8 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2011/2052(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Invites the Member States, after consulting civil society and stakeholders, to establish national targets to define their contribution to this Europe 2020 target, to supply information on how the initiatives proposed complement existing European, national and local initiatives, and to inform the Commission, within the European Semester procedure, of the exact amount of resources they will allocate to fighting poverty and social exclusion.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Union to carry out a comprehensive analysis of poverty and social exclusion and to compile the statistics through a qualitative and participative approach broken down by gender; hopes that the Institute for Gender Equality will, as soon as it is fully operational, contribute to resolving the problem of inadequate systematic and comparative data broken down by gender;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that voluntary work can play a very important role in combating poverty, social exclusion and gender inequality; points out that 2011 has been designated as European Year of Volunteering and urges Member States to step up their exchanges of good practice and take effective action to support voluntary work and widen the scope thereof;
Amendment LL #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas women are in general more vulnerable to poverty than men owing to various factors such as gender discrimination at work, which results in the persistent gender pay gap, the resulting pension disparities, and labour market discriminationbut also career breaks in order to care for dependants and labour market discrimination; whereas only 63% of women work in Europe, compared to 76% of men, and having regard to the lack of support networks and concrete measures to help parents achieve a work/life balance, including affordable care services,
Amendment O #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Rrecommends that the Member States introduce or further develop measures designed to help people with disabilities find jobs with private companiedevelop new measures designed to help vulnerable and socially excluded groups, especially people with disabilities, find jobs with enterprises, including social economy enterprises, or public bodies, so as to promote inclusion, not least in those regions that are economically weakest and socially more vulnerable, and recommends that they implement existing legislation, such as the 2000 Employment Directive; recommends that the Member States safeguard that people with disabilities participate in education from their early childhood by lifting existing barriers and assisting them; recommends that the Member States promote access to barrier-free environments for public bodies, so as to promote inclusioneople with disabilities and pay particular attention to the situation of early childhood education and care in order to prevent instances of children with disabilities dropping out irreversibly and hopelessly at an early stage; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up exchanges of best practices and to introduce multifaceted measures for the integration of the disabled into the job market;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas women are more vulnerable to poverty than men owing to various factors such as the persistent gender pay gap, the resulting pension disparities, career breaks and labour market discrimination; whereas only 63% of women work in Europe, compared to 76% of men,
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Member States to promote the full participation of women in the job market and the introduction of equal wages legislation, and to award greater attention to the issue of the adequacy of women’s pensions;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that the Member States introduce or further develop measures designed to help people with disabilities find jobs with private companies or public bodies, so as to promote inclusion, not least in those regions that are economically weakest and socially more vulnerable; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up exchanges of best practices and to introduce multifaceted measures for the integration of the disabled into the job market;