Activities of José GUSMÃO related to 2022/0165(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
Amendments (23)
Amendment 46 #
Recital 1
(1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and particularly for promoting a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as labour markets that are future-oriented and responsive to economic change, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, balanced growth, a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and are to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council, taking into account national practices related to the responsibilities of management and labour and reinforcing the anti-discrimination framework of the Employment Directive.
Amendment 52 #
Recital 2
(2) The Union is to combat social exclusion and discrimination, and promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations, promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities and the protection of the rights of the child as laid down in Article 3 TEU. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against poverty and social exclusion, a high level of education and training and protection of human health as laid down in Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
Amendment 65 #
Recital 5
(5) The European Semester combines the different instruments in an overarching framework for integrated multilateral coordination and surveillance of economic and employment policies. While pursuing environmental sustainability, productivity, fairness and stability, the European Semester integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and of its monitoring tool, the Social Scoreboard, and provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. It supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goalshould be aligned with the EU Gender Equality Strategy in relation to the gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. It supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular relating to SDG 8 and including SDG5 on gender equality, within the framework of equality of opportunities and treatment. The Union’s and Member States’ economic and employment policies should go hand in hand with Europe’s fair transition to a climate neutral, environmentally sustainable and digital economy, improve competitiveness, ensure adequate working conditions, foster innovation, promote social justice and equal opportunities, as well as tackle inequalities and regional disparities. A harmonised legal framework on the rights of all workers - including trainees, self-employed and non-standard workers, cross-border workers, sub- contracting - to contribute and access social protection benefits, as well as more quality and sustainable insurance systems based on a fair distribution of costs between different income groups and progressive taxation, with a view to reducing pressure on non-contributory based schemes and preventing social dumping to the detriment of vulnerable workers. Decent working conditions and quality employment should also be based on the assessment of the impact of artificial intelligence on technology- enabled surveillance at the workplace and during the recruitment process. A clear legal framework should protect all workers from psychosocial risks, discriminatory treatment and profiling, and privacy breaches.
Amendment 76 #
Recital 6
(6) Climate change and environment- related challenges, the need to acceleratehieve a socially just decarbonisation and energy independence and ensure Europe’s open strategic autonomy, globalisation, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, an increase in teleworking, the platform economy and demographic change are transforming European economies and societies. Although artificial intelligence could contribute to bridging the digital divide, it can also increase the gaps for those who do not have access to the internet, digital skills or devices and digital security, and for those who have no control on the use of their data while being exposed to their misuse, such as racial profiling, amplifying discrimination in the recruitment. The Union and its Member States are to work together to effectively and proactively address those structural developments and adapt existing systems as needed, recognising the close interdependence of the Member States’ economies and labour markets, and related policies. This requires coordinated, intersectional, ambitious and effective policy action at both Union and national levels, in accordance with the TFEU, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the objectives set by its Action Plan and others such as the EU Action Plan against Racism, the EU Action Plan for integration and inclusion, as much as and the Union’s provisions on economic governance, while implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights. Such policy action should encompass a boost in sustainable investment, a renewed commitment to appropriately sequenced reforms that enhance economic growth, the creation of quality jobs, productivity, adequate working conditions, social and territorial cohesion, upward convergence, resilience and the exercise of fiscal responsibility, with support from existing EU funding programmes, and in particular the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Cohesion Policy Funds (including the European Social Fund Plus and the European Regional Development Fund) as well as the Just Transition Fund. It should combine supply- and demand-side measures, while taking into account their environmental, employment and social impacts.
