Activities of Radan KANEV related to 2019/2188(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on reducing inequalities with a special focus on in-work poverty
Amendments (40)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that the TEU sets as basic obligation for the Union to work for the sustainable development of Europe based, among the rest, on a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection; stresses that it should combat social exclusion and discrimination, and should promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations and protection of the rights of the child;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. UnderlinesTakes note of the high number of petitions received by Committee on Petitions alerting it to the precarious nature and abusive use of fixed-term contracts in both the public1 and private2 sectors; _________________ 1These include petitions 0240/18, 0328/18, 0365/18, 0374/18, 0396/18, 0419/18, 0829/2018, 0897/2018, 1161/2018, 0290/19, 0310/2019, 0335/2019, 0579/19, 0624/19, 0652/19, 0683/2019, 0737/2019, 1017/19, 1045/2019, 1241/2019, 1318/2019 and 0036/2020. 2These include petitions 1378/2013, 0019/2016, 0020/2016, 0021/2016, 0099/2017, 1162/2017, 0110/2018 and 0335/2019.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)
Citation 18 b (new)
- having regard to the objectives laid down in the European Green Deal for the just and fair transition by providing access to reskilling programs and employment opportunities in the economic sectors,
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Agrees with the Commission that income inequality in the EU as a world region is lower than in some other major advanced economies, but it remains a concern; stresses that high inequality raises concerns about fairness, as entrenched inequality may result in inequality of opportunity and reduce potential growth; underlines that relatively high inequality may be associated to a higher risk-of-poverty rate and more pronounced social exclusion as well as a higher incidence of financial distress and, as such, it may reduce social cohesion;3a _________________ 3aEmployment and Social Developments in Europe 2019, https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId =738⟨Id=en&pubId=8219
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that women continue to earn 16 % less than men in the EU and have the highest rates of job insecurity; calls on the Member States to put legislation with binding measures and strategies in place to ensure equality, and urges the Commission to pay particular attention to compliance with EU labour law;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas there is enormous variety of minimum wage practices across the EU and considerable gaps in terms of coverage and adequacy to ensure decent living;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that calculations of in- work poverty must take into account additional factors such as housing and childcare costs and urge the Commission to work on further improvement of the social convergence by introducing a fair minimum wage mechanism throughout the Union;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention on job precariousness, especially in the most vulnerable regions, by guarantying a swift and fair allocation of JTF and other available funds, including the ESF+ in order to help with the adaptation to economic transformations, where upskilling, reskilling and investment would be all vital and investments in new activities would be of utmost importance.
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Calls on the Commission to address the aforementioned challenges in social situations, among other things, through measures aimed at employment increase and at more effective and efficient social protection systems. With respect of the competences as per TFEU, there is scope for more effective policy action by the Member States focused on principles of the Pillar of Social Rights.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas research8a shows that the amount a household receives from a minimum wage tends to be sufficient to protect a single adult against the risk of poverty, but it is often not sufficient to support more than one person; __________________ 8aEurofound (2020), Minimum wages in 2020: Annual review. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publicat ions/report/2020/minimum-wages-in- 2020-annual-review
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU has clearly missed its target of reducing the number of people at risk of poverty by 20 million by 20209; __________________ 9Francesca Pepé and Gaia Teresa Sartori Pallotta, Fostering access to services to support people to move out of poverty, Report on poverty and inequalities in Europe, Brussels, November 2019, p. 7 and p. 13 et seq., and COM (2010) 2020 final, 3.3.2010.
