8 Amendments of Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fostering of a European investment policy aimed at boosting growth and job creation; welcomes the fact, that the main aims of projects getting support from EFSI should be quality job creation as well as achieving social, economic and territorial cohesion; considers it regrettable, however, that Parliament’s call3 to promote social investment not only in pursuit of financial profit but also with the aim of promoting a positive social impact has not been neglected; __________________ 3 entirely taken into account; __________________ 3 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraphs 10 and 18.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to modernise the regulatory and administrative environment in order to improve investment climate and conditions for SMEs to grow and therefore strongly supports recommendations leading to improvement in efficiency of administration and more flexible and competitive product and service markets;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note of the recommendations on the need to move forward within new and ambitious labour reforms, and calls for such reforms, if carried out, to guarantee social dialogue and to ensure necessary political consensus in order to be sustainable and effective; considers it regrettable that many labour reforms have not ensured the required balance between flexibility and security, resulting in, for example, the exclusion of millions of workers from collective bargainingin some countries there is no adequate balance between flexibility and security and asks this issue to be addressed by reforms; calls for labour reforms capable of reducing fragmentation, putting an end to insecurity and increasing the productivity and competitiveness of our economy while ensuring decent jobs and living wages through investment in human capital;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems caused by the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; considers it regrettable that there is no reference to the importance of increasing wages, especially in those countries where wages are below the poverty thresholdsupports recommendations calling for better adaptation of wages to productivity developments; recalls that minimum wages differ substantially between Member States (Bulgaria EUR 184/month, Luxembourg EUR 1 923/month), and reiterates its request for a study4 on this issue including an analysis of differences in purchasing powers between Member States; __________________ 4 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraph 47.
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take note of the IMF2 report on the causes and consequences of inequality, which states that the increase in the income gap is negatively affecting economic growth and the potential for job creation; calls for effective action on labour taxanhanced efforts to shift taxation burden from labour towards other sources, effective action, on labour markets and redistributive policies to facilitate greater and upward economic and social convergence; __________________ 2 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’, June 2015.
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for more and stronger recommendations with regards to the need to support and further develop effective vocational education and training, cooperation between education institutions, businesses, employers organisations and other relevant stakeholders as well as the need to improve effectiveness of public and private employment services in order to tackle skills mismatches on the labour market;
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for pension reforms to be made taking into account Parliament’s6 repeat recommendations to ensure their sustainability, safety and adequacy; __________________ 6 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068); Resolution of 22 October 2014 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2014)0038); Resolution of 25 February 2014 (Texts adopted, P7_TA(2014)0129).
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is deeply concerned by the limitWelcomes the increased role that national parliaments, social partners and civil society have played in the drafting of the national reform programme (NRP) and the convergence programme (CP); calls on, however, the Commission to further increase the ownership of the European Semester by national parliaments; calls on the Commission to favour, within the revision of theonly through the current economic governance mechanisms, a reform that grants adequate democratic legitimacy to the European Semester.