85 Amendments of Marc ANGEL related to 2022/2026(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
(1) Calls on the Member States to carry out national disability awareness- raising campaigns promoting the CRPD and the European Disability Strategy 2021-2030 that area accessible for all and involve PwD and the family members and organisations that represent them; calls on the Member States to adopt ambitious timelines for the implementation of the strategy; calls on the Commission to develop a set of detailed indicators in the forthcoming delegated act on the revised social score board to measure the progress toward the goals and objectives of the strategy and to ensure compliance by all those involved with the commitments outlined in these documents;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 2 (new)
(2) Takes note of the progress made by the Member States in effectively implementing and monitoring the CRPD and in adapting accessibility measures to comply with the standards of the CRPD; calls on the Member States to designate, without further delay, responsible authorities to serve as focal points, and to establish coordinating mechanisms at all administrative levels, in accordance with Article 33 of the CRPD, for its implementation and monitoring; stresses that the Member States should ensure that a significant number of persons with disabilities are involved in the work of these authorities;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
(1) Considers the Optional Protocol to be an indivisible part of the CRPD; points to the fact that the Optional Protocol provides citizens with a forum to communicate alleged violations of the provisions of the convention by a State Party, and allows the CRPD Committee to initiate confidential inquiries when they receive information indicating that a State Party has committed a grave or systematic violation;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 2 (new)
(2) Stresses that the Optional Protocol to the CRPD has not been ratified by the EU and five Member States; calls on all Member States that have not yet ratified the Optional Protocol to the CRPD to do so without further delay, and for the EU to fully ratify it; calls on the Council to take the necessary steps to ensure the accession of the EU to the Optional Protocol;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 3 (new)
(3) Notes that there is no mutual recognition of disability status between Member States; calls on the Member States to work together in a spirit of mutual trust to recognise the status assigned in another Member State; emphasises the Commission’s goal of working with Member States to expand the scope of the mutual recognition of disability status in areas such as labour mobility and the benefits related to the conditions of service provision; highlights the need to extend the benefits of the EU disability card so that mutually recognised health access benefits are also included; underlines, in this context, the importance of swift action in terms of implementation of the European Disability Card; reiterates the need for mutual understanding of deinstitutionalisation, its implementation and independent living in the community, with a view to better aligning the Member States’ strategies and the EU funds with the CRPD;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 4 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 4 (new)
(4) Welcomes the Commission’s initiative, by the end of 2023, for the creation of an EU disability card to be recognised in all Member States, with a view to scaling up the pilot projects for the EU disability card and the EU parking card for PwD; is of the opinion that the EU disability card, which should be adopted and recognised in all Member States, and cover all areas of life, including transport, will be an important instrument to help PwD to exercise their right to free movement in a barrier-free EU;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 5 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 5 (new)
(5) Notes the Commission’s proposal for the creation of the ‘AccessibleEU’ resource centre by 2022; calls on the Commission to create an EU agency on accessibility (EU Access Board) that would be in charge of developing technical specifications on accessibility in support of specific EU policies and legislation, carrying out consultations with rights-holders, stakeholders and non- governmental organisations, helping Member States and EU institutions to implement accessibility in a harmonised way for the benefit of the single market, and raising awareness of the importance of accessibility for equal societies;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 7 April2022 on the EU’s protection of children and young people fleeing the war in Ukraine,
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Citation 14 b (new)
Citation 14 b (new)
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
(1) Stresses that Article 19 of the CRPD sets out the right to live independently and be included in the community; calls on the Member States to ensure a process that provides for a shift in living arrangements for PwD, from institutional settings to a system enabling social participation and in which services are provided in the community according to individual will and preference; calls on the Member States to include specific targets with clear deadlines in their deinstitutionalisation strategies and to adequately finance the implementation of these strategies;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 2 (new)
