Activities of Roberta ANGELILLI related to 2012/2258(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (short presentation)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to create the appropriate conditions for people to work longer and to be more productive, both by improving labour-market flexibility through the introduction of time accounts and part-time possibilities, or by gradually reducing working hours and by making provision for modern forms of employment contract, including temporary ones;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that ensuring the health and safety of workers during their working lives is a prerequisite for a sustainable working life and for active ageing;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Points out the essential role of investing more in education and training, with priority for lifelong learning, in order to prepare an active and productive ageing workforceso that the ageing workforce, as a human resource, has equal opportunities to learn new skills and update their professional skills;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Maintains that policies to balance family and working life enable women to cope better with ageing, taking into account that work improves the quality of life; such policies also enable women to avoid the pay gap and, accordingly, the risk of poverty in later life in cases where, in order to balance family and working life, women have to choose part-time, occasional or atypical work, which has repercussions on the amount of pension contributions paid;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on employers, where necessary, to step up their efforts to adapt working conditions to the state of health and abilities of older workers and to encourage a more positive image of senior citizens in the workplace.