5 Amendments of Antonyia PARVANOVA related to 2010/0115(NLE)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex - Guideline 7 - paragraph 2
Annex - Guideline 7 - paragraph 2
Member States should step up social dialogue and tackle labour market segmentation with measures addressing temporary and precarious employment, underemployment and undeclared work. Professional mobility should be rewarded. The quality of jobs and employment conditions should be addressed by fighting low-wages and by ensuring adequate social security also for those on fixed contracts and the self-employed. Employment services should be strengthened and open to all, including women and young people and those threatened by unemployment with personalised services targeting those furthest away from the labour market. Member States should change working patterns and conditions for women in order to strengthen their labour-market position and to ensure their social protection and other entitlements accorded to women, including those who are self-employed.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex -Guideline 7 - paragraph 3
Annex -Guideline 7 - paragraph 3
In order to increase competitiveness and raise participation levels, particularly for the low-skilled, and in line with economic policy guideline 2, Member States should review tax and benefit systems and the capacity of public services to provide the necessary support. Member States should increase labour force participation through policies to promote active ageing, gender equality and equal pay, access to social and work-related protection and benefits for women and labour market integration of young people, disabled, legal migrants and other vulnerable groups. Work-life balance policies with the provision of affordable care and innovation in work organisation should be geared to raising employment rates, particularly among youth, older workers and women, in particular to retain highly-skilled women in scientific and technical fields. In order to ensure progress in equality policies Member States should also remove barriers to labour market entry for newcomers and women, support self-employment and job creation in areas including green employment, which is also a precondition for better-paid, high-skilled and rewarding jobs for women, and care and promote social innovation.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex - Guideline 8 - paragraph 2
Annex - Guideline 8 - paragraph 2
In cooperation with social partners and business, Member States should improve access to training, strengthen education and career guidance combined with systematic information on new job openings and increased opportunities, promotion of entrepreneurship for women in the new-technologies sector, promotion of women's participation in SMEs and enhanced anticipation of skill needs. Investment in human resource development, up-skilling and participation in lifelong learning schemes should be promoted through joint financial contributions from governments, individuals and employers. To support young people and in particular those not in employment, education or training, Member States in cooperation with the social partners, should enact schemes to help recent graduates find initial employment or further education and training opportunities, including apprenticeships, and intervene rapidly when young people become unemployed. Regular monitoring of the performance of up-skilling and anticipation policies should help identify areas for improvement and increase the responsiveness of education and training systems to labour market needs. EU funds should be fully mobilised by Member States to support these objectives.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex - Guideline 9 - paragraph 1
Annex - Guideline 9 - paragraph 1
In order to ensure integration of gender equality principles in education and training programmes through access to quality education and training for all and to improve educational outcomes, Member States should invest efficiently in education and training systems notably to raise the skill level of the EU's workforce, allowing it to meet the rapidly changing needs of modern labour markets. Action should cover all sectors (from early childhood education and schools through to higher education, vocational education and training, as well as adult training) taking also into account learning in informal and non-formal contexts. Reforms should aim to ensure the acquisition of the key competencies that every individual needs for success in a knowledge-based economy, notably in terms of employability, further learning, or ICT skills. Steps should be taken to ensure learning mobility of young people and teachers becomes the norm. Member States should improve the openness and relevance of education and training systems, particularly by implementing national qualification frameworks enabling flexible learning pathways and by developing partnerships between the worlds of education/training and work. The teaching profession should be made more attractive. Higher education should become more open to non-traditional learners and participation in tertiary or equivalent education should be increased. With a view to reducing the number of young people not in employment, education, or training, Member States should take all necessary steps to prevent early school leaving.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex - Guideline 10 - paragraph 1
Annex - Guideline 10 - paragraph 1
In the context of the multidimensional nature of poverty and social exclusion, Member States’ efforts to reduce poverty should be aimed at promoting full participation in society and economy and extending employment opportunities for all, making full use of the European Social Fund. Efforts should also concentrate on ensuring equal opportunities, and equal participation in the labour market for women, including through access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services and public services (including online services, in line with guideline 4) and in particular health care. Member States should put in place effective anti- discrimination measures and integrate a gender perspective in order to protect groups at risk and to ensure their inclusion into the labour market. Equally, to fight social exclusion, empower people and promote labour market participation, social protection systems, lifelong learning and active inclusion policies should be enhanced to create opportunities at different stages of people’s lives and shield them from the risk of exclusion. Social security and pension systems must be modernised to ensure that they can be fully deployed to ensure adequate income support and access to healthcare — thus providing social cohesion — whilst at the same time remaining financially sustainable. Benefit systems should focus on ensuring income security during transitions and reducing poverty, in particular among groups most at risk from social exclusion in the context of gender equality, such as one- parent families, minorities, people with disabilities, children and young people, elderly women and men, legal migrants and the homeless. Member States should also actively promote the social economy and social innovation in support of the most vulnerable, while making economic and social policies that are more gender- aware.