Activities of Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP related to 2021/2253(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Common European action on care (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT towards a common European action on care
Amendments (97)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to Article 8 of the TFEU on gender mainstreaming,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
— having regard to the revised European Social Charter, in particular its articles 15, on the right of persons with disabilities to independence, social integration, and participation, and 23 on the right of older persons to social protection,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as referred to in Article 6 TEUin particular art. 25 on the right of older persons to lead a life of independence and dignity and art. 26 on the integration of persons with disabilities,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as referred to in Article 6 TEU,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), in particular principle 17 on inclusion of persons with disabilities and principle 18 on the right to long-term care,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9
Citation 9
— having regard to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular goals n.º3 on “Good Health and Well-being”, n.º 5 on “Gender Equality”, n.º 8 on “Decent Work and Economic Growth” and n.º10 on “Reduced Inequalities”,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Decade on Healthy Ageing 2021-2030 and the WHO Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care1a, _________________ 1a https://www.who.int/news/item/14-03- 2022-who-launches-new-framework-to- support-countries-achieve-integrated- continuum-of-long-term-care
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)
Citation 9 b (new)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
Citation 10
— having regard to the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and recommendations, and in particular C189 Domestic Workers Convention of 201149 Nursing Personnel Convention of 1977 and its accompanying Recommendation No. 157, C183 Maternity Protection Convention of 2000 and its accompanying Recommendation No 191, C189 Domestic Workers Convention of 2011 and its accompanying Recommendation No 201, C190 Violence and Harassment Convention of 2019 and its accompanying Recommendation No 206, and Social Protection Floors Recommendation No 202,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and the EU’s ratification of this convention,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC),
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (COM(2020)152 final), of 5 March 2020,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
— having regard to European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Opinion SOC/535- EESC- 2016 of 21 September 2012 entitled "The rights of live-in care workers",
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)
Citation 24 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 29 November 2018 on the situation of women with disabilities,
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)
Citation 27 a (new)
— having regard to the report of the European Commission and the Social Protection Committee entitled 2021 Long- term care report: Trends, challenges and opportunities in an ageing society1a, _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId =738⟨Id=en&pubId=8396
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 36
Citation 36
— having regard to the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Gender Equality Index 2021 and its thematic focus on health and the evolution of data in the domain of time,
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 a (new)
Citation 38 a (new)
— having regard to the ILO Resolution concerning a global call to action for a human-centred approach from the COVID-19 crisis that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient adopted at the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference in June 2021, which highlights the need to invest in the care economy,
Amendment 78 #
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 principle 17 and 18 jointly promote an individual right to long-term care and define the aim of care and inclusion services to support full participation in society;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas it is necessary to recognise that all human beings are in need for care throughout the life-cycle, including during childhood, on many occasions in old age, and when challenged in the activities of daily living in cases of a disability or health condition;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas care is a life-long issue that concerns everybody at some stage in their lives, both as carers and recipients of care, and encompasses services to address the physical, psychological, emotional and social needs of dependentspersons in need for care, as well as support to guarantee the equal exercise of rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well-being for all members of society;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the stigma surrounding dependence, frailty and the need for care and support in case of disability, disease, and mental health conditions and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas women are the majority of care providers, both paid and unpaid, and this shapes the ability, duration and type of paid work they can undertake throughout their working life-cycle; whereas this has a direct negative impact on their ability to participate in all aspects of social, economic, cultural and political life;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the male breadwinner model continues to shape access to social rights, including pensions; whereas this model negatively impacts on women’s economic independence throughout the life-cycle, due primarily to their overwhelming share of care responsibilities;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas there is a lack of quality, accessible, available, and affordable care in nearly all Member States; whereas the monitoring of care is hampered by the lack of data disaggregated data and the lack of quality indicatorby sex and degree of dependence, lack of data on existing care services either at home or in institutions and the lack of quality indicators; whereas there are still obstacles that hamper the public provision of care services in the EU; whereas there is a lack of knowledge of some diseases that affect the quality of life, such as temporary disabling diseases or mental health conditions;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas there is a lack of quality, accessible and affordable care in nearly all Member States; whereas in some Member States the care services are delegated to, and provided by, a under-funded non- profit sector, managed mainly by volunteers, paying low wages to a non- sufficiently qualified staff and consequently with a poor offer of services and almost none evaluation or monitoring of their performance; whereas the monitoring of care is hampered by the lack of disaggregated data and the lack of quality indicators;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas one of the most fundamental rights regarding care and support is the right to choose the type and location of service; whereas the right to choose one’s type of care is often undermined by the insufficient availability of in-home support and personal assistance; whereas personal assistance is too rarely supported sufficiently by states and remains unaffordable to too many;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the lack of and has exacerbated the existing inequalities and challenges in terms of access to formal care services caused by commercialisation, cuts and a persistent lack of investment; whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has traumatised and has placed a physical and mental toll on workers in the sector; whereas social isolation measures have increased the risk of abuse and neglect, as well as deterioration of mental and physical health of persons in need for care and support;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas nursing home residents accounted for 41% of all COVID-19 related deaths during the pandemic, and hundreds-of-thousands-of nursing home workers have also become infected, many of whom are facing long lasting aftereffects and a large number have died;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Amendment 210 #
