13 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2014/2235(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas current levels of unemployment and youth unemployment, as well as skills mismatch and insufficient intra-EU labour mobility, are also related to the absence of common European economic policies for job-creation, insufficient budgetary allocations for research, development, education and culture, an overall insufficient EU budget corresponding to only 1% of the 28 EU Member States' gross domestic product (GDP), as well as the excessive rigidity of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned that unemployment rates in the EU remain relatively high (December 2014, EU 28: 9.9 %), and draws attention to the considerable differences between Member States, with the lowest unemployment rate being in Germany (4.8 %) and the highest in Spain (23.7 %); stresses that growing divergence in and between the labour markets of Members States could potentially lead to the undermining of the solidarity within the Union;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Highlights that there is still a 26% difference in the rate of employment for persons with disabilities compared to the average EU employment rate, with an employment rate of persons with disabilities lower than 50%;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that several important challenges are affecting Europe's labour market, including increasing demand for highly skilled labour, rapid technological globalisation and rapid technological change such as digitalisation and robotisation, an increasing demand for highly skilled labour with a surplus in supply of low skilled labour with job and wage polarisation as a result, far reachainge and development labour market flexibilisation, as well as an ageing society which requires that early retirement be made less attractivepolicies based on active ageing;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Welcomes the positive results achieved by the Your First Eures Job (YfEj) pilot job mobility scheme, capable to effectively reach young people and develop tailored services for both jobseekers and employers; highlights the positive spillovers between YfEj scheme and EURES;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Highlights the need for the Commission to strengthen the monitoring of the Youth Guarantee National Implementation Plans and their effective deployment on the ground; with a view to this, calls on the Commission to elaborate clear and unambiguous Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) to Member States with regards the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and the quality of employment;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Highlights the European court of Auditors' concerns as expressed in its report " Young and unemployed in Europe: obstacles ahead for the EU's Youth Guarantee", namely on the adequacy of total funding for the scheme, the definition of a "good quality offer", and the way the Commission monitors and reports on the results;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Stresses the importance of the Youth Guarantee as an indispensable tool to assist young people in the school-to-work transition and to acquire the education, skills and experience required to find a good quality job through an apprenticeship, traineeship or continued education;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Highlights the highly concerning data on the rate of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), which in the majority of Member States exceeds 10%; stresses the direct link between high-levels of youth unemployment and early school leaving; highlights that without a urgent and decisive action both at the European and national level a whole generation of young Europeans risks to be deprived of sufficient levels of education and training and therefore to be excluded from the labour market, with dramatic repercussions on the social fabric, on social and territorial cohesion, on the sustainability of the European economic model as a whole;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Stresses the need for a comprehensive approach regarding labour mobility, based on the free movement of citizens and workers and the principle of equal pay for equal work; stresses in this respect the necessity for Member States to adequately implement and enforce the Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU, to close existing loopholes through a revision of the Posting of Workers Directive 96/71/EC, and to take measures in order to prevent related fraud; is concerned regarding the possible risks of 'brain drain' for certain Member States;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Stresses the importance ofneed for special measures and support for employers, in particular SME's, to encourage them to hire young people for their first job and ensure their in-house training, as also for older workershance the employment of groups that are being disadvantaged on the labour market, such as youth, elderly workers, women, migrants, disabled and long term unemployed; recalls the importance of social responsibility on the part of employers towards all employees and towards society; believes that such social responsibility should also be required of institutions responsible for education and training;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to foster and support social enterprises which take into account their responsibility regarding the environment, consumers and employees;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Calls on the Commission to update its policies on mutual recognition of professional qualifications and academic titles in the EU, as a means to foster intra- EU labour mobility and to address the problem of unfilled vacancies;