16 Amendments of Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
Having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital –1 (new)
Recital –1 (new)
(-1) Pursuant to Article 3 TEU, the Union in establishing an Internal Marketis working for a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress; promoting gender equality, solidarity between generations and protection of the rights of the child; as well as combating social exclusion and discrimination. In accordance with Article 9 TFEU, the Union, in defining and implementing its policies and activities, is to take into account requirements linked to, inter alia, the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of an adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and the promotion of a high level of education, training and the protection of human health.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2 a) On 20 June 2017, the Council endorsed the Union response to the 'UN 2030Agenda for Sustainable Development’ - a sustainable European future. The Council underlined the importance of achieving sustainable development across the three dimensions (economic, social and environmental), in a balanced and integrated way. It is vital that sustainable development is mainstreamed into all Union internal and external policy areas, and that the Union is ambitious in the policies it uses to address global challenges. The Council welcomed the Commission Communication on "Next steps for a sustainable European future" of 22 November 2016 as a first step in mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals and applying sustainable development as an essential guiding principle for all Union policies, including through its budgetary programmes. The ESF+ should mainly contribute to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by halving relative poverty and eradicating extreme forms of poverty (goal 1); good health and well-being (goal 3); quality and inclusive education (goal 4), promoting gender equality (goal 5), promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (goal 8), and reducing inequality (goal 10).
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote quality employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, persons with disabilities and people with chronic diseases, the long-term unemployed and, the inactive, as well aseconomically inactive, people from marginalised communities as well as those facing multiple forms of discrimination, through promoting self– employment and the social economy. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation and flexibility towards various target groups of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted and individual counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhancfacilitate workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote women's participation in the labour markeof women in sustainable and high-quality employment through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, the respect of the principle of equal pay for equal work. The ESF+ should aim to improved work/life balance and access to childcare. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforceaffordable childcare and life-cycle care services for working parents and carers in order to facilitate their participation in quality employment and as such fight poverty among workers with caring responsibilities. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce. The ESF+ should also support measures aimed to facilitate the transition of young people between education and employment, with special attention to youth from disadvantaged and marginalised backgrounds.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13 a) ESF+ should aim to fight gender segregation in education, training and employment. Gender segregation is a deeply entrenched feature of education systems and occupations across the EU. It manifests itself in women’s and men’s different patterns of participation in the labour market, public and political life, unpaid domestic work and caring, and in young women’s and men’s choices of education. As such, it refers to concentration of one gender in certain fields of education or occupations, which narrows down life choices, education and employment options, leads to unequal pay, further reinforces gender stereotypes, and limits access to certain jobs while also perpetrating unequal gender power relations in the public and private sphere. Gender segregation has an equally detrimental effect on both women’s and men’s chances in the labour market and society in general.1a _________________ 1a EIGE report to the Council “Gender segregation in education, training and the labour market” 2017, http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/docu ment/ST-12709-2017-ADD-2/en/pdf.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards digital skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. ESF+ shall exploit and better target the aims of the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to addressing the serious gender gap within the ICT and STEM sectors by promoting training and qualification of women and girls into ICT and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) sectors. The ESF+ should help progression within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitiveness and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and graduate tracking, training of educators, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18 a) ESF+ should aim to address the poverty among elderly women across the EU, taking into account that the gender pension gap, standing at 40 %, constitutes an acute risk for worsening levels of poverty among older women, especially those living without a partner, thus following up on the commitments made in the 2015 ‘Council conclusions on equal income opportunities for women and men: closing the gender gap in pensions’.2aPoverty among elder women is also exacerbated by the rising out-of- pocket costs for health care and medicines that have to be borne by the elderly patients, especially women who spend a larger proportion of their lifespan in ill health than men mostly due to longer life expectancy. _________________ 2a http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/docu ment/ST-9302-2015-INIT/en/pdf.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) TIn line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the Member States and the Commission should ensure that ESF+ contributes to the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU to foster equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas, including regarding education and participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression. They Member States and the Commission should also ensure that the ESF+ promotes equal opportunities for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation in accordance with Article 10 TFEU and promotes the inclusion in society of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others and contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with regard inter alia to education, employment, social protection and accessibility. These principles should be taken into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and equal opportunities. The ESF+ should also promote the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care, in particular for those who face multiple and intersectional discrimination. The ESF+ should not support any action that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion. Regulation (EU) No [future CPR] provides that rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be established at national level, with certain exceptions for which it is necessary to lay down specific provisions with regard to the ESF+ strand under shared managementSocial Cohesion and Social Rights strand.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28 a (new)
Recital 28 a (new)
(28 a) In line with the firm EU commitment to gender mainstreaming expressed in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Member States and the Commission shall ensure that when implementing ESF+ gender budgeting as a strategy is developed and applied in all its programmes and actions and is matched with a technical capacity for gender mainstreaming.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) improving access to quality employment of all jobseekers, in particular youth and, women, single parents, long-term unemployed, and of economically inactive people, promoting self-employmentersons with disabilities or chronic diseases, people from marginalised communities and those suffering from multiple forms of discrimination, promoting entrepreneurship and the social economy;
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) promoting women’s labour market participation, a better and high-quality employment, through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, the respect of the principle of equal pay for equal work, as well as aiming to improve work/life balance includingand access to affordable childcare, a healthy and well–adaptednd life-cycle care services for working environmparents addressing health risks, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageingnd carers in order to facilitate their participation in quality employment and as such fight poverty among workers with caring responsibilities;
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
(iii a) promoting a healthy and well– adapted working environment addressing health risks, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point x
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point x
(x) promoting social integration of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including the most deprived and childr, persons with disabilities or chronic diseases, people from marginalised communities, children and elderly, especially elderly women;
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All programmes implemented under the ESF+ strand under shared management, as well as the operations supported by the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands shall ensure gender equality between men and women throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. These programmes and operations shall include increasing the participation and progress of women in employment, combating the feminisation of poverty, gender stereotypes and intersecting discrimination in the labour market, education and training in the frame of gender mainstreaming obligations, which shall be matched with a technical capacity for gender mainstreaming. They shall also promote equal opportunities and accessibility for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, nationality, residence or employment status, religion or belief, disability, age or, sexual orientation, throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 33 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. With a view to regular monitoring of the strands and to making any adjustments needed to their policy and funding priorities, the Commission shall draw up an initial qualitative and quantitative monitoring report covering the first year, followed by three reports covering consecutive two-year periods and shall send those reports to the European Parliament and the Council. The reports shall also be transmitted, for information purposes, to the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The reports shall cover the strands' results and the extent to which the principles of gender equality and gender mainstreaming have been applied, as well as how anti-discrimination considerations, including accessibility issues, have been addressed through their activities. The reports shall be made available to the public in order to enhance the transparency of the strands.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Gender balance and appropriate representation of minority and other marginalised groups in the ESF+ Committee shall be safeguarded.