Activities of Csaba SÓGOR related to 2016/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) cannot be limited to a declaration of principles or good intentions but must consist of real matter (a broad framework of legislation, policy-making mechanisms and financial instruments), delivering positive impact on citizens’ lives in the short term and enabling support for European construction in the 21st century by effectively upholding social rights and Treaty objectives that effectively put into practice the Treaty objectives in the social field, help complete the EMU, strengthening cohesion and upward convergence, and hdelping to complete EMUiver a positive impact on citizens’ lives;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasizes that the root causes of social challenges can only be dealt with effectively through economic growth and expansion of employment. This is why, the prosperity of European citizens depends greatly on the capability of companies to generate growth and create jobs. This is why the European Union and Member States should strive to ensure a competitive business environment in which companies can develop and grow;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on fair working conditiona more effective and efficient implementation and control of existing labour standards for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self-employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeship; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workers;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
Paragraph 4 – point a
a. decent working conditions for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships, prohibiting those that are unpaid or paid so little that they do not enable workers to make ends meet;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
c. limits regarding on-demand work: the use of zero-hour contracts should be bannlimited and certain core working hours should be guaranteed to all workers;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need for renewed upward convergence in wages throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining; considers that to ensure decent living wages, minimum wages set at a decent level are necessary; recommends the establishment of national wage floors through legislation or collective bargaining, with the objective of attaining at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the right to healthy and safe working conditions also involves limitations on working time and provisions on minimum rest periods and annual leave; awaits Commission proposals for legislation and other concrete measures to uphold this right for all workers, reflecting all current knowledge about health and safety risks;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of collective rights; expects the Commission to step up concrete support for strengthening social dialogue in Member States and sectors where it is weak owing to the prolonged crisis or the prevalence of non-standard forms of employment and social dialogue;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports more integrated provision of social protection benefits and social services as a way to make the welfare state more understandable and accessible while not weakening social protection; points to the importance of informing citizens about social rights and to the potential of e- government solutions, possibly including a European social security card, which could improve individual awareness and also help mobile workers clarify their contributions and entitlements;
Amendment 539 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a European framework for minimum income schemes; hHighlights the importance of suchminimum income schemes for maintaining human dignity as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to undertake training and/or look for work;
Amendment 556 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees that all persons with disabilities must be ensuredsupported through enabling services and basic income security allowing them a decent standard of living and social inclusion;
Amendment 658 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that in our increasingly digitalised world, low qualified people not only have diminished employment opportunities, but are also more vulnerable to long-term unemployment and have more difficulties to get access to services and participate fully in society, a situation which is not only detrimental to the individual but is also highly costly to the economy and society as a whole; therefore Supports a Skills Guarantee as a new right for everyone to acquire fundamental skills for the 21st century, including digital literacy; highlights this as an important social investment, requiring adequate financing;
Amendment 679 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
19. Is alarmed at the spread of precariousness arising from the excessive use of ‘atypical’ contracts; stresses the importance of ensuring sufficient institutional and budgetary capacities to provideDraws attention to the spread of use of ‘atypical’ contracts and the need to consider the ways in which adequate protection can be granted for people in non-standard forms of employment; considers in particular that:
Amendment 801 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasiszes that labour mobility within the EU is a right whose exercise must be supported but which should not be forced on workers by poor conditfree movement of workers within the EU is one of the greatest achievements of the European Union and a cornerstone of the internal market, bringing prosperity to all regions inof their home reg Unions, and it should not undermine host countries’ social standardsbe upheld and protected in the future;