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Lead | EMPL | WEBER Renate ( ALDE) | KOZŁOWSKA-RAJEWICZ Agnieszka ( PPE), BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ Vilija ( S&D), STEVENS Helga ( ECR), KARI Rina Ronja ( GUE/NGL), ŽDANOKA Tatjana ( Verts/ALE), AGEA Laura ( EFDD) |
Committee Opinion | FEMM | ŠOJDROVÁ Michaela ( PPE) | |
Committee Opinion | LIBE | STEVENS Helga ( ECR) | Filiz HYUSMENOVA ( ALDE), Ulrike LUNACEK ( Verts/ALE), Soraya POST ( S&D), Csaba SÓGOR ( PPE) |
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RoP 54
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RoP 54Subjects
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The European Parliament adopted by 475 votes to 63 with 74 abstentions a resolution on the application of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (‘Employment Equality Directive’).
Prohibit discrimination: Parliament welcomed the fact that almost all Member States have included the general principle of equal treatment on specific grounds of discrimination in their constitutions. However, it regretted that only a few Member States have systematically ensured that all existing legal texts are in line with the principle of equal treatment .
regretting the increase in experiences of discrimination and harassment , Members called on the Commission to include a specific focus on all types of discrimination when monitoring the implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC , and to speed up the adoption of the EU horizontal anti-discrimination directive proposed by the Commission in 2008, which was voted for by Parliament.
Members noted that non-discrimination in the field of occupation and employment is only effective if discrimination is comprehensively combated in all areas of life through, for example, community support, legislation and coordination tools such as strategies and frameworks at both Member State and EU levels, including the possibility of introducing positive action measures.
Religion and belief : studies showed that the most discriminated religious groups in the area of employment include Jews, Sikhs and Muslims (and especially women). Members recommended the adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Given the increasingly xenophobic and Islamophobic context, Members considered that the consistent application of anti-discrimination legislation should be viewed as an important element in radicalisation prevention strategies. Whilst acknowledging the role played by the European Court of Human Rights’ through its decisions in the interpretation of the Directive in its entirety, Members expressed regret regarding the low number of cases referred to courts , which contrasts with the high number of discrimination occurrences that emerge from victimisation surveys but are not pursued in justice. Parliament called upon Member States to recognise the fundamental right to freedom of conscience. It insisted that religious freedom is an important principle that should be respected by employers, underlining, however, that the implementation of this principle is a question of subsidiarity.
Disability: Members encouraged Member States to interpret EU law in such a way as to provide a basis for a concept of disability in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). They stressed the importance of:
protecting disabled workers , including those with a terminal illness, from any form of discrimination in the workplace ensuring that socially responsible public procurement might be used as an instrument to integrate people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups into the labour market; using structural funds , in particular the European Social Fund, to adapt workplaces and to provide necessary assistance for persons with disabilities at work; implementing an all-encompassing framework for measures enabling access to quality employment for persons with disabilities.
Members encouraged Member States to: (i) develop and implement an all-encompassing framework for measures enabling access to quality employment for persons with disabilities, including the possibility of using, for example, fines imposed for failure to comply with anti-discrimination legislation; (ii) provide ongoing support to employers that hire persons with disabilities; (iii) combat prejudice against persons with disabilities, especially persons with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities.
Age: underlining the important contributions that older workers make to society and the competitiveness of companies, Parliament stressed the need to:
promote access to employment and integration into the labour market of all workers regardless of their age, and to apply measures in order to protect all workers in the workplace study the increasing problem of unemployment among people over the age of 50 and to develop effective tools in order to reintegrate older workers into the labour market and protect them against unfair dismissal; upscale digital skills among the working population to help older people and workers with disabilities remain longer in the labour market; promote free high-quality public services that provide proper and necessary care and assistance for children, the sick and the elderly.
Members welcomed the Commission's initiative on work-life balance . They recommended that the initiative fully include measures to support informal carers and grandparents of working age, as well as young parents.
Sexual orientation : Members recalled that the scope of protection from discrimination available to trans people remains uncertain in many Member States. They called for measures to implement effectively national legislation transposing the Gender Equality Directive (recast). They also regretted the general under-reporting of all forms of discrimination against LGBTI people and highlighted the role of national LGBTI organisations as key partners in raising awareness.
