19 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2015/2097(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas there is little chance of the 75 % employment rate target set in the Europe 2020 strategy being achieved for women (it currently stands at 63.5 %) by 2020 without proactive policies designed to help women enter the job market, especially and to safeguard and support their return as mothers to the job market, especially by means of policies that promote a better work-life balance;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas one of the issues restricting women from entering the labour market, and staying there, is their responsibility to care for children with disabilities, who are not self-sufficient and are thus dependent and/or belong to disadvantaged categories and groups;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the Commission should launch specific measures to foster a new kind of work organisation, through more flexible models which, through work-life balance instruments, enable parents to exercise their right to parenthood effectively;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas Member States should promote, in both the public and private sectors, business welfare models which require respect for the right to a work-life balance;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it regrettable that there are disparities between the transposition measures of the directive in the field of application, thus creating systems that benefit workers to varying degrees depending on their employment sector (public or private) and the length of their contract; considers that this risks affecting women more negatively and to a higher extent than men, since women are overrepresented in the public sector and more often work part-time;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the high degree of variabilRegrets the great disparity between Member States regarding the maximum duration of parental leave; welcomes the various measures adopted to encourage fathers to takeuse their parental leave;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that, according to Eurostat, the number of persons who took parental leave in 2010 was 3 518 600, and out of those were only 94 800 (2,7 %) men; considers that this is a far too low number and encourages the Commission to act and to propose measures that encourage and allow fathers to take more parental leave;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that family rights assigned by public policies, including parental leave, should be individual rather than transferable, with a view to; stresses however the need for those rights to be equal so that they encouraginge both parents to achieve a better work-life balance; considers that transferable rights only leads to women taking up an unproportional amount, thus hindering their participation in the labour market ;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the social partners to offer to extend this minimum duration from four to at least six months to improve work-life balance;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that improved coordination, coherence and accessibility in the Member States’ leave systems (maternity, paternity and parental) increases participation levels and overall efficiency; stresses in that regard that an EU directive on a minimum two-week paternity leaverental leave earmarked for fathers is essential;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses the need to extend the period in which both parents can exercise their right to take parental leave;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission and the social partners to extend the possibility of exercising this right until the child reaches the age of 12;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. UrgesCalls on the Member States and the social partners to continue with their efforts at sharing best practices on positive actiongreater convergence towards best practices in the area of work- life balance, paying particular attention to policies that help mothers to enter the job market and fathers to participate in family life, so as to facilitate occupational mobility through procedures for the recognition of vocational qualifications in the single market;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Member States and the social partners to continue with their efforts at sharing best practices on positive action in the area of work-life balance, paying particular attention to policies that help mothers to enterwomen to enter the job market, that protect and support mothers in the job market, and that help fathers to participate in family life;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Call on the Commission, in that regard, to incorporate workplace gender equality objectives into the European Semester for economic policy coordination to enable the targets of the Europe 2020 strategy to be met and to gauge the positive influence of legislative measures on improving work- life balance with a view to redistributing family and domestic responsibilities, taking into account also the particular responsibilities of those caring for children with disabilities, in a position of dependency and/or belonging to disadvantaged categories and groups;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to promote organisational models that promote work- life balance - such as teleworking, home working and smart working policies;