12 Amendments of Deirdre CLUNE related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the EU budget should also support vocational training and professional qualification measures with a particular emphasis on upskilling and sectorial-specific skills gap; highlights, in this respect, that proper funding for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is paramount;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a major source of employment in the Union and that one of the main problems in setting up such enterprises and keeping them going is that of obtaining finance; encourages in that regard the 'Think Small First Principle'; underlines that the 2018 budget should support measures promoting entrepreneurship in those enterprises, including social entrepreneurship and innovative social enterprises and self- employment; stresses, in this respect, that the budget 2018 should in particular facilitate access to micro- credits available through the microfinance and social entrepreneurship axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that financial support be provided for programmes creating jobs, and programmes for job-retention, for those with multiple disadvantages on the labour market, such as the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgroundthe over 50 year olds, people with long term, metastatic and chronic illnesses, people with mental ill health, people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds; stresses that employment has a positive impact on the recovery process of persons with physical and mental ill health and funding should target evidence-based models such as Place and Train schemes;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses that the 2018 budget should promote a high level of worker protection and a culture of prevention across the EU and help to address the new challenges to physical and mental health and safety at work that continue to take place- in this respect, proper funding for OSHA and the physical and mental health and safety at work strand in the PROGRESS axis of the EaSI programme should be ensured;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Stresses that the EU budget should support efforts to promote the completion of the single market, competitiveness and social convergence, the development of a policy on socially responsible enterprises, and the monitoring of the application of statutory social standards by enterprises in order to ensure the creation of jobs and growth;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Calls for a sustained effort to be made through the budget to provide for appropriate training and re-skilling in sectors with labour shortages and in key sectors with high job-creation potential;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8 d. Calls for Parliament's delegation to emphasise the importance of full implementation of the budget lines dedicated to employment and social affairs;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8 e. Points out that changes that reduce the budgetary programming for these lines must be rejected and that a proper balance between commitment and payment appropriations must be found in order to allow these policies to reach their full potential;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8 f. Recalls that decentralised agencies whose missions fall within the remit of the Committee on the Employment and Social Affairs play a major role, and stresses that their tasks are constantly growing and that those agencies must therefore be given the necessary financial and human resources to fulfil their mandate and execute such tasks; strongly supports, a case-by-case approach to assessing the individual needs of decentralised agencies.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8 g. Considers that the parameters of programmes such as the European Globalisation Fund are unfairly prohibitive on smaller Member States, suggests that the criteria for eligibility be flexible in this regard as redundancies and closures have the ability to affect smaller regions to a greater extent than others;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 h (new)
Paragraph 8 h (new)
8 h. calls on the European Council to complete the review of the Multiannual Financial Framework as soon as possible;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 i (new)
Paragraph 8 i (new)
8 i. calls on the Member States to complete the accreditation of all responsible management authorities to ensure efficient operational functioning of the ESF