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7 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2017/0305(NLE)

Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) To ensure a more democratic decision-making process in the context of the Integrated Guidelines, which affect people and labour markets across the Union, it is important that both the employment guidelines and the broad economic policy guidelines are decided upon by both the European Parliament and the Council. The Integrated Guidelines must allow Member States, as a priority, to adopt sustainable and integrated economic models at Union, national and local level.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 1
Member States should facilitate and invest in the creation of quality jobs, including by reducing the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, by promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment and, in particular, by supporting the creation and growth of micro and small enterprisessustainable and quality jobs across skill levels and labour market sectors, including by fully developing the potential of future oriented sectors, such as the green and circular economy, the care sector and the digital sector. Member States should reduce difficulties for people in balancing work and private life, ensure that all work places are adapted for persons with disabilities and that the hiring of people by businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises, is facilitated. Member States should actively promote the social economy and foster social innovation.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 1
To benefit best from a dynamic and productive workforce and new work patterns and business models, Member States should work together with social partners to iMember States should reduce and prevent segmentation within labour markets, fight underempleoyment flexibility and security principles. They should reduce and prevent segmentation within labour markets, fightand precarious employment including zero-hour contracts and undeclared work, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should all provide a suitable environment for recruitment. The necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context should be ensured, while preserving appropriate security and healthy, safe and well-adapted working environments for workersprotection, including in terms of adequate social protection, as well as adequate wages and healthy, safe and well-adapted working environments for workers. Upward convergence in working conditions should be promoted across the Union. Employment relationships that lead to precarious working conditions should be prevented, including by prohibiting the abuse of atypical contracts. Access to effective and impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, should be ensured in case of unfair dismissal.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 2
Member States should modernisimprove social protection systems to provide effective, efficient and adequate social protection throughout all stages of an individual's life including for self-employed workers, fostering social inclusion and upward social mobility, incentivising labour market participation and addressing inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems. The modernisation of social protection systems should lead to better accessi, availability, sustainability, adequacy and quality.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 3
Member States should develop and implement preventive and integrated strategies through the combination of the three strands of active inclusion: adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality services tailored to individual needs. Social protection systems should ensure the right to adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by encouraging people to participate actively in the labour market and society.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 4
Access to and availability of affordable, accessible and quality services such as childcare, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health services, rehabilitation and long-term care are essential for ensuring equal opportunities, including for children and young people as well as ethnic minorities and migrants. Children living in poverty should have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and proper nutrition. Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty, and social exclusion, including reducing in-work poverty. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services, including water, sanitation, energy, transport, financial services and digital communications. For those in need andor in a vulnerable peoplesituation, Member States should ensure access to adequate social housing assistance as well as the right to appropriate assistance and protection against forced eviction. Homelessness should be tackled specifically. The specific needs of people with disabilities should be taken into account.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 6
In a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, Member States should secure the sustainability and adequacy of pension systems for women and men, providing equal opportunities for all workers and the self-employed, of both sexes, to acquire pension rights, including through supplementary schemes to ensure living in dignity. Pension reforms should be supported by measures that extend working lives and raise the effective retirement age, such as limiting early exit from the labour market to acquire adequate statutory pension rights. Depending on Member States' institutional arrangements and national law, pensions based on the first pillar alone or in combination with the second pillar should establish a decent replacement income based on a worker’s prior wages. Member States should provide adequate pension credits to persons who have spent time outside the labour market for the purpose of providing care on and increasing the statutory retirement age to reflect life expectancy gainsformal basis. Pension reforms should be framed within active ageing strategies and supported by measures that extend working lives for those wishing to work longer. Members States should establish a constructive dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, and allow an appropriate phasing in of theall reforms.
2018/03/01
Committee: EMPL