10 Amendments of Tatjana ŽDANOKA related to 2017/0305(NLE)
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Member States and the Union should also address the social legacy of the economic and financial crisis and aim to build an inclusive and socially just society in which people are empowered to anticipate and manage change, and can actively participate in society and the economy, as also outlined in the Commission recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market6 . Inequality should be tackled, non-discriminatory access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion (including of children) reduceradicated, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and adequate social protection systems and by removing barriers to education/ training and labour- market participation. As new economic and business models take hold in EU workplaces, employment relationships are also changing. Member States should ensure that new employment relationships maintain and strengthen Europe’s social model. _________________ 6 by ensuring that people in emerging forms of work are covered and protected by employment regulations. _________________ 6 COM/2008/0639 final COM/2008/0639 final
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 1
Member States should facilitate and invest in the creation of quality jobs, including by reducing the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, by promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment and, in particular, by supporting the creation and growth of micro and small enterprisessustainable and quality jobs across skill levels, labour market sectors and regions, including by fully developing the potential of future oriented sectors, such as the green and circular economy, the care sector and the digital sector. Member States should reduce difficulties for people in balancing work and private life, ensure that all work places are adapted for persons with disabilities and older workers, and reduce unjustified barriers that businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises, face in hiring people. Member States should actively promote the social economy and foster social innovation.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 2
Member States should encourage innovative forms of work, which create high-quality job opportunities for all in a responsible manner, while ensuring full compliance with Union Law, national employment laws and practice as well as with industrial relation systems.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 2
Member States should foster equal opportunities in education, including early childhood education, and raise overall education levels, particularly for the least qualified and learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. They should ensure quality learning outcomes, reinforce basic skills, reduce the number of young people leaving school early, enhance the labour-market relevance of tertiary degrees, improve skills monitoring and forecasting, and increase adult participation in continuing education and training, including through policies that provide for educational and training leave, as well as in-work vocational training and life-long learning. Member States should strengthen work- based learning in their vocational education and training systems, including through quality and effective apprenticeships, make skills more visible and comparable and increase opportunities for recognising and validating skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training. They should upgrade and increase the supply and take-up of flexible continuing vocational training. Member States should also target support for low skilled adults to maintain or develop their long term employability by boosting access to and take up of quality learning opportunities, through the establishment of Upskilling Pathways, including a skills assessment, a matchingn offer of education and training matching labour market opportunities and the validation and recognition of the skills acquired.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 4
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 4
Tax reforms to shift taxes away from labour should aim to remove unjustified barriers and disprovide incentives to participation in the labour market, in particular for those furthest away from the labour market, while ensuring that tax shifts do not jeopardise the sustainability of the welfare state. Member States should support an adapted work environment for people with disabilities and older workers, including targeted financial support actions and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. as a whole.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 2
Policies should aim to improve and support labour-market matching and transitions so that workers are able to progress in their careers. Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market through individual support and integrated services within a broader active inclusion approach. Member States should strengthen the effectiveness of active labour-market policies by increasing their funding, targeting, outreach, coverage and better linking them with income support, based on the rights and responsibilities for the unemployed actively to seek workensuring adequate income support for the unemployed while actively seeking work. This includes working with the social partners and other relevant stakeholders, including civil society organisations, to increase the effectiveness and accountability of these policies. Member States should aim for more effective and quality public employment services by ensuring timely and tailor-made assistance to support jobseekers, supporting labour- market demand and implementing performance-based management.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 4
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 4
The mobility of learners and workers should be promotedensured as a fundamental right and as a matter of free choice with the aim of enhancing employability skills and exploiting the full potential of the European labour market. Barriers to mobility in education and training, in occupational and personal pensions, in access to social protection and in the recognition of qualifications should be removed. Mobile workers should be supported including by improving their access to and awareness of rights at work. Member States should take action to ensure that administrative procedures are not a blocking or complicating factor for workers from other Member States in taking up active employment. Member States should also prevent abuses of the existing rules and address potential ‘brain drain’ from certain regions. They should do so by increasing and supporting investment in sectors that have a real potential of generating high-quality employment opportunities such as the green and circular economy or the digital and care sectors.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 5
In line with national practices and with the partnership principles, and in order to achieve more effective social and civil dialogue and better socio-economic outcomes, Member States should ensure the timely and meaningful involvement of social partners and civil society organisations in the design and, implementation and evaluation of economic, employment and social reforms and policies and at all stages of the process, including by providing support for increased capacity of social partners and civil society organisations. Such involvement has to go beyond the mere consultation of stakeholders. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, respecting fully their autonomy and the right to collective action. Workers in atypical contracts and self-employed workers should also be supported in their right to organise and to bargain collectively.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 1
Member States should promote inclusive labour markets, open to all, by putting in place effective measures to promote equal opportunities for under-represented groups in the labour market. They should ensure equal treatment regarding employment, social protection, education and access to goods and services, regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, in cooperation with local and regional authorities, should put in place effective measures to fight all forms of discrimination and to promote equal opportunities for all people to participate in society. Such measures should include those promoting inclusive labour markets, open to all, including through measures that counter discrimination in access to and on the labour market, to support those who are currently discriminated or under- represented. They should ensure equal treatment regarding employment, social protection, education and access to goods and services, regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation or socio-economic background. To that end, particular measures to support certain people in vulnerable situations, such as migrants or ethnic minorities are necessary, and need to be backed by adequate funding to prevent any potential competition for resources between the beneficiaries concerned.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 6
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 6