13 Amendments of Kinga GÖNCZ related to 2010/0115(NLE)
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) As part of comprehensive "exit strategies" for the economic crisis, Member States should carry out and maintain ambitious reforms to ensure macroeconomic stability and the sustainability of public finance, improve competitiveness, reduce macroeconomic imbalances and enhance labour market performance. The withdrawal of the fiscal stimulus should be implemented and coordinated within the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) Europe 2020 should be a strategy to come out of the economic crisis, to prevent a further economic and social collapse and to boost our economies in the medium term in order to contribute to the leading global economic and political role of the EU.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Member States" reform programmes should also aim at "inclusive growth". Inclusive growth means building a cohesive society in which people are empowered to anticipate and manage change, thus to actively participate in society and economy. Member States" reforms should therefore ensure access and opportunities for all throughout the lifecycle, thus reducing poverty and social exclusion, through removing barriers to labour market participation especially for women, older workers, young people, disabledpeople with disabilities, unskilled workers, minorities, in particular the Roma, and legal migrants. They should also make sure that the benefits of economic growth reach all citizens and all regions. Ensuring effective functioning of the labour markets through investing in successful transitions, appropriate skills development, rising job quality and fighting segmentation, structural unemployment and inactivity while ensuring adequate, sustainable social protection and active inclusion to reduce poverty should therefore be at the heart of Member States" reform programmes.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11 a) In the context of the 'inclusive growth' objective, Member States should be encouraged to set an appropriate legislative framework for the new forms of employment whilst paying attention both to ensuring flexible forms of employment and adequate social security for workers.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13 a) Member States should take into account the Europe 2020 strategy, and, in particular, its employment and social aspects, when programming and implementing EU funding, including that from the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund. The importance is underlined of the need for greater use of the synergies and complementarities of the various financial instruments available in order to meet the complex targets of the EU 2020 Strategy for smart, inclusive and green growth and to support more effectively the most disadvantaged micro-regions and the most vulnerable groups facing complex multi-dimensional disadvantages.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph -1 (new)
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph -1 (new)
The Member States will set their national targets for increasing the employment rate for women and men aged 20 to 64 to 75% by 2020, in particular through greater labour market participation of the low-skilled, young people, older workers, people with disabilities, minorities, in particular the Roma, and the better integration of legal migrants. Furthermore, Member States will set their national targets so that the proportion of 20 to 24 year-old women and men in training or work is increased to 90%.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
The Member States should step up social dialogue and tackle labour market segmentation with measures addressing temporary and precarious employment, underemployment and undeclared work. Professional mobility should be rewarded. The quality of jobs and employment conditions should be addressed by fighting low-wages and by ensuring adequate social security also for those on fixed contracts and the self-employed. Employment services should be strengthened and open to all, including young people and thoseincrease the employment rate through activation measures, in particular for less qualified people, through advisory services, through education and professional training adapted to the labour market's needs and through subsidised jobs for disabled people and people requiring particular protection. Furthermore, the Member States should increase the employability of minorities, in particular the Roma and legal migrants with appropriate programmes. Innovative programmes are also required to reintegrate disabled people into the labour market. Furthermore, the Member States should remove the barriers which make it more difficult for people to enter the labour market for the first time, support the creation of jobs, foster social innovation and increase the quality of job placement services. In particular, working time rules should be more flexible, so as to allow a work process which conforms to the requirements of the compatibility of family and work, and allows a more flexible exit from working life into retirement. Flexicurity strategies to increase flexibility, to be able to react more efficiently to production cycles, should be better protected through an active labour market policy and adequate social security systems, so that changing jobs does not lead to disproportionate financial costs. This should be accompanied by a clear commitment to actively support job seeking. New forms of work organisation, such as untypical temporary work, part-time work and teleworking are used more and more frequently in the working world without being legally controlled. They must not lead to a reduction in social protection for the people concerned. It should be ensured threate ned by unemployment with personalised services targeting those furthest away from the labour market. w forms of employment are not created at the expense of regular (full-time, permanent) contracts.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3
In order to increase competitiveness and raise participation levels, particularly for the low-skilled, and in line with economic policy guideline 2, Member States should review tax and benefit systems and the capacity of public services to provide the necessary support. Member States should increase labour force participation through policies to promote active ageing, gender equality and equal pay and labour market integration of young people, disabled, legal migrants and other vulnerable groups. Work-life balance policies with the provision of affordable care and innovation in work organisation should be geared to raising employment rates, particularly among youth, older workers and women, in particular to retain highly-skilled women in scientific and technical fields. Member States should also remove barriers to labour market entry for newcomers, support self- employment and job creation in areas including green employment and care and promote social innovationthis context, the resources of the European Social Fund should be fully used to increase the employability and adaptability of the workforce. In order to promote professional mobility, it is necessary for Member States to increase people’s openness to mobility by providing incentives.
