8 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2015/2097(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the target of a 75 % employment rate set in the Europe 2020 strategy has already been met for men and is unlikely to be achieved for women (currently at 63.5 %) by 2020 should there be no large-scale improvements in the provision of measures to support women’s labour market participation, predominantly through policy packages equalising the workload related to family and domestic activities, and the care of children and other dependants, between men and women;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, according to Eurostat data for 2010 (EU28), out of around 3 500 000 parents taking parental leave that year, 3 423 700 were women, while only 94 800 - a paltry 2.7% - were men;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the differences in men’s and women’s uptake of maternity, paternity, or parental leave amount to manifest gender discrimination as regards childcare and female labour market participation;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the social partners, on the basis of the draft implementation report, to acknowledge the failure of the EU directive on parental leave in achieving its objectives in terms of work-life balance, female labour market participation, demographic challenges and men’s share of family tasks, including the care of children and other dependants, a failure which contravenes EU principles and values regarding gender equality;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission to consider encompassing maternity, paternity, and parental leave within a single directive, given that these types of leave all stem from the same reasons, namely the birth or adoption of a child and the need for parents to look after their children in the proper way;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that family-related policy instruments such as parental leave should be designed as individual, non-transferable entitlements in order both to comply with the cardinal principle of welfare entitlements, namely that they are granted on an individual basis, as is the case with all other work-related benefits, such as entitlement to holidays, sick leave, or leave on other grounds, and with unemployment benefits, and to improve their efficiency and take-up rates, especially among men, ultimately leading to a more equitable position of men and women in the labour market and minimising the discriminatory effects that prolonged periods of labour market inactivity have on women who take up maternity and parental leave; urges the Commission and the Member States to establish a standard leave entitlement of the same duration for each parent, which should be absolutely non-transferable and non entail any loss of pay; emphasises the need for a balanced distribution of non- transferable parts of the parental leave between both parents; calls in that respect for the minimum 4-month entitlement to be extended to 6 months;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to consider whether it might be possible in future for maternity, paternity, and parental leave all to be paid at the same rate, proceeding, by way of a starting point, from the provisions of Directive 92/85/EEC concerning maternity leave;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Deplores the fact that the Council has proved incapable of reaching an agreement to break the deadlock over the proposed amendment of the Maternity Leave Directive and that, five years after it was approved by Parliament, the Commission has decided to withdraw the proposal; urges the Commission to submit its road map as soon as possible in order to make a ‘New start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families’, a document which, according to the Commission’s intention, is to replace the above-mentioned proposal revising the Maternity Leave Directive and will comprise a package of legislative and non-legislative measures related to work-life balance; maintains that this is an area in which the Commission has to submit legislative proposals;