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REPORT on employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2012 PDF (205 KB) DOC (115 KB)
Amendments (23)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the European Pact for Gender Equality (2011-2020) adopted by the Council on 7 March 2011,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission recommendation 2008/867/EC of 3 October 2008 on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (notified under document number C(2008)5737)1 and to its resolution of 6 May 2009 thereon 2, __________________ 1 OJ L 307 , 18.11.2008, p.11. 2 Texts adopted, P6_TA(2009)0371.
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)
Citation 12 b (new)
- having regard to SPC Opinion and Report on the Social Dimension of the Europe 2020 Strategy (SPC/2010/10/7 final),
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the gender dimension is crucial to achieving the EU 2020 headline targets, as women form the greatest reserve of as yet unused labour and form the majority of those living in poverty in the EU; whereas specific attention therefore needs to be paid to both gender mainstreaming and policies targeted at women throughout the European Semester process;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the austerity measures and measures aimed at fiscal consolidation might have a disproportionately negative effect on the position of women in the labour market and on poverty among women, for instance due to cuts in the public sector that affect women or by limiting fiscal benefits for childcare;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the European Council to endorse the policy guidance to shift the tax burden away from labour, making hiring and retaining employees more attractive in order to improve the situationoverall labour market situation, particularly of vulnerable groups, young unemployed people, low- skilled workers, people with low incomes and second earners; calls on the European Council to endorse the guidance on increasing revenue through fair, effective and efficient taxation and better tax coordination to combat tax evasion;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that policy guidance aimed at making work more attractive does not address the quality of jobs and that too little attention is devoted to putting in place the necessary preconditions for increasing labour market participation, notably of women; calls on the European Council to include guidance on decent work and efforts to support the reconciliation of work, family and private life, by means of affordable childcare provision, family- related leave and flexible working arrangements;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to ensure the involvement of national and regional parliaments, social partners, public authorities and civil society in the design, implementation and monitoring of the policy guidance in order to ensure ownership;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on Member States to increase the coverage and effectiveness of public employment services and adopt effective active labour market policies mutually supported by adequate benefit systems in order to maintain employability and help, support people back into work and safeguard decent living conditions;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that the EU2020 headline target for the employment rate can only be achieved if the labour market participation of women is increased significantly; believes thatcalls on the Commission to ensure stronger guidance to Member States which should aim at putting in place the necessary conditions for higher employment rates among women, such as affordable child care, adequate maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes and flexibility in working hours and place of work;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on Member States to combat in-work poverty by pursuing labour market policies which aim at ensuring living wages for those in work;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Commission to request separate national targets for male and female employment rates from the Member States in their national reform programmes and to demand that they use gender disaggregated data in their progress reports;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to create working conditions that enable older workers who so choose to participate and remain in the labour market, by combating age discrimination, replacing incentives for older workers to leave the labour market with incentives for an inclusive labour market and adapting working conditions to the needs of older workers, such as putting in place the right to flexible working time and place of work, the right to training and the right to a flexible exit into retirement, ensuring the adequacy of pension provision for all;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Regrets the insufficient efforts to implement gender mainstreaming in the priorities of the Annual Growth Survey, despite the fact that the European Pact for Gender Equality 2011-2020 invites the Commission to integrate a gender equality perspective to the Annual Growth Survey; calls on the European Council to ensure that the policy guidance will address gender inequalities; calls on Member States to implement gender mainstreaming in the design of National Reform Programmes; calls on the Commission to address country specific recommendations in the case of Member States failing to take the gender dimension into account;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Encourages the Commission, Member States and employers to create more opportunities for female workers in the sectors of new technologies in order to strengthen the high-tech sector in accordance with the EU 2020 objectives;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to improve the adequacy and effectiveness of social protection systems and to make sure that social automatic stabilisers, including access to gender equal pension systems, and to make sure that they continue acting as buffers against poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to implement active inclusion strategies and adequate and affordable high-quality services, andequate minimum income support and pathway approaches to quality employment to prevent marginalisation of low-income and vulnerable groups;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to follow-up the SPC's call for participative National Social Reports to underpin the National Reform Programmes, based on the Social OMC Common Objectives and providing multidimensional poverty solutions promoting access to rights, resources and services;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24 b. Calls on Member States and the Commission to put in place, implement and enforce effective anti-discrimination measures; calls on the Commission to address the lack of progress in implementing and enforcing anti- discrimination measures in the Country Specific Recommendations;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on Member States to elaboratespecify in their National Reform Programmes how EU funds will be used to support specific policy objectives set to achieve their nationalthe national poverty and other social, employment and education targets ensuring the achievement of the EU2020 targets;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Is concerned about the social impact of the crisis on poverty among women; calls on Member States and the Commission to ensure that fiscal consolidation is compatible with the social dimension of the EU 2020 strategy and the employment guidelines; calls on the Commission to also assess the effects of austerity measures on gender equality and female employment;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25 b. Calls on the Commission to develop gender analysis and mainstreaming on the impact of pension reforms on women's lives in the EU with the objective of individualising pensions rights and social security and tax systems as well;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Is concerned about the fact that the European Parliament and national parliaments continue to play a limited role in the European Semester; considerdeplores that policy guidance in the AGS initiated by the Commission, and to be endorsed by the European Council, lacks parliamentary involvement and therefore democratic legitimacy;