Activities of Ilana CICUREL related to 2020/2084(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a strong social Europe for Just Transition
Amendments (32)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to Articles 9, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 162 and 1628 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that education is an investment for the Union’s future and a key tool for achieving the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which states that ‘everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life- long learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society’;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the full implementation of this principle by the Union and its Member States in line with the commitments of the March 2017 Rome Declaration and the November 2017 Gothenburg Summit; stresses the need for an Action Plan to deliver the Pillar of Social Rights and welcomes the determination of the Commission in this regard; insists on Member States implementing the country specific recommendations of the European Semester, especially on social affairs;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asserts that an adequate education and training in transitions to environmentally and socially sustainable economies can become a strong driver of job creation, social justice and poverty eradication; calls for the Union to facilitate stronger cooperation, information sharing and exchange of best practices between Member States and their education and training systems;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that Member States’ education and training systems must be adapted to make full use of the opportunities offered by the digital transition; digital skills development, e- learning initiatives and the connectivity of schools must be fostered and most vulnerable groups should be supported in obtaining equal access to them; calls on the EU and Members States to provide incentives for digital education and careers; emphasises that the participation of women in STEAM studies must be promoted;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for an enhanced university- business dialoguecooperation between educational institutions and the business environment to allow for studyies in a sector where there will be jobs, particularly in vulnerable communities, regions and sectorsgreater need of jobs; calls for more public-private partnerships to realise the full potential of our educational systems and for lifelong up- and re-skilling; calls Member States to explore compulsory traineeships as part of university curricula;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls the Union to strengthen the portability and full recognition of skills and professional qualifications to increase mobility and optimal attainment of skills within the internal market and ultimately Europe’s competitiveness in the world;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on governments and employers to invest in programmes and measures to ensure that vulnerable individuals have the skills necessary for a successful transition to a zero-emission economyto embrace the green and digital transitions; recalls particular attention must be given to people with disabilities who often fall under double discrimination;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights the most effective and inclusive education systems are those that rely on pedagogical research; calls the Union’s next flagship research programme, Horizon 2020, to be a vehicle to help further excellence in education and training;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas homelessness has increased by 70 % consistently in most Member States over the past decadethe European Union did not reach its 2020 target to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion by at least 20 million; whereas homelessness has increased by 70 % consistently in most Member States over the past decade; whereas the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion is likely to increase within the Union as a result of theCOVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further knowing that young people risk being hit the hardest due to the COVID-197 crisis; _________________ 7Unemployment statistics: Eurostat, July 2020
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas a high level of human health protection must be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Union policies and activities;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must be reinforced through mandatory enforceability, mirroring economic and environmental obligations whose observance is linked to access to European funds; is convinced that a governance framework for a social and sustainable Europe should be anchored in the following reforms: the integration of the EPSR and a social progress protocol in the Treaties, achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, protecting social rights over economic freedoms in the single market, and the adoption of a Sustainable Development and Social Progress Pact making social and sustainable targets mandatory;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) and underlines that this is a key instrument to support national short-time work schemes thus allowing to safeguard jobs and skills and to preserve large parts of wages and incomes ; invites the Commission to examine the possibility of introducing a permanent special instrument in this respect; stresses that companies benefiting from public financial support are not to lay off workers, reduce wages, reduce workers’rights and protections, or pay bonuses to executives or dividends to shareholders;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions and their people; therefore recalls the importance of the social dimension of projects eligible through this fund, in particular those related to investments in social infrastructures, upskilling, reskilling and training of workers and job-search assistance to jobseekers; equally recalls the importance that eligible projects are consistent with the climate-neutrality objective for 2050, its intermediate steps by 2030 and the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle poverty including child poverty will become imminent in the coming years; underlines that Member States should allocate at least 5 % of the European Social Fund (ESF+) resources under shared management to support activities under the European Child Guarantee; insists that a separate budget line under ESF+ needs to be created for the European Child Guarantee, with an allocation of EUR 20 billion; also underlines that Member States should allocate at least 3% of the European Social Fund plus (ESF+) resources under shared management to tackle food and material deprivation as well as to support social inclusion of the most deprived ;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes in this context the Commission’s plans to strengthen the European Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States and the Commission to make the fight against youth unemployment a priority and to make full use of financial instruments, EU programmes such as Erasmus+ and tailored measures for