member States; whereas by way of comparison the lowest gender pension gap is 3.7% and the greatest is 48.8%;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas pension schemes are still based on the ‘male breadwinner’ model and are geared to a life pattern traditionally experienced mostly by men, characterised by an uninterrupted period of some 45 years’ full-time employment;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas women’s lives rarely conform to this model, and whereas as a result of traditional structures and standards women are still employed less often, for a shorter time and in particular more precariously, and are furthermore subject to greater age discrimination on the labour market later on; whereas under this system the only rights women enjoy are often derived rights, such as the ‘widow’s pension’;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas that gap, which is the product of a range of factors, is a reflection of the gender imbalance that exists in relation to careers and family life, as well as to the abilityopportunities to make pension contributions, to position within the family group and to the way in which income is calculated for pension purposes;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas there appears to be a positive correlation between the pension gap and the number of children brought up and whereas the gender pension gap of married women and mothers is much greater than that of single women without children; whereas, in view of this, the inequalities suffered by single mothers are likely to be exacerbated when they retire;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the pay levels and thus the pension entitlements of fathers are unaffected, or may even be positively affected, by the number of their children;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas, despite the efforts made to improve the situation in this area, the employment rate among women still falls short of the Europe 2020 strategy targets and is still lower than that among men; whereas the employment rate contains no information about duration and type of employment and is thus limited in what it can tell us about pay and pension levels;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas women are more likely than men to be obliged to take career breaks and work on a part-time basis as a result of their disproportionategiven that they are almost solely responsibilityle for providing care within their, support and householdswork;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas voluntary work, which is to a large extent carried out by women and is one of the fundamental pillars of our society, means giving up both time and pay, which also contributes to the pension gap in old age;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
Ta. whereas a low pension combined with rising health and care costs impacts not only on the health of the women concerned, but also on the budgets and employment opportunities of women in the next generation, and may thus have a further adverse effect on women’s future pensions;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T b (new)
Recital T b (new)
Tb. whereas an individual, basic old age provision based on place of residence seems particularly likely to benefit gender equality because it is paid independently of former employment or family circumstances and thus counteracts the otherwise high risk of poverty among female pensioners;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that this strategy should seek to address not only the impact of the pension gap, in particular on the most vulnerable groups, but also its underlying causes, such as stereotypes and social norms, discrimination and segregation on the labour market, and a lack of access to childcare;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that a multi-faceted approach is required in order to make a success of the strategyguidelines, which must address disparities between men and women in terms of their careers and apossibility tof makeing pension contributions as well as those resulting from the way in which pension systems are organised;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the financial crisis of the past few years is already having a negative impact on many women’s salaries and pensions; notes that the resulting pension reforms threaten to exacerbate the gender pension gap; calls, therefore, for a critical review of these reforms and, if necessary, for them to be revised;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the Commission to analyse the gender pension gap as part of the European Semester by introducing a gender-pension-gap indicator and to make country-specific recommendations on eliminating the pension gap;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Reducing inequalities in terms of ability toscope for makeing pension contributions
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU legislation against gender discrimination is properly implemented, and possibly revised, with a view to making sure that men and women have an equal ability to make pension contributions;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the need for all professions which are exercised more by women than by men at long last to be given the status and the levels of pay they deserve, and, with that aim in view, calls for an EU-wide study into the objective comparability of professions which takes account of factors such as working conditions, physical and mental strain and level of responsibility and the case law of the CJEU;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to offer women greater incentives to work for longer and with shorter breaks, in order to increase their degree of economic independence today and in the future;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points to the importance, in a context in which the burden of responsibility for pensions is shifting from state pension systems to self-funded schemes, of ensuring that access to the financial services covered by Directive 2004/113/EC is non-discriminatory; emphasises that all pension contributions must be calculated and levied in a gender- neutral manner;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for a review of all the incentives available under the tax and pensions system and of their impact on the gender pension gap, the abolition of counter-productive incentives and the individualisation of entitlements;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States, on the basis of a pooling of best practice, to introduce ‘care credipension points’ to offset breaks from employment taken in order to provide informal care to family members, for example a child or another family member who needs care, and to count those credipoints towards pension entitlements; emphasises that these ‘pension points’ for providing care must be awarded to members of both genders for a short, set period in order not to further entrench stereotypes and inequalities;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that a proper work-life balance for men and women cannot be achieved unless decenthigh-quality, affordable, local childcare facilities are available; calls on Member States to meet the Barcelona targets at the earliest opportunity, and no later than by 2020;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to share out pension rights in cases of divorce and legal separation, in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity; notes that occupational old-age pension schemes are increasingly run in accordance with insurance principles and that this could give rise to many gaps in social protection1a; emphasises that the Court of Justice of the European Union has made it clear that occupational pension schemes are to be regarded as pay and that the principle of equal treatment therefore applies to these schemes as well; 1a http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender- equality/files/conference_sept_2011/dgjus tice_oldagepensionspublication3march20 11_en.pdf.
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Member States to introduce an individual basic income for people in old age which must not be less than the poverty-risk threshold (60% of the national average income); emphasises, in that connection, the importance of easy access to additional forms of assistance which women are often too ashamed to claim;