Activities of Franz OBERMAYR related to 2010/0115(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) As part of comprehensive ‘exit strategies’ for the economic crisis, Member States shouldmust carry out ambitious reformreforms geared to results 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 93 #
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, disabled and legal migrantsimmigrants, insofar as members of these groups meet the requirements of the labour market and social integration is possible. 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 109 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) Member States should gear their national objectives to raising the employment rate of both women and men to 75% by 2020, in particular by increasing the employment of young people, older workers and people with disabilities. In addition, Member States should gear their national objectives to increasing the proportion of women and men in the age group 20 to 24 who are undergoing training or are employed to 90%.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) In order to attain this objective, the Member States should commit themselves to promoting growth and increasing the potential for innovation of industry – particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – especially by providing them with financial incentives to create new jobs and by relieving industry of administrative and non-tariff barriers. In order to ease access to the labour market for women and young people, the preconditions should be created for adequate child care provision so that every child of pre-school age can be provided with a place where they can be looked after outside the family; moreover, every young person should be provided with a job or a training/further training opportunity within six months of completing their schooling, which should be arranged in close cooperation with the social partners.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Member States should increase the employment rate by means of activation measures, particularly for less highly qualified people, by means of occupational guidance, by means of training and upgrading of skills to meet the needs of the labour market, and by means of subsidised jobs for people with disabilities and people in need of special protection. Insofar as the labour market situation permits, Member States should increase the employability of immigrants who are already in the country by means of appropriate programmes. In addition, innovative programmes are needed to reintegrate people with disabilities into the labour market. Moreover, Member States should eliminate obstacles which make it more difficult to enter working life for the first time, and they should support job creation and social innovation and improve the quality of employment services. In particular, employment regulations should become more flexible, permitting working practices which correspond to the need to reconcile family life and work and permitting more flexible retirement arrangements. Opportunities to re-enter employment after a protracted interruption of working life occasioned by childcare responsibilities should also be improved. Flexicurity strategies to increase flexibility, in order to be able to respond more efficiently to production cycles, should be more effectively guaranteed by means of active labour market policy and appropriate social protection systems, so that moving between jobs does not result in disproportionate financial sacrifices. This should be supplemented by an unequivocal commitment to active assistance in finding work. New forms of employment such as atypical temporary work, part-time work and home work are becoming increasingly common, although no legislation exists to regulate them. They should not as a result reduce the social security of the persons concerned.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) In this context full use should be made of the resources of the European Social Fund to increase employability by means of measures to develop personal skills and meet the quality requirements applicable in occupations with a promising future. In order to promote occupational mobility, it is necessary for the Member States to improve willingness to be mobile by means of incentives, particularly measures to optimise public passenger transport between conurbations.