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 specialised workforce, the creation of decentfair working conditions and integrated services, and adequate funding, social dialogue and the right to collective bargaining, and integrated services adjusted to the needs of care recipients, and adequate funding for supporting services for persons in need for care;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas studies show that more than 90% of older people would like to live in their own homes at an advanced age; however only 20% spends the last years of their life in their private accommodation and many of them live in institutional care facilities;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas patient-centred community-based and homecare can better support the autonomy of persons in need for care and support; whereas residential care often fails to meet the standards on supporting the independence of persons using these services, and is often associated with the end of one’s life, rather than as a place to live with dignity, flourish, and further participate in social and cultural life; whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to community-based care; whereas that shift has been too slow; and under-financed;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the persistent gender segregated labour-market undervalues the sectors in which women represent the majority of the workforce, particularly in the care sector; whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women and in particular migrants – both EU and non-EU citizens - , dominate in the care sector;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas 6.3 million professionals work in long-term care, among whom women (81 %) are overrepresented and there are increasing numbers of part-time, precarious and platform workers, as well as migrant and mobile workers; whereas there are live-in care workers subjected to unlimited working hours, who have to be available 24 hours a day, suffering exploitative working conditions;
Amendment 303 #
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 informal work and lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the perception of unpaid care and domestic work as “women’s work”, deprived of economic value in the private sphere, contributes to the undervaluation of care in our lives and in society, to its economic invisibility and to the undervaluation of care workers in private and public institutions;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 80 % of all long-term care in Europe is provided by women informal carers, deprived of fair working conditions, which makes care an extremely gendered issue;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas informal care has a significant impact on the earning power of households, and particularly women, leading to increased risk of poverty and social exclusion; 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 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the high numbers of care recipientspersons in need for care who are dependent on informal care are directly linked to the inaccessibility and unaffordability of quality professional services adjusted to their needs;
Amendment 383 #
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 two in three persons in need for care are estimated not to have access to it, mainly for reasons of cost and availability; whereas persons with lower incomes are also a group in which care needs are more prevalent;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. 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 settings;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas the care sector has long been facing workforce shortages and in the years 2019 to 2020, 421.000 workers left the residential care sector;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P b (new)
Recital P b (new)
Pb. whereas many care workers face increased psychosocial risks due to growing workforce shortages;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P c (new)
Recital P c (new)
Pc. whereas the delivery of care depends on well financed and properly functioning public services and social protection systems;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P d (new)
Recital P d (new)
Pd. whereas the commodification of care and the growth of multinational care companies puts profit-making before the needs of care workers and care recipients;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that it is vital to ensure dignity, independence, autonomy and wellbeing across the life course and that quality care across the life course is major tool to support this; underlines the importance of the accessibility, availability and affordability of care, and that all users and their carers should have a genuine choice when it comes to care services, meaning the form of care (home care, community-based care and other forms of patient-centred care), the place and intensity of care; highlights also that the family and community of a person in need for care should be able to decide whether or not to provide informal care, and with which intensity;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the urgency of moving from a male breadwinner model to an ‘equal-earners-equal-carers’ model, in which both women and men share earnings and caring responsibilities throughout the life-cycle; recalls the gender impact of the male breadwinner model, including in the pension gap; stresses the urgency to provide care credits for pension rights for both women and men to compensate for periods of caring responsibilities throughout the life- cycle; stresses that caring responsibilities are linked to human rights and that States must recognise and assure equal access to quality care and support services and treatments, based on the concrete needs, as well as fair working conditions for carers;
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase public funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee universal and equal access for dependants to affordable quality care services, as well as an active professional life for carers, and thereforepersons in need for care to adequately (needs-based) staffed quality care services, as well as fair working conditions for carers, and develop a career in the sector through skills certification and validation; calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, InvestEU as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines and recommendations for Member States in this sense;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that a substantial proportion of care models, services and facilities are outdated and that care recipients should be placed at the centre of care plansbased on an institutionalization outdated model as they 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 having as major objective the deinstitutionalization and promotion of different models of independent living and support;
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that a substantial proportion of care models, services and facilities are outdated and that care recipients should be placed at the centre of care plans; in part due to a lack of funding and that persons in need for care should be placed at the centre of care plans embedded in a human rights framework; emphasises that well-funded public services are crucial to providing care services for all;