Amendment 96 #
Recital 11
(11) DIndividual, structural and institutional discrimination in all its forms should be tackled, gender equality ensured and employment of young people supported. Access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion, including that of children and Roma people, should be reduced, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and adequate and inclusive social protection systems32 , and by removing barriers to inclusive and future-oriented education, training and labour-market participation, including through investments in early childhood education and care, and in digital and green skills. Timely and equal access to affordableuniversal long-term care and healthcare services, including prevention and healthcare promotion, are particularly relevant, also in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 and in a context of ageing societies. The potential of persons with disabilities to contribute to economic growth and social development should be further realised. As new economic and business models take hold in workplaces throughout the Union, employment relationships are also changing. Member States should ensure that employment relationships stemming from new forms of work maintain and strengthen Europe’s social model. Member States should also tackle the informal economy by safely transitioning informal workers into the formal economy. Member States should sanction employers who violate the law, offer incentives to employers to hire workers on formal contracts, grant secure and sustainable residence status, and expand regularisation possibilities for undocumented workers. Member States should simplify options for employers to regularise the situation of their employees. This should likewise be aligned with the EU Care Strategy in terms of ensuring quality working conditions for care workers, among other sectors typically linked with exploitation and undeclared work. __________________ 32 Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self- employed, 2019/C 387/01
Amendment 105 #
Recital 12
(12) The Integrated Guidelines should serve as a basis for country-specific recommendations that the Council may address to Member States. Member States are to make full use of their REACT-EU resources established by Regulation (EU) 2020/222133 , which reinforces the 2014- 2020 Cohesion Policy funds and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) until 2023, and due to the current Ukrainian crisis, has been further enhanced by the Regulation on Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe (CARE)34 , and a further amendment to the Common Provisions Regulation35 concerning increased pre-financing for REACT-EU and a new unit cost in order to help accelerate the integration of people leaving Ukraine into the EU36 . In addition, for the 2021-2027 programming period, Member States should fully utilise the European Social Fund Plus established by Regulation (EU) 2021/105737 , the European Regional Development Fund established by Regulation (EU) 2021/105838 , the Recovery and Resilience Facility, established by Regulation (EU) 2021/24139 , and other Union funds, including the Just Transition Fund established by Regulation (EU) 2021/105640 as well as the InvestEU established by Regulation (EU) 2021/52341 , to foster quality employment, social investments, to eliminate poverty, discrimination and social inexclusion and, ensuring accessibility, and to promoteing upskilling and reskilling opportunities of the workforce, lifelong learning and high- quality education and training for all, including digital literacy and skills. Member States are also to make full use of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers established by Regulation (EU) 2021/691 of42 to support workers made redundant as a result of major restructuring events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and socioeconomic hardships linked to high inflation, energy and food costs and transformations that are the result of more global trends, and technological and environmental changes. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as the social partners and representatives of civil society. __________________ 33 Regulation (EU) 2020/2221 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 December 2020 amending Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 as regards additional resources and implementing arrangements to provide assistance for fostering crisis repair in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its social consequences and for preparing a green, digital and resilient recovery of the economy (REACT-EU) (OJ L 437, 28.12.2020, p. 30). 34 Regulation (EU) 2022/562 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 April 2022 amending regulations (EU) no 1303/2013 and (EU) no 223/2014 as regards cohesion’s action for refugees in Europe (CARE) 35 Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159–706) 36 Regulation (EU) 2022/613 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 April 2022 amending Regulations (EU) No 1303/2013 and (EU) No 223/2014 as regards increased pre-financing from REACT-EU resources and the establishment of a unit cost 37 Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 establishing the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013 (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 21). 38 Regulation (EU) 2021/1058 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund (OJ L 231 30.6.2021,p.60) 39 Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility (OJ L 57, 18.2.2021, p. 17–75) 40 Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 establishing the Just Transition Fund (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 1). 41 Regulation (EU) 2021/523 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 March 2021 establishing the InvestEU Programme and amending Regulation (EU) 2015/1017 (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 30). 42 Regulation (EU) 2021/691 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 (OJ L 153, 3.5.2021, p. 48).
Amendment 107 #
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 1
Member States should actively promote a sustainable social market economy and facilitate and support investment in the creation of quality jobs, also taking advantage of the potential linked to the digital and green transitions, in light of the 2030 EU headline target on employment. To that end, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, foster responsible entrepreneurship andMember States should foster responsible social entrepreneurship, including among cis-women, transwomen, non-binary people, persons with disabilities, migrants, ethnic minorities, older people and young people and their intersections. Member States should also foster genuine self- employment and, in particular, support the creation and growth of small and medium- sized enterprises, including through access to finance. Member States should actively promote the development and tap the full potential of the social economy, foster social innovation and social enterprises, and encourage those business models creating quality job opportunities and generating social benefits and employment for disadvantage groups at local level, in particular in the circular economy and in areas most affected by the transition to a green economy due to their sectoral specialisation,. . In this regard, Member States, who have not done so yet, should adopt legislation and national strategies on social economy in line with the Social Economy Action Plan. All Member States should take up and fully implement the initiatives proposed by the Commission in the Social Economy Action Plan at national level, such as setting up local social economy ambassadors, in a timely manner.