In general terms, Parliament recommended , inter alia:
developing harmonised and homogeneous statistics designed to fill in all gaps in the collection of gender equality data; strengthening the role of the national equality bodies, ensuring their impartiality, developing their activities and enhancing their capacities, including through the provision of adequate funding; displaying greater commitment in implementing the principle of equality between women and men in employment policies; enhancing the reconciliation of work and private life by concrete measures, such as urgently proposing new legislative proposals on the Maternity Leave Directive so as to guarantee the right for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave and parental leave; improving complaint mechanisms at national level by strengthening national equality bodies; paying close attention to the rules applicable to sanctions and redress in the Member States; ensuring adequate training is provided for employees of national, regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies and labour inspectorates; involving social partners (trade unions and employers) and civil society, including equality bodies, in the effective application of equality in employment and occupation.
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the own initiative report by Renate WEBER (ADLE, RO) on the application of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (‘Employment Equality Directive’). Whilst welcoming the fact that almost all Member States have included the general principle of equal treatment on specific grounds of discrimination in their constitutions, Members regretted that only a few Member States have systematically ensured that all existing legal texts are in line with the principle of equal treatment , and even fewer implement them systematically.
In particular, they regretted the increase in experiences of discrimination and harassment , including at the workplace and especially with regard to gender, nationality, social background, disability, discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, ethnic origin, and religion, particularly with regard to Muslim women and LGBTI people. Members called on the Commission to include a specific focus on all types of discrimination when monitoring the implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC , and to speed up the adoption of the EU horizontal anti-discrimination directive proposed by the Commission in 2008, which was voted for by Parliament.
Members noted that non-discrimination in the field of occupation and employment is only effective if discrimination is comprehensively combated in all areas of life through, for example, community support, legislation and coordination tools such as strategies and frameworks at both Member State and EU levels, including the possibility of introducing positive action measures.
Religion and belief : studies showed that the most discriminated religious groups in the area of employment include Jews, Sikhs and Muslims (and especially women). Members recommended the adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Whilst acknowledging the role played by the European Court of Human Rights’ through its decisions in the interpretation of the Directive in its entirety, Members expressed regret regarding the low number of cases referred to courts, which contrasts with the high number of discrimination occurrences that emerge from victimisation surveys but are not pursued in law.
Given the increasingly xenophobic and Islamophobic context, Members considered that the consistent application of anti-discrimination legislation should be viewed as an important element in radicalisation prevention strategies. Furthermore, they felt that further harmonisation is needed when assessing the principle of the secularity of the state against the provisions of Article 4(2) of the Employment Equality Directive regarding the ethos.
The report called upon Member States to recognise the fundamental right to freedom of conscience, and noted that restrictions imposed by employers to the wearing of religious symbols are not always in line with international human rights standards.
Disability : noting that Directive 2000/78 in itself does not contain any definition of the concept of disability, Members encouraged Member States to interpret EU law in such a way as to provide a basis for a concept of disability in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD),
Deploring the fact that the employment rate among women with disabilities is less than 5%, the report stressed the importance of protecting disabled workers, including those with a terminal illness, from any form of discrimination in the workplace, as well as the need to protect these workers from unfair dismissal.
Members encouraged Member States to: (i) develop and implement an all-encompassing framework for measures enabling access to quality employment for persons with disabilities, including the possibility of using, for example, fines imposed for failure to comply with anti-discrimination legislation; (ii) provide ongoing support to employers that hire persons with disabilities; (iii) combat prejudice against persons with disabilities, especially persons with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities.
Age : underlining the important contributions that older workers make to society and the competitiveness of companies, Members called on Member States to promote access to employment and integration into the labour market of all workers regardless of their age, and to apply measures in order to protect all workers in the workplace
The report stressed the need to study the increasing problem of unemployment among people over the age of 50 and to develop effective tools, such as vocational training and incentives or subsidies for employers, in order to reintegrate older workers into the labour market and protect them against unfair dismissal. It underlined the need to upscale digital skills among the working population to help older people and workers with disabilities remain longer in the labour market.
Members welcomed the Commission's initiative on work-life balance. They recommended that the initiative fully include measures to support informal carers and grandparents of working age, as well as young parents.
Sexual orientation : Members recalled that the scope of protection from discrimination available to trans people remains uncertain in many Member States. They called for measures to implement effectively national legislation transposing the Gender Equality Directive (recast). Such measures could improve legal definitions to ensure that protection includes all transgender people and not only trans people who are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment.
