108 Amendments of Heléne FRITZON related to 2021/2253(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
— having regard to Article 8 of the TFEU enshrining the EU’s aim to eliminate by all its activities inequalities and promote equality between women and men which translates into gender mainstreaming,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
— having regard to Directive 2000/43/EC of the Council of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission’s Communication A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (COM(2020) 152 final), of 5 March 2020,
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)
Citation 24 a (new)
— having regard to the EPSCO Council conclusions ST/8884-21 of 14 June 2021 on the Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 on Gender Equality,
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 b (new)
Citation 24 b (new)
— having regard to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Opinion SOC/535- EESC- 2016 of 21 September 2012 The rights of live-in care workers,
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
— having regard to the ETUI/EPSU report on Pay transparency and role of gender-neutral job evaluation and job classification in the public services,
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EPSR Action Plan sets out concrete initiatives for the implementation of principles that are essential for building a stronger social Europe for just transitions and recovery; whereas expanding the care workforce will be a prerequisite for the implementation of these initiatives, including those pertaining to the principle 18 in the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas people are inherently interdependent as they all rely on care to different degrees depending on age, social status, physical endowment and personal background;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas care encompasses all services to addresssupport autonomy and independence of persons in need for care, and by supporting their physical, psychological and, social needs of dependents, as well as support to, personal and household needs guarantees the equal exercise of the rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well-being ofor all members of society;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the large majority of care givers, formal and informal, are women; whereas caring for others, both paid and unpaid, heavily impacts women’s participation in all areas of life;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the Commission defines personal and household services as "a broad range of activities that contribute to wellbeing at home of families and individuals: child care, long-term care for the elderly and for persons with disabilities, cleaning, remedial classes, home repairs, gardening, ICT support, etc."; whereas in personal and household services the activities of care and non- care are highly intertwined with a vast proportion of workers performing both;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas at global level, personal and household services are usually described under the term domestic work; whereas the inclusion of domestic workers in the care workforce therefore recognises that care provision includes not only personal care, but also non-relational indirect care, which provides the necessary preconditions for the provision of personal care; whereas a large proportion of personal and household workers thus belongs to the care workforce;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas the COVID-19 crisis highlighted the key role played by workers in personal and household services within our societies, demonstrating the urgent need to ensure full recognition for these workers in all Member States together with collective bargaining rights, social security and social protection; whereas due to the persisting lack of proper recognition of these workers in several Member States, many of them have lost their job during the COVID-19 pandemic without being able to benefit from state wage compensation and job retention schemes; whereas the pandemic resulted in the loss of accommodation for many workers in personal and household services, as well as exposed them to violence and harassment at work;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the stigma surrounding dependence and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination, above all gender and sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, ethnicity, as well as economic, social, migrant and other disadvantaged backgrounds;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas thestereotypes surrounding women being better care givers as well as stigma surrounding interdependence and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the “male breadwinner – female carer“ model continues to shape access to social rights, including pensions, hence impacting negatively on women’s economic independence throughout the life-cycle;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, in 2018, one-third of employed women were working part time in the EU, nearly four times the rate for men; whereas the unequal distribution of unpaid and invisible care responsibilities is a major factor contributing to this discrepancy;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas care migration can be defined as the movement of people to supply care services both in the formal and informal economy; whereas migrant workers in care, who are mostly women, are more vulnerable to exploitation and often lack access of their rights;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas many care workers members of an ethnic minority or migrants work as live-in care workers with unlimited working hours, having to be available 24 hours a day; whereas these live-in workers are mostly women who do not have an official job contract;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas there is a lack of quality, accessible and affordable care services in nearly all Member States; whereas the monitoring of formal and informal care is hampered by the lack of data, including gender-disaggregated data, and the lack of quality indicators;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the crisis in the care sector precedes the Covid pandemic; whereas in the years 2019 to 2020, 421,000 workers left the residential care sector; whereas this increases the psychosocial risks faced by the care workers that remain in the sector, who are mostly women, as their workload increases;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic hasmade visible and exacerbated the pre- existing challenges in terms of access to both formal and informal care services;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions