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Proposal for a decision
Article 2 a (new)

Article 2a The European Commission shall present annual progress reports to the European Parliament and to the Council in order to monitor and assess the extent to which the EU headline targets have been met by the Member States as set out in the Annex. The European Commission shall elaborate impact studies at mid-term review (for the periods 2010 – 2014 and after 2014) including the comparative performance analysis in order to evaluate the extent to which of the EU guideline targets have been met. The European Commission shall initiate the infringement procedures for non- compliant Member States.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)

In order to improve women’s and young people’s access to the labour market, conditions should be created for adequate childcare facilities by aiming to ensure 50% of necessary care for 0-3 year-old children and 100% of care for 3-6 year- old children.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Member States have to take into account that labour demand should be raised through macroeconomic policies for sustainable growth, as well as through innovation and regional policies to strengthen investment and job creation. More jobs need to be created in order to develop a greener, smarter, decent and more inclusive economy. Social partners and employers should be given a more prominent role in identifying current labour market opportunities as well as increasing productivity and quality of work. The Member States should increase the employment rate through activation measures, in particular for ethnic minorities, including Roma. Member States should increase labour force participation through policies to promote gender equality and equal pay, aiming to reduce the gender pay gap to 0- 5% by 2020. Member States should develop the appropriate programmes in order to support the single parent families, focusing on children's conditions. Member States should ensure that young people up to 25 who have been unemployed for three months are offered a place in either employment or education. Fiscal incentives, youth employment requirements in public procurement and a youth employment pact between governments and social partners and employers must ensure greater access for young people in the labour market. The Member States should take strong measures in order to discourage the black and grey economy field by "unregulated" labour force which produce more negative effects on the EU labour market, rather than just promoting measures aimed at protecting their internal labour force; the Member States should evaluate the effects of a decision leading to a complete opening of the labour market to all the EU citizens. National and European micro credit facilities must have specific programmes targeting young people and women that offer a minimum income in the first year after opening the business in order to make entrepreneurship a real option. Employment centres must offer personalised skills training as well as access to high speed internet to job seekers in order to optimally facilitate the job search. The number of working poor should be reduced by ensuring a minimum wage, agreed by law or through collective bargaining and non-discrimination regarding social protection. Member States shall take into account the principle that that the balance between work and private life has to be improved, where necessary by tightening legal standards in order to increase the protection from precarious work. Member States should reduce the rate of undeclared work through a harmonised system by incentives, tax increases and fines. Unemployment insurance schemes should be evolved toward employment insurance schemes, by ensuring a job, re-training or a socially useful activity to each unemployed person. Every person who becomes unemployed should be offered a new start in a reasonable period of time. In the case of young people this period should be short, at most four months and for more experienced people at most 12 months.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
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 and labour market integration of young people, and women aged up 45 years of age, ethnic minorities, including Roma, 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. Member States should also remove barriers to labour market entry for newcomers, support self-employment and job creation in areas including green employment and care and promote social innovation.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Efficient lifelong learning strategies open to all in schools, businesses and public authorities should be promoted, including appropriate incentives and cost-sharing mechanism with a view to enhancing participation in continuous and workplace training throughout the life- cycle, especially for the low-skilled and older workers. Member States should develop individual career plans to provide trainings for people looking for a job. A fair transition to green jobs should be ensured, allowing for a smooth transition to green sectors by re-training of workers, supported at national and regional levels. All human resources, skills and knowledge should be made use of by giving women equal opportunities in ongoing training and life-long learning.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1 b (new)

The Commission should incorporate a ninth key competence relating to the environment, climate change and sustainable development – which is essential in a knowledge society – into the framework for lifelong learning.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Member States should encourage scientific research activities of young people by offering research grants and international mobility within the programmes financed by the European Social Funds.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

Rovana PLUMB

Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Social protection systems, including pensions and healthcare, should be strengthened and modernised, ensuring their social adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, while providing everyone in Europe with adequate protection from social insecurities, such as health problems, unemployment and poverty. Social protection of short-term contracts, which especially affect women, and pregnant women in particular, should be improved by Member States.

2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL

8 Amendments of Rovana PLUMB related to 2010/0115(NLE)

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