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15 Amendments of Françoise CASTEX related to 2010/2027(INI)

Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, according to the Commission’s estimates, demographic changes could profoundly change population structure and the age pyramid; whereas, for example, the number of young people aged 0 to 14 would drop from 100 million (1975 index) to 66 million in 2050, the working population would peak at 331 million in about 2010 and thereafter decrease steadily (to about 268 million in 2050), while, with life expectancy rising by 6 years for men and 5 years for women between 2004 and 2050, the number of people over 80 would rise from 4.1% in 2005 to 11.4% in 2050,
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that demographic change faces the European Union with the challenge of managing human resources, which calls for a proactive policy aiming at full employment;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that career and training security should be fully guaranteed; everyone should be able to have a full and uninterrupted working life, entitling them to a full-rate pension;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that lifelong learning must be a central aim in all education-related measures and that it is something for which all generations carry, the public authorities and businesses bear a responsibility;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Is convinced that optimal management of human resources in the form of initial and lifelong training is the responsibility of economic stakeholders, including occupational groups, who must anticipate their employment and training needs;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Recalls that, in order to be of the greatest possible benefit to employees, lifelong learning must be attested by diplomas and certificates; recalls the need to make the practice of validating prior achievements the norm;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point i
i) increasing the proportion of the workforce, of both sexes, aged over 50 in paid employment to 55%achieving full employment among the population aged over 50 up to the legal retirement age,
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point iv
iv) developing incentives for workers over the age of 60 to remain available for work and for companies to recruit such workers;deleted
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Suggests to the social partners, employers and the Member States that they guarantee workers aged over 50 the possibility of being promoted until the end of their careers;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 8
Work without frontiersGuaranteeing a decent pension’ initiative
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Is convinced that it must be up to the workers concerned to decide for how long they wish to remain in work beyond national retirement agthe right to retire is a right that any employee is entitled to claim after the legal retirement age set by each Member State, in consultation with the social partners, in accordance with national practices;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses the vast disparity between men and women in terms of the average level of their pensions, which is explained by the fact that women interrupt their careers to care for children and elderly relatives; calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure that interruptions of work in the form of maternity or parental leave are no longer penalised in calculating pension rights; encourages the Member States to envisage pension bonuses based on the number of children raised and to recognise the role played by carers of all kinds in society;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to conduct a review of activities related to healthy ageing and to present an action plan in 2011 for enhancing older people’s dignity, health and quality of lifeand the Member States to conduct by 2012, in conjunction with the social partners, a review of the nature of the physical demands associated with work in all trades and professions, and to set upper retirement ages for each of them in the light of the outcomes;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Council and the Member States to take rapid measures to guarantee decent pensions for all, which must not in any circumstances lie below the poverty level;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls on the Member States to assist regions of net emigration by guaranteeing a high level of SGIs (e.g. education including pre-school and child care, welfare and health services, postal services) and accessibility (e.g. of public transport, transport infrastructures and telecommunications networks) and to safeguard economic participation and skills (e.g. through training including methods of lifelong learning and use of and investment in new technologies); calls for the practical framework for fulfilment of these tasks to be adapted to local needs and local actors and to improve their adaptability; draws particular attention to the situation of islands, border areas, mountainous regions and other areas remote from centres of population;
2010/06/15
Committee: EMPL