11 Amendments of Bernard LEHIDEUX related to 2008/2330(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in 2006, 16% of European citizens were at-risk-of-poverty. Single parents, unemployed people, people with disabilities, young people and elderly people are especially vulnerable,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the effects of the financial crisis on the real economy are not fully known but it will be difficultimpossible to reach the target of creating 5 million jobs in the EU between 2008 and 2009. An economic recession will lead to higher unemployment and possibcertainly more poverty and will pose challenges for the European social model,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas social dialogue can be importantis essential to tackle the confidence crisis that is being aggravated by the economic crisis many people in our society are afraid of the future, and currently their concerns are not of fighting for more rights, but of trying to maintain their current rights,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas it is regrettable that the renewed social agenda does not deal with the question of the legal security of general interest social services,
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the EUuropean Union should support the infrastructures of the Member States' social models, particularly general interest social services, by reaffirming the importance of their universal access, quality and sustainability;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal seeking to guarantee the legal security of general interest social services;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a more effective prevention and combating of early school leaving under the motto that 'school pays off'; calls for effectively organised education systems and school curricula adapted towhich take account of tomorrow's economyjob market;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Draws attention to the need for a more balanced approach between flexibility, security and the need to ensure decent wages aiming at integrating young people, long-term unemployed people and disadvantaged people into the labour market; calls in this respect upon the Council and the Commission to take into account Parliament's resolution of 29 November 2007 on Common Principles of Flexicurity;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that social and employment policies should actively motivate people to look for job opportunities or start their own entrepreneurial activity while also mitigating income loss and providing opportunities for education that will help them switch to other jobs;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Suggests to social partners that they could discuss new methodologies for wage policies which could include higher incorporation of companies' proceeds in employees' earnings through the use of schemes that mitigate the impact of inflation; considers that such schemes could allow for channelling employees' extra earnings to special capital funds created by companies; calls for a debate regarding incentives forways of encouraging companies to engage in those methodologies, and furthermore calls for a debate regarding a legal framework that regulates the access of employees to those funds in a gradual way over time;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to launch a debate on how those not in full-time employment (temporary workers, part- time workers, workers on fixed-term contracts) can be brought into the social dialogue, from which they are currently excluded;