16 Amendments of Miriam LEXMANN related to 2020/2086(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9
Citation 9
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas persons with disabilities (PwD) are denied their right to engage in work on an equal basis with othersface challenges posed by the discrimination including multiple discrimination in many areas of life; whereas these challenges vary across the Member States; whereas persons with disabilities face major difficulties in achieving their equal access and equal conditions in the labour market;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas many PwD face multiple discrimination based onresulting from the intersection between their disability and otheir factors including gender, race, ethnicity, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, migration status or socioeconomic background;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the UNCRPD is binding upon the EU, its institutions and its Member States, which have a direct obligation to fully implement it; whereas although since its adoption in 2006 remarkable progress has been achieved, many areas are still showing significant limitations in achieving the goals of the UNCRPD;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the UNCRPD rejects the medical model of disability and endorses the human rights model of disability instead; whereas the UNCRPD demands inclusive equality for PwD; whereas the UNCRPD recognizes the right of PwD to work on an equal basis with others, choose freely, be accepted and work in open, inclusive and accessible work environment;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas one of the key aspects of the employment of the PwD is their participation at the community life and transition from institutional to community-based support; whereas the process of deinstitutionalisation in the Member States need to be finalised as PwD have the right to live in the community and be fully included in it; whereas the progress in deinstitutionalisation is uneven across the Member States and despite the introduction of policies and the allocation of substantial funding in the EU, there are still 1 million people living in institutions;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas quality and comparable data must be collected as there is a lack of disaggregated official disability statistics;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas employment-related discrimination against PwD is interrelated with the lack of inclusive education and vocational training, discrimination in the field of housing, health, and lack of accessibility; whereas an equal access of PwD to the employment is often hindered both by the barriers to the workplace and the barriers to the built environment which impedes the possibilities to find the employment outside the sheltered workshops;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the accessibility of workplaces, transport and support services is essential for PwD to enjoy their right to work; whereas Directive (EU) 2019/882 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (European Accessibility Act), once the transposition period passes, will be a significant source of the barrier-free society and its transposition needs to be monitored; whereas the Member States should also support the barrier-free built environment;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to use compulsory workplace diversity quotas with sanctions for non-compliance, including fines, the money of which is to be invested in inclusive education and employment programmes for PwD; calls on the Member States also to implement compulsoryexchange the best practices in order to identify and apply a targeted mix of measures to support the equal employment of PwD including the compulsory workplace diversity quotas, incentives programmes, annual diversity plans with targets and periodic evaluation and measures to support employers in recruiting PwD, for example by establishing a voluntary list of applicants with disabilities from which to hire candidates; calls on the Member States to provide training on the applicable rules;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. 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 ; reiterates that while conducting the assessment of the effectiveness, the opinions of PwD working in the sheltered workshops shall be taken into account; calls on the Commission to monitor this process;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to take active measures to safeguard non- discrimination for all, to provide accessible workplace and built environment, RA at all stages of work, and to ensure that PwD can exercise their labour and trade union rights on equal terms and that they are protected from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment; calls for the EU institutions to take the same measures;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to propose binding legislation on thlaunch the consultation with the representatives of the PwD in order to propose standards for equality bodies, thereby providing them with a stronger mandate to safeguard the equal treatment of PwD;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to conduct a study of the legislation and best practices of the Member States in order to harmonise the definition of disability and to ensure mutual recognition of disability status across Member States so as to ensure the free movement of PwD and the enjoyment of their EU citizenship rights;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for the collection of quality EU-wide disability-related data with a human rights- based approach, disaggregated by gender, age, disability type, race/ethnic origin, sexual orientation, etc., including PwD who have until now been left out of the statistics; calls for the collection of data related to the impact of Covid-19 crisis on PwD in order to put forward policies to prepare for the future crises;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support research programmes focused on development of assistive technologies including robotics, digital technologies and artificial intelligence enabling full integration of PwD in all aspects of life;