10 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, notwithstanding a mild decline in unemployment, unemployment rates in the EU are still incredibly alarming (25.005 million in the EU-28 in June 2014); whereas, furthermore, the differences between Member States’ unemployment rates (5 % in Austria, compared with 27.3 % in Greece), especially youth unemployment, represent a major risk both for the economic stability of the EU and for European social cohesion;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the labour market fragmentation is now one of the major causes of inequality between Member States and between different sectors, owing to divergences in access to employment, working conditions, or wage levels insufficient to guarantee decent living standards;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. Whereas only 7,5 million people, 3,1 % of the workforce in the EU, are currently employed in another Member State and whereas young people are the group more likely to be mobile;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes the intention of the Italian Presidency, as also included in the conclusions of the European Council extraordinary meeting on 30 August 2014, to hold a Conference at the level of Heads of State or Government on employment, especially youth employment;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the new Commission to make the employment recovery a true priority by establishing an ambitious and holistic strategy for quality job creation, which should involve all the new Commissioners; takes the view that, to this end, each Commissioner should draw up a quality employment plan for their specific policy area, includas well as for the spending voices of the promised EUR 300 billion investment plan, indicating concrete measures, a budget allocation and a calendar for its implementation;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to give tangible form to the promised EUR 300 billion investment plan, and calls for an assessment as to whether this figure is sufficient to restore the EU’s full potential for growth and quality job creation; stresses the fact that priority should be given to finance measures to boost quality job creation and investments in public infrastructures, as a means to re-launch economic growth and to trigger economies of scale;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Welcomes the intention of the Italian Presidency, as delineated in its programme, to look into the matter of automatic stabilizers at the EU level, with special attention to the possible establishment of a EMU-wide unemployment benefit scheme;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. NotWelcomes the adoption of the European Parliament and Council decision on enhanced cooperation between Public Employment Services (PES); welcomes the January 2014 proposal for a EURES (European Job Mobility Portal) regulation; calls for Parliament and the Council to deliberate on the reform as a matter of urgency so that EURES can become an effective instrument for boosting freedom of movement; recalls that mobility must remain voluntary and must not limit efforts to create jobs and training places on the spot;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the rising number of workers, particularly young people, departing their countries of origin for other Member States in search of employment opportunities, and is deeply concerned about the persistent divergences between those Member States creating employment and those supplying a low-cost labour force; urges Member States to ensure that freedom of movement is not restricted and access to public services of mobile young students and workers is not limited or denied; in this sense, calls on the Commission to put forward proposals to further facilitate the voluntary mobility of young people across the EU; urges the Commission to develop a better legal framework for cross-border movement of workers in order to ensure freedom of movement while consecrating the principle of equal treatment and safeguarding wages and social standards; calls for the establishment in each Member State, either by law or through collective bargaining, of a minimum wage equivalent to at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to propose a binding European framework for the implementation of the Youth Guarantees so as to prevent the funds being misused in such a way as to aggravate national internal wage devaluation processes; takes the view that this legal framework should introduce binding minimum standards for the implementation of the Youth Guarantees, including the quality of apprenticeships, decent wages for young people and access to employment services, and should cover young people aged between 25 and 30; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the Youth Guarantees a priority and to increase the available budget, at the latest in the promised mid- term review of the multiannual financial framework, up to at least the sum of EUR 21 billion estimated by the International Labour Organisation to be necessary to resolve the problem in the eurozone; welcomes the decision by the Commission to 'frontload' the available funding for the Youth Employment Initiative; regrets that the allocated funds to the YEI are not in any way sufficient to achieve such objectives; highlights the need for a rapid and timely implementation of the Youth Employment Package, in particular the Youth Guarantee, in order to maximise the potential benefits of the frontloading in those regions who are most in need;