Activities of Patrick LE HYARIC related to 2012/2151(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
REVISED DRAFT OPINION on towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union
Amendments (6)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 3
Section 1 – paragraph 3
3. Recalls the importance of the adoption of the Growth Pact and believes that new initiatives should follow; assessing the segmentation of the labour market without pushing for more flexible contracts, pushing forward the setting up of a European minimum wage based on a national and not sectoral approach, slashing gender inequalities, tackling the "working poor's" phenomenon by the development of a European strategy focusing on decent work instead of the work at all cost approach that has been taken so far;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Dismiss the low wage-high competiveness approach developed by the Commission and pushed forward by the missions of the Troika, reminds that the labour costs in Greece have been slashed by 11,5% in one year between 2011 and 2012 without any positive effects on investment in this country and still with huge social consequences with regards to the pauperisation of the Greeks citizens;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 3
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 3
– decent living wages and the introduction of a European minimum wage;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 3 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 6 – indent 3 a (new)
- in cooperation with social partners, a strategy to improve the protection of workers' rights in order to give to the authorities responsible for this task the means to fulfil their mission
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 11
Section 1 – paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Council's commitment to eliminate further existing barriers to labour mobility and urges the Member States to immediately remove all restrictions on free labour access to workers from Romania and Bulgaria, reminds that lifting mobility barriers is not an panacea for elderly and low qualified workers whose situation has to be assessed by maintaining local economic activities;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 17
Section 1 – paragraph 17
17. Call for the need to improvefor a social governance at the European level in parallel of the establishment of European economic governance., reminds that the adhesion of the citizens to a push forward in the European integration process can only be by assessing their needs, putting an end to the competition-based approach, and bringing concrete moves towards the leveraging of social protection and work conditions;