(2) Recalls that in order to develop appropriate and effective policies and find solutions tailored to the needs of PwD in all their diversity in the EU, there is a need for comparable and reliable EU data; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to intensify their efforts for a common framework for European statistics on individuals and households to collect reliable data on the participation of PwD, also disaggregated by gender, in the various levels and types of education and labour and in social life;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 3 (new)
(3) Stresses that there is an urgent need to conduct a study and a research to collect data disaggregated by different types of disability and different barriers faced by the different groups of PwD, in particular when trying to access the labour market, which would greatly improve understanding of how unemployment impacts PwD and help the European Commission and Member States in their aim and efforts to improve labour market outcomes for PwD in the EU;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 4 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 4 (new)
(4) Stresses that cost of living with a disability is one of the greatest challenges faced by PwD; underlines, in this respect, an urgent need to collect data to further analyse the issue of living costs for PwD; stresses that this data will help to understand why it is that PwD are so disproportionately affected by poverty, and why the issue of losing one’s disability allowance when a person starts earning a wage can be so problematic and dangerous; underlines that the loss of disability allowance following the take-up of paid work is one of the principle reasons that PwD cannot easily transfer to the labour market, and that puts them at the greatest risk of in-work poverty;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Citation 14 c (new)
Citation 14 c (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 29 November 2018 on the situation of women with disabilities,
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 5 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 5 (new)
(5) Stresses that the Article 27 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities clearly calls for every effort to be made to allow PwD to find employment in the open labour market; underlines the key importance to monitor the developments in the EU Member States on fulfilling their obligations under the UNCRPD, or in employing people in sheltered forms of work that lead to in-work poverty; underlines, in this regards, an urgent need to conduct a research on sheltered workshops and insight into how many PwD, including women with disabilities, are in employment in the open labour market; stresses that the Eurostat figures show what percentage of PwD are employed in each Member State, but the quality of employment that each person finds themselves in remains unknown;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 6 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 6 (new)
(6) Recalls the high number of EU citizens deprived of their right to participate in elections, including European Parliament elections, because of their disabilities or mental health problems; calls on the Commission and Member States to guarantee the political rights of PwD by ensuring voting and eligibility rights to all PwD and right to stand for election, without exemptions, and by implementing ad hoc measures aiming at making the next European elections more accessible to PwD and respectful of the right to vote autonomously and in secrecy, or otherwise with the choice of one’s assistant;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Citation 14 d (new)
Citation 14 d (new)
— having regard to the EP Report on the implementation of Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation in light of the UNCRPD,
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 4 – point 1 (new)
(1) Regrets the fact that the European Accessibility Act fails to address accessibility of the built environment and of the physical world in general; calls on the Commission to use the European Accessibility Act as a basis for adopting a robust EU framework for an accessible and inclusive environment with fully accessible public spaces, services, including public transport, communication, administrative and financial services, and the built environment; welcomes the Commission’s ‘Access City Award’ initiative;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas approximately 1 in 6 people in the EU live with some kind of disability; whereas 50.6 % of persons with disabilities are employed and 28.4 % are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared to 74.8 %7 and 18.4 % respectively of persons without disabilities8 ; whereas the EU activity rate of persons with disabilities is only 61.0 % compared to 82.3 % of people without disabilities; _________________ 7 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/et udes/BRIE/2020/651932/EPRS_BRI(2020) 651932_EN.pdf 8 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Disability_statist ics_-_poverty_and_income_inequalities
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 4 – point 2 (new)
(2) Outlines that petitioners’ most common concerns regarding the equality of PwD centre around accessibility and social protection, along with employment rights and the right to live independently in the community; calls, therefore, on the Member States to fully implement and continuously monitor all accessibility- related legislation, including Directive (EU) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) in order to effectively and definitively remove and prevent barriers for workers with disabilities, and to improve and ensure the availability of accessible services and the suitability of the conditions under which these services are provided; calls, in this context, on the Member States to consider, when transposing the European Accessibility Act into national legislation, the interconnectivity between the accessibility of services and the accessibility of the built environment;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 4 – point 3 (new)