tackling youth unemployment and fostering youth employability;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. underlines the crucial role played by the European Globalisation Fund, being an instrument of European solidarity, in supporting displaced workers who have lost their jobs due to the transitions to a climate neutral and digital economy in their process of requalification, training and reintegration into the labour market; points out that the Commission’s undertaking to mobilise the EGF in response to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the social and economic level, and notes that extending the scope of the EGF to digital and green transitions will require sufficient funding for the years to come; calls on the Member States to make full use of this fund in order to accompany the displaced workers in these transitions ;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to present a legal framework directive for minimum wages and collective bargaining in order to eliminate in-work poverty and, promote collective bargaining and ensure the conditions for upward social convergence; reiterates its call on the Commission to carry out a study on a living wage index, which could serve as a reference tool for social partners;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument to support initiatives such as those above with the aim of reducing long-term and youth unemployment by at least 50 % by 2030; believes that it is time to make the Youth Guarantee binding for all Member States; stresses the need to ensure efficient, quality and accessible education and training systems, to reinforce upskilling and reskilling measures and to promote lifelong learning so that young people can develop the skills that are necessary to face the green and digital transitions and a fast changing labour market;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to include the overall objective of raising work quality at the European level in the Semester process and the Social Scoreboard, with a view to guiding and assessing the contribution of employment policies across Member States to the implementation of the SDGs and the EPSR; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the European Semester as an instrument to coordinate the EU employment and social policies in order to ensure a socially fair and ecologically responsible recovery and transition; calls on the Member States to give equal importance to the social and employment related Country specific recommendations, especially the ones following the COVID-19 crisis, as they give to the economic and budgetary ones;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030; urges the Commission to come up with ambitious proposals oin musculoskeletal and stress-related disthe next Strategic Framework on health and safety at work, tackling both risks to wordkers’ physical and mental health ; calls on the Commission to present a strategic EU carers’agenda as a step further in qualitatively empowering the healthcare sector in the EU;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Calls on the Commission to regularly update and enlarge the scope of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive to better protect workers from hazardous chemicals, including reprotoxic substances;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Calls for the role of EU-OSHA to be strengthened to promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union and further develop initiatives to improve workplace prevention in all business sectors;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18 c. Reminds that according to Eurofound, just one in three workers with limiting chronic disease have their workplaces suitably adapted; Calls on the Commission and Member States to sustain their work to foster the employment, maintenance at work and reintegration into the labour market of people with disabilities and chronic diseases in Europe;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy, alsoensuring increased access to social protection, improved collective representation, fair, transparent and predictable working conditions including from a health and safety point of view, and social rights covering non- standard workers, workers in platform companies and the self-employed in the platform economy; urges the Commission to include in thisalso propose a directive with minimum standards for fair teleworking and the right to disconnect;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Insists that the Commission proposes an EU framework for minimum income schemes, with 100 % coveraghich should address the question of adequacy, coverage and should include a non-regression clause;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - with a 0 % target for 2030, and to present a legal framework on binding pay transparency; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal participation and opportunities for men and women in the labour market and to introduce initiatives to promote women access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s financial independence;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Reminds that poorer people tend to live 6 years less than wealthier peoples and that people with disabilities often face difficulties in accessing healthcare; Highlights the need to address the social, economic and environmental determinants of health in order to tackle these health inequalities; calls on the Commission to develop common indicators and methodologies to monitor health as well as the performance and accessibility of healthcare systems with a view to reducing inequalities, identifying and prioritising areas in need of improvement and increased funding;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Calls on the Member States to invest in health prevention and promotion, early diagnosis, healthcare infrastructures and social protection in order to address the needs of an ageing population and a growing demand; and to ensure that every citizen can have timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality as enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. calls for a coordinated approach at EU level in order to avoid unhealthy labour cost competition, and to increase upward social convergence for all; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the portability of rights and ensure fair and just working conditions for mobile, cross-border and seasonal workers in the EU; calls on the Member States to commit fully to the digitalisation of public services in order to facilitate fair labour mobility, particularly with regard to the coordination of social security systems; asks the Commission. therefore, to put forward a proposal for a digital EU social security number;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority (ELA) to be effective in monitoring the right implementation of mobility-related EU legislation such as the directive on the posting of workers, in combating social dumping and the exploitation and abuse of workers, it should be given the ability to carry out controls and impose sanctions and penalties on non-compliant companies; urges the Commission to include this in the evaluation of the ELA’s mandate;