18 Amendments of David CASA related to 2015/2147(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that whilst it is impossible to hold back the digital revolution, Welcomes the Commission's Digital Single Market Strategy; stresses the opportunities for innovation and prosperity is possible to shape its courset offers, particularly as greatest job growth is expected in the areas requiring digital literacy;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that employment and social policy need to keep pace with the digitalisation of socithe labour markety;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to undertake a thorough assessment of the impact which digitalisation will have on the number and types of jobs available and to gather information on new forms of employment, such as crowdsourcing and crowdworking; and on the effects of new forms of employment on working and family life;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that as job and skills profiles become more complex, newchange, ever-changing demands are being placed on training and further education; points out that further training should be job-related and in the common interest of workers and employers; emphasises the importance of social dialogue in efforts to bring course content up to date and develop skills strategies;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to adapt educational systems not to the needs of the labour market but rather to promoting teaching and interest in mathematics, IT, science and technology in all educational institutions and to provide incentives for women to work in the field of ICT; calls on the Member States to harmonise digital skills, job profiles and training Europe-wide and to recognise digital skills that are often acquired outside formal training;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Commission, inter alia, to use appropriations from the Youth Employment Initiative to support associations (grassroots movements) which teach disadvantaged young people digital skills; calls on Member States to provide support by making premises available;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on Member States to make appropriations available to employers from all possible funds in order to invest more in the digital training off their less qualified staff or to recruit low-qualified staff with a promise of further training financed from these sources;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Calls on the Commission and Member States, jointly with private industry, to develop free, freely accessible, standardised and certified on-line training courses in order to teach participants a minimum of digital skills;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Encourages Member States to make these on-line courses an integral part of the Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the establishment of the Europe-wide grand coalition for digital jobs, and encourages businesses to join; calls on the Commission and Member States to facilitate suitable instruments for active participation by SMEs in this coalition; draws attention to the necessary role of private industry in overcoming the shortage of education in digital skills, and notes the vital role of dual training in this context; welcomes the Commission’s e- skills campaign and calls on all participants to further develop these jointly with educational establishments and undertakings;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the digitalisation-driven trend towards more flexible working practices may also give rise to precarious forms of employment to which current standards as regards social security, working time, working location, worker participation and employment protection no longer apply; calls for self-employed persons with quasi-employee status to be placed on an equal footing with employed persons under employment law can also take account of the desire for more flexible working arrangements and better reconciliation of family life and work; stresses that existing protection standards in the workplace are also maintained in the digital world of work; observes that the principle of codetermination must be preserved; notes that self-employed persons can themselves choose when and where to work, as well as who to accept work from;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that freedom of association must apply in the context of new forms of employmentcompany-level agreements are an important instrument for dealing with changing requirements within firms; stresses the importance of freedom of association as a fundamental right enshrined in national legislation;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the need to develop employee data protection measures which cover new forms of data collection (relations between humans and robots); stresses that new relations between humans and robots also provide opportunities for removing burdens and providing backing for the inclusion of older and physically or mentally impaired workers;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to suggest ways of enhancing social security for self- employed persons in need of protection, in order to safeguard the effectiveness of existing national systems; stresses the central role of the social partners in shaping an increasingly digitalised world of work; calls on both national and European social partners to monitor and support, in line with their 2015-2017 work programme, digitalisation and its impact on work.
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes Commission action to improve price transparency and regulatory oversight over cross-border parcel deliveries, but stresses that, as a result, there must be no adverse consequences for worker health and safety in that sector and jobs must not be relocated outside the EU.
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission to arrange for a study to be produced on the spillover effects of digitalisation, such as greater labour intensity, on workers' psychological wellbeing and family life and on the development of cognitive abilities in children.