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3 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2012/2301(INI)

Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Observes that, since the beginning of the crisis, the unemployment rate for women in many Member States has consistently been higher than that for men, which only adds to the existing challenges women are facing in the labour market, including direct or indirect discrimination, double discrimination of women with disabilities, gender pay-gap, part-time work, precarious working conditions, in-work poverty, high concentration in the informal sector with lower earnings, less social protection and insufficient pension rights; in this respect, asks the Commission to issue a recommendation to the Member States on combating labour market segmentation leading to women's insufficient access to quality employment with decent remuneration;
2013/01/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Invites Member States to support women's participation in the labour market by measures such as guaranteeing freaffordable access to public childcare and care services for dependent persons, increasing resources for education, and professional qualification programmes;
2013/01/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned at the deep cuts in public expenditure resulting from the imposition of austerity measseverely reduced government abilities to finance public expenditures, leading to severe cutbacks in public-sector jobs and services which are forcing many women to shift from paid to unpaid work, exposing them to a high risk of poverty;
2013/01/09
Committee: EMPL