Amendment 203 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3 c (new)
Member States shall promote the European Microfinance facility as an example of how to combine economic and social measures in order to boost economic and employment growth. National and European microfinance facilities shall be accompanied by specific training and mentoring programmes and social benefits schemes ensuring minimum income in the first year after opening of the business in order to make entrepreneurship a real option.
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
In cooperation with the social partners and business,civil society Member States should improve access to training, including vocational training, strengthen education and career guidance combined with systematic information on new job openings and opportunities, promotion ofe entrepreneurship and enhanced anticipation of skill needs. Investquality requirements. The development inof human resource development, up-skilling and participation in lifelong learning schemess, higher qualifications and training should be promotfinanced through joint financial contributions from governments, individuals and, employers. To support young people and in particular those not in employment, education or training, Member States in cooperation with the social partners, should enact schemes to help recent graduates find initial employment or further education and training opportunities, including apprenticeships, and intervene rapidly when young people become unemployed. Regular monitoring of and governments. Access to high-quality general and vocational training and the reintegration of school drop-outs in the education system should be possible for everyone at any time. The Member States should align investments in the education system and improve their efficiency and effectiveness so that the objective of increasing the level of skills among the active population is reached. In doing so, the reforms regarding employability in particular should be aimed at ensuring, through training or knowledge in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT), the acquisition of the core skills which every employee needs to be successful in a knowledge-based economy. Measures should be taken to ensure that the educational mobility of young people and teachers becomes the norm. Member States should improve the operformance of up-skilling and anticipation policies should help identify areas for improvement and increase the responsiveness of education and training systems to labour market needs. EU funds should be fully mobilised by Member States to support these objectivnness and relevance of general and vocational education systems, in particular by introducing national qualification frameworks which allow flexible education and by developing partnerships between general and vocational education institutions and the world of work, in order to considerably increase the proportion of high-level academic and vocational degrees.
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 a (new)
Annex – Guideline 8 a (new)
Guideline 8a: Reforming and strengthening cohesion policy in support of employment Member States commit themselves to arranging, complementing, coordinating and adjusting their national targets, within and among each other, in a way that imbalances of economic development between regions will be reduced. The Member States are aware that cohesion policy represents an effective and supportive but not subordinated instrument to the guidelines by accommodating regional specificities, supporting regions to overcome their socio-economical difficulties and reducing disparities. An integrated approach, multilevel governance and partnership principles should be the core of governance and deliverer of the strategy, whereas the regional and local level in particular have to play a crucial role as vehicles to reach the countless economic and social actors living and producing in the Union, in particular the SMEs. Therefore, cohesion policy is not just the source of stable financial allocations, but also a powerful instrument for the economic development and so an employment instrument for all Union regions. The Member States should align more investments in transport, energy, telecommunication and IT infrastructure and improve their efficiency and effectiveness making full use of the European Structural Funds, the rules and procedures of which should be harmonised in order to simplify delivery systems and encourage the participation of potential beneficiaries in Union co- founded programmes. To achieve this, Member States should create synergies and complementarities of the various financial instruments available, in order to meet the complex targets of the EU 2020 Strategy for smart, inclusive and green growth and to support more effectively the most disadvantaged micro- regions and the most vulnerable groups facing complex multi-dimensional disadvantages, since cohesion is not a cost, but gives strength, taps unused potential, reduces structural differences between countries and regions, expands growth and improves the competitiveness of Union regions in a globalised world, counterbalances the effects of the global economic crisis and generates Union social capital.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1