(3) Calls on the Member States to ensure the swift and efficient implementation at all levels of Directive2016/2102 on the accessibility of public sector bodies’ websites and mobile applications, in order to guarantee that PwD are able to access all information they require in an accessible format, including national sign languages; welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an action plan on web accessibility for all EU institutions, bodies and agencies with a view to ensuring the compliance of EU websites, and the documents published on these websites and online platforms, with European accessibility standards, which need to be broadened; urges all EU institutions, bodies and agencies to comply with the European accessibility standards in 2022 at the latest; calls the Commission to pay particular attention, as a matter of priority, to the accessibility of its public consultations, especially where they target PWD and their organisations;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point 4 (new)
Paragraph 4 – point 4 (new)
(4) Urges the EU institutions to improve the level and quality of accessibility in all of their buildings and remove the existing barriers to their websites, debates and documentation, i.e.to make the information produced accessible by, for example, providing translation into the sign languages of the different Member States and producing documents in Braille and in easy-to-read language;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women with disabilities are at higher risk of unemployment and poverty or social exclusion comparing to men with disabilities and women without disabilities, with only 20% of women with disabilities in full-time employment, comparing to 29% of men with disabilities and 48% of women without disabilities;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas some people with disabilities, especially people with intellectual, psychosocial disabilities and those on the autism spectrum, are disproportionally affected by higher unemployment rates;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new)
(1) Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to reaffirm their commitment to realising equality and inclusion for PwD and to fully implement the CRPD, including its Article 27on work and employment;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new)
(2) Highlights that sheltered workshops should aim to ensure inclusion, rehabilitation and transition to the open labour market, but are often segregated environments in which workers with disabilities do not have employee status or enjoy labour rights, which clearly constitutes a violation of the CRPD; stresses that inclusive models of supported employment can, if they are rights-based and recognised as employment, respect the rights of PwD and serve inclusion in and transition to the open labour market;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas between 2011 and 2016 the gap in tertiary attainment between persons with and without disabilities widened – from 7% to 9%;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the employment rate of persons with disabilities remains significantly lower than that of persons without disabilities;. whereas the latest data from the EU-SILC, shows that the disability employment gap was 24.5 % in 2020;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)
(1) Welcomes the fact that Member States are willing to implement inclusive educational policies; calls on the Member States to further increase their education systems’ capacity to provide high-quality accessible education for all learners by promoting specific measures and personalised support, such as accessible and tailored curricula and learning materials, accessible ICTs and appropriate digital education calls on the Commission to strengthen the role of the Child Guarantee, giving consideration to an accessible school award scheme, in ensuring the equal treatment of children with disabilities;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 6 – point 2 (new)
(2) Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest in training professionals regarding the needs of PwD; reiterates that the implementation and allocation of the relevant EU funding programmes should contribute to the transition towards inclusive education; stresses that PwD should be guaranteed access to education, including during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and others, and that Member States should tackle all forms of discrimination and exclusion in this area;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas the key obstacles to the employment of persons with disabilities include disability-related stereotypes, bureaucratic difficulties in accessing the available services, lack of strategic vision in governance, insufficient monitoring of policy implementation, limited training resources for employers and lack of specialist support;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates that PwD, including those with mentintellectual and psychosocial disabilities, should have the right to the highest attainable state of health and access to healthcare, free from discrimination, of the same scope and quality as other EU citizens13 ; _________________ 13 Petitions Nos 0687/2020 and 0470/2020.
