Activities of Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD related to 2019/2188(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Reducing inequalities with a special focus on in-work poverty (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on reducing inequalities with a special focus on in-work poverty
Amendments (11)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the gender pay gap in the 28 EU Member States stands at 15.7 %, that women are more affected by atypical and flexible contracts (zero-hour contracts, bogus self-employment, temporary work, part-time work, etc.) than men, and that women are more likely to experience povertybe segregated into less valued and underpaid sectors than men, to experience poverty and precariousness and fall into the category of the poorest workers as a result of these low-security contracts;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, following the global economic and financial crisis in 2008, in- work poverty in the EU increased from 8 % to 10 %, and that the current unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic will have even greater economic and financial consequences, which will have a direct impact in terms of increasing poverty, especially among women and the other most vulnerable groups in society, as its effects will be felt most keenly by workers in the service sector, the self- employed, temporary and seasonal workers, etc., among whom a higher proportion are women; highlights that an increase in female poverty implies a larger increase of poverty among the whole society as women tend to be in charge of the purchase of the main basic goods and are key for the sustenance of the household; shows concern about the impact this will bring in terms of child poverty and alerts that in 2017 children in the EU faced the highest risk of poverty or social exclusion of any age group;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Points out that the current Covid- 19 crisis is showing that paid and unpaid care work is essential to the wellbeing and functioning of our societies and planet; stresses that women are leading in the provision of frontline and essential services and represent 70% of EU health care workers and 83% of the professional carers working with people with disabilities or older people, and that a significant proportion have a migrant background; Deplores that workers in this sector have been traditionally over- worked and underpaid, given low social recognition by our economic system and in the case of domestic care workers, often excluded from essential labour law protections; Calls on the EU for the adoption of a Care Deal for Europe, which would entail a massive investment in the care economy, strengthen policies to balance the work and care responsibilities across the life-cycle and fill labour shortages, in particular through training, skills recognition and decent work permit schemes, and provide better working conditions in these sectors;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Calls on the European Commission to integrate a gender perspective and the different experiences faced by women and the most disadvantaged groups in all initiatives and additional EU funds to combat the COVID-19 crisis and to come forward with a specific funding scheme to support women in precarious and informal work;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that one in two people from a non-EU migrant background are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, that levels of precarious work are specially high among migrant and refugee women, and that those with dependent or irregular status face extremely high rates of poverty; Stresses that four out of five members of the Roma communities have incomes below the poverty threshold and that fewer than one in five Roma women (aged 16 and over) are in employment; highlights that discrimination in access and quality of education, training and employment contribute to this reality; calls on the EU to work with Member States to ensure full implementation of EU and national employment standards without discrimination of any kind, including through monitoring, complaints and redress mechanisms that are effective, independent and accessible to all worker;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that, according to Eurostat, there are currently 64.6 million women and 57.6 million men living in poverty in the EU Member States, which shows that the impact of poverty on women and men is different; Stress that women’s exposure to poverty is likely to be understated in avail-able data since current approaches to poverty measurement are typically collected at household level, assuming equal sharing of resources among men and women within households; Calls on the Member States to collect poverty data on an individual basis and not only on a household basis and to include further equality data and gender analysis into poverty statistics;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with concern that poverty among women increases with age, with the gender pension gap remaining at around 39 %; Deplores that many older women are forced to survive on inadequate pensions because pensions systems assume that contributions will be made throughout a working life and are insufficiently flexible to compensate for interrupted, atypical or part-time careers; Calls on Member States and the European Commission to work to ensure the establishment of a minimum income and to adopt a life-course approach to pension policy with specific measures to ensure pension coverage to atypical or non-standard workers that is on par with that of other workers;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the European Commission to introduce further initiatives that favours women’s job creation, especially for women facing multiple forms of discrimination, with a view not just to reduce poverty but to promote quality of employment and their financial independence, avoiding further flexibilization and precariousness of jobs;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to come forward as soon as possible with proposals to close the gender pay gap., more concretely to present a proposal on binding pay transparency measures before 2021 as stated in the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025; calls on the Comission to present a timely revision of the Directive 2006/54/EC in order to strengthen the provisions to fight against the persisting discrimination of women in the labour market and to include the prohibition of any discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender reassignment;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the European Commission to come forward as soon as possible with an ambitious post-2020 European Disability Strategy that includes proposals to ensure the awareness of legal rights, including the rights to work and employment, of persons with disabilities and measures to encourage their integration in the labour market and promotion of equal opportunities, with special attention to the situation faced by women with disabilities and the ways to address intersectional forms of discrimination;