6 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2011/2071(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women are being hit particularly hard by the economic and financial crisis, which has worsened their position in the labour market, giving rise to higher unemployment, greater financial insecurity, lower wages and salaries and cuts in social services and welfare benefits,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas greater and more effective utilisation of women’s skills would make it possible to exploit the growth potential afforded by the interplay between female labour market participation, birth rates and economic development,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas more balanced integration of women into the labour market, with more widespread recognition of their skills, would be consistent both with principles of fairness and with criteria such as economic efficiency and maximising employment and productivity;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of continued and significant investments in teacherproviding education and training systems with the funding required to increase their technological resources and enable teachers and operators to undergo further training and improve their skills, by means, for example, of in-service training, proceeding from the premiss that investment in education, and training and lifelong learning while maintainingis an economic policy measure, bearing in mind the high costs incurred when younger generations are marginalised socially and in employment terms, especially in countries where the population is declining steeply; also points to the need to maintain co-ordinated, EU- wide efforts to achieve other common educational goalsgoals related to lifelong learning;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the links between learning systems, including the production system and territorial public service networks, guidance agencies and institutes, and skills assessment/certification agencies and institutes should become a focus of greater attention and more intensive effort;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to use a common set of benchmarks to assess the NRPs, including the availability of affordable childcare, elderly care and care for people with disabilities who are not autonomous, care leave arrangements and possibilitiesmeasures making it possible to combine labour and family responsibilities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor women's labour participation by number of hours worked per week, contract types and/or financial independence;