Activities of Emilie TURUNEN related to 2009/2221(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promoting youth access to the labour market, strengthening trainee, internship and apprenticeship status (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on promoting youth access to the labour market, strengthening trainee, internship and apprenticeship status PDF (225 KB) DOC (144 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas young people often face discrimination on the grounds of their age when entering the labour market; whereas young women are more likely than young men to face unemployment and poverty; whereas on the other thand young men have been hit hardest by unemployment during the current economic crisis,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas decent work shifts young people from social dependence to self- sufficiency, helps them escape poverty and enables them to actively contribute to society, economically and socially; whereas discriminative legislation in some Member States, such as the minimum wage for young people in the UK, the Revenu minimum d'insertion in France and the reduced unemployment benefits for young people in Denmark, prevent young people from entering into an adult, independent life,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas flexicurity has been the overall strategy for the EU labour markets aiming at flexible and reliable contracts, lifelong learning, active labour market policies and social security; whereas, unfortunately, this strategy in many countries has been interpreted narrowly as “flexibility” losing sight of the holistic approach and of employment security and social security,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Council and the Commission to define a job strategy for the EU that combines financial instruments and employment policies in order to avoid "jobless growth", and entails setting ambitious benchmarks for the employment of young people; strongly encourages that the job strategy has a special focus on developing green jobs;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites Member States to create efficient incentives for public and private employers to hire young people, to invest in job creation for young people and to support entrepreneurship among youth; encourages to secure young people’s access to the European Microfinance Facility that was established recently;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for more and better traineeships; calls on the Commission and the Council to set up a European Quality Charter on Traineeships to ensure their educational value and avoid exploitationapprenticeships; refers to the positive experiences with the dual system within Vocational Educational and Training (VET) in countries such as Germany, Austria and Denmark where the system is seen as an important part of young people’s transition from education to employment;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for more and better internships; following the commitment in the Communication COM(2007)498 “to propose an initiative for a European quality charter on internships”, calls on the Commission and the Council to set up a European Quality Charter on Internships on minimal standards for internships to ensure their educational value and avoid exploitation. These should include a time limitation for internships, a local minimum wage, social security benefits according to local standards and a clear connection to the educational programme in question; requests that internships are included in EU-statistics;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for Member States to set up National Task Forces on Youth to ensure a stronger coherence between the educational system and the labour market and promoting a stronger and shared responsibility between government, employers and individuals for investing in skills; calls for the Member States to provide advisory bodies at all schools to help smoothing the transition from education to the labour market and promote cooperation between public and private actors;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to intensify the work with recognition of professional qualifications including non-formal learning and work experience in order to support the mobility of young people;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines the need for a strong and structured social dialogue at all workplaces in order to protect young workers from exploitation and precarious work that often goes along with temporary work; underlines the need for Social Partners to address young workers and their specific needs;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission for a review of existingand Member States to ensure that national legislation affecting youth in each Member State to verify its compatibility with the Employment Equality Directiveand in particularly national legislation based on the Employment Equality Directive is not used to discriminate young people’s access to social benefits;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on for Member States to establish a short-term effort focused on young unemployed men in the sectors affected by the crisis, not losing sight of the long-term problems experienced by young women in accessing the labour market;