many carers were isolated from their family and broader community;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a double burden for many women, who had longer shifts at work and additional informal care at home;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the drastic shift from standard work in the place of employment to telework during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need to better enforce, review and update the legislation related to working conditions in the digital environment and the use of artificial intelligence in the world of work;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the provision of quality care depends on the existence of a sufficiently large and well-trained workforce, the creation of decent working conditions andthrough social dialogue and collective bargaining, fair wages, as well as integrated services, and adequate funding;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the provision of quality care depends on the existence of a sufficiently large and, well- trained and motivated workforce, the creationestablishment of decent working conditions and, social dialogue and the right to collective bargaining, fair pay, integrated services, and adequate funding;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas there is a lack of care services that are tailored to individual’s needs and preferences; whereas this requires structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to community- based care; whereas that shift has been too slow;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to home- and community-based care; whereas that shift has been too slow;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women dominate in the care sector; in terms of pay and working conditions as well as the invisibility of care work are closely linked with a vicious circle of “double devaluation”, where care is relegated to the most disempowered groups of society, mainly women, because of its lack of value and, in turn, the activity of care becomes devalued because it is carried out by the most disempowered groups;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women dominate in the care sector, as well as the fact that homecare and other personal and household services are provided behind closed doors;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas an excessive market share of private care companies can lead to profit being put before the needs and wellbeing of care workers and care recipients as well as negatively impact universal access to care services;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in all the Member States, pay in the care sector is well below the average pay and is connected with lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector; whereas those employees working in the for-profit and non-profit sectors do not have access to a union representation and collective bargaining;
Amendment 300 #
J. whereas in all the Member States, pay in the care sector is well below the average pay and is connected with a devaluation of female-dominated sectors, such as this, as well as factors such as lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 80 % of all long-term care in Europe is provided by informal carers, which makes care an extremely gendered issue; whereas informal care provision is associated with reduction of employment rates, increase of poverty and social exclusion rates, reduced mental health and increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 80 % of all long-term care in Europe is provided by informal carers, the majority of which are women, which makes care an extremely gendered issue; whereas most informal carers lack rights, such as sick leave and holidays, which negatively impacts on their physical and mental health, well-being and social inclusion;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the high numbers of care recipients who are dependent on informal care are directly linked to the inaccessibility and unaffordability of quality professional services; as well as the choice of many Member States to rely on unpaid informal care as the major source of care provision;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the high numbers of care recipients who arare made dependent on informal care are directly linked to thers as a direct consequence of the non- existence, inaccessibility and unaffordability of quality professional services;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas women in the EU carry out 13 hours more of unpaid care and housework per week than men; whereas 7.7 million women in the EU remain out of the labour market owing to their care responsibilities for children and dependents, compared to just 450,000 men;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M h (new)
Recital M h (new)
Mh. whereas care remains one of the main fields of reproduction of gender archetypes, which are further reinforced by the lack of investment in quality services and gender bias in other policies that disproportionally affect women’s self- determination in social and professional life, such as tax benefit system;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas in 2019, 22.2 % of children in the EU – almost 18 million – were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas children from low-income families, homeless children, children with a disability, children with a migrant background, children with a minority ethnic background, particularly Roma children, children in institutional care, children in precarious family situations, single-parent families, LGBTIQ+ families, and families where parents are away to work abroad face serious difficulties, such as severe housing deprivation or overcrowding, barriers in accessing fundamental and basic services, such as access to quality care, adequate nutrition and decent housing; whereas children with disabilities in the EU are disproportionately more likely to be placed in institutional care than children without disabilities, and appear far less likely to benefit from efforts to enable a transition from institutional to family-based care1a; whereas the European Child Guarantee is an EU instrument whose objective is to prevent and combat poverty and social exclusion by guaranteeing free and effective access for children in need to key services; essential care services, such as early childhood education and care, educational and school-based activities, healthcare and at least one healthy meal per school day, and effective access for all children in need to healthy nutrition and adequate housing1b; _________________ 1a European parliament Resolution of 29 April 2021 on European Child Guarantee 1b Council Recommendation (EU) 2021/1004 establishing a European Child Guarantee.
