12 Amendments of Alejandro CERCAS related to 2013/2045(INI)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the crisis has led to a great increase in precarious forms of work, done especially by young people recruited under temporary contracts, and in unpaid placements amounting in reality to genuinely full-time jobs;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the policy measures implemented by the EU and Member States need to be diversified and should tackle all potentiamutually complementary so as to counteract all obstacles in young people’s pathway towhen they are seeking decent and sustainable employment, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups that are more likely to suffer from multiple disadvantages; maintains that tackling youth unemployment has to be a cross- cutting policy in the EU and Member States;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the young unemployed make up a wide variety of groups and therefore have to be classified according to their needs and abilities if the measures taken are to be implemented to more useful effect; considers it necessary to identify the key competences that will enable these young people to enter the labour market more rapidly and on a more permanent and sustainable basis; believes that attention should be focused in particular on young people who have no qualifications and are not in education, employment, or training;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the involvement of all relevant stakeholders at European, national, regional, and local level, including training and education providers, individual employers, public and private employment services, social partnerstakeholders, including youth organisations, third- sector organisations, and health and other authorities, is essential for the successful implementation of a variety ofthe measures to fostering youth employment and employability in an integrated fashion; emphasises that measures to promote high-quality sustainable youth employment must be flexible so asin order to meet the continuously evolving needs on the labour market;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that collective bargaining plays a key role in fostering and improving the working conditions of young workers;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the particularly difficult situation in certain regions where the level of unemployment among young people is above 250%; welcomes the fact that EU support forrecognises that the Youth Employment Initiative, with a budget of EUR 6 billion over the seven-year period 2014-2020, is an important first step – though not sufficient in itself – towards a European strategy to combat youth unemployment will be further boosted through the proposed EU Youth Employment Initiative, with a budget of EUR 6 billion over the seven- year period 2014-2020; maintains that funding needs to be increased to at least the EUR 21 000 million recommended by the ILO and that flexibility must be provided, allowing greater budget resources to be mobilised for the efforts to be brought to bear during the first years of the multi- annual financial framework; stresses that the Youth Employment Initiative must be not be affected by, or obstruct, other initiatives to promote high-quality youth employment;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the decision of the EPSCO Council on 28 February 2013 to agree on a Council recommendation on implementing a Youth Guarantee; recommends extending eligibility to graduates aged under 30, but regrets that the Guarantee has not been couched in terms applying with binding force on a Europe- wide basis; draws attention to the view which it has already expressed, namely that the Guarantee should be such as to ensure that young people aged up to 30 would receive good job offers or be able to continue their education or vocational training for four months from the time when they became unemployed or stopped studying; stresses that the success of this measure will be highly dependent on other factors, e.g.such as the infrastructure and capacity of public and strengthened private employmentemployment services, which should be combinable with private services, the availability of student places, the provision of good training and apprenticeships, and the transferability and implementation of successful experiences from other Member States; stresses that the Youth Guarantee must be integrated within the broader framework of active labour market policies while ensuring high quality standards;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the Commission’s suggestion to bring multilateral supervision to bear, through an ‘Employment Committee’, on the implementation of Youth Guarantee schemes, and asks to be involved in that committee;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages the EU and the Member States to boost their support for enterprises, cooperatives and third-sector organisations wishing to participate in Youth Guarantee schemes in close cooperation with public and private employment services, including through tax incentives, subsidies for fixed employment costs, and the possibility of accessing funding for on-site training, which will support enterprises in providing high-quality employment and training offers, and will represent an investment in young people’s potential in an effective and targeted way;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for an ambitious holistic policy approach – at European and national level alike – which looks at education, training, employment and self-employment initiatives, for all young people at all the various levels, in an integrated way;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages the EU and the Member States to foster the mobility of young workers by means of further progress towardsimprove the mutual recognition of qualifications and skills and enhanced the coordination of national social security systems, especially as regards pension systems, as well as by continuing to invest substantially in language learning;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. SDeplores the fact that EURES is not proving to be an effective tool for job searches and encouraging voluntary mobility among young people; stresses the need to introduce reforms to EURES with the aim of proactively matching jobseekers and job-changers to existing vacancies, and where necessary, to reform public employment services so as to better target their activities and approaches on young people; stresses that raising of awareness of EURES is needed so as to increase its visibility and availability, as a career advice system that supports students in becoming more aware of their aspirations and capabilities, as well as of existing job opportunitiespoints out that EURES should become a genuine interconnection platform for all of the Member States’ public employment services, with the most up-to-date information possible and common criteria on which to assess job offers and select candidates; points out that EURES should have a system making job interviews easier to conduct;