Activities of Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA related to 2016/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A European Pillar of Social Rights (debate) PL
Amendments (48)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to the importance of a highly competitive internal market economy as a prerequisite for the development of a social pillar,
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union needs a paradigm shift towards a strongrenewed approach towards European social model based on solidarity, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, gender equality, a high-quality public education system, quality employment and sustainable growth - a model that ensures good social protection for all, empowers vulnerable groups, enhances participation in civil and political life, and improves the living standards for all citizens, delivering on the objectives and rights set out in the EU Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission is expected to come forward in the spring of 2017 with a proposal for a binding European Pillar of Social Rights which will serve as a reference framework to screen the employment and social performance of participating Member States, to drive reforms at national level and, more specifically, to serve as a compass for renewed convergence between Member States;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) cannot be limited to amust consist of both declaration of principles or good intentions but must consist of real matter (and tangible elements such as national and EU legislation, policy-making mechanisms and financial instruments), delivering positive impact on citizens’ lives in the short, medium and long term and enabling support for European construction in the 21st century by effectively upholding social rights and Treaty objectives, strengthening cohesion and upward convergence, and helping to complete EMU in accordance with Treaties and subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the EPSR should equip European citizens with stronger means to keep control over their lives as well as to adapt to changing socio- economic conditions and make markets work for wellbeing and sustainable development;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that all social policies shall also aim at activating citizens on the labour market, encouraging them to up- grade their skills and promoting entrepreneurship;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on fairon Member States to constantly take efforts in order to improve working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatmentnon- discrimination, equal treatment between men and women, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers inese rights should be also applicable as much as possible to all non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self- employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeship and should take into account specificities of flexible forms of employment; requests that the adequate EU acquis be updated accordingly if necessary so as to apply to all workers;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Calls for decisive steps towards legal certaintyopening a discussion on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platforms; underlines that open- ended contracts should remain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directive on fair working conditions to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured in more precarious forms of employment, in particular:
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
Paragraph 4 – point a
a. decent working conditions for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships, prohibitingutting a duration limit to those that are unpaid or paid so little that they do not enable workersintern, trainee or apprentice to make ends meet;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
Paragraph 4 – point b
b. for work intermediated by digital platforms, a definition of employment that is less dependent on full cumulation of the relevant criteria: introduction of minimum standards of collaboration rules with a full and comprehensive information to the service provider on their rights and obligations, entitlements, associated level of social protection and the identity of employer; calls on Member States to ensure a proper surveillance of the terms and conditions of employment, preventing abuses of dominant positions by the platforms’ owners;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
c. limits regarding on-demand work: zero-hour contracts should be banned and certain core working hours should be guaranteed to all wointroducing duration limit or renewal limit to zero-hour contracts, taking into account that they often facilitate the access to the labour markerst;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need for renewed upward convergence in wages throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining, with a full respect for national labour law systems of Member States; considers that to ensure decent living wages, minimum wages set at a decent level are necessary; recommends to the Member States the establishment of national wage floors through legislation or collective bargaining, with the objective of attaining gradually at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the right to healthy and safe working conditions also involves limitations on working time and provisions on minimum rest periods and annual leave; awaits Commission proposals for legislation and other concrete measures to uphold this right for all workers, reflecting all current knowledge about health and safety risksespecially those employed in new forms of flexible employment or persons in employment within the new schemes of collaborative economy based on digital platforms while taking into account specificities of these forms of employment;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports more integrated provision of social protection benefits and social services as a way to make the welfare state more understandable and accessible while not weakening social protection and Internal Market freedoms; points to the importance of informing citizens about social rights and to the potential of e- government solutions, possibly including a European social security card, which could improve individual awareness and also help mobile workers clarify their contributions and entitlements;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Agrees with the importance of universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all workers and self- employed persons must be covered by health insurance;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is aware that rising life expectancy and workforce shrinking pose a challenge to the sustainability of pensions systems and to intergenerational fairness; reaffirms that the best response is to increase the overall employment rate, to raise labour productivity, to lengthen the average duration of labour market participation, and to support the gradual reduction of working time in preparation for retirement; considers that pensionable ages should reflect, besides life expectancy, other factors including labour market trends, the economic dependency ratio, the birth rate and differences in job arduousness;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that all workers should be covered by insurance against involuntary unemployment or part-time employment,unemployment benefit schemes coupled with job-search assistance and investment in (re)-training;
Amendment 542 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a European framework for minimum income schemnational minimum income schemes to be established by Member States; highlights the importance of such schemes for maintaining human dignity as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to undertake training and/or look for work;
Amendment 578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers access to quality and affordable long-term care services, including home-based care, to be a right that should be upheld with the help of suitably qualified professionals employed under decent conditions; believes that low- income households should therefore be targeted by adequate public services and tax deductions; repecalls on Member States its call for legislationto establish measures on carers’' leave accompanied by adequate remuneration and social protection;
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers child poverty to be a major issue on which Europe should ‘act big’; calls for the swift implementation of aestablishment of a so called Child Guarantee in all Member States, so thatwhich would consist in allowing every child now living in poverty canto have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and, proper nutrition and help against any form of violence;
Amendment 620 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for national legislation to ensure that access to social housing or adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, obviously including homeless people, and that vulnerable people and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for tax incentives to help young people on low incomes set up their own households; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision;