Amendment 122 #
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 3
Taxation should be shifted away from labour to other sources morust be supportive of employment and inclusive growth and in line with climate and environmental objectives, taking account of the redistributive effect of the tax system, while protecting revenue for adequate socialuniversal, accessible, and quality social services and protection, and growth-enhancing expenditures much as other public investment.
Amendment 124 #
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 4
Member States, including those with statutory minimum wages, should promote collective bargaining with a view to wage setting and ensure an effective involvement of social partners in a transparent and predictable manner, allowing for an adequate responsiveness of wages to productivity developments and fostering fair wages that enable a decent standard of living for all workers, paying particular attention to lower and middle income groups with a view to strengthening upward socio-economic convergence. Wage-setting mechanisms should take into account socio-economic conditions, including regional and sectoral developments, as well as more vulnerable groups such as care and domestic workers, on- demand workers, intermittent workers, voucher-based workers, platform workers, trainees, apprentices, other non-standard workers, as well as bogus self-employed and undeclared workers, with a view to strengthening upward socio-economic convergence. Wage-setting mechanisms should take into account socio-economic conditions, including regional and sectoral developments; the in-work poverty rate; the cost of living e.g. through a basket of goods and services at national level; and the international indicator of 60% gross median wage and 50% gross average wage. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of the social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have fair wages by benefitting, directly or indirectly, from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, job creation and in-work poverty. Member States should not allow for any variations or deductions in their statutory minimum wages so that there is no impediment to a remuneration that provides a decent standard of living.
Amendment 132 #
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 1
In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change and the Ukrainian war, Member States should promote sustainability, productivity, employability and human capital, fostering acquisition of skills and competences throughout people’s lives and responding to current and future labour-market needs, in light of the 2030 EU headline target on skills. Member States should also adapt and invest in their education and training systems to provide high quality and inclusive education, including vocational education and training, access to digital learning, and language training (e.g. in the case of all refugees, no matter their country of origin, including from Ukraine). Member States should work together with the social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in education and training systems and improve their quality and labour-market relevance, also with a view to enabling the green and digital transitions, addressing existing skills mismatches and preventing the emergence of new shortages, in particular for activities related to REPowerEU, such as renewable energy deployment or buildings’ renovation. In addition, Member States must provide decent and employment conditions to attract workers. For instance, particular attention should be paid to care workers to ensure they have ample opportunities to obtain professionally recognised qualifications, benefit from career development and quality training offers. Likewise, attention should be paid to the employers of care workers, who face serious challenges in the recruitment and retention of qualified staff. Particular attention should also be paid to challenges faced by the teaching profession, including by investing in care curriculum, adhering to quality indicators of professional care delivery as well as in teachers’ and trainers’ digital competences. Education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, including basic and digital skills as well as transversal competences, to lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life. Member States should seek to strengthen the provision of individual training entitlements and ensure their transferability during professional transitions, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, as well as a reliable system of training quality assessment. Member States should deliver on the potential of micro-credentials to support lifelong learning and employability. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour-market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated guidance and counselling, with a view to supporting fair and just transitions for all, strengthening social outcomes, addressing labour-market shortages and skills mismatches, improving the overall resilience of the economy to shocks and making potential adjustments easier. The success of a sustainable and resilient recovery will however depend on the quality of the employment provided. The EU should make investment and joint financing mechanisms available for quality and inclusive adult learning, which must lead to quality jobs and a just transition of the workforce. Upskilling and retraining of workers and ensuring quality apprenticeship for the VET learners should be a shared responsibility of employers and public institutions.
