10 Amendments of Rovana PLUMB related to 2010/2027(INI)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. An employment policy which takes into account the situation of older workers, implies reflecting on new ways of organising work in companies, facilitating flexible formulas progressively leading to retirement, reducing stress, improving working conditions and promoting anti- discriminatory practices with regard to recruitment and vocational training.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Promoting a culture which provides for the management of ageing in companies, both for the arrival of young people and for the departure of older workers, and tailoring its details, notably by means of possibilities for phased retirement, while taking account of the hardness of the jobs occupied and the conditions in terms of work, health and safety.
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. The European Commission should support the implementation of new initiatives promoting active, healthy and dignified ageing through the existing policy instruments and programmes of the EU.
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 16 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Giving young unemployed workers the advice, the guidance and the aid they require in order to get them back into work (or into work for the first time), and the same for students or future students, so that they can choose their career path in full knowledge of the potential job opportunities; At the same time, the exploitation of young employees from the “internship generation” must be avoided. A regulation is needed to set a legislative framework for internships. Internships must be different from a regular job, contain an educational constituent and have an element of remuneration that can take a monetary form. The regulation must define minimum compensation levels that are in line with agreed minimum incomes.
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point ii
Paragraph 17 – point ii
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point ii a (new)
Paragraph 17 – point ii a (new)
iia) In order to avoid older workers being systematically excluded from the labour market, the Member States should have a different approach to managing human resources, by introducing provisions taking into account the needs of older workers as: including progressively the reducing working hours, allowing people to work on a three-quarters time, two- thirds time or part-time basis. The EC should support the principle of progressive retirement to be introduced in a flexible way at European level through legislation, and/or by means of an agreement between the social partners, to be subsequently implemented at national and sector levels. This means that the age of the beneficiaries could vary according to their working conditions. Early retirement provisions must remain in place for certain categories of workers, notably depending on working conditions and in certain situations, following redundancies and restructuring; EU member states should establish, as concerns early retirement, the pension amount for age limit by reducing this quantum for each month of early retirement until the fulfilment of conditions required by the normal pension age.
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. The Member States should encourage companies to introduce age management strategies that will enhance their competitiveness by harnessing the experience and specific qualities of older workers.
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. The Member States should make active ageing one of the priorities for the coming years. This includes, in particular, the creation of suitable framework conditions for mobilising the potential of older persons and the development of innovative approaches for activities as well as appropriate training for supporting services´ staff; The active ageing should be regarded from the wider perspective of sustainable employability of women and men throughout the whole working life and that encouraging older workers to stay in employment requires notably the improvement of working conditions to safeguard their health and safety or the adaptation of work places to their health status and needs, fighting age and gender discrimination, updating their skills by providing appropriate access to lifelong learning and training and the review, when necessary, of tax and benefit systems to ensure that there are effective incentives for working longer; The Member States and the EC should use all the possibilities offered by the Open Method of Coordination, the Employment Strategy and other Community instruments and programmes, including the financial support of Structural Funds, especially the European Social Fund, to foster active ageing; The Member States and the EC should use existing advisory and policy committees, including the Social Protection Committee, the Employment Committee, the Economic Policy Committee, the Group of Experts on Demographic Issues, to maintain active ageing high on the EU's and Member States' policy agenda.
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Acting closer to the ground, for example by creating ‘regional’ or ‘territorial’ or ‘local’ Employment Councils, bringing together political decision-makers and social partners; 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 aiming to protect their internal labour force. Countering undeclared works by means of measures/sanctions vis-à-vis employers and/or intermediaries that really will act as a deterrent; Improving the fight against illegal labour, notably by increasing the human and other resources available to the control bodies (factory inspectorate services, labour courts, etc).
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. The Member States should focused the attention on the following issues regarding adequacy objectives, in order to ensure the financial, economic and social sustainability of pensions systems: measurement and monitoring of adequacy; the design of minimum income provisions for older people while avoiding undermining work incentives prior to retirement; conditions for qualifying for an adequate pension (contribution record criteria, career breaks, pensionable age etc.); indexation and adjustment of minimum pensions or minimum income provisions for older people with due attention to the impact on women and men; positive evolution of the participation of older workers in the labour market.