6 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2007/0300(CNS)
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 2
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 2
– Improving quality and productivity at work: Efforts to raise employment rates go hand in hand with improving the attractiveness of jobs, quality at work, and labour productivity growth, and reducing segmentation, inequalities between men and women and the proportion of working poor. Synergies between quality at work, productivity and employment should be fully exploited.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 3
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 3
– Strengthening social and territorial cohesion: Determined action is needed to strengthen and reinforce social inclusion, fight poverty - especially child poverty -, prevent exclusion from the labour market, support integration in employment of women and people at a disadvantage, and to reduce regional disparities in terms of employment, unemployment and labour productivity, especially in regions lagging behind. Strengthened interaction is needed with the Open Method of Coordination in Social Protection and Social Inclusion.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – subparagraph 6 – indent 1
Annex – subparagraph 6 – indent 1
– attract and retain more people in employment, increase labour supply, reduce inequalities between men and women and modernise social protection systems;
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – section 1 – title
Annex – section 1 – title
1. Attract and retain more people in employment, increase labour supply, reduce inequalities between men and women and modernise social protection systems
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – section 1 – subparagraph 4
Annex – section 1 – subparagraph 4
Active inclusion policies can increase labour supply and strengthen society’s cohesiveness and are a powerful means of promoting the social and labour market integration of the most disadvantaged. Every person becoming unemployed must be offered a new start in a reasonable period of time. In the case of young people this period should be short, e.g. at most 4 months by 2010; for adult people at most 12 months. Policies aiming at offering active labour market measures to the long- term unemployed should be pursued, taking into consideration the participation rate benchmark of 25% in 2010. Activation should be in the form of training, retraining, work practice, a job or other employability measure, combined where appropriate with on-going job search assistance. Facilitating access to employment for job seekers, preventing unemployment and ensuring that those who become unemployed remain closely connected to the labour market and employable are essential to increase participation, and combat social exclusion. This is also in line with a flexicurity approach. Attaining these objectives requires removing barriers to the labour market by assisting with effective job searching, facilitating access to training and other active labour market measures, ensuring affordable access to basic services and providing adequate levels of minimum resources to all. This approach should, at the same time, ensure that work pays for all workers and that the principle of 'equal pay for equal work' is upheld, as well as remove unemployment, poverty and inactivity traps. Special attention should be paid to promoting the inclusion of disadvantaged people, including low- skilled workers, in the labour market, including through the expansion of social services and the social economy, as well as the development of new sources of jobs in response to collective needs. Combating discrimination, promoting access to employment for women and disabled people and integrating immigrants and minorities are particularly essential.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – section 3 – subparagraph 2
Annex – section 3 – subparagraph 2
Knowledge-based and service-based economies require different skills from traditional industries; skills which also constantly need updating in the face of technological change and innovation. Workers, if they are to remain and progress in work and be prepared for transition and changing labour markets, need to accumulate and renew skills regularly. The productivity of enterprises is dependent on building and maintaining a workforce that can adapt to change. Governments need to ensure that educational attainment levels are improved and that young people are equipped with the necessary key competences, in line with the European Youth Pact. In order to improve labour market prospects for youth, the EU should aim at an average rate of no more than 10% early school leavers; and that at least 85% of 22-year olds should have completed upper secondary education by 2010. Policies should also aim at increasing the EU average level of participation in lifelong learning to at least 12.5% of the adult working-age population (25 to 64 age group), with particular attention to be devoted to women, the disabled, immigrants, ethnic minorities and the long-term unemployed. All stakeholders should be mobilised to develop and foster a true culture of lifelong learning from the earliest age. To achieve a substantial increase in public and private investment in human resources per capita and guarantee the quality and efficiency of these investments, it is important to ensure fair and transparent sharing of costs and responsibilities between all actors and to improve the evidence base of education and training policies. Member States should make better use of the Structural Funds and the European Investment Bank for investment in education and training. To achieve these aims, Member States must implement the coherent and comprehensive lifelong learning strategies to which they have committed themselves.