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas entrepreneurship and self-employment support in the form of guidance, training and financial aid can provide opportunities for persons with disabilities to be active in the open labour market, disincentivising their reliance on disability benefits and pensions, but such support needs to be well targeted and adequately resourced;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas the disadvantage experienced by persons with disabilities extends far beyond the realm of employment;. whereas the social and financial situation of persons with disabilities in the EU is significantly worse than that of persons without disabilities;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights that PwD are exposed to discrimination most frequently, in particular those with intellectual, and psychosocial and mental disabilities, and women and girls, migrants and racialised people, including Roma, and members of the LGBTIQ+ community with disabilities; callstresses, in this respect, for athat the proposed Anti- dDiscrimination legislation to protect the rights of PwD and for the horizontal Anti- Discrimination Directive to be unblocked in the Council14 ; _________________ 14 Petitions Nos 0164/2020 and 0226/2021.directive, which would provide greater protection against discrimination of all kinds through a horizontal approach, still remains blocked in the Council for over a decade;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas during the pandemic on average, 71% of persons with disabilities were at risk of depression;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – point a (new)
Paragraph 8 – point a (new)
(a) Stresses the urgent need for EU legislation aimed at protecting citizens against all forms of discrimination in the EU and considers this to be primordial for the correct implementation of CRPD policies; urges the Member States to adopt the EU horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive tabled by the Commission in 2008; calls on the Commission to present an alternative solution in order to move forward in tackling discrimination across the EU, in all areas of life, as soon as possible;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Recital B h (new)
Recital B h (new)
Bh. whereas lockdowns and restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected young people;. whereas 57% of persons with disabilities aged 18 to 29 reported feeling lonely - 23% more than young people without disabilities;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Recital B i (new)
Recital B i (new)
Bi. whereas having a disability is synonymous with structural or educational disadvantage and discrimination; .whereas support measures focusing on aspects other than employment – for instance, poverty reduction, access to housing and childcare, accessible public transport, and personal assistance – also play a key role in providing opportunities for people with disabilities to access and remain in the workforce;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Recital B j (new)
Recital B j (new)
Bj. whereas political participation does not affect all persons with disabilities equally; whereas those with more severe impairments, as well as persons with particular types of impairment – for example, persons with intellectual disabilities –disproportionately face barriers to their participation in the political life; whereas these individuals are often some of the most isolated and excluded;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 9 – point 1 (new)
(1) Acknowledges the Commission’s call for all EU institutions, bodies, agencies and delegations to designate ‘disability coordinators’; reiterates its call for focal points to be established in all EU institutions and agencies, including Parliament and the Council, with the central focal point within the Commission’s General Secretariat and supported by an appropriate interinstitutional mechanism; calls on the EU institutions to prioritise the appointment of PwD to the role of disability coordinators;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 9 – point 2 (new)
(2) Stresses that the right to petition and the petition process should be more visible and accessible to all individuals and organisations in the EU, including PwD; recalls the Committee on Petitions should ensure better visibility and sufficient information in this respect through targeted information and awareness-raising campaigns, with a special focus on vulnerable groups, including PwD; stresses that the Parliament has not yet developed an index of effectiveness for its petition system nor has it collected statistical data on the processing of petitions;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 9 – point 3 (new)
(3) Encourages the relevant Parliament services to continue their efforts and finalise the project on the inter-service working group on sign language in the shortest possible time frame in order to meet the requests of petition1056/2016 to allow for the tabling of petitions in international and national sign languages used in the EU and thereby make the fundamental right to petition more accessible for sign language users;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – point 4 (new)
Paragraph 9 – point 4 (new)
(4) Highlights the importance of swiftly addressing accessibility concerns in all relevant policies and instruments, including concerns about public procurement rules and the accessibility of petitions to Parliament;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – point 5 (new)
Paragraph 9 – point 5 (new)
(5) Highlights the need to provide sign language interpretation services and easy- to-read language translations for committee meetings, plenary meetings and all other Parliament meetings, in order to make them accessible for PwD;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that persons with disabilities’ exercise of the right to work9 is closely linked to measures to tackle direct and indirect discrimination, poverty and obstaclebarriers in education, training, housing, care, personal mobility and the built environment; therefore, encourages Commission and Member States to take effective and adequate measures to facilitate and improve the conditions for people with disabilities so that they can benefit of equal conditions and opportunities to enjoy this fundamental right; _________________ 9 Article 27 of the UNCRPD.
