10 Amendments of Daniela RONDINELLI related to 2022/0326(COD)
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) A skilled workforce is crucial to ensuring socially fair and just green and digital transitions, and to strengthening the Union’s sustainable competitiveness and resilience in the face of adverse external shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the fallout of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. More and better skills open up new opportunities and empower individuals to fully participate in the labour market, society and democracy, to harness and benefit from the opportunities of the green and digital transitions and to exercise their rights, while leaving no one behind.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Across the Union, companies report difficulties to find workers with the necessary skills. In 2021, 28 occupations were classified as having shortages, including the healthcare, hospitality, construction and service sectors, in addition to shortages of IT and security specialists, in particular cybersecurity experts, and workers with science, technology, engineering and mathematics background.22 Increasingly, the biggest constraint to a successful digital and green transition is the lack of workers with the right skills. In many Member States, demographic ageing is expected to accelerate over the coming decade as “baby boom” cohorts retire, reinforcing the need to make use of the full potential of all working-age adults through continuous investments in quality jobs and in their skills as well as activitating more people, in particular women and young people especially those not in education, employment or training (NEETs). _________________ 22 European Labour Authority, Report on labour shortages and surpluses 2021 and ENISA, Cybersecurity skills development in the EU, March 2020. The ENISA studies identify that there is a gap of 291,000 professionals in cybersecurity.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Principle 3 of the European Pillar of Social Rights underlines that regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, everyone has the right to equal treatment and opportunities, and this includes employment and education. The European Year of Skills should be carried out in a way that is inclusive and actively promotes equality for all. The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan29 sets the target of at least 60% of all adults participating in training every year by 2030 and points out that by increasing participation of groups which are currently under-presented in the labour market, we can achieve a more inclusive employment growth. _________________ 29 The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan (europa.eu)
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 – paragraph 1
Recital 9 – paragraph 1
On 14 September 2022, President von der Leyen announced in her State of the European Union33 Address that the European Commission would propose to make 2023 the European Year of Skills. The President pointed to the problem of labour shortages in certain sectors and underlined the importance of investments in professional education and upskilling. She also underlined that attracting the right skills to Europe has to be part of the solution, supported by speeding up and facilitating the recognition of qualification also of third country nationals. In bringing the European Year of Skills to life, the Commission seeks to increase momentum and foster implementation of the many actions it has already taken to strengthen reskilling and upskilling in the Union to address labour market shortages and support the sustainable growth of the EU social market economy, by ensuring high quality, fairly and adequately payed jobs. _________________ 33 State of the Union Address 2022, online at: https://state-of-the- union.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Recital 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
In its resolution on Empowering European youth, the European Parliament calls on the Member States to facilitate access for young people to paid, quality and inclusive traineeships and apprenticeships and for the reinforcement of monitoring schemes, ensuring that young people receive adequate and quality first working experiences, opportunities for upskilling and new qualifications or credentials. The European Parliament also condemns the practice of unpaid internships as a form of exploitation of young workers, and a violation of their rights, and calls on the Commission and the Member States, in collaboration with Parliament, and respecting the principle of subsidiarity, to propose a common legal framework to ensure fair remuneration for traineeships and apprenticeships in order to avoid exploitative practices.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Recital 9 – paragraph 1 b (new)
In some Member States traineeships have been unduly extended to workers who are not at their first work experience but as tools to reduce labour costs, distorting the their purpose to equip young people with the right set of skills needed in the labour market and allowing unfair competition. Therefore, it is important to ensure at European level a legislative framework that guarantees, through traineeships for young people, genuine learning opportunities of limited duration, linked to their studies or as a first working experience.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) As companies and other stakeholders know best what skills are needed in their industrial ecosystems, strengthening their collective action on skills development has to be part of the solution. The Pact for Skills brings together companies, social partners, education and training providers, public employment services and other key skills stakeholders, both private and public. So far, more than 700 organisations have signed up and 12 large scale partnerships in strategic sectors have been set up, with pledges to promote 6 million training opportunities. The regional dimension is also important, including in border regions, where finding workers with the right skills requires targeted measures to support effective cross-border labour markets. Similarly, disadvantaged and remote regions, including the outermost, face particular challenges as access to the labour market and upskilling and reskilling opportunities are limited. Social partners should always be involved in defining skills strategies both at European and national level, as well as at regional level, in order to ensure that workers and young people are equipped with the right skills and to avoid the skills mismatch.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Significant EU funding support is available for reskilling and upskilling, for instance through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)51 , the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Just Transition Fund (JTF), the InvestEU programme, the Digital Europe Programme, Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, the Programme for Environment and climate action (LIFE), the Modernisation Fund, the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI). The ESF+ remains the main EU funding tool to invest in more and better skills of the workforce, in particular by supporting institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and challenges, supporting reskilling and upskilling opportunities for workers offered by the public and private sectors. Reforms and investments included in Member States’ national recovery and resilience plans have a prominent skills dimension, often linked with active labour market policies, in particular youth employment support. In the national recovery and resilience plans endorsed by the Commission and the Council so far, around 20% of the social expenditure is dedicated to “employment and skills”52 . REACT-EU was the first instrument of NextGenerationEU to make payments for the recovery of Member States. It helped create jobs and invest in skills in the regions most in need. Workers that lose their jobs due to large-scale restructuring events, may also benefit from support through the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) to find new jobs, for instance through further education and training and tailored career guidance and advice. European funds, dedicated to upskilling and reskilling, should be consistent and easily accessible, especially for micro enterprises and SMEs, who experience more difficulties in training their employees and in finding workers with the right set of skills in the labour market. _________________ 51 Established by Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of 12 February 2021. 52 Social categories are defined and applied based on the methodology adopted by the Commission in consultation with the European Parliament and the Member States in the Delegated Regulation 2021/2105. By 03/10/2022, 25 recovery and resilience plans have been endorsed by the Commission and the Council.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
3a. Ensuring payed traineeship and apprenticeship in order to avoid exploitative practices, while guaranteeing that young people receive adequate and quality first working experiences, opportunities for upskilling and new qualifications or credentials.
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) establishing a European legal framework, in cooperation with the Member States and the Parliament, in respect of the principle of subsidiarity, to ensure common and fair conditions and adequate remuneration for traineeships and apprenticeships;