24 Amendments of Ernest URTASUN related to 2016/2061(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas in 2012, in the EU-28, the gender gap in pensions, which may be defined as the gap between the average pre-tax income received as a pension by women and that received by men, stood at 38% in the 65 and over age group; whereas this figure is not acceptable for the EU, which has gender equality as one of its founding principles and the right of older people to a life in dignity, independence and social participation as one of its fundamental rights;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas according to the 2015 Commission Report on equality between women and men in the EU in half of the EU Member States the gender pension gap has increased in the past 5 year and in some Member States between 11 and 36% of women have no access at all to any pension;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the aim of pension policies is to make sure that pension systems give all EU citizens a decent income that safeguards them against the risk of social exclusion, give them a fair share of society's economic well-being and allow them to participate actively in public, social and cultural life;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas some legal systems in the EU maintain the practice of non- individualisation of tax and social security systems; whereas the non- individualisation of social security rights makes women dependent on men, as they may have been granted only derived rights through their relationship to men;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas there appears to be a positive correlation between the pension gap and the number of children brought up; whereas, in view of thisin view of the accumulative effects of the gender pay gap, the gender work/leisure time gap and potential unemployment , the inequalities suffered by single mothers are likely to be exacerbated when they retire;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas women are more likely than men to be obliged to take career breaks, have precarious contracts, and work on a part-time basis as a result of their disproportionate responsibility fordue to persisting gender inequalities in providing care within their households;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas the strengthening of the linkage between contributions and earnings, taken together with the increasingly prominent role played by second- and third-pillar schemes in pension systems, is shifting the risk of the appearance of gender-specific factors in the pension gap towards private-sector providers; whereas the gender gap for pensions is the smallest in the first pillar and whereas the shift from state-run pension systems to private funded pensions puts gender equality at stake and increases the risk of female old-age poverty as private funded pensions are based on individual contributions and do not compensate for care-related leaves that are mostly taken by women;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to work closely with the Member States in establishing a strategy for putting an end to the gender gap in pensions in the European Union; developing additional indicators and setting a clear target to monitor and reduce the pension gap;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that this strategy should include a proposal for a decent minimum pension that would ensure a life in dignity and support inclusion and active participation in society when condition for statutory requirements pensions are not met;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Insists that the first pillar pension has to remain at the centre of our pension system and recalls that these must be promoted and enabled, ensuring that their resources are not drained by supplementary schemes and that they grant universal coverage and adequate pensions; points out that the gender gap for pension is the smallest in the first pillar and that these schemes have proven the most inclusive, the most fair in redistribution and even the most cost- efficient way of combating old-age poverty;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Recalls that an adequate retirement income is essential in order to fight poverty among the elderly; stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of several factors including the gender pay gap, the pension gap, care responsibilities and related breaks, as well as insufficient support and taxation systems affecting households headed by single mothers; calls on the Member States to ensure that part-time workers, workers facing job discontinuity, assisting spouses and workers with career gaps or with periods where fewer hours were worked have the right to access a adequate pension scheme without any form of discrimination;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to embrace a life-course approach to pension taking the whole person's working life into account, including career interruption and reduced working time due to care responsibilities, involuntary unemployment and precarious employment, without punishing workers with "non-standards" working lives;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that occupational and private pension schemes are not discriminatory against women and that they do not reinforce existing patterns that already put women at a disadvantage in terms of benefits and contributions;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the EU Member States to carry out comprehensive gender impact assessments on all social security reforms, especially on pension's systems which may have a negative impact on women's employment and pension rights, such as cuts in day- care and elderly facilities or freeze and cuts in pension provisions;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Asks the Commission to address the gender pension gap in the EU 2020 framework and reiterates its call on the Commission and Member States to use gender disaggregated data in the European Semester monitoring process, and to define additional gender-specific indicators and targets to combat and monitor the gender pension and pension coverage gaps;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU legislation against gender discrimination is properly implemented, with a view to making sure that men and women have an equal ability to make pension contributions and to initiate infringements procedures against those Member States that do not comply with the EU Equality Directives;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Urges the Member States to replace household unit models by the individualisation of taxation and social security rights to ensure individual rights and to counter dependency status whilst phasing out the systems based on the male breadwinner model;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Observes that in order to ensure decent living conditions for disable persons it is necessary to provide compensations for the additional costs of living associated with disability and to coordinate it with pension systems and special integration polices;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on Member States to pay special attention to migrant women who often have not acquired pension rights in their country of origin and therefore lack economic independence, especially in case of divorce;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to make it easier for employees to negotiate voluntary flexible working arrangements giving them a better balance between their working and private lives, so that they do not have to favour one over the other when they are obliged to take on greater responsibility for looking after homes and familassuming care responsibilities;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Asks Member States to ensure that social pension systems take into account the value of domestic and care work and look for compensation mechanisms for those whose care responsibilities have caused career interruptions and are forced into non-standard, part-time or precarious work;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that a proper work-life balance cannot be achieved unless decent childcare facilitiequality, affordable and accessible care facilities and services for children, elderly and other dependent family members are available; calls on Member States to meet the Barcelona targets at the earliest opportunity, and no later than by 2020;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Deplores that in many Member States there is no entitlement to available, affordable and quality child care and long-term care and many women are forced to reduce their working time to care for children, persons with disabilities and other dependents; stresses the need to ensure women and men are equal earners and equal carers by eliminating gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work and to promote equal sharing of responsibilities, costs and care; points in this respect to the need for ensuring universal access to quality (social) services of general interest and for specific proposals making for better reconciliation of work and private life; calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase their support for childcare and to introduce targets similar to the Barcelona targets on the availability of quality long-term care services;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for all pension schemes, including private and occupational ones, to be based on unisex actuarial criteria, and that female life expectancy is not raised as a pretext for discrimination;