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas 6.1% of the population of EU-28 were suffering from severe material deprivation in 201811 and extreme poverty exists in numerous regions and communities; __________________ 11 Severe material deprivation: inability to afford less than 4 out of 11: mortgage or rent payments, utility bills, hire purchase instalments or other loan payments, one week annual holidays, meals involving meat/fish/protein every second day, unexpected financial expenses, a telephone (including mobile), a colour TV, a washing machine, a car, heating; (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Quality_of_life_indic ators_- _material_living_conditions#General_over view)
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the level of wage is an important factor explaining the risk of poverty; whereas however, relevant other factors also come into play - specific household features, the institutional framework, and other policies such as housing and childcare;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas family poverty is increasing: every fourth child under the age of 18 is at risk of poverty or social exclusion and thus trapped in an intergenerational cycle of disadvantage; whereas single parents (34.2%) and large families are particularly affected12 ; __________________ 12https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Quality_of_life_indic ators_- _material_living_conditions#General_over view
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas old-age poverty continues to increase also in combination wdespithe fundamental pension reforms: the at-risk- of-poverty rate for people over 65 was on average 16.1% (EU-28); whereas this figure will continue to grow due to precarious and atypical employment15 ; __________________ 15 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/v iew/tessi012/default/table?lang=en
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas privatisation and outsourcing, arelthough proven economically effective, are sometimes reducing job security, and this ismight also an indicator of thelead to an increase in precarious employment;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that in-work poverty needs to be addressed at its root causes, such as but not limited to education and training; calls on the Commission to urge Member States to invest in qualitative education and training, to share good practices and to have specific attention for life-long learning;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that the axiom that ‘work is the best remedy for poverty’ no longer applies today in the face of low- wage sectors, atypical and precarious working conditions and the dismantling of social security systems and that a poverty- free life can only be secured by effective collective agreements and minimum wage systems are needed to realise a poverty- free society;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to improve the social convergence by introducing an EU legal instrument which guarantees that every worker in the European Union benefits from a fair minimum wage, taking into consideration national specificities; welcomes the Commission’s consultation with the social partners on a European framework for minimum wages, respecting the national practices and the collective bargaining;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that statutory minimum-wage setting is guided by national frameworks based on clear and stable criteria with reasonably frequent and regular updates;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure mandatory minimum working conditions and unified control criteria throughout the Union for all workers, in particular for those employed in atypical and precarious work or the bogus self-employed, either by improving existing directives or through new legal acts, and to ban zero-hour contracts;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s plan to adopt the Directive on platform work, which is intended to ensure that platform workers are covered by adapting existing labour laws to the realities of a digitalized society and economy, are socially insured and are able to form workers’ representations and organise in unions in order to conclude collective agreements;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure access to decent, safe and affordable housing for all and to do more to promote affordable public housing and invest in the extreme poverty areas and neighbourhoods;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to target atypical and precarious employment groups in the labour markets and to take measures to counteract this form of employment by adapting and modernizing the existing labour laws;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor compliance with applicable labour and social legislation more closely by instituting controls and to involve the European Labour Authority (ELA) in cross-border situations, as well as to modernize and adapt the existing legal framework;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that the autonomy of social partners is a valuable asset; welcomes the Commission’s plan to adopt an action programme to protect and strengthen collective bargaining systems at national, in particular sectoral, level and recommends taking measures under Articles 151 and 153 TFEU; stresses that collective agreements must not be subject to regulations and interpretations at European level; stresses, however, the need to ensure and enforce the autonomy of social partners in each Member State, including by control on Union level;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recommends that Member States take action to promote collective bargaining and autonomy of social partners where coverage is below 70%;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and Member States to enforce, effectively and through sanctions, the right of workers to organise and to negotiate and conclude collective agreements, and to ensure that unions can enter plants, speak to workers at work and organise them;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that there are cases of political use and abuse by social partners in certain Member states and calls on the Commission to take strong measures against this phenomenon;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes to the Commission to change European rules so that solo self- employed and non-standard workers can unite, effectively participate in collective bargaining and conclude collective agreements;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Recalls that numerous frontline workers are in low-paid jobs and suffer from precarious working conditions and partially also from a lack of health and social protection;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Proposes to actively counter potential high unemployment through European and national employment programmes and to invest in new jobs, future-oriented infrastructure, digital change and ‘green transition’.; points out that minimum wage policies are an important element in a policy mix for income stabilisation to cope with the COVID-19 effects;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Proposes to actively counter potential high unemployment through European and national employment programmes and to invest in new sustainable jobs, future-oriented infrastructure, digital change and ‘green transition’.;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor in particular sectors characterised by a high degree of job insecurity, in order to prevent the abuse of workers in areas such as temporary work in the agricultural sector, where seasonal workers face abusive employment conditions that in some cases violate not only labour rights, but also workers’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention on job precariousness taking into account regional particularities, by guarantying a swift and fair allocation of JTF and other available funds, including the ESF+ in order to help with the adaptation to economic transformations, where upskilling, reskilling and investment would be all vital and investments in new activities would be of utmost importance;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Urges the Commission to monitor the implementation of the existing acquis and to review the relevant EU labour laws in order to improve the quality and working conditions of workers throughout the Union as required by art.151 TFEU, to adapt to modern digital realities and to boost opportunities for job creation while taking into account the fact that the current situation, caused by COVID-19 pandemic, will have a serious and long- lasting impact on EU labour market, social justice and working conditions; emphasises the need to focus on the groups that are most vulnerable to job insecurity or that live in extreme poverty and that are therefore more likely to experience exclusion or social disadvantage;