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas access to quality care services, especially long-term care, is increasingly preconditioned on individual and family income; whereas households with low incomes, lower educational levels, and migrant households experience the greatest difficulties in accessing formal home-based long-term care services; whereas across the EU, one third, and in five Member States even more than half of the households, report that they are in need of professional long- term care services but cannot access them due to financial reasons1a; _________________ 1a Social Protection Committee and the European Commission (2021) Long-term care report
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas access to quality care services, especially long-term care, is increasingly preconditioned on individual and family income as well as their place of residence;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas a 2021 Eurocarers survey suggests that 78% of informal carers never used care-related technologies; whereas digital technologies have the potential to support both formal and informal carers and reduce the burden they face, for example, in transporting patients to consultations that could be held online;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P b (new)
Recital P b (new)
Pb. whereas demographic change and accompanying ageing of the population will increase the demand for care services; whereas care jobs are not likely to be replaced or reduced by automation; whereas this should motivate the EU and Member States to invest into the care economy as a promising job creating sector, in the framework of the digital transition, in order to increase the number of qualified staff and attract more people to this sector;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P d (new)
Recital P d (new)
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P h (new)
Recital P h (new)
Ph. whereas the data on quality of care services is almost exclusively based on non-standard client satisfaction surveys;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P i (new)
Recital P i (new)
Pi. whereas difficulties associated with the provision of adequate, decent and affordable housing, especially for older people, single persons, persons with disability, persons at risk of poverty and social exclusion, families with young children and single parents, significantly hinder access to quality care services;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P j (new)
Recital P j (new)
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P k (new)
Recital P k (new)
Pk. whereas unions play an important role in representing employees’ interests, as well as raising and maintaining standards across the care sector in non- profit, for-profit and public care;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P l (new)
Recital P l (new)
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P m (new)
Recital P m (new)
Pm. whereas more than half of care workers say they do not earn enough to cover basic needs such as housing and food, and 31% do not have adequate access to personal protective equipment1a; _________________ 1a https://www.finanzwende- recherche.de/wp- content/uploads/2021/10/Finanzwende_B ourgeronMetzWolf_2021_Private-Equity- Investoren-in-der-Pflege_20211013.pdf
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P n (new)
Recital P n (new)
Pn. whereas despite the substantial resourcing needs in the Member States care systems, as well as the EU citizens’ expectations for a more social Europe after the pandemic, social targets, including investment in quality care services, have been left out of the EU recovery mechanisms;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P o (new)
Recital P o (new)
Po. whereas in 2018, the estimated annual investment gap in social infrastructure stood at 100-150 billion euro1a; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files /economy-finance/dp074_en.pdf
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that it is vital to ensure quality care across the life course; underlines the importance of the quality, accessibility, availability and affordability of care, and that all users and their carers should have a genuine choice when it comes to care services;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of an integrated approach to common European action on care thatCalls for an integrated, holistic, gender-sensitive and life-long approach to common European action on care that ensures a transition towards a care economy, which acknowledges the social and economic contribution of care to our society and pays equal attention to people’s physical, psychological and social needs and rights;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of an integrated approach to common European action on care that pays equal attention to people’s physical, psychological and social, personal and household needs;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that promoting an equal- earner/equal carer model, where men and women engage equally in paid work in the labour market and unpaid work in domestic and care responsibilities, should be a goal of all EU actions in the field of care; reminds of the importance of applying gender mainstreaming to all policies;
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that tackling entrenched gender norms and stereotypes is a first step in redistributing responsibilities for unpaid care and domestic work between men and women;
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the importance of educational programmes and awareness raising campaigns that aim to bring more men into care by tackling gender stereotypes about the role of women and men in this sector;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee equal access for dependants to affordable quality care services, as well as an active professional life for carers, and therefore calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care; and thereby accelerate its recovery from the negative effects of the austerity measures, privatisation of care and the pandemic, measuring up to and creating synergies with the standards set for investment in digital and green transformation, with gender equality and inclusion of persons from vulnerable groups as the guiding principles; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines and recommendations for Member States in this sense;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee equal access for dependants to affordable quality care services, as well as an active professional life for carerscarer’s opportunity to earn fair wages and develop a career in the sector through skills certification and validation, and therefore calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care;
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that a substantial proportion of care models, services and facilities are outdated ands that care recipientsey put the needs of care providers, rather than the rights of persons in need for care in focus and that persons in need for care should be placed at the centre of care plans;
Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to exchange information and best practices with a view to developing a common European quality framework for formal and informal care, encompassing all care settings, encouraging upward social convergence and guaranteeing equal rights for all citizens; calls for the Commission to support Member States in improving their data collection infrastructures in line with this quality framework;
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to set ambitious targets for care services in consultation with the Member Statestake leadership in the realm of care by setting ambitious targets regarding access, quality and sustainability of care services in consultation with the Member States and social partners; stresses that the EU should make use of the ILO’s 5R framework for decent care work: recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work, reward paid care work and guarantee care workers’ representation, social dialogue and collective bargaining;
Amendment 529 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the importance of highlighting the need for an European approach to care in the debates and final report of the Conference on the Future of Europe, as care is a key sector for Europe’s future;
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission to address in the European care strategy the challenging working and employment conditions of all workers in personal and household services, including care and not care work; stresses the importance of adopting measures that facilitate the recognition of these workers;
Amendment 561 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Calls on the Commission to explicitly include the fight against all forms of abuse of older persons in the European care Strategy in order to combat the worrying phenomena such as non-assistance, neglect and the undue use of physical or chemical restraints, particularly in the field of long-term care and support; calls on the Member States to develop trainings for informal and formal carers to avoid such abuse as well as establish independent and effective mechanisms for reporting and redressing it;
Amendment 562 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Quality childcare for every childthe benefit of all
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children; underlines the importance of adequate, accessible and affordable public care structures and services to single parents, the vast majority of whom are women, and to families with low and unsteady incomes, at risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children, as well as children with disabilities;
Amendment 595 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial and equal role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children;
Amendment 598 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Underlines that provision of quality childcare is largely determined by investments and improvements in the employment and working conditions of the workers in the childcare sector; reminds of the role that social dialogue plays in developing practical tools for improved access to, availability and affordability of childcare;
Amendment 614 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to reform and integrate their social services and protection systems in such a way as to provide effective and equal access to care services throughout the life course, taking a personalised approach, in order to enhance access to care, the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation and, whenever possible, independent living;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop the tools required for the regular assessment of the accessibility of care services and a comprehensive benchmark for monitoring the quality and adequate staffing levels of both formal and informal care services;
Amendment 699 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the Member States to guarantee immediate and full access of persons enjoying temporary protection to quality care services, without discrimination on any ground and with special attention to their physical and psychological needs generated by the circumstances of war and their displacement, and to secure, at the same time, equal and decent working and employment conditions and fair pay for the persons enjoying temporary protection who will seek employment in the care sector; underlines that additional capacities and investment in the care sector are essential to this end;
Amendment 707 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to establish a comprehensive set of indicators for long-term care, and corresponding targets and tools for monitoring the accessibility, affordability and quality of care services, similar to the Barcelona objectives for childcare; urges the Commission to set a target for all citizens to have access to high quality long-term care services;
Amendment 727 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Insists on the pivotal role of training for formal and informal carers to support the delivery of quality care;
Amendment 739 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18d. Stresses that the sets of targets for quality long-term care should inevitably include the reduction of inequality in the access to long-term care;
Amendment 747 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that between 40 and 50 million people in the EU provide informal care on a regular basis; notes that this work tends to be long term and can hinder or rule out formal labour market participation, resulting in a loss of income and aggravating the gender pay and pension gaps, which contributes to the feminisation of poverty, as the majority of informal carers are women;
Amendment 754 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Notes that the involvement of children in the provision of informal care can negatively impact their mental and physical health, educational attainment and social inclusion;
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to support civil society organisations and social partners representing informal carers and to take their contributions into account in the design, implementation and evaluation of policies concerning informal care;
Amendment 808 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
Decent working conditions, fair pay for all workers in the care sector
Amendment 841 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions for all workers in the care sector, both formal and informal, including respect for minimum wages, and to adopt high standards of occupational health and safety, in line with and beyond the ambition of the recently adopted EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027;
Amendment 842 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions and the right for all workers to join a representative trade union in the care sector, both formal and informal, and to adopt high standards of occupational health and safety, in line with and beyond the ambition of the recently adopted EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027;
Amendment 848 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Member States to adopt high standards of occupational health and safety, in line with and beyond the ambition of the recently adopted EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027, paying special attention to the specific challenges of work in the care sector, which often includes exposure of workers to hazardous substances or medicinal products, work in the potentially infectious environments, as well as mental and psychosocial risks related to emotionally demanding work and encountering adverse social behaviour;