Amendment 139 #
Annex I – Guideline 6 – paragraph 2
Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addresseradicating inequalities in education and training systems. In particular, children should be provided access to gooduniversal quality early childhood education and care, in line with the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support access to education of children from remoted areas, increase the attractiveness of vocational education and training (VET), access to and completion of tertiary education, facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through paid quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as increase adult participation in continuing learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Taking into account the new requirements of digital, green and ageing societies, Member States should strengthen work-based learning in their VET systems, including through quality and effective apprenticeships, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour-market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills monitoring and forecasting; make skills more visible and qualifications comparable, including those acquired abroad; and increase opportunities for recognising and validating skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training. Building on the pilot for refugees fleeing Ukraine, Member States must also recognise the educational and professional qualifications of other migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and simplify bureaucratic procedures to encourage them to start working as soon as possible. They should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible continuous VET. Member States should also support adults with low- skilled adultss, in particular those with disabilities, ensuring the access to stable quality employment to maintain or develop their long- term employability by boosting access to and uptake of quality learning opportunities, through the implementation of Upskilling Pathways Recommendation including a skills assessment, an offer of education and training matching labour- market opportunities, and the validation and recognition of the skills acquired. Member States should ensure that any learning or training undertaken is officially recognised across Member States, that trainings meet the specific needs/interests of the participants, that trainings are easily accessible, and that trainings are adapted to the needs of parents, especially single parents, and of persons with disabilities.
Amendment 150 #
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 3
Member States should provide unemployed and inactive people with effective, timely, coordinated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job search, training, requalification and access to other enabling services, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups and people particularly affected by the green and digital transitions. Comprehensive strategies that include in-depth individual assessments of unemployed people should be pursued as soon as possible, at the latest after 184 months of unemployment, with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long- term and structural unemployment. Youth unemployment and the issue of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) should continue to be addressed through prevention of early school leaving, inclusive apprenticeships, and structural improvement of the school- to-work transition, including through the full implementation of the reinforced Youth Guarantee, which should also importantly support quality youth employment opportunities in the post- pandemic recovery. In addition, and in the light of the European Year of the Youth 2022, Member States should boost efforts notably at highlighting how the green and digital transitions offer a renewed perspective for the future and opportunities to counter the negative impact of the pandemic on young people.
Amendment 153 #
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 4
Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, participation in the labour market, in particular for low-income earners, second earners and those furthest away from the labour market including people with a migrant background and marginalised Romamigrants, ethnic minorities including marginalised Roma, young people, older people, persons with disabilities, women, informal workers, and non-standard employment workers. In view of high labour shortages in certain occupations and sectors, Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply, notably through promoting adequatecent wages and decent working conditions, as well as effective active labour market policies. Member States should also support an adaptedccessible work environment for persons with disabilities, and the provision of reasonable accommodation, including through targeted financial support and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society.
Amendment 161 #
Annex – Guideline 6 – paragraph 5
The gender employment and pay gaps should be tackled. Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including through ensuring equal opportunities and career progression and eliminating barriers to access to leadership at all levels of decision making. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordableuniversal, quality long-term care and early childhood education and care services. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements in order to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between women and men.
Amendment 164 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1
In order to benefit from a dynamic and productive workforce and new work patterns and business models Member States should work together with the social partners on fair, transparent and predictable working conditions, balancing rights and obligations. They should reduce and prevent segmentation within labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should all provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context, while protectingfor the protection of labour rights and ensuring social protection, an appropriate level of security and healthy, safe and well- adapted working environments for all workers. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets in the context of the post-pandemic environment. At the same time, it is important to ensure that the workers’ rights in terms of working time, working conditions, and work-life balance are respected. Employment relationships that lead to precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in the case of platform workers, especially if low-skilled, and by fighting abuse of atypical contracts. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal.
Amendment 172 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
Policies should aim to improve and support labour-market participation, matching and transitions, including in disadvantaged regions. Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially vulnerable groups such as people with lower- skilleds, people with disabilities, informal workers, older people, young people, people with a migrant background, including migrants and persons under a temporary protection status, and marginalised Roma. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour-market policies by increasing their targeting, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and decent income support for the unemployed, whilst they are seeking work and based on their rights and responsibilities. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, respond to current and future labour-market needs, and implement performance-based management, supported also via digitalisation.
