17 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2015/2147(INI)
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that education and training curricula must aim at the development of a critical thinking, approach, usage and thorough understanding of new media, digital and information devices and interfaces, whereby people can be active users of these new technologies and not simply end users;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes further that public and private investment in vocational education and life- long-learning training for all groups of employees has to be promoted in order to provide the EU workforce, including the 'digital workforce' working in non- standard forms of employment;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Believes that European citizens should be offered an education in line with the needs of a modern, globalised society, therefore enjoying the opportunity to learn and to develop new skills, including digital ones, which will allow them to compete in today's labour market; stresses the need to ensure that teachers are enabled to improve their skills, especially digital ones, and are supported in facing the challenges this entails; therefore believes that an overall re-design of educational systems, training curricula and work methods in a holistic and ambitious way is necessary, with the aim of properly addressing the challenges of the digital revolution;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that some Member States have introduced rights which guarantee workers minimum entitlements to paid educational leave as a measure to improve workers' access to education and training; calls therefore on the European Commission to consider, in close cooperation with Member States and social partners, whether such rights should also be introduced at European level;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Stresses that lifelong learning for workers of all ages must be a standard in the digitized area, including the legal right to lifelong training and further training measures (e.g. through part-time education); recalls that the qualification and training requirements must apply to all employees via European framework legislation;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. believes that new funding opportunities for lifelong training, including funding models as already exist in some member states, are needed, especially for micro and small enterprises;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that digitalisation represents an opportunity to shape a more inclusive labour market; with a view to match demand for new competences, calls on the Commission and the Members States to develop innovative and accessible e-skills training programmes, in which the needs of the people who are most excluded from the labour market, such as young people, long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and people from rural areas, are fully taken into consideration;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the digitalisation-driven trend towards more flexible working practices may also give rise to precarious forms of employment to which current standards as regards social security, working time, working location, work-life balance, worker participation and employment protection no longer apply; calls for self-employed persons with quasi- employee status to be placed on an equal footing with employed persons under employment law;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the social partners to provide adequate information to workers on working conditions and workers' rights throughout Crowd Working platforms;
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Emphasises that work-related mental health problems such as burnout caused by the constant accessibility and the limitation of work represents serious risk; advocates therefore a "right to log off" for workers;
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Emphasises that the guiding principle of decent work must also be promoted in the digital world, including enhanced co- determination rights in the workplace and worker's right to privacy and data protection; calls on the Commission to set high minimum standards under the EU Data Protection basic Regulation; points out that Member Stated must be allowed to go beyond the high EU minimum standards;
Amendment 189 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that accessibility and inclusiveness of digital technologies and digital education, in particular for people with disabilities, must be ensured; recalls that combatting social exclusion and discrimination, and promoting social justice and protection, as defined in art 3 TEU, are objectives of the EU internal market; further recalls that the integration of persons with disabilities is a fundamental right of the European Union as set out in art 26 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Amendment 190 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recognises that there are very different forms of social protection for self-employed in the Member States; calls on the Member States to develop social security systems, together with the social partners and in accordance with national law and practice in order to provide better social protection in particular with regard to pensions, disability, maternity/paternity, sickness and unemployment.
Amendment 194 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Deplores that the Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe published by the Commission takes in no account the need to ensure a full, equal and unrestricted access for all to new digital technologies, markets and telecommunications, in particular with regard to people with disabilities.
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Regrets that the Commission's strategy neglects the accessibility aspect; reminds the Commission that there are 80 million EU citizens with disabilities and an aging population of 190 million of 50+; calls therefore on the Commission to ensure an appropriate level of accessibility in all legislative and non- legislative proposals related to the Digital Single Market; emphasises that accessibility is best achieved and cost- effectively introduced when incorporated from the outset;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Calls on the Commission to come forward with the proposal for a European Accessibility Act, which it has been preparing for several years and which would improve accessibility of goods and services in the single market, including the digital single market;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Highlights in this context the need for the Commission to closely cooperate with the Member States, in order to establish performance indicators and guidelines pertaining the quality of the 112 service, paying particular attention to the need for interoperability between emergency services, for multilingualism and for timely and qualitative interventions by emergency services; emphasises that in this context the importance of accessibility to 112 services for all citizens and underlines the necessity of 112 access per SMS or comparable means for people with special needs; further calls on the Commission to promote knowledge of the EU-wide, universal and multilingual 112 system;