8 Amendments of Gilbert COLLARD related to 2020/2005(INL)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that traineeships should be understood as a limited period of work practice, which should help young people gain confidence in their capacities, as well as practical and professional experience, make an informed career choice, improve their employability and facilitate their transition into regular employment;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong training or learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions such as a fair payment starting from the first day worked, in order to prevent a multiplicity of short traineeships of a duration which places them just below the obligatory salary threshold, fixed working hours, health and social coverage, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities; insists that it is crucialit is crucial wherever possible to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities (in particular, physical disabilities, autism and Down Syndrome) by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. States that some employers tend to misuse traineeships; calls on the Commission to propose monitoring mechanisms at Union level, especially in the framework of Erasmus+ programmes, and facilitate greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities in order to increase the intra-Union mobility of young people;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the EU institutions to set an example by proposing more traineeships and offering more variety in their makeup, in order to move into line with courses offered by the Member States: work-study contracts, for example, which are a compulsory part of some French courses, particularly in the area of culture, but which sadly do not exist in those offered by the EU institutions;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that in 2019, Parliament's administration selected, from 6 058 applicants, 26 French trainees as against 60 from Italy, 54 from Spain and 27 from non-EU countries including one from Algeria, two from Albania, one from Kosovo, four from Uzbekistan...; calls on the EU institutions to give preference to applicants for traineeships who are citizens of the Member States and, in order to avoid unfairness, to award places in proportion to the number of young people attending school in the Member States;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Regrets the fact that the EU institutions can offer up to 10% of their traineeships to young people from non- EU countries, which is too large a proportion and leads to a great many European applications being rejected;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls for a report on the state of play of traineeships, particularly in the area of culture: museums, galleries, exhibitions, theatres, cinemas, libraries, festivals, concerts or other areas of music, performance art, painting, sculpture...; calls for specific proposals if there are shortages in these areas: financial support, platforms to combine proposals for traineeships in these cultural areas, etc.