In general, the report recommended , inter alia:
developing harmonised and homogeneous statistics designed to fill in all gaps in the collection of gender equality data; strengthening the role of the national equality bodies, ensuring their impartiality, developing their activities and enhancing their capacities, including through the provision of adequate funding; displaying greater commitment in implementing the principle of equality between women and men in employment policies; enhancing the reconciliation of work and private life by concrete measures, such as urgently proposing new legislative proposals on the Maternity Leave Directive so as to guarantee the right for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave and parental leave; improving complaint mechanisms at national level by strengthening national equality bodies; paying close attention to the rules applicable to sanctions and redress in the Member States; ensuring adequate training is provided for employees of national, regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies and labour inspectorates; involving social partners (trade unions and employers) and civil society, including equality bodies, in the effective application of equality in employment and occupation.
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2016)876
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0360/2016
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0225/2016
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE580.773
- Committee opinion: PE573.202
- Committee opinion: PE575.126
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE578.695
- Committee draft report: PE575.375
- Committee draft report: PE575.375
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE578.695
- Committee opinion: PE575.126
- Committee opinion: PE573.202
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE580.773
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2016)876
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Amendments | Dossier |
77 |
2015/2116(INI)
2016/02/02
LIBE
23 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Is concerned that according to the 2013 EU LGBT survey by the Fundamental Rights Agency 20% of the respondents who were employed and/or looking for a job in the 12 months preceding the survey felt discriminated against; regrets that underreporting of cases of discrimination remains a problem; highlights the need to raise awareness among LGBTI people about their rights, e.g. through equality bodies, trade unions and employer organisations;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls on the Commission to include a specific focus on all type of discrimination when monitoring the implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes with concern the lack of awareness of the victim’s rights and the possibilities of seeking redress, and therefore calls for structured and targeted awareness-raising activities to be carried out in relation to EU
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes with concern the lack of awareness of the victim
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Expresses its concern over the lack of legal clarity and certainty regarding multiple discrimination
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Expresses its concern over the lack of legal clarity and certainty regarding multiple discrimination, often as a consequence of the existence of differing and fragmented rules and standards across Member States
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Regrets that severe labour exploitation persist within the European Union. Notes that victims of severe labour exploitation are often not aware of their rights, the competent authorities they can address and the possibilities for receiving support and redress. Calls in that regard for the establishment of an European platform and hotline providing relevant information to victims of severe labour exploitation, including specific information about each Member State.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes with concern the lack of comparable equality data, as well as huge differences in the reporting of cases across Member States. Notes that the collection of equality data does not go counter to data protection rules insofar as the legal safeguards are respected and points out that, according to Special Eurobarometer 263, there is a broad willingness among the European public to provide personal information as part of a census on anonymous basis to combat discrimination. Urges member states to systematically collect equality data in order to make existing discrimination, and especially indirect discrimination, more visible. Notes that ethnic data is still scarce in many member states;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes with concern the lack of comparable equality data, as well as huge differences in the reporting of cases across Member States; encourages the Commission and Member States, together with relevant agencies, to regularly collect relevant and comparable data disaggregated according to ground of discrimination, including multiple discrimination;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes with concern the lack of comparable and disaggregated equality data, as well as huge differences in the reporting of cases across Member States;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Notes that non-discrimination in the field of occupation and employment is only effective if discrimination is comprehensively combated
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Notes that non-discrimination in the field of occupation and employment is only effective if discrimination is comprehensively combated in all areas of life, therefore calls for vertical and horizontal alignment of protection from discrimination, both through legislation and through coordination tools, such as strategies and frameworks. Calls upon Member States to make use of the possibility to introduce positive action in case of groups that suffer of severe and structural discrimination;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Points out that for people with disabilities accessibility is a precondition to equal participation and an active role in society. Welcomes the recent proposal for an European Accessibility Act, as such a measure will certainly have a real and positive impact on the lives of persons with disabilities.
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the recent proposal for an European Accessibility Act, as such a measure will certainly have a real and positive impact on the lives of persons with disabilities; notes that the communication on this proposal was very poor resulting in a stagnation of the negotiations in the Council of the directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons, irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, blocked in the Council since it was proposed by the Commission in 2008 and voted in the Parliament in 2009.
