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2014/2210(INI) Family businesses in Europe
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Lead committee dossier: ITRE/8/02151
Legal Basis RoP 052
Next event: Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2015/05/28 more...
- Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2015/07/06
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Opinion | EMPL | KRASNODĘBSKI Zdzisław (ECR) | |
Opinion | FEMM | AIUTO Daniela (EFD) | |
Lead | ITRE | NIEBLER Angelika (EPP) | KAILI Eva (S&D), FOX Ashley (ECR), GIRAUTA VIDAL Juan Carlos (ALDE), SAKORAFA Sofia (GUE/NGL), TURMES Claude (Verts/ALE) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
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2015/07/06
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
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2015/05/28
Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2014/12/17
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
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2014/2210(INI)
2015/01/29
FEMM
62 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas there is a growing presence of women in family businesses, and w
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women encounter substantial difficulties in their involvement in family businesses, and are subject to ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ gender segregation, and this despite the high level of education of women, who account for 60% of all graduates;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas in many countries the problem resides in the fact that society is permeated by a culture of male dominance in all walks of life and not only at the workplace;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas family farms offer a template for success because they put the principle of the environmentally and socially sustainable circular-flow economy into practice and because in that context women, as leaders, contribute not only entrepreneurial thinking, but also specific communication and social skills;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas women earn, on average, 16% less per hour than men in the EU and there is a dearth of women in high-level and leadership positions, and whereas the labour practices and wage systems applied to men are not the same as those applied to women, making it more difficult for the latter to be financially independent, participate fully in the job market and achieve work-life balance;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas women often play an invisible role,
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas women often play an invisible role, or act as figureheads, and do not have their job or salary status appropriately recognised, which has serious repercussions in terms of social security contributions, pensions and welfare entitlements;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas women often play an invisible role, or act as figureheads, and do not have their job or salary status appropriately recognised, which has serious repercussions in terms of social security contributions, pensions and welfare; whereas maternity leave constitutes an additional burden for women as it is negatively reflected in pension schemes;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas women often play an invisible role, or act as figureheads, and do not have their job or salary status appropriately recognised, which has serious repercussions in terms of social security contributions, pensions and welfare and also in terms of recognition of their skills;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas women often play an invisible role, or act as figureheads, and do not have their job or salary status appropriately recognised, which has serious repercussions in terms of social security contributions, pensions and welfare
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas, in many European countries, women are frequently required to act as figureheads, either for tax reasons or because of legal obstacles preventing a male entrepreneur from holding any position within the business or placing it in his own name;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas there is a growing presence of women in family businesses and women are a major resource in terms of their
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital E E. whereas women have difficulty in taking over family businesses as successors, given that preference is given to sons and daughters are
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital E E. whereas women have difficulty in taking over family businesses as successors, given that preference is given to sons and daughters are
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital E E. whereas women have difficulty in taking over family businesses as successors, given that preference is given to sons and daughters are
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital E E. whereas women have difficulty in taking over family businesses as successors, given that preference is given to sons and daughters are nearly always excluded, save under exceptional circumstances dictated by the absence of a male heir or a crisis affecting the company;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas women seeking to combine their roles as mothers and business operators frequently find themselves forced to sideline the former or even abandon the notion of motherhood in order to run the business;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas some 60 % of all businesses in the EU are family run or family owned;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas ensuring competent family leadership across generations is one of the main concerns of family businesses and gender stereotypes privilege sons against daughters in the family firm succession;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas family businesses create favourable environment for reconciliation of family and work life of women, especially mothers;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital E b (new) Eb. acknowledging the crucial example set by properly functioning family business governance and its importance for the sustainability of the European economy and the social market economy in Europe;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas many family businesses are small-scale, independent firms which not only make a significant contribution to the economy, but also embody long-term stability wherever they are located, including in rural areas, display a special degree of commitment to their local community, shoulder exceptional responsibility as property owners and stand in the European tradition of the ‘honourable merchant’;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas there is a growing presence of women in family businesses and women are a major resource in terms of their ability to influence strategies, decisions and management especially because the number of women graduating is equal and even higher than the number of men;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding horizontal and vertical segregation, wage and job discrimination
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding horizontal and vertical segregation, wage and job discrimination (invisibility and ‘figurehead’ treatment), providing both genders with equal opportunities, social rights and access to health, as well as ensuring fair remuneration, contribution payments, pensions and benefits;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding horizontal and vertical segregation, wage and job discrimination (invisibility) and
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls for m
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Maintains that the skills acquired by women from family businesses have to be recognised so as to enable those women to further their careers in other types of businesses;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls for the adoption of an unambiguous definition of family businesses for all the Member States, providing a solid career base for both genders;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Invites the EU and the Member states to harmonize the rules for family businesses in Europe to guarantee women adequate protection on maternity leave that would include measures preventing discrimination of mothers in pension schemes;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the need to protect women’s right to succession in family businesses, on a par with men, by promoting a culture of fairness between men and women which highlights the entrepreneurial role of women in family businesses, in positions of management, responsibility and leadership