Amendment 509 #
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 care, based on the rights to independence and autonomy and inspired by the WHO framework to support countries achieving an integrated continuum of long-term care, encompassing all care settings, encouragsuring upward social convergence and guaranteeing equal rights for all citizens;
Amendment 521 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to set ambitious targets forregarding the access and quality of care services in consultation with the Member States and the relevant stakeholders;
Amendment 532 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to present an ambitious European care strategy that builds on everyone’s right to affordablepublic, accessible, adequately (needs-based) staffed and high-quality care, as well as on other principles set out in the EPSR and EU strategic documents, and the individual rights and needs of both care recipients and carers, and that encompasses the entire life course, is based on reliable and comparable data regarding the various categories of people in need for care, by sex, age groups, type and degree of dependence, type and nature of the care services to be provided and regarding carers according to their sex and status (paid and unpaid), work conditions and needs, and includes concrete targets and progressive goals with a timetable and indicators to evaluate progress; taking into account the care needs in many ageing European societies;
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to provide guidelines to Member States to ensure that earmarked investments for the care economy are included in (revised) national Recovery and Resilience Plans, Cohesion Funds and all other relevant EU financial instruments;
Amendment 572 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to design childcare, education and other policies and measures in support of children and their families in an inclusive manner and one that upholds the swift and efficient implementation of the European Child Guarantee and provides free child- care; calls on the Commission to guide public investments in child care services in the use of the EU’s financial instruments;
Amendment 585 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that social protection and support to individuals and families is essential and calls on the competent national authorities to ensure adequate and accessible social protection systems and integrated child protection systems;
Amendment 596 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including paid parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children;
Amendment 601 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Equal access to quality care services and treatments
Amendment 611 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to reform and integrate their social services and social protection systems in such a way as to provide public, adequate, effective and equal access to care services and treatments in a favourable and respectful time throughout the life course, taking a personalised approach, in order to enhance the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation and, whenever possible, independent living;
Amendment 629 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that accessibility derives from a combination of availability of a diversified spectrum of care services, cost and flexibility; believes that in this respect different forms of care service provision should be available, such as inin particular that provision of in-home and community- based settingcare services should be upscaled alongside residential care; emphasises that the increase of care needs induced by demographic change require significant investments from the EU and member states to fill the gap of care services;
Amendment 641 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the need to ensure that care is not commodified;
Amendment 652 #
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 treatments and a comprehensive benchmark for monitoring the quality and adequate, needs-based staffing levels of both formal and informal care services; calls on the Commission and Member States to privilege outcome-based indicators for access to care, such as reported unmet needs for care;
Amendment 659 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop quality care standards for the provision of care in all settings (home based, private and public), including necessary competencies and training requirements, and to monitor the effective application of those standards;
Amendment 666 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that the free movement of persons and workers is one of the key pillars of the EU, but that challenges to cross-border care remain; calls for the protection of the social security rights of all mobile care workers and care receivers, including care-credits for pension rights for both women and men;
Amendment 681 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Repeats its call for a common definition of disability, temporary incapacity or activity limitation, as well as mutual recognition of disability status and rights in the Member States;
Amendment 684 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the prioritisation of mental health within public health and care policyies at EU level and to ensure particularly in the context of long-term care that mental health and access to mental health care are effectively available, affordable and of good quality to ensure they contribute to the improvement of quality of life;
Amendment 695 #
17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the provision and access to palliative care for all persons diagnosed with a long-term condition or disability; emphasises that palliative care comprises a spectrum of services improving quality of life with a health condition or disability beyond medication, such as emotional and psychological care and support as well as mental health services;
Amendment 709 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to establish a comprehensive set of indicators for long-term care embedded in a human rights framework, and corresponding targets and tools for monitoring the accessibility, affordability, staffing levels and quality of care services and treatment, similar to the Barcelona objectives for childcare;
Amendment 714 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for quality indicators that are based on the rights of the persons in need for care, the maintenance of their independence and autonomy as well as social inclusion, and focussing on the expected outcomes of long-term care, such as the improvement of well-being of persons in need for long-term care and support, the evolution of healthy life years and other indicators putting entire care experience of a person in need for care in the centre of attention;
Amendment 726 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission to guide public investments in long term care services in the use of the EU’s financial instruments;
Amendment 733 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls in particular for the reduction of inequality in access to long- term care to be taken into account when developing a set of access targets;
Amendment 738 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Commission to introduce stronger mandatory quality controls and whistle-blower systems for non-profit franchises and for-profit care chains;
Amendment 742 #
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, most of whom are women; notes that this work tends to be long term and can hinder formal labour market participation, resulting in a, has repercussions on the enjoyment of their political, civil, economic, social and cultural human rights, reduces formal labour market participation and increases the risk of poverty, social exclusion, mental and physical health issues and loss of income and, aggravating the gender pension gap; discriminations based on sex and gender roles, the gender pension gap and the feminisation of poverty;
Amendment 767 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the need for a common European minimum definition for unpaid informal care, includingemphasising that providing informal care must be a choice and not born out of the necessity and lack of available care services and the respect for the right to self- determination of persons receiving care being their choice the form of care they want to receive;
Amendment 773 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Urges the Member States to promote active labour and employment policies aimed at unpaid informal carers, to support their reintegration and progress in the labour market and to recognise the skills acquired in informal settings;
Amendment 780 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Urges the Commission to propose a common coherent package of actions at EU level on informal care, to identify and recognise the different types of informal care provided in Europe, and to guarantee carers financial support and other additional support services, including time off for carers, and a work-life balance and rehabilitation services for carers and care recipientsocial protection such as care and pension credits, as well as support services, including, counselling and peer exchange services, as well as indirect support services in the form of respite care and day-care services, ensuring the possibility to take time off, holidays, replacement services in case of illness, balance work, private life and care and have access to rehabilitation and job-reintegration services for carers;
Amendment 794 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Member States to swiftly and fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive, in particular regarding carers’ leave; stresses that only an equal share of care responsibilities between men and women by means of adequately paid leave periods would enable women to increasingly engage in full-time employment and achieve a work-life balance; underlines the importance of non-transferrable parental leave for equalising childcare responsibilities between women and men;
Amendment 819 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Member States to reverse the undervaluation of care professions and to place adequate needs-based staffing levels and investment in care staff at the centre of their care policies, and to support the creation of quality jobs in the sector;
Amendment 826 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to support quality training for health care assistants and providers; strongly encourages the Member States, with the support of EU funds, to provide training to care staff on the rights of persons in need of care, 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 838 #
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 in the care sector, both formal and informal, to join a representative trade union 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; and to ratify the relevant ILO conventions, in particular the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (n. º 189);
Amendment 853 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Highlights the negative consequences of occupational psychosocial risks and ask for a dedicated directive on occupational psychosocial risks factors;
Amendment 870 #
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, for those working in institutions, as well as in community- based settings, 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 for investigations into allegations of hindering workers’ representation in care services brought against some care providers;
Amendment 881 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Expresses its concern about the phenomenon of elder abuse, including non-assistance, neglect and the undue use of physical or chemical restraints, particularly in the field of long-term care and support; calls for the development of trainings for informal and formal carers to avoid elder abuse and of independent and effective mechanisms to report and redress situations of elder abuse; calls on the Commission and Member States to explicitly include the fight against elder abuse in all its forms in the EU Care Strategy;
Amendment 883 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Member States to position its public sector care providers as a model actor, to promote broader collective bargaining coverage and to provide greater access and information to unions seeking to represent and build membership among the care workforce;
Amendment 896 #
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 EU, that migrant workers providing care services to private households should be protected and that applicable labour laws should be enforced and monitored;
Amendment 920 #
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 and to go beyond it; 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;
Amendment 945 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Member States should be encouraged to enshrine strong labour standards for recipients of public grants (namely from EU Funding), loans and contracts;
Amendment 948 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for the review of the framework of the economic governance, in order to protect social expenditure in the European Semester and exclude public social investment for the purpose of the deficit rule
Amendment 960 #
28. Stresses the utmost importance of mainstreaming care and measures for the empowerment of women, dependent personspersons in need for care and support and vulnerable individuals in all relevant national and EU policies; 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, design of living environments, education and culture, mobility, digital policies and others;
Amendment 978 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of the principles of the EPSR and the SDGs in the context of the European Semester; calls in particular for a regular reporting requirement on the implementation of the EU Care Strategy in the European Semester and for the Country-Specific Recommendations to address any shortcomings in reaching the targets set out in the Strategy;
Amendment 990 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Member States to adopt approaches to measuring and valuing the contribution and outputs of care, in particular unpaid care and houseworkof paid and unpaid carers to the economy and society and outputs of care for the wellbeing of society and for social progress taking as guiding parameters indicators of well being that go beyond GDP;
Amendment 1008 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Member States to formulate and revise their care policies in permanent dialogue and consequent actions with social partners, experts, civil society and representative organisations of care recipients andpersons in need for care and formal and informal carers;
Amendment 1021 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Member States for public investments to develop the care economy and draws attention to the potential conflict of interest in a for-profit care economy that puts profits before people;
Amendment 1023 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32b. Calls on Member States to value the professions related to the provision of care by improving their working conditions and pay, and to avoid associating the care profession with minimum wage;
Amendment 1025 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 c (new)
Paragraph 32 c (new)
32c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to consider the care economy as part of the green economy, as a sustainable economic model; in this context, calls for the European Green Deal to be complemented by a Care Deal for Europe;