Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2012/2258(INI)
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Amendment 16 #
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3. Stresses the need to create the appropriate conditions for people to work lonkeep a safe job suited to their ager and to be more productive, both by improving labour-market flexibility throughcapacity until they reach retirement age; considers that, to this end, further vocational training measures are just as necessary throughout a career as the introduction of lifetime accounts and, opportunities for part- time possibilities and by making provision for modern forms of employment contract, including temporary onworking and targeted financial support to businesses for the creation of jobs suited to people in the later stages of working life and people with disabilities;
Amendment 32 #
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4. Is convinced that comprehensive reforms ameasures necessary in order to prevent and avoid serious shortages on our labour markets, which would result in a further economic slowdown and a threat to the level of prosperity in Europeed to be taken in order to find jobs specifically for older people, to which end it is not permissible to erode terms of employment and country-specific standards; considers that, on the contrary, in recruiting older workers, the principle of decent work should apply, which means that they should be employed for an indefinite period with pay commensurate with collective agreements or with the relevant statutory provisions and unrestricted social insurance; observes that efforts to promote the employment of older workers should always respect the principle of intergenerational equity;
Amendment 46 #
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5. Points out the essential role of investing more in education and training, with priority for lifelong learning, in order to prepare an active and productive ageing workforce; considers it to be a duty of society and businesses to finance lifelong learning to facilitate the employment of older workers;
Amendment 60 #
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6. Maintains that further reforms of pension systems are necessary in order to make them sustainable; more coherence must be established between the effective retirement age, the official retirement and prevent poverty in old age more effectively; considers that no further cuts should be made in pension levels; considers that the State and occupational pillars of pension provision should be supported; notes that the most effective way of combating poverty in old age is by safeguarding wages and life expectancysalaries throughout a career such as to guarantee a corresponding level of pension provision;