Amendment 640 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for national legislation ensuring fair access for all to good-quality and affordable social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e-communications, energy, public transport and financial services; highlights the role of social enterprises;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Supports the creation of a Skills Guarantee as a new right for everyonen instrument to help low- skilled adults to acquire fundamental skills for the 21st century, including such as key competences in literacy, numeracy and digital literacyskills; highlights this as an important social investment, requiring proper implementation and adequate financing;
Amendment 677 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
19. Is alarmconcerned about the spread of precariousness arising from the excessive use of ‘atypical’ contracts; stresses the importance of ensuring sufficient institutional and budgetary capacities to provideexisting misuse and abuse of ‘non- standard’ employment contracts; considers, that these contracts can offer an effective tool for workers to enter on the labour market and for companies to respond to shifts in demand; calls on careful monitoring of implementation and enforcement of EU legislation such as Fixed- term Work Directive, Part- time Work Directive and Temporary Agency Work Directive; stresses the importance of ensuring at Member States level an adequate protection for people in non-standard forms of employment; considers in particular that:
Amendment 695 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point a
Paragraph 19 – point a
a. social insurance schemes must be broadened in applicable to all wordkers to enable all workersthem to accumulate entitlements providing income security in situations such as unemployment, involuntary part-time work or career breaks for family or training reasons, pension, health problems;
Amendment 707 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point b
Paragraph 19 – point b
b. all workers should have a personal activity account, also easily accessible through a website and/or a smartphone applicatiby electronic means taking into account needs of disabled persons, where they could consult their social entitlements;
Amendment 722 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that secure professional transitions require adequate investment, both in the institutional capacity of public employment services and to assist individual job-search and upskilling; highlights that the preservation and portability of social entitlements accumulated during the career and life- cycle should be ensured to facilitate job and professional transitions;
Amendment 730 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for full implementation of the Youth Guarantee for all people under 30 and of the recommendation on the long- term unemployed; highlights these as important structural reforms and social investments that are in need of adequate financingimplementation and financing; calls for constant monitoring of effectiveness of these tools, especially in terms of employment, and adaptation of changes where necessary;
Amendment 751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point a
Paragraph 22 – point a
a. Directive 2006/54/EC should be revismonitored and enforced in order to strengthen existing mechanisms to ensure equal treatment between men and women, close persisting gender gaps in pay and pensions and reduce occupational segregation;
Amendment 759 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point b
Paragraph 22 – point b
b. there is a need for new legislative proposals on family leave schemes, including maternity leave, paternity leave, parental leave and carers’ leave,Member States should provide all parents and carers with adequate leave arrangements for children and other dependent relatives and access to care services and encouraginge equal take-up of leave arrangements by men and women across all categories of workers in order to improve women’s access to and position within the labour market and facilitate work-life balance;
Amendment 769 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 22 – point b a (new)
ba. flexible working arrangements, including in the area of working time, should be available and should be encouraged in order to facilitate reconciliation of work and family life;
Amendment 778 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to set out new concreteevaluate implementation and enforcement of measures to ensure non- discrimination and equal opportunities and suggest appropriate initiatives if needed;
Amendment 804 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that labour mobility within the EUis a fundamental freedom of the EU and it is a right whose exercise must be supported but which should not be forced on workers by poor conditions in their home regions, and should not undermine host countries’ social standard; calls for proper implementation and enforcement of EU rules with regards to mobility of workers and cross- border provision of services in order to secure workers’ rights and apply appropriate social standards in accordance with existing legislation; notes that mobility allows for better and more effective use of Europe's human capital, allows workers to improve their kills and competences and companies to fulfil labour force shortages as well as leads to social convergence; notes that mobility should be voluntary and that it should not be an excuse for Member States to avoid necessary labour market reforms;
Amendment 843 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to propose a clear roadmap for legislative updates anticipated by an evidence-based evaluation and Fitness Checks indicating an extent to which an intervention is necessary and other measures that are necessary for full practical application of the EPSR; highlights that in cases of conflict of law, the horizontal social clause (Article 9 TFEU) should be properly applied;
Amendment 851 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
26. Considers that the objective of upward social convergence should be underpinned by a set of targets, building on the Europe 2020 strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals and serving to guide the coordination of economic, employment and social policies in the EU; believes that these targets could alscalls on the Commission to come up with a proposal for indicators to form part of the ConvEPSR as a refergence Code currently being discussed for the euro area, and could be based on the following indicators which are directly affected by public policieframework to screen the employment and social performance of participating Member States, to drive reforms at national level and, more specifically, to serve as a compass for renewed convergence within the euro area such as:
Amendment 881 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 26 – point c a (new)
ca. rate of people completing third level education;
Amendment 909 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point h
Paragraph 26 – point h
Amendment 937 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for a rebalancing of the European Semester so that the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators and the new Convergence Code are directly taken into account in formulating CSRs and the euro area recommendation as well as for the activation of EU instruments; urges a stronger role for the Macroeconomic Dialogue with social partners; considers ‘macro-social surveillance’ to be of great importance for avoiding that economic imbalances are reduced at the expense of worsening the employment and social situation;
Amendment 952 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 971 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 987 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
30. Reiterates its call for the raising of theaccelerating the implementation of OPs under MFF 2014-20 ceilings in order to cope with increasedurgent needs; calls, in particular, for:
Amendment 1004 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point b
Paragraph 30 – point b
b. an increase in the volumeffective use of the European Social Fund, the EGF and the FEAD;
Amendment 1028 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to refocus the EFSImake sure that projects financed from EFSI also concentrate on job creation and social investment and adapt its risk/return requirements accordingly;
Amendment 1044 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 1052 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point a
Paragraph 32 – point a
Amendment 1068 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point b
Paragraph 32 – point b
Amendment 1083 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 1104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Considers that the EPSR should be adopted in 2017 as a bindingresult of ordinary legislative procedure in form of ag reement between the European Parliament and the European Council,ference framework to screen the employment and social performance of participating Member States, to drive reforms at national level and, more specifically, to serve as a compass for renewed convergence; this agreement should involvinge social partners at the highest level, and should contain a clear roadmap for implementation, with concrete commitments and target d and full respect of freedoms enshrined in the Treaties;