6 Amendments of Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ related to 2010/2018(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the individualisation and increasing flexibility of the labour market – resulting in a reduction in collective bargaining – puts employees, and in particular women, who often have to balance family obligations, in a more vulnerable position which can leads to precarious jobs, since it makes it easier for employers to lower employment conditions,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas individualisation of the labour market – resulting in a reduction in collective bargaining – puts employees, and in particular women, who have to balance family obligations, in a more vulnerable position which leads to precarious jobs, since it makes it easier for employers to lower employment conditions,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to break down professional and sectoral segregation on the labour market segregation through awareness- raising and education from an early age, for instance by promoting jobs associated with female skills to men, and vice versa, by motivating girl students towards sciences, and by combating the perception of women as second-earners, with the involvement of the European Institute for Gender Equality;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas most domestic workers performing duties such as domestic care, cleaning, and catering are women; whereas domestic work in industrialised countries accounts for between 5 and 9% of all employment, whereas such work is mostly precarious, undervalued and informal, and whereas domestic workers’ vulnerability means they are often discriminated against and can easily be subjected to unequal, unfair or abusive treatment,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to break down professional and sectoral segregation on the labour market segregation through awareness- raising and education from an early age, for instance by promoting jobs associated with female skills to men, with the involvement of the European Institute for Gender Equality;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws particular attention to the lack of research on the subject of precarious work; calls on the Commission and Eurofound to cooperate with the European Institute for Gender Equality and to initiate targeted research in order to assess, inter alia, the cost of the de-skilling and welfare loss resulting from precarious employment, taking into account the gender aspect; emphasises that future European research programmes should have a greater focus on social issues, such as precarious employment;