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas little information is, however, available concerning women employed in family businesses, given that the actual concept of the family business is still relatively undocumented;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors and the European Network of Mentors for Women Entrepreneurs in order to raise their profile;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Draws attention to the important role which women play in running family farms, and calls on the Member States to support business training aimed specifically at women farmers, in order to strengthen women’s involvement in family farming even further; urges in particular, in that connection, that support should be given to training projects for women who run family farms with a view to increasing women’s involvement in farming and regional organisations;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the need to secure the best possible working conditions in terms of health and security at the place of work;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the ‘mother-entrepreneur’ figure to be promoted, in order to guarantee the right to maternity and to grant financial assistance
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the ‘mother-entrepreneur’ figure to be promoted, in order to guarantee the right to maternity and to
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the ‘mother-entrepreneur’ figure to be promoted, in order to guarantee the right to maternity and to grant financial assistance to women who intend to devote themselves to both their families and businesses and to reconcile their working and private lives within a larger framework;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the ‘mother-entrepreneur’ figure to be promoted, in order to guarantee the right to maternity, to acknowledge time spent bringing up children and to grant financial assistance to women who intend to devote themselves to both their families and businesses;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that offering more opportunities for women in family businesses will benefit both the women and the businesses;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls for all possible measures to be adopted to prevent and penalise acts of abuse or coercion, situations conducive to blackmail and/or subjugation, or violence against women at the workplace, pointing out that, in addition to acts of physical violence, seclusion and discrimination are also forms of mental cruelty or psychological aggression;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Reminds the Member States and local and regional authorities once again of the importance of there being sufficient provision of high-quality and affordable care services for children, the elderly and other dependent persons, of tax incentives for companies and of other compensation to help women and men working as employees, on their own account or as managers in family businesses to balance their family and work commitments;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas family businesses represent an important career opportunity for women, although that fact is not recognised, because there are no female role models to follow;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b Welcomes the Commission's intention to encourage the study and statistical analysis of the presence of women in family businesses in Europe;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Stresses the need for separate and duly remunerated periods of maternity, paternity and parental leave which meet the needs of employees, the self-employed and business employers;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges the European Union and Member States to consider and include the protection of women
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges the European Union and Member States to
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges the European Union and Member States to consider and include the protection of women each time they legislate on matters relating to family businesses and in particular in the context of the women on boards directive.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges the European Union and Member States to consider and include the protection of women as well as the promotion of women's access to professional training each time they legislate on matters relating to family businesses.
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to encourage across-the-board acceptance of a clear definition of ‘family business’ at EU and national level, as recommended in the final report of the European Expert Group Overview of Family-Business- Relevant Issues 2009.
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises that eliminating all the differences between men and women working in family businesses would generate benefits for the economy and for society in general; points out that the Strategy for Equality between Men and Women 2010-2015 aims to increase the employment rate to 75% for women, which is the target set in the Europe 2020 Strategy, and that this includes those groups of women with the lowest rates of employment.
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses the need to establish support frameworks for female business owner- managers in family businesses in order to increase their confidence and self- efficacy.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Insists that family businesses be required to ensure equal treatment and opportunities for men and women at work, in the management of the business and in decision making, and that they must to that end adopt measures to prevent any kind of discrimination and to promote gender equality.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas family businesses, family-run independent businesses and new businesses of this kind represent an important career opportunity for women;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission to draw up a non-legislative European family strategy which takes full account of the role played by women and mothers in family businesses, the social and economic significance of ‘mompreneurs’ and the specific contribution they make to implementing the principles underpinning fair leadership, entrepreneurial social responsibility and a new, sustainable employment culture.
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses the need for specific proposals making for better balance in terms of working, family and personal life by encouraging men and women to share occupational, family and social responsibilities more evenly, especially where assistance to dependants and childcare is concerned; notes that better provision of day care and nursery services depends not only on public policies for the creation of these facilities, but also on incentives to businesses to offer such solutions; notes that flexibility in respect of working hours and the way work is organised, as well as part-time working, may constitute one means of achieving a better work-life balance;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Council to reach consensus as soon as possible and adopt the Directive on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges, so that all companies listed on stock exchanges, including family businesses, meet the target of at least 40% of the members of their boards of directors being women.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas family businesses represent an important career and personal development opportunity for women;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women encounter substantial difficulties in their involvement in family businesses
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women encounter substantial difficulties in their involvement in family businesses and are in some cases still subject to ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ gender segregation;
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