Activities of Katrin LANGENSIEPEN related to 2019/2188(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on reducing inequalities with a special focus on in-work poverty
Amendments (38)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and its entry into force in the European Union on 21 January 2011, in accordance with Council Decision 2010/48/EC of 26 November 2009 on the conclusion, by the European Community, of the UN CRPD1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 23, 27.1.2010, p. 35.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
— having regard to Article 2 and 3 TEU,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation2a,, __________________ 2a OJ L 303, 2.12.2000, p. 16.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)
Citation 9 b (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 b (new)
Citation 14 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 11 November 2018 on the situation of women with disabilities3a, __________________ 3a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2018)0484.
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 c (new)
Citation 14 c (new)
- having regard to the Gender Equality Index of the European Institute on Gender Equality,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 f (new)
Citation 14 f (new)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to the reports of the European Anti-Poverty Network, and the relevant reports of the European Disability Forum and European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) Network,
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU has clearly missed its target set by the Europe 2020 Strategy of reducing the number of people at risk of poverty by 20 million by 20209 ; __________________ 9Francesca Pepé and Gaia Teresa Sartori Pallotta, Fostering access to services to support people to move out of poverty, Report on poverty and inequalities in Europe, Brussels, November 2019, p. 7 and p. 13 et seq., and COM (2010) 2020 final, 3.3.2010.
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas homelessness is increasing everywhere, with the exception of Finland, and around 700 000 people are homeless each night in the EU, 70% more than a decade ago14; __________________ 14 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/ag enda/briefing/2020-01-13/11/housing- urgent-action-needed-to-address- homelessness-in-europe
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas 80% of Roma and their children live with an income below the respective national at risk-of-poverty threshold6a regardless of whether they are in employment or not; whereas employment has not proven to be a failsafe route out of poverty yet; __________________ 6a https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra _uploads/fra-2016-eu-minorities-survey- roma-selected-findings_en.pdf
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the number of people living in poverty, also while working, is expected to increase significantly due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic7a; __________________ 7a https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/pover ty/brief/projected-poverty-impacts-of- COVID-19
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the proportion of workers living in a household at risk of poverty rose from 8% to 9.4% within ten years – this corresponds to 20.5 million people18; whereas those working part-time and with temporary contracts are more exposed to such risk, i.e. in 2018, 16.2% of the employees with a temporary contract were at risk of poverty, compared to 6.1% of those with a permanent contract; __________________ 18 https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId= 89&furtherNews=yes&langId=en&newsId =9378
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas only 20,7% of women with disabilities and 28,6% of men with disabilities are in full-time employment 7a; whereas persons with disabilities are systematically denied their right to work in the open labour market and are employed in sheltered workshops where they often do not have employee status, neither labour rights, nor a guaranteed minimum wage 8a; whereas this is effectively a violation of both the UNCRPD and the Charter of Fundamental Rights; __________________ 7a Gender Equality Index 2019 8a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/ 2014_2019/documents/empl/dv/empl2014 1120-wss-people-disabilities- /empl20141120-wss-people-disabilities- en.pdf
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P d (new)
Recital P d (new)
Pd. whereas precarious employment affects some groups significantly more than others, with some populations, such as the Roma, being overrepresented in atypical, unstable and low-paid work;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas unemployment, precarious and atypical employment rose sharply during the 2008 financial crisis, and in the COVID-19 crisis the focus is also on social issues with job losses, short-time work, threats to economic survival, e.g. in small craft industries; whereas the middle class is shrinking, the gap between rich and poor is widening and the disparities within and between Member States are being exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis; and whereas some groups, such as the Roma, have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic and containments measures 9a; __________________ 9ahttp://ergonetwork.org/2020/04/eu- recovery-plan-the-case-of-roma/
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reminds the Commission and the Member States to achieve the goal of comparable living conditions through upward convergence and to counter the increasing inequality and de-solidarisation within and between Member States through appropriate measures, such as the strengthening of collective systems and a coordinated approach to minimum security systems for all age groups, an adequate minimum income, minimum living wages and minimum pensions;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to present an EU framework directive on minimum income as well as on national basic security systems;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, on the basis of their obligations under the ILO Conventions, the revised European Social Charter and, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the SDGs, to promote collective bargaining, as well as the right to associate, negotiate and conclude collective agreements, and to respect and enforce the right to fair minimum wages; calls on Member States to safeguard that persons with disabilities are able to exercise their labour and trade union rights on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reminds the Commission and the Member States of their obligation to fight discrimination in the field of employment and occupation10a, and to provide equal opportunities to all groups of society, including persons with disabilities 11a; __________________ 10aIn line with Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation 11a In line with UN CRPD, article 24.
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s plan to promptly propose a legally binding instrument to ensure that every worker in the Union receives a fair minimum wage21 ; requests that the Commission goes beyond a minimum wage and aims for a living wage enabling families and individuals to pay their expenses with their salary, get out of poverty and participate as equals in society; recalls that a living wage, other than a minimum wage, also bears the potential of lifting children out of poverty, so that they have real prospects for a better, dignified life; calls also for this plan to ensure, through legislation or collective agreements, that nobody is at risk of poverty and that everyone can live from their work and participate in society; underlines that the floor should be at least 60% of the national gross median wage and that a mechanism should be included so no Member State should step back on existing standards and legislation; stresses that if this is too low to live on in relation to standards in a given country, an additional mechanism based on objective criteria should be used to calculate a supplement that ensures a decent life; calls on all EU Member States to commit themselves to setting national minimum wages above the poverty threshold so that every worker receives a living wage; calls on Member States to involve several actors in setting and adjusting with time the living wage, including beyond social partners also NGOs working in the field of housing, since housing is one of the biggest costs for all, NGOs working in the field of poverty, and equality bodies, that have first-hand experience in the field of employment-related wage discrimination; __________________ 21 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta- political/files/political-guidelines-next- commission_de.pdfhttps://ec.europa.eu/co mmission/sites/beta-political/files/political- guidelines-next-commission_en.pdf
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure mandatory minimum working conditions for all workers and full and equal access to all social protection schemes, in particular for those employed in atypical and precarious work or the bogus self-employed, either by improving existing directives or through new legal acts, and to ban zero-hour contracts;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on Member States to ensure the provision of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities in the workplace1; ___________________ 1 the provision of reasonable accommodation is an obligation under EU’s Employment Equality Directive and article 5 of the UN CRPD
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to combat strategies adding to in-work poverty, such as undeclared overtime, unreliable or unpredictable working time planning by the employer, zero hour contracts, grey and undeclared economy; recalls that health and safety at the workplace is the employers’ responsibility and that job- related training must happen during working hours;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the Commission’s discussion to adopt a legislation on pay transparency to address the gender pay gap and ensure equality between women and men, and further calls on the Commission to also address the disability pay gap that increases the risk of poverty of workers with disabilities;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that persons with disabilities are provided the necessary skills to gain employment in the open labour market and that all forms of employment are bound by legal frameworks covering social security, minimum wages and non-discrimination;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States, when implementing the work-life-balance Directive22 , to ensure that access to childcare in general and in particular for single parents and parents of children with disabilities is secured so that they are not pushed into precarious and low-paid work; __________________ 22Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for compliance with the rules on equality and anti-discrimination, particularly with regard to wages, and to combatting gender and ethnic pay gap;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to combat evictions and to ensure access to decent, affordable, accessible, energy-efficient and healthy housing for all and to do more to promote affordable public housing;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Given the links between in-work poverty and homelessness, calls on the Commission to propose an EU Framework for National Homelessness Strategies and calls on Member States to take urgent measures to prevent and tackle homelessness;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to target atypical and precarious employment groups in the labour markets and to take measures to counteract this form of employment; reminds Member States not to make the access to employment and related support measures by public employment services subject to punitive conditionality for its effect of pushing people into precarious and atypical employment;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes the guidelines on the protection of seasonal workers presented by the Commission on July 16, 2020; calls on the Council to adopt ambitious Council conclusions on seasonal workers;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that imbalances must not be exacerbated and that the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis must not be borne by workers or the poor through austerity measures or through the European Semester; insists that measures to combat poverty, including through the EU Recovery plans and packages, and in-work poverty are particularly necessary;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Urges the Commission to pay particular attention to the economic impact of short-time work and layoffs and the social impact on people living precariously; to this end, calls on the Commission and Member States to protect workers and ensure adequate income for all, including by providing financial support to keep people in their jobs and guaranteed income support to self- employed or those in atypical work who are losing income due to the crisis; furthermore, calls on Member States to protect people living precariously by suspending evictions due to non-payment of rent and mortgages, by supporting their payment of energy bills, and by providing free school meals for those who need it;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that the COVID-19 crisis has once again shown how important employment in health and social services is for the functioning of our economy and society; stresses that health and social care work is essential work that is systemically undervalued and underpaid; adds that Europe’s current social care system reveals shortcomings and vulnerabilities of a mobility-based care system and the necessity for upward social care convergence;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Proposes to actively counter potential high unemployment through European and national employment programmes and to foster the green and just transition that leaves no one behind by investing in new, sustainable, accessible jobs, future-oriented infrastructure, and digital change and ‘green transition’.;