Activities of Claude ROLIN related to 2015/2330(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2016 (A8-0031/2016 - Sofia Ribeiro) FR
Amendments (14)
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas although atypical or non- standard forms of employment do not in themselves constitute precarious work, it is more likely to be found where contracts of this nature apply, albeitnd such contracts account for a minority of existing employment relationshiphave been multiplied in some countries since the crisis;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas this objective is far from being achieved and almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060; whereas these factors may appear as sufficient justification for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important to restructure their pensions systems; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. NoteRecalls that good and quality jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners, with a view to adaptbetter matching Member States’ education and training systems to the needs of the labour market;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy; insists on the importance of taking into account the social partners' opinion regarding structural reforms and labour market policies;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises workers’ access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts; encourages the Member States to fully invest in the future platform to tackle undeclared work;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts as well as other atypical contracts, in both private and public sectors;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to moderniseassess their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageing; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. underlines the need to increase women employment rate in order to reach the objectives set out in the Europe 2020 strategy and encourages the Commission and social partners to be ambitious and to take measures in order to better reconcile work-life balance;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the results of the EFSI in the first year of its implementation and its role of rewardsupporting the best projects at European level; calls on the Commission to ensure that the EFSI allows for a better social and economic convergence of Member States and their regions within the EU and that all Member States make use of the possibility of accessing this fund;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. CongratulatesNotes that the Commission on havinghas enhanced the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of the implementation of the country- specific recommendations, and congratulates the Commission on having presented a proposal to the Member States on funding for technical assistance;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusion, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entercoupling them with specific provisions such as active employment policies with the aim of returning the unemployed, and, in particular, the long-term unemployed, to the labour market, and training theand job marketcreation programmes;