9 Amendments of Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the labour market is now one of the major causes of inequalityin divergences between Member States and between different sectors, owing to divergences in access to employment, working conditions, or wage levels insufficient to guarantee decent living standard due to lack of reform, working conditions and living standards as well as divergences in access to employment, such as high entrance hurdles;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CallAcknowledges the Commission´s fwor a truk on the «"social pillar’ to be implemented within" of economic and monetary union (EMU) as part of the process of improvingntegrating the social dimension in the current structures for economic governance mechanisms, so as to reduce unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, overcome social dumping and prevent competition for the lowest social standards in the EU;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the new Commission to make the employment recovery a true priority by establishing an ambitious and holistic strategy for quality job creation, which should involve all the new Commissioners; takes the view that, to this end, each Commissioner should draw up a quality employment plan for their specific policy area, including concrete measures, a budget allocation and a calendar for its implementation; asks therefore that economic recovery, growth and job creation be made a horizontal priority of the new European Commission involving all the new Commissioners;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission’'s call, in its umbrella communication on the CSR in the EU as a whole, to invest more in R&D, innovation, education, skills and active labour market policies, together with energy, transport and the digital economy; considers, however, that in the context of the current process of fiscal consolidation these goals can be achieved only through greater flexibility within the SGPalls on Member States to make use of the given flexibility within the economic governance rules;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to give tangible form to the promised EUR 300 billion investment plan, and calls for an assessment as to whether this figure is sufficient to restore the EU’'s full potential for competitiveness, growth and quality job creation;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Is concerned that, in many Member States and sectors, job losses are coupled with a decline in job quality, an increase in precarious forms ofhurdles to employment and a deterioration in basic labour standards; stresses that the Commission and the Member States need to make dedicated efforts to address the increase inmatching skills with labour market needs as well as involuntary part-time employment and temporary contracts, payless internships and apprenticeships, and bogus self- employment, together with the activities of the black economy;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the rising number of workers, particularly young people, departing their countries of origin for other Member States in search of employment opportunities, and is deeply concerned about the persistent divergences between those Member States creating employment and those supplying a low-cost labour force; urges the Commission to develop a better legal framework for cross-border movement of workers in order to ensure freedom of movement while consecrating the principle of equal treatment and safeguarding wages and social standards; calls for the establishment in each Member State, either by law or through collective bargaining, of a minimum wage equivalent to at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
Amendment 211 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Is deeply concerned that long-term unemployed people and senior workers are experiencing higher unemployment rates and additional difficulties in re-entering the labour market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make full use of the European Social Fund to help these workers; urges the adoption of a directive on decent working conditions, defining core labour rights for all workers and introducing common minimum standards so as to prevent this kind of labour discriminationcalls for increasing the flexibility of labour markets in order to adapt to specific competences and allow specific remuneration schemes bringing labour cost in line with productivity and stepping away from pay based on seniority;
Amendment 241 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to support the effective use of EU funds to reduce poverty through partnership approaches involving civil society; calls on the Member States, especially those with the highest rates of unemployment and poverty, to use 25 % of their cohesion funding for programmes related to the European Social Fund; also requeinsists, in view of the high poverty rates, an evaluation as to whetherthat Member States make efficient use of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived is sufficiently well-fundwhere it is implemented;