11 Amendments of Max ORVILLE related to 2023/2586(RSP)
Amendment 21 #
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas according to the OECD the risk of downward mobility among lower middle-income households has risen in the last two decades and is expected to continue;1a __________________ 1a OECD (2018), A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264301085 -en.
Amendment 24 #
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the social economy is a key driver for the implementation of the EPSR and can actively contribute to achieving the headline targets by 2030;
Amendment 46 #
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Council to take measures to mitigate the impact of the cost of living criseis on Member State labour markets in order to keep employment rates high; calls therefore on the Commission, the Member States and EU social partners to commit to reaching collective bargaining coverage of at least 80 % by 2030, with a view to improving living and working conditions in the EU, which will contribute to and boosting the uptake of upskilling and reskilling programmes, which will contribute to well-being at work, increased labour force’s competitiveness, upward social convergence and, reduceing in-work poverty, social exclusion and wage inequality and limiting the problem of brain drain affecting many regions across the EU;
Amendment 92 #
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to consider a directive on adequate minimum income in order to ensure the reintegration of people absent from the labour market, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, the specificities of national social protection systems and the competences of the Member States; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to presenting a proposal, by the end of 2023, on the creation of an EU disability card to be recognised in all Member States; welcomes the ongoing negotiations of the social partners on the right to disconnect, with a view to putting forward a legally binding agreement implemented via a directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal for a European social security pass to provide national authorities, such as labour and social security inspectorates, and social partners involved in labour and social security inspections with a real-time instrument to effectively enforce national and EU law, limit unfair competition and promote fair labour mobility across the EU;
Amendment 95 #
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to use social innovation as a key driver for addressing socio- economic challenges, not least by boosting the support to social entrepreneurs and further promoting the social economy sector and urges them to take into account the recommendations of its Resolution on the EU action plan for the social economy1 in the upcoming Council Recommendation on developing a social economy framework; _____________________ 1 P9_TA(2022)0288
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that principle 11 on childcare and support to children requires further action; urgently reminds the Commission and the Member States about Parliament’s repeated call to urgently allocate more funding to the European Child Guarantee, with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion; to break the generational cycle of poverty and boost social mobility; believes that all children under the age of 3 should have access to affordable, quality, full-day early childhood education and care services to foster early childhood development; welcomes the High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU’s recommendation for Member States to provide capacitating services for vulnerable families with children to prevent child poverty6a; urgently reminds the Commission and the Member States of their commitment to reduce child poverty by at least 5 million compared to 2019 and of Parliament’s repeated call to urgently allocate more funding to the European Child Guarantee, with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion; calls on all Member States to ensure that their national action plans are effectively implemented and respond to the key principles of the Council Recommendation 2021/1004 establishing a European Child Guarantee; __________________ 6a High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, final report, January 2023, European Commission.
Amendment 103 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines that Member States should continue the roll-out of the reinforced Youth Guarantee and should provide an adequate allowance for youth from low-income families that enables them to continue their training and studies after compulsory schooling;7a __________________ 7a High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, final report, January 2023, European Commission.
Amendment 106 #
Paragraph 8
8. Warns that, for the correct implementation of principle 12, adequate social protection needs to be expanded in order to covertake account of the risks associated with the unequal impact of climate change and environmental degradation on different income groups, as well as the social consequences of the transformation of our societies towards climate neutrality; calls on the Commission and Member States to propose an European Action Plan for Social Protection that will take into account the risks of social exclusion due to climate change and environmental decline and that will contain concrete proposals for mitigating the green wave and social and labour transformation ensuing from it, leaving no-one behind and protecting those who are more vulnerable from these changes or who live in regions that are most at risk; calls on the Member States to build upon the Social Climate Fund and lay the foundations for the development of green social protection schemes at national level with EU support;
Amendment 115 #
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that, according to principle 19, access to social housing or housing assistance of good quality should be provided for those in need; urges the Commission to develop an ambitious action plan to achieve accessible and green social housing to meet the housing needs of all EU citizens, to put an end to energy poverty and to progressively eradicate homelessness by 2030; reiterates its call to adopt a Housing First principle to foster access to housing, and notes that said housing should be based on ‘universal design’ principles to ensure accessibility;
Amendment 156 #
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that, in order to make a fair and social Europe a reality and to ensure the highest levels of social protection in the green and digital transitions, it is necessary to ensure a sustainable, fair and inclusive Europe where social rights are fully protected and safeguarded to at least the same level as economic and environmental standards; stresses the need to take steps to reinforce the role of the EPSR to ensure the equal treatment of at social aspects are put on an equal footing withe economic, and environmental and social standardones and to ensure that social standards and social rights in Europe are placed at the centre of the EU’s forthcoming political practiccies and that social convergence is one of the EU’s top political priorities; notes that, consequently, social investment, including investment in human capital, will be needed for the implementation of the EPSR in upcoming funding initiatives and the revision of the multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 161 #
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to present a governance framework to anticipate and manage changes related to the green and digital transitions in the world of work, focusing first on the importance of safeguarding jobaccompanying workers through labour market transformations, especially in the event of job losses, including access to adequate training, and second, on the involvement of social partners in decision- making processes; reiterates its call on the Commission to propose a directive to regulate teleworking conditions across the EU and ensure decent working and employment conditions ;