Activities of Thomas HÄNDEL related to 2013/2062(INI)
Shadow opinions (2)
OPINION on CARS 2020: towards a strong, competitive and sustainable European car industry
OPINION on CARS 2020: towards a strong, competitive and sustainable European car industry
Amendments (7)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Strongly supports the actions proposed in the fourth pillar of the Action Plan; reiterates its call for a legal act on information and consultation of workers, anticipation and management of restructuring; attaches particular importance to long-term planning for structural change designed to ensure that, if labour requirements change, skill levels will be such as to secure employment and the transition to new forms of production and business models will be gradual;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for stronger coordination of demand-side measures, including financial incentives and taxation policy, both on vehicles and fuels; asks the Commission to follow the guidelines on financial incentives with more binding actions to ensure a reasonably level playing field and contribute to the competitiveness of the industry across the EU;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for even better use to be made of EURES, and, in this respect, supports the use of EURES not only as a means of advising workers and job-seekers on their right to free movement, but also as a labour market instrument with a special focus on placement in permanent full-time employment enabling workers to live their own lives;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recognises the importance of public intervention to ensure that the negative social consequences of any restructuring in the sector are kept to a minimum or eliminated; attaches particular importance to long-term planning for structural change so as to ensure that, if labour requirements change, the level of skills will be such as to secure employment, and that the transition to new forms of production and business models will be gradual; believes that a European framework for anticipating change and softening the social impact of restructuring, including a legislative act, is necessary, also in order to avoid any distortions to the internal market;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Maintains that whenever restructuring is to take place, at whatever level, the social partners should be involved at an early stage and that, as regards the role of national trade unions and their European umbrella organisations and federations, the detailed information to be supplied and the say which should correspondingly be accorded to them regarding personnel changes could to some extent be provided for under European transnational company agreements;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Urges the Commission, the Member States, and all other stakeholders not to treat the four pillars of the Action Plan as areas to be pursued separately, but rather to integrate the fourth pillar (‘Anticipating adaptation and managing restructuring’) into the other three as a cross-cutting task.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Notes that integration of the fourth pillar (‘Anticipating adaptation and managing restructuring’) into the other three, as regards changes in workforce size, structure, and skills requirements, could be factored into the restructuring process from the outset in the form of a holistic ‘social mainstreaming’ approach; notes that experience shows that such an approach, for the most part, produces speedier and better results for the stakeholders concerned.