28 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2012/2003(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the current economic and financial crisis will have long -lasting effects not only on economic growth but also on employment rates, public savfinancings and the amount and quality of social investments in Europe;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the majority of recentin recent years in responses to the crisis were based mainly on short-term goals aimed ata great debt burden was taken on by the public sector, and to prevent excessive debt being incurred it has at the same time been necessary to strive to restoringe stability to public finances, being crucial efforts to defend our economyic future, and whereas these public and private sector austerity measures could have negative long-term effects on employment, growth and competitiveness if not completed with growth- and, employment- and competitiveness-friendly measures;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Lisbon Strategy and the European Employment Strategy have failed to deliver, and whereas the success of the Europe 2020 strategy is uncertain and requires even stronger engagement from Member States and the European Institutions in competitiveness-, growth- and employment-friendly measures;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the recently published Annual Growth Survey as well as the Joint Employment Report showed that, due to the fact that fiscal consolidation is still treated as the priority,has not progressed sufficiently, and social, employment and education targets of the Europe 2020 were not sufficiently addressed by all Member States;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in 2010 almost 16 % of Europeans were at risk of poverty, and in the same year the level of children and adults living in jobless households has increased to almost 10 %; whereas this, combined with child poverty, the incidence ofdifficulties of the working poor as well as high unemployment among young people will lead to an even higher risk and also the inheritance of poverty and social exclusion in the future;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas education outcomes in the European Union are still inadequate to meet labour market needs and fall short of the growing skill-intensity of available jobs and do not sufficiently meet the manpower needs in sectors which could employ workers;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the pressure o, as public sector revenues have decreased, the pressures to cut costs in social assistance schemes hasve increased, and twheir revenues have dropped considerably; whereasreas weak economic growth and persistence of high rates of long- term unemployment isare likely to aggravate this trend further;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that all public social and health services, education services and related services sourced from private service providers, among others, can be considered social investments, and reiterates that these have been determined in agreements as falling under national competence;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that one of the most important features of social investments is their ability to reconcile social and economic goals and, therefore, that they should not only be treated as spending but also as investments that will give real returns in the future;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes therefore that social investments should be an important part of the EuropeanMember States’ economic and employment policies, and of the EU’s responses to the crisis, and that this requires a better implementation ofthat this requires even more effective efforts to achieve the employment, social and education goals of Europe 2020;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the crisis requires a modernisation of the European SMember States’ social Mmodels, a rethinkingconstant critical appraisal of national social policies and a transition from an ‘reactive welfare state’, thatness to proactiveness, i.e. from only respondsing to emerging damages caused by market failure, to an ‘activating welfare state’, that invests in people and gives citizens opportunities, instruments and incentives to improve their own social and financial standing and that of their families;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a
Paragraph 5 – point a
a) help the unemployed to get back to work.ose facing unemployment or lay- offs to get back to work and those entering the labour market to find work, and to create preconditions for a smoother transition from education and training to professional life,
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
Paragraph 5 – point b
b) create and help small and medium- sized enterprises in particular to create sustainable and quality jobs, improving work productivity as well as work distribution,
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b a (new)
ba) to improve well-being at work and to reduce the causes leading to withdrawal from professional life, such as accidents at work, bullying in the workplace and other poor working conditions,
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point c
Paragraph 5 – point c
c) invest in education and training, especially in on-the-job training and vocational education,
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point d
Paragraph 5 – point d
d) enhance the balance between the flexibility and security of employment contracts to promote employment and help in reconciling family and professional life,
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point e
Paragraph 5 – point e
e) reform pension systems and create conditions for working longer, enable people to work longer through better occupational safety, various incentives and flexible models, and to ensure that those in retirement can also participate in professional life to the extent they are capable,
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point f
Paragraph 5 – point f
f) fight poverty and social exclusion with particular focus on preventative and proactive work.
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on Members States and the Commission to take steps to develop a job- friendly environment with supportive labour market policies, such as more effective and better targeted unemployment and social assistance benefit systems linked to employment activation measures, to introduce special training and re-training in order to sustain the employability of the long- term unemployed, and to promote up- skilling, workshop activities, vocational education and on-the-job training with particular emphasis on unemployed young persons and on workers with low skills;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages Member States to invest in supporting young persons, and in improving their access to the labour market, by providing training and youth internship programmes, by promoting entrepreneurship and creating incentives for employers to engage graduates, by securing a better transition from education to work and by promoting European and regional mobility;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the CommissionMember States to guarantee a comprehensive implementation of flexicurity principles, and to address labour market segmentation, by providing both adequate social protection coverage for people in periods of transition, or on temporary or part-time employment contracts, and access to training, career development and full-time work possibilities; encourages Member States to invest in services –— such as childcare and all-day school places –and care for the elderly — that help promote gender quality, foster better work–life balance, the well-being of families and those being cared for and encourage inactive and lonsingle parents to work;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages Member States to introduce necessary reforms in order to increaseadjust the statutory retirement age and limit early retirement possibilities as required by the deteriorating support ratio and public finance sustainability requirements, and to combine this with the constant improvement of working conditions and the implementation of lifelong training schemes enabling longer professional careers;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages Member States to make better efforts to include social investments in their medium and long-term budgetary targets, as well as in their National Reform Programmes; calls on the European Council and the Commission to betterclosely monitor the implementationachievement of employment and social targets of the Europe 2020;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that in order to secure proper implementation of employment and social targets, the recently developed system for macroeconomic and budgetary surveillance in the EU must be supplemented by an improved monitoring of employment and social policies;achieve employment and social targets, monitoring of employment and social policies must be improved and calls, therefore, on the Commission to consider developing a scoreboard of common social investment indicators for monitoring the progress in EU countries in this regard;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States to consider signing to a ‘Social Investment Pact’, through which they would create a reinforced control mechanism for improvinge efforts to meet employment, social and education targets of Europe 2020 by promoting research, development and investment activities in these fields and by sharing best practices;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on Member States to make sure that the currently debated Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 contains appropriate budgetary resources necessary for social investments in Europe, and that the available funding can be used in a rational and efficient way, as well as to make structural funds, especially the European Social Fund, supportive of social investments, ensuring that its priorities reflect the specific needs of the various Member States; calls on the Commission, when it so deems appropriate, to make other possible sources of financing available to Member States for the purpose of social investments;