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the importance of a holistic definition and application of accessibility and its value as an indispensable basis for persons with disabilities to have equal opportunities as recognised in the UNCRPD and in line with the UN CRPD General Comment No 2, taking into account the diversity of the needs of persons with disabilities and promoting universal design as a principle of the EU;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines the need to give particular attention to the employment situation of people belonging to ethnic minorities with disabilities such as migrants, refugees, Roma and people of African descent;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges therefore the Commission to put forward a proposal for a common definition of disability at EU level, as well as mutual recognition of disability status and the associated benefits and social protection rights between the Member States in line with the concluding observations of the UNCPRD Committee on the initial report of the European Union adopted in 2015 with the aim of removing the fundamental obstacle for intra-EU mobility of persons with disabilities and enabling their access to health, care and other services that facilitate independent living, as well as equal education and employment opportunities; calls for the implementation and expansion of the European Disability Card to all Member States, supporting mutual recognition of disability across the EU and paving the way to a European definition of disabilities;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights that, in order to meet the different needs of people with disabilities in and out of jobs, employment figures of national statistical institutes and Eurostat should be disaggregated by type of disabilities, gender and ethnic minority; therefore, calls on the Commission, its relevant agencies and all Member States, to set up all the necessary actions in this respect;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and Member states to adopt a holistic life cycle policy approach to support prevention of discrimination and to ensure effective retention and inclusion of PwD in the labour market;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on all Member States that have not yet ratified the Optional Protocol to the CRPD to do so without further delay, and for the EU to fully ratify it; calls on the Council to take the necessary steps to ensure the accession of the EU to the Optional Protocol;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls on the Member States to take active measures to safeguard non- discrimination for all , and to ensure that PwD can exercise their labour and trade union rights on equal terms with others; urges the EU to ratify the Istanbul Convention that is supposed to have a transversal impact on all EU legislation with a specific focus on women with disabilities who face multiple and intersectional discrimination and are more vulnerable to harassment at the workplace;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that income- and disability- related assistance are complementary in promoting the effective participation of persons with disabilities in the labour market; calls, therefore, on Member States to unbundle income- and disability-related assistance10 ; _________________ 10 UN Special Rapporteur, as salaries are not a substitution for the coverage onf the rights of persons with disabilities, ‘Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities’, presented to the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, August 2015.costs related to disabilities; calls therefore on Member States to unbundle income and disability- related assistance;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to assess the effectiveness of existing sheltered workshops in providing PwD with skills to gain employment in the open labour market, to ensure that they are bound by legal frameworks covering social security, minimum wages and non- discrimination and to phase them out; calls on the Commission to monitor this process; further insists that workers with disabilities in sheltered workshops should at least be ensured the legal statute equivalent to labour rights of people working in open working environments based on the application of the respective collective agreement for the economic sector;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that it is important for people with disabilities to find quality employment that matches their skills and ambitions and that guarantee an adequate remuneration for jobs of equal value with respect at least to the minimum standards as defined in the directive on Minimum wages;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls sheltered workshops should be a step, a temporary period for workers with disabilities in their working life cycle; in that respect, calls the Member States to develop inclusive models of sheltered and supported employment, respecting the rights of persons with disabilities, that serve as measures for effective inclusion and later transition to the open labour market;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Is concerned that in some Member States, persons with disabilities working in sheltered workshops are not formally recognised as workers under the law, are paid less than the minimum wage and are not entitled to the same social protection as regular workers; urges the Commission to ensure that Member States respect the principle of equal treatment and equal pay for work of equal value for all workers;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that teleworking could help increase the employment of persons with disabilities as a form of disability accommodation and a tool to achieve greater work-life balance and reduce pain- and fatigue-related barriers to the labour market; cautiowarns, however, against the use of teleworking by employers to avoid making reasonable accommodations or creating inclusive workplace cultures for workers with disabilities11 ; _________________ 11 Schur, L.A., Ameri, M. & Kruse, D. ‘Telework After COVID: A ‘Silver Lining’ for Workers with Disabilities?’, J Occup Rehabil 30, pp. 521–536, 6 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-020- 09936-5
