Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2017/2210(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
1a. having regard to its resolution of 15 September 2016 on Application of the Employment Equality Directive,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
1b. having regard to its resolution of 14 June 2017 on the need for an EU strategy to end and prevent the gender pension gap,
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that while women make up a clear majority of journalism and media graduates in the EU, they are still significantly under-represented at the decision-making and leadership level; notes that this under-representation is a major contributing factor to the negative and stereotypical portrayal of women in the media in the EU;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises that an increase in the proportion of women in leadership roles in the media sector is an important step and calls on media sector organisations to introduce best practice measures to increase the proportion of women in leadership roles; encourages such organisations to actively consider measures such as those incorporated by the Nordic Public Services Broadcasters1c, including making workforce gender balance in staff composition, including by pay grade, transparent and comparable over time in yearly corporate reports; setting clear and realisable yearly targets; incorporating gender sensitive training and establishing mentor and role model programmes for staff; __________________ 1c http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/fil es/mediefakta- dokument/Gender_Media/Making_Chang e/1-12_makingchange_lr.pdf
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes a recent Eurofound study highlighting the growth of precarious forms of work such as fixed-term, temporary, atypical, freelance and discontinuous in the media sector further notes that, as is true across the labour market, women are overrepresented in these precarious forms of work1d; notes that the increasing pressures on the media sector to maintain economic viability due to digitalisation is likely to aggravate this trend; further notes that women on these more precarious contracts may be more vulnerable to workplace harassment due to the relative ease with which they can be dismissed from the organisation; __________________ 1d http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e tudes/STUD/2016/587285/IPOL_STU%28 2016%29587285_EN.pdf
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that only a few Member States have systematically ensured that existing legal texts are in line with the principle of equal treatment, and that even fewer implement them systematically; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure full implementation of Equal Treatment and Employment Equality Directives in order to address this situation;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Insists that flexible working arrangements should be employee- oriented and voluntary, accompanied by adequate social protection, and believes that workers` rights and the right to secure employment must come before any increase in flexibility in the labour market, so as to ensure that flexibility does not increase precarious, undesirable and insecure forms of work and employment does not undermine employment standards;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle precarious employment, including undeclared work and bogus self-employment, in order to ensure that all types of work contracts offer decent working conditions with proper social security coverage, in line with the ILO Decent Work Agenda, Article 9 TFEU, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter; calls on the Commission and the Member States to combat all practices, which might lead to an increase of precarious employment;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that women working in the media will benefit from the general advancement of conditions for women in the workplace, including ending the gender pay gap and pension gap, reducing precarious work, ensuring affordable and accessible and quality childcare and boosting collective bargaining rights;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes in particular that the pattern of informal or casual recruitment in this sector can have the effect of disproportionately disadvantaging women due to their existing underrepresentation in sector; calls on media organisations to establish open and transparent recruitment procedures as part of their gender equality strategy;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for media organisations to put in place all possible positive discrimination measures to ensure women’s equal representation in all levels of the media sector, particularly in leadership roles; notes the positive role of unions, women’s councils and women’s equality officers in workplaces; considers these organisations should continue to work alongside employers in delivering appropriate measures to deliver gender balance within media organisations;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Regrets the under-reporting of all forms of discrimination at the workplace and highlights that the lack of objective data makes it more difficult to prove the existence of discrimination; calls on the Commission and Member States to collect equality data within the scope of the Employment Equality Directive in an accurate and systemic way and with the involvement of social partners, national equality bodies and national courts; further recommends that national, regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, including labour inspectors, national equality bodies and civil society organisations, increase their monitoring of the intersectionality between gender and other grounds in cases of discrimination and practices;