Activities of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2016/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A European Pillar of Social Rights (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Pillar of Social Rights PDF (513 KB) DOC (93 KB)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to the Council of Europe’s European Code of Social Security and its Protocol, a core European minimum harmonisation instrument for social security systems, providing minimum standards and permitting the contracting parties to exceed these standards,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
– having regard to the Revised European Code of Social Security which foresees higher minimum standards than its predecessor and has so far only been ratified by the Netherlands and needs a second ratification to enter into force,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)
Citation 4 c (new)
– having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by the European Union on 23 December 2010,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Court judgement in the Joined Cases C 8/15 P to C 10/15 P of 20 September 2016 which strengthens the fundamental rights of citizens vis a vis the Commission and the European Central bank in connection with the adoption of Memoranda of Understanding on behalf of the ESM,
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas the EU committed itself to building a barrier-free Europe for the estimated 80 million people with disabilities in the EU; whereas poverty reduction and employment targets will not be reached if the applied measures do not fully include people with disabilities;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 1
Paragraph 4 1
1. Calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the revised European Social Charter and the European Convention on Social Security (ETS No. 78); Calls on the Commission to examine the steps necessary for an accession of the European Union to the revised Charter and to propose a time-line for this objective;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Calls for decisive steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for self-employed, outsourced and subcontracted workers in de-facto dependent work relationships, and for work intermediated by digital platforms; underlines that open- ended contracts should remain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directive on fair working conditions to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured in more precarious forms of employment, in particular:
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of collective rights as fundamental rights enshrined, inter alia, in article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; expects the Commission to step up concrete support for strengthening social dialogue in Member States and sectors where it is weak owing to the prolonged crisis or the prevalence of non-standard forms of employment;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Agrees with the importance of universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all workerresidents must be covered by health insurance;
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is aware that rising life expectancy and workforce shrinking pose a challenge to the sustainability of pensions systems and to intergenerational fairness; reaffirms that the best response is to increase the overall employment rate; considers that pensionable ages should reflect, besides life expectancy, other factors including labour market trends, productivity growth, immigration, the economic dependency ratio, the birth rate and differences in job arduousness;
Amendment 516 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that all workers should be covered by insurance against involuntary unemployment or part-time employment, coupled with job-search assistance and investment in (re)-training; calls for the development of a set of principles for upward convergence of unemployment benefits within the EU with a qualitative and quantitative framework, as recommended by the ILO*; __________________ *Building a Social Pillar for European Convergence, ILO 2016
Amendment 546 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a European framework for minimum income schemes, setting minimum standards for poverty proof individual income in all Member States of at least 60 percent of the national median equivalised income, which at the same time precludes material deprivation as defined in the EU-SILC indicator; highlights the importance of such schemes for maintaining human dignity as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to undertake training and/or look for work;
Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees that all pInsists that the rights of people with disabilities should be mainstreamed throughout the Social Pillar with a human rights-based approach in line with the EU's and its Member States' obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with dDisabilities must be ensured enabling services and basic income security allowing them a decent standard of living and social inclusion; (CRPD); The provisions should at least include: • The right to decent and barrier-free work in fully inclusive, open and accessible work environments and labour markets; • Services and basic income security adapted to specific individual needs, allowing a decent standard of living and social inclusion; • Guaranteeing free movement and the transferability of services across EU Member States; • Inclusive education and training, including provisions for adequate digital literacy; • Specific provisions on the protection from exploitation and forced labour of persons with disabilities, particularly among persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities or persons deprived of their legal capacity; • The direct involvement and consultation of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in the implementation of the Social Pillar at the European and national level;
Amendment 637 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for legislation ensuring fairuniversal access for all to good-quality and affordable social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e-communications, energy, transport and financial services; highlights the role of social enterprises; Calls for legislation eliminating existing legal uncertainties experienced by public authorities by better defining and recognising the specific character of social services of general interest (based, inter alia, on court judgements as in the case C-113/13 of 11 December 2014) in order to avoid a race to the bottom in social service standards and prevent the increasing domination of profit-making interests;
Amendment 862 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
26. Considers that the objective of upward social convergence should be underpinned by a set of targetbinding social targets, underpinned by financial incentives, building on the Europe 2020 strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals and serving to guide the coordination of economic, employment and social policies in the EU; believes that these social targets could also form part of the Convergence Code currently being discussed for the euro area, and could be based on the following indicators which are directly affected by public policies:
Amendment 922 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 26 – point j a (new)
ja. the income quintile share ratio;
Amendment 926 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point j b (new)
Paragraph 26 – point j b (new)
jb. Calls for the recognition of energy poverty as a specific social risk and for the development of a framework for minimum standards in this respect as part of the Social Pillar, including the development of a shared set of indicators to evaluate the situation in the Member States and a commitment for the universal basic provision of energy needed for a decent living and protection from power cuts for vulnerable individuals;
Amendment 961 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for a ‘silver rule’ on social investment to be applied when implementing the Stability and Growth Pact, namely to consider certain public social investments having a clear positive impact on economic growth (e.g. childcare or education and training) as being eligible for favourable treatment when assessing government deficits and compliance with the 1/20 debt rule; calls on the Commission to actively support Member States to apply the rule; Calls, in the medium-term, for a 'golden rule' for public expenditure on social protection which takes further areas of the social security systems into consideration, such as minimum income benefits, unemployment benefits, pensions, disability benefits, social housing and healthcare;
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Highlights that today’s phenomena of capital-intensive production, high rates of inequality and the continuing rise in ’atypical’ work imply a need to increase the role of general tax revenue in cofinancing social insurance schemes in order to provide decent social protection for all; Highlights, in this context, the urgent necessity to effectively prevent tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax dumping;