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls that future telework policies should be developed from a disability rights perspective and involve people with disabilities in their design and when new collective agreements are negotiated on telework, or when companies revise their telework policies to ensure they are disability-friendly;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Member States to monitoring the respect of Principles No 2 and 3 of the European Pillar of Social Rights, providing for equality of treatment and opportunities regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression between men and women, regardless of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation recalls on monitoring the adoption of the measures established by the UNCRPD;
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages public employment services to roll out personalised measures to improve the employability and retention of persons with disabilities in the labour market; calls on Member States to provide guidance, training and financial aid to support job creation, recruitment, entrepreneurship and self- employment for persons with disabilities.;
Amendment 194 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that while supporting and promoting the labour market participation of people with disabilities is crucial, adequate and inclusive social protection mechanisms also need to be put in place to ensure support is available for all people with disabilities, irrespective of their employment status;
Amendment 196 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks the Commission to promote awareness-raising actions and programmes on skills and competences of people with disabilities as well as their specific needs in terms of reasonable accommodation, starting from the recruitment phase, so to avoid exclusion in the work place;
Amendment 201 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Believes that labour market support measures must take into account disability and tailor-made policy responses to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities in employment; highlights that people with disabilities, their family , and their representative organisations governments, trade unions and NGOs representing the voices of people with disabilities – play an important role in the provision of support; notes that the active involvement of persons with disabilities, including through their representative organisations, in policy development and law making has not yet been formalised as a requirement or put in practice in all EU Member States. Calls on the Members States to use intersectional disaggregated data in order to monitor the inclusion of pwd in the labour market;
Amendment 208 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Strongly supports research, social investments and targeted initiatives at EU level to foster inclusion at work for people with disabilities, with particular attention on people with autism spectrum disorder;
Amendment 211 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Notes that persons with disabilities are as among the most marginalized and at-risk population in any crisis-affected community; stresses further that as a consequences of war people with disabilities in situations of armed conflict face violent attacks, forced displacement, and ongoing neglect in the humanitarian response to civilians caught up in the fighting, are abandoned in their homes or in deserted villages for days or weeks, with little access to food or water;
Amendment 220 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on Member States to ensure the participation of persons with disabilities in the electoral process in 2024 and in the law making process; Calls on Member States to eliminate barriers that can exclude persons with disabilities from the opportunity to influence the development and implementation of the laws and policies which shape their daily lives;
Amendment 229 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Encourages National public authorities to ensure that the requirement to register to vote or for reasonable accommodation does not result in persons with disabilities being excluded from elections;. calls on Member States to include measures ensuring that the registration process is accessible by redesigning relevant websites in line with EU standards;
Amendment 232 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Notes that complaints mechanisms, both judicial and non- judicial, should be made more accessible for persons with disabilities; . calls on Member States to lift restrictions on the right of persons deprived of legal capacity to bring complaints independently of their guardian and take effective measures to make sure that information about how and where to complain is accessible to all persons with disabilities through the production of information materials in different and accessible formats distributed through support and advocacy organisations for persons with disabilities, including disabled persons organisations (DPOs);
Amendment 237 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Amendment 243 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Calls on the Commission to revise the Cross-border health care Directive to bring it in line with the UN CRPD in order to guarantee access to affordable and quality cross-border healthcare for persons with disabilities;