Amendment 190 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 6
Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account relevant civil society organisations’ experience of employment and social issues, including those representing groups facing challenges related to the recruitment and retention of this sector and additional challenges linked to time-bound project-oriented work contracts. Member States should also recognise and support civil society organisations as providers of quality not- for-profit social services, and of tailored and inclusive employment services, so they can benefit from sustainable funding.
Amendment 196 #
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1
Member States should promote inclusive labour markets, open to all, by putting in place effective measures to fight all forms of discrimination and prejudice and promote equal opportunities for all, and in particular for groups that are under- represented in the labour marketand often discriminated against in the labour market, such as persons with disabilities, Roma and migrants, with due attention to the regional and territorial dimension. They should ensure equal treatment regarding employment, social protection and decent levels of minimum income to stop in-work poverty and labour market segmentation and encourage person-centred pathways to quality employment, health and long- term care, education and access to goods andfree and universal quality services, regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Amendment 204 #
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 3
Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion: adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services, to meet individual needs. Social protection systems should ensure adequatecent, accessible and enabling minimum income benefitschemes for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by encouraging people to actively participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Accessibility to social protection systems should be monitored and evaluated, from a right-based approach. Numerous barriers still impede access to benefits and rights, such as punitive activation measures and strict conditionalities in minimum income schemes (including forced integration in the labour market regardless of the quality of employment) or digital divide which significantly restricts access to information and assistance when available online only.
Amendment 212 #
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 4
The availability of affordableuniversal, accessible and quality services such as early childhood education and care, out-of- school care, education, training, housing, and health and long-term care is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities. Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, including in-work poverty, in line with the 2030 EU headline target on poverty reduction. Especially child poverty should be addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, in particular through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee.
Amendment 217 #
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 5
Member States should ensure that everyone, including children, has access to essentialuniversal, essential and quality services. For those in need or in a vulnerable situation, Member States should guarantee access to adequatecent social housing or housing assistance. They should ensure a clean and fair energy transition and address energy poverty as an increasingly important form of poverty due to rising energy prices, partly linked to the war in Ukraine, including, where appropriate, via targeted temporary income support measures. Inclusive housing renovation policies should also be implemented. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account in relation to those services. Homelessness should be tackled specifically. Member States should ensure timely access to affordableuniversal preventive and curative health care and long-term care of good quality, while safeguarding sustainability in thele and quality long -term care.
Amendment 219 #
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 5
Member States should ensure that everyone, including children, has access to essential quality services. For those in need or in a vulnerable situation, Member States should guarantee access to adequate social housing or housing assistance. They should ensure a clean and fair energy transition and address energy poverty as an increasingly important form of poverty due to rising energy prices, partly linked to the war in Ukraine, including, where appropriate, via targeted temporary income support measures. Inclusive housing renovation policies should also be implemented. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account in relation to those services. Homelessness should be tackled specifically. Member States should ensure timely access to affordableuniversal preventive and curative health care and long-term care of good quality, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term.
Amendment 220 #
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 6
Member States should offer an adequate level of protection to all refugees and asylum seekers, without discrimination and independent of their country of origin. In line with the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive43 , Member States should ensure they offer an adequate level of protection to refugees from Ukraine (including Roma and third- country nationals resident in Ukraine and fleeing into Europe as a consequence of the war), including residency rights, access and integration to the labour market, access to education, traininglanguage support, training, medical and psychosocial health care, and housing, as well as access to social security systems, medical care social welfare or other assistance, and means of subsistence. Member States should address the fears of employers concerned over hiring people with only a temporary status. In future, the protection outlined in the TPD should be provided to all refugees and asylum seekers. Children should be ensured access to childhood education and care and essential services in line with the European Child Guarantee. For unaccompanied children and teenagers, Member States should implement the right to legal guardianship, taking into account the deinstitutionalisation contexts of these processes. __________________ 43 Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof.