Activities of Guido REIL related to 2023/2586(RSP)
Institutional motions (1)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on a roadmap towards a social Europe – two years after the Porto Social Summit
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Citation 3 a (new)
— having regard to the non-paper by Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands and Sweden ahead of the Porto Social Summit of 8 May 2021,
Amendment 8 #
Recital A
A. whereas sustainable development is a fundamental objective of the EU; whereas the three pillars of sustainable deveArticle 3 of the Treaty on European Union stipulates that the EU has a duty to aim at full emplopyment are the economic, the social and the environmental; whereas sustainable devend social progress; whereas the promotion of emplopyment, is based, among other things, on full employment, social progress and fairness; whereas this is a fundamental objective of the EU, as laid down in Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union; whereas the emphasis currently lies on economic and environmental sustainabilitymproved living and working conditions, proper social protection, and the development of human resources with a view to ensuring stable high employment are common objectives of the EU and the Member States;
Amendment 14 #
Recital B
B. whereas the EPSR was proclaimed and presented as a political declaration in 2017 in Goteborg, setting out 20 principles and establishing a social rulebook towards a strong social Europe that is fair, inclusive and full of opportunity in the 21st century; whereas at the Porto Social Summit in May 2021, the Council committed to three headline targets for 2030 on employment, training and poverty; whereas at least 78 % of the population between 20 and 64 years old should be in employment by 2030; whereas at least 60 % of all adults should participate in training every year; whereas the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion should be reduced by at least 15 million by 2030; whereas the three headline targets do not cover the full implementation of the EPSR;
Amendment 37 #
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates the importance of the conclusions of the 2021 Porto Social Summit, which underline that we are still living in unprecedented times; notes that COVID-19 andStresses that the cost of living and energy crises have both been caused and fuelled by EU climate policy and the European Central Bank's low-interest policy; stresses that the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on our doorstep resulted in the cost of living and energy crises, which are hitting the most vulnerable groups in our society the hardest, leading to increasing inequalities; reiterates the importance of the EPSR as a guiding compass to a more social Europe; stresses, however, that the resulting headline targets for 2030 set out by the Commission and endorsed by the Council on employment, skills and poverty are insufficient to ensure its full imphas further exacerbated these crises; stresses that the Fit for 55 package will push millions of Europeans into energy poverty; is worried that the extension of the EU Emissions Trading System to buildings and transport will penalise low-income households that cannot afford to invest in expensive energy-saving renovations and installations of renewablem entation; stresses that the EPSR is a powerful tool to ensure that the European project can act as a powerful shield protecting the health, safety and living conditergy systems; is worried that low-income households are likely to be hit hardest by this policy, which will aggravate their already precarionus of its peoplesituation;
Amendment 48 #
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Council to take measures to mitigate the impact of the crises on Member State labour markets in order to keep Member States to take the necessary labour reforms and adopt the appropriate labour regulations to foster job stability and reduce the unemployment rates high; calls therefore on the Commission, the Member States and EU social partners to commit to reachingpromote collective bargaining coverage of at least 80 % by 2030, with a view to improving living and working conditions in the EU, which will contribute to upward social convergence and reduce in-work poverty, social exclusion and wage inequality;
Amendment 58 #
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the above-mentioned conclusions of the 2021 Porto Social Summit; welcomes the adoption of the Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU3 and the soon-to-be adopted directive on pay transparency4 ; urges the Council to agree on a generalIs worried that the soon-to-be adopted directive on pay transparency4 will impose heavy administrative burdens on employers, develop a sanctions-based approach conc, interferning the directive for platform work5 in order to improve worker protection in the platform economy and to create fair competition; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to occupational health and safety in the workplace; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to follow up with a legislative proposal afwith social partners' autonomy, create legal uncertainty, and promote litigation at company level, increasing court cases; welcomes the fact that the platform economy model reduces barriers to entering the labour market, offering opportunities to groups that have been traditionally excluded from the labour market; notes that in different Member States, initiatives to regulater the adoption of Parliament’s resolution of 2 February 20236 ; welcomes the launch of a two- stage consultation of EU social partners; __________________ 3 Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, OJ L 275, 25.10.2022, p. 33.statute of platform workers have been launched, including sectoral bargaining agreements between unions and platforms; notes that the proposal for a directive for platform work5 is blocked on Council level, mainly because the current criteria of the legal presumption of employment would lead to a mass reclassification from self-employed to employed; __________________ 4 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 March 2021 to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms (COM(2021)0093). 5 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 December 2021 on improving working conditions in platform work (COM(2021)0762). 6 European Parliament resolution of 2 February 2023 with recommendations to the Commission on Revision of European Works Councils Directive, Texts adopted, P9_TA(2023)0028.
Amendment 67 #
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that, even with the Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) instrument as part of the European unemployment reinsurance scheme, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis has lasted longer than anticipated; highlights, however, that thousands of jobs were saved thanks to according to a December 2022 report of the European Court of Auditors, the Impact of the Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) instrument on job-saving cannot be properly assessed because of the way the European Commission designed this instrument, and that the shock to the labour market was less severe than expected; notes, in this regard, that this instrument should remain in usebecause of a lack of good data at national level; calls for a the duration of the current exceptional situation and continue to be based on loans and quickly activated only in the event of external financial or economic shocksorough evaluation of SURE that would also assess the extent to which the risk of fraud has been minimised;
Amendment 74 #
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to put forward a legal framework for an effective and enforceable ban on unpaid internships, traineeships and apprenticeships; welcomes the European Year of Skills and highlights the importance of access to training and reskilling for workers in industries and sectors that need to undergo fundamental changes in order to achieve the green and digital transitions, ensuring no one is left behind; calls on the Commission to consider a directive on adequate minimum income in order to ensure the reintegration of people absent from the labour market, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, the specificiHighlights the importance of access to training and reskilling for workers in industries and sectors in order to keep up with the demands of a changing labour market and to strengthen the competitiveness of our economies; notes the Council Recommendation on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion and reaffirms that social policy; believes it is essential for minimum income schemes to be well designed in order to ensure that they do not create disincentives of national social protection systems and the competences of the Member Statesto work or lock people into a cycle of dependency on welfare benefits and trap them into poverty; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to presenting a proposal, by the end of 2023, on the creation of an EU disability card to be recognised in all Member States; welcomnotes the ongoing negotiations of the social partners on the right to disconnect, with a view to putting forward a legally binding agreement implemented via a directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal for a European social security pass to provide national authorities, such as labour and social security inspectorates, and social partners involved in labour and social security inspections with a real-time instrument to effectively enforce national and EU law;
Amendment 85 #
Paragraph 6
Amendment 102 #
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that principle 11 on childcare and support to children requires further action; urgently remindsStresses that child poverty has many different causes and that relevant issues such as health care, education, child care, nutrition and housing fall within the Ccommission and the Member States about Parliament’s repeated call to urgently allocate more funding to the European Child Guarantee, with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billionpetence and responsibility of the Member States; encourages the Member States to tackle child poverty as a priority;
Amendment 105 #
Paragraph 8
Amendment 114 #
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that, according to principle 19, access to social housing or housing assistance of good quality should be provided for those in need; urges the Commission to develop an ambitious action plan to achieve accessible and green social housing to meet the housing needs of all EU citizens Notes that housing expenses are the largest expense for households in the EU; highlights the fact that in many regions and cities people with a low income find it increasingly difficult to secure a home and that because renting is more common among poor households, rising housing costs have a disproportionate impact on tenants; emphasises that EU energy efficiency legislation has led to the phenomenon of green, environmental or low-carbon gentrification and that climate policy costs place an additional burden on predominantly lower-income tenants; highlights the fact that migration also has a strong negative impact on housing affordability in urban areas and the growing number of immigrants is putting pressure on the demand side of the housing market, leading to an increase of the rent and house prices and making housing less affordable for low and middle income households; encourages the Member States that wandt to progressively eradicate homelessness by 2030; vide their own citizens and households with privileged access to social housing;
Amendment 137 #
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its call that, in the light of the framework of the Green Deal industrial plan, EU funding, including State aid, should be conditional on public policy objectives, in particular social requirements, in order to offer high-quality jobs, promote collective bargaining, respect EU labour rights and standards and ensure improved working conditions; calls on the Commission and the Member States to enforce the social clause in the existing Directive on public procurement7 and to revise the directive in order to further strengthen social clauses in public contracts to require economic operators and subcontractors to fully respect the right of workers to collective bargaining, to account for the recently adopted Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU; __________________ 7 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC, OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65.
Amendment 148 #
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights the need to strengthen the social dimension of the European Semester and the implementation of the EPSR, especially in the light of the economic governance review; calls on the Commission to consider presenting an instrument for upward social convergence in order to prevent social convergence risks, detect potential setbacks inIs concerned that the ongoing implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights has led to a 'socialisation' of the pEuroper implementation of the EPSR and establish social targets; believes that social divergence risks should be included in the country-specific recommendations and taken into account when laying out fiscal adjustment pathan Semester process; reaffirms that social policy should be an exclusive competence of the Member States;
Amendment 150 #
Paragraph 13
Amendment 157 #
Paragraph 14
14. Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise the Directive on temporary agency work8 in order to establish a legal framework to ensureUnderlines that ensuring decent workinglabour conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary, including recruitment agencies,for mobile cross border and seasonal workers is as promised by the Council in the Porto declaration; __________________ 8 Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on temporary agency work, OJ L 327, 5.12.2008, p. 9.erogative of the Member States;
Amendment 167 #
Paragraph 16