11 Amendments of Ole CHRISTENSEN related to 2013/2045(INI)
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the crisis has led to a rise in precarious forms of employment for young people, with short-term and part- time contracts and unremunerated work placement schemes all too often replacing existing jobs; recognises that austerity policies have had a dramatic negative effect on employment and led to an increase in unemployment, particularly for young people;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that special attention should be paid to vulnerable groups at high risk of social exclusion, including people who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs),
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including training and education providers, individual employers, public and private employment services, social partners, youth organisations, third-sector organisations, and health and other authorities, is essential for the successful implementation of a variety of measures fostering youth employment and employability in an integrated fashion; emphasises that measures must be flexible so as to meet the continuously evolving needs on the labour market;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the decision of the EPSCO Council on 28 February 2013 to agree on a Council recommendation on implementing a Youth Guarantee; recommends extending eligibility to graduates aged under 30; stresses that the success of this measure will be highly dependent on other factors, e.g. the infrastructure and capacity of public and strengthened private employment services, the availability of student places, the provision of training and, apprenticeships, and the transferability and implementation of successful experiences from other Member States and adequate follow-up through the National Reform Programme of each Member State so that monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement of the guarantee is possible; stresses that the Youth Guarantee must be integrated within the broader framework of active labour market policies while ensuring high quality standards, including appropriate pay, working conditions and health and safety standards;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to draw up further specific outreach strategies targeted on NEETs, which should combine effective forms of intervention aimed at tackling early school-leaving and the reintegration of early school-leavers with strategies facilitating a smooth transition from education to work, and an increase in the employability of young people, together with the removal of the practical and logistical barriers faced by young people with more complex needs; emphasises the good experiences from countries with VET-systems in improving the education-to-work transition; stresses that best practice should guide Member States which do not yet have VET-systems in place;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages Member States to explore the great potential of using public expenditure to support youth employment, for example by introducing youth employment criteria such as quota for young workers or the provision of apprenticeships. Encourages the Commission to publish guidelines on youth employment criteria in the field of public procurement and state aid;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for an ambitious holistic policy approach which looks at education, training, employment and self-employment initiatives, for all young people at all the various levels, in an integrated way; highlights that youth unemployment is linked to a general lack of economic growth in the EU; stresses therefore the urgent need to prioritise a job-friendly growth that will benefit young people as well, and to address structural barriers for young peoples' entry into the labour market;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the European Commission to put forward a proposal for a European Youth Corps program with the purpose of giving young people under the age of 30 across Europe the possibility to do voluntary work in another Member State than their own for up to three months; notes that the idea of the European Youth Corps is to give young people the chance to use and upgrade their educational and social skills and increase young people's knowledge of another Member State and to promote friendship and integration across the EU; emphasises that work done by members of the Youth Corps must be voluntary and non-paid and may not replace existing jobs in the visited country; believes that a European Youth Corps should be conceived as a public- private partnership with the aim of setting up a program where young people can receive an individual grant which covers travel and living expenses for a maximum period of up to three months;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to ensure high-quality frameworks for traineeships, backed up by financial support and mandatory monitoring, as well as a common quality standard for traineeships and work placements including criteria for appropriate pay, working conditions and health and safety regardless of the length of the traineeship or the work placement; stresses that active promotion and awareness-raising in respect of such programmes is needed among entrepreneurs;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that the Alliance for Apprenticeship should also support European and national campaigns for changing perceptions of vocational education, and should organise a regular forum for discussions on the monitoring of the European apprenticeship strategy with all relevant European and national stakeholders; stresses that incentives should also be provided to facilitate funding for crossborder training activities enabling companies and social partner organisations to become involved in establishing dual education systems; calls on the Commission to come forward with a legislative proposal for an Alliance for Apprenticeship and a Quality Framework for Traineeships including a definition of high-quality traineeships with criteria for appropriate pay, working conditions and health and safety standards regardless of the length of the traineeship;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. CallsIdentifies the education-to-work transition as an especially important moment for young people; calls therefore on the Member States to develop personalised career counselling and guidance, starting already during secondary school, with the aim of enabling young people to make well-informed choices about their higher education, while introducing mechanisms that can monitor the opportunities offered and assess the success rate of those young people's subsequent transition to work;