Amendment 858 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Repeats its call on the Commission to raise the level of ambition and to propose a broader and more comprehensive legislation that would allow better prevention and management of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic diseases, as well as mitigate psychosocial risks and negative effects of care work on well-being of workers;
Amendment 864 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Strongly encourages the Member States to provide, with the support of EU funds, training to care staff on the rights of care recipients, particularly the rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 866 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 e (new)
Paragraph 23 e (new)
23e. Calls on Member States to recognize COVID-19 as an occupational disease in the care sector;
Amendment 869 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to strengthen social dialogue and promote collective bargaining and collective agreements in the care sector, both profit and non-profit, as crucial mechanisms for the improvement of employment and working conditions and for tackling the gender pay gap, and as the most effective tools for securing an increase in the minimum wage and in wages in general; calls on the Member States to remove all obstacles to the creation of unions in this industry and to facilitate the process of union access to workers in order to ensure the right and freedom of association;
Amendment 890 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that mobile and migrant workers play a significant role in the provision of both residential care and home care in the EUresidential, community- and home-based care in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure fair mobility and recruitment of workers from the EU and from the third countries by improving the reciprocal recognition of their qualifications and by closing the gaps in transnational social protection; repeats its call for proper monitoring and enforcement of rules pertaining to mobility and better informing workers of their rights;
Amendment 892 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that mobile and migrant workers play a significant role in the provision of both residential care and home care in the EUlive- in care in the EU; calls on the Member States to ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention (C189, 2011); highlights the need to make sure that migrants fleeing conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, who are mostly women and children, are assured their rights and do not suffer from exploitation in the care sector;
Amendment 915 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to swiftly and fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive; stresses that only an equal share of care responsibilities between men and women by means of non-transferable and adequately paid leave periods would enable women to increasingly engage in full-time employment and achieve a work-life balance; highlights that this not only requires but also will cause changes in stereotypes and gender norms, leading to a fairer and more gender equal society;
Amendment 937 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Amendment 944 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Calls for the Commission and Member States to promote the use of digital health applications, such as online medical consultations, where appropriate, in both formal and informal care contexts;
Amendment 951 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Paragraph 27 d (new)
27d. Calls on the Member States to present an adequate framework for declaration of personal and household services, and to invest in flexible quality professional services to halt precarisation of care and discourage consumption of care services that involve undeclared work;
Amendment 955 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 f (new)
Paragraph 27 f (new)
27f. Calls on targeted revision of Directive 89/391/EEC to ensure the inclusion of domestic workers within its scope;
Amendment 959 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the utmost importance of mainstreaming care and measures for the empowerment of women, dependent persons andpersons in need for care and support as well as vulnerable individuals in all relevant national and EU policies, together with encouraging increased public investment in accessible, affordable and high quality care services; calls for these priorities to be reflected in the external dimensions of the EU policies, as well as pre-accession and official development assistance; emphasises that a rights-based approach to care would enable such a mainstreaming across often disconnected policy fields, such as health, employment, pensions and social affairs, spatial planning, education, culture, mobility, digital policies, etc.;
Amendment 975 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)
Paragraph 28 c (new)
28 c. Firmly believes that the implementation of national recovery and resilience plans must include targeted actions for the improvement of gender equality in all spheres of life, including measures for reduction and redistribution of unpaid care and household work;
Amendment 986 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission and EIGE to help Member States to adopt approaches to measuring and valuing the social and economic contribution and outputs of care, in particular unpaid care and housework, including by considering the introduction of new indicators to the Social Scoreboard; calls on Eurostat and EIGE to publish yearly estimates on the economic contribution of informal carers to Member States’ economies;
Amendment 987 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Member States to depart from the narrow focus on market processes and monetised economy and to adopt approaches to measuring and valuing the contribution and outputs of care, in particular unpaid care and houseworkdomestic work; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include alternative measures of economic and social well-being in the policy-making process;
Amendment 1000 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30 c. Points to the clear benefits of minimum income and minimum pension schemes for timely and effective access to care and support services, as well as for ensuring decent living standard to carers, especially those providing informal unpaid care;
Amendment 1001 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 d (new)
Paragraph 30 d (new)
30d. Calls on the Commission to link the upcoming care strategy to the European action plan for the social economy, raising the awareness of the potential of social economy in improving the working conditions in the care sector as well as creating opportunities for better access of women to quality jobs;
Amendment 1009 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Member States to formulate and revise their care policies in permanent dialogue with social partners, experts, civil society and representative organisations of care recipients ands well as formal and informal carers;