Amendment 244 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Is of the opinion that the European Funds must adhere to the UNCRPD and Structural Funds should continue to foster transition from institutional to community and family- based care, finance support services to realise the right to live independently , and that the ex ante conditionalities must be concrete and quality-assessed; calls on the EU to ensure all funding programmes are accessible and include a dedicated budget for accessibility; furthermore, the Commission shall make sure that all funds are actively invested in research to develop better and more affordable assistive technology for persons with disabilities and towards increasing the participation of persons with disabilities in all EU funded programmes;
Amendment 246 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 j (new)
Paragraph 4 j (new)
4j. Highlights that harassment at work, including sexual harassment and retaliation for speaking up, hinders access to work and employment, job retention and equal career paths, in particular for women with disabilities, and that specific actions are needed in Member States to prevent, combat and sanction harassment against persons with disabilities;
Amendment 249 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 k (new)
Paragraph 4 k (new)
4k. Stresses that the low activity rate of persons with disabilities is, as well, a huge obstacle hindering socioeconomic inclusion which must be improved by European and national programmes aiming at the activation and training of persons left outside the labour market;
Amendment 250 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 l (new)
Paragraph 4 l (new)
4l. Reminds that reasonable accommodation is a right for workers with disabilities which is not always covered or understood by employers, who, sometimes, either have stigma about capabilities and necessities of persons with disabilities, or do not have enough support in terms of information and resources regarding its application in the workplace; calls on the Commission to revise Directive 2000/78/EC and propose, among others, the EU harmonised minimum standards for reasonable accommodation for workers with disabilities;
Amendment 251 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 m (new)
Paragraph 4 m (new)
4m. Underlines the need to offer specialised protection and care to persons with disabilities coming from Ukraine; recalls the importance of the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, the Child Guarantee, the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, as well as all existing EU legal instruments, including the Temporary Protection Directive in supporting the Member States to help them address the specific needs of persons with disabilities fleeing the war in Ukraine;
Amendment 252 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 n (new)
Paragraph 4 n (new)
4n. Repeats Its call on the Member States to implement the reinforced Youth Guarantee to ensure offers of high quality, including providing fair remuneration and access to social protection, prohibiting the abuse of atypical contracts, and ensuring working environments that are adapted to the needs of persons with disabilities;
Amendment 253 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 o (new)
Paragraph 4 o (new)
4o. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the challenges and rights violations experienced by persons with disabilities during the COVID- 19pandemic, and to adopt targeted measures for paths of psychological support and reintegration into the labour market;
Amendment 254 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 p (new)
Paragraph 4 p (new)
4p. Recalls the Commission to develop those measures in coordination and communication with persons with disability and all the organisations involved, starting from the European Parliament’s CRPD network;
Amendment 255 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 q (new)
Paragraph 4 q (new)
4q. Calls on the Member States to create an independent entity responsible for monitoring all accessibility-related legislation, including the European Accessibility Act, the Audio visual Media Services Directive, the Telecoms Package and the Web Accessibility Directive;
Amendment 256 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 r (new)
Paragraph 4 r (new)
4r. Calls on the Members State to implement the Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers that introduces a carers’ leave of five working days per year; insists that special arrangements in terms of carers’ leave, paternity leave, parental leave and flexible working hours should be considered for parents in particularly disadvantaged situations, such as those with disabilities or parents of children with disabilities or long-term illnesses ,without any repercussions from the employer;
Amendment 257 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 s (new)
Paragraph 4 s (new)
4s. Calls on the Members States to ensure better working and living conditions, including through adequate minimum wages and pay transparency measures, to reduce the disability pay gap and achieving inclusive and sustainable growth of the labour market; stresses the importance of a swift adoption of the directive on minimum wages and the Pay Transparency fully applying to persons with disabilities;
Amendment 258 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 t (new)
Paragraph 4 t (new)
4t. Highlights the importance to consider and treat with equal attention also the persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, adopting measures for their future after the carers’ death;
Amendment 259 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 u (new)
Paragraph 4 u (new)
4u. Calls on the Commission to develop and promote a European legal framework for inclusive enterprises, with the aim to create permanent employment of people with disabilities;