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Regrets the fact that the notion of human rights as being universal, indivisible and interrelated remains, as a principle of law, a matter more of theory than of practice
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Regrets the increase in experiences of discrimination and harassment, especially with regard to gender, ethnic origin or religion,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Regrets the increase in experiences of discrimination and harassment at the work place, especially with regard to gender, ethnic origin or religion, and particularly affecting Muslim women, while at the same time being aware of the general under-reporting of all forms of discrimination, and especially disability- based discrimination;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Regrets the increase in experiences of discrimination and harassment, especially with regard to gender, nationality, social background, ethnic origin or religion, and particularly affecting Muslim women, while at the same time being aware of the general under-reporting of all forms of discrimination, and especially disability- based discrimination;
source: 576.806
2016/02/24
FEMM
54 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the Commission’s application report1 states that all 28 Member States have transposed the Directive into national legislation, but legislation alone is not enough to ensure full equality and must be combined with appropriate policy action; whereas policy measures such as the Directive on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures have already been adopted by Parliament, and whereas such measures have the potential to help bring about greater equality for women within employment and improve women's access to management positions; whereas similar appropriate measures to strengthen women in corporate middle management appear to be necessary too; __________________ 1 COM(2014)0002
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children, family and household; whereas the
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children, the elderly, the family and the household, and this responsibility is greater if they have children with disabilities;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children, family and household; whereas these responsibilities have a direct effect on women’s careers
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children, family and household; whereas these responsibilities have a direct
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children and other dependents, family and household; whereas these responsibilities have a direct effect on women’s careers, negatively affect their conditions of employment and produce pay and pension gaps;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas labour deregulation policies, in particular the destruction of the notion of occupational careers and categories and attacks on collective bargaining, have left women in particular more vulnerable to precarious employment, wage discrimination and a lack of social protection, which has consequences for their contribution record and leads to pension disparities that are significantly wider than the corresponding wage disparities;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas women are often forced into insecure and unstable employment contracts which effects their lives in an unjust matter which enhances the multiple discrimination and reproduces gender pay gaps; therefore reiterates the need of different forms of leave with non- transferable rights, especially parental leave, and also the need to implement the Barcelona objectives;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas single-parent families, primarily single mothers, can be found much more frequently among the working poor and all measures adopted should focus on single parents;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas a broad range of skills and competences gained by women when fulfilling family responsibilities bring an enrichment for their personal and professional development; and therefore these competences should be recognized by the society and the employer;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the European Union is confronted with a major economic, financial and social crisis that particularly affects women in the labour market and in their personal lives, since they are more likely to be in insecure jobs and more liable to become unemployed and to have no social security cover;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the Commission’s application report1 states that all 28 Member States have transposed the Directive into national legislation, but legislation alone is not enough to ensure full equality and must be
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the lack of genuinely effective work-life balance laws is resulting in discrimination against working parents;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas there are still cases of multiple, direct and indirect discrimination of women on the labour market, despite the implementation of equal treatment in Member States; whereas women are not always aware of their rights under existing European and national legislation on equality and discrimination, or doubt the effectiveness of reporting cases of discrimination; stresses, therefore, the importance of information and guidance documents, awareness campaigns and information portals, particularly for specific groups (minorities, young people, women);
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas there are still cases of multiple, direct and indirect discrimination of women on the labour market, despite the implementation of equal treatment in Member States; whereas women are not always aware of their rights under existing European and national legislation on equality and discrimination, or doubt the effectiveness of reporting cases of discrimination; whereas there are many different types of indirect discrimination, all of which must be covered by the standard definition whereby discrimination occurs where different rules are applied in comparable situations or the same rule is applied in different situations;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas there are still cases of multiple, direct and indirect discrimination of women on the labour market, despite the theoretical implementation of equal treatment in Member States; whereas women are not always aware of their rights under existing European and national legislation on equality and discrimination, or doubt the effectiveness of reporting cases of discrimination;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas multiple discrimination is a reality for many women in the EU; the main case is because still in the EU, an individual is not protected outside the workplace against discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, age, disability or sexual orientation; non- discrimination in the field of occupation and employment is only effective if discrimination is comprehensively outlawed in all other fields, including education, access to goods and services and social protection;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the Commission has a responsibility to supervise the implementation of the Directive 2000/78/EC in each Member State, and report and address any shortcomings in its enforcement;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes with concern the absence of case- law providing an interpretation of ‘indirect discrimination’ in certain Member States, as well as the difficulty that its definition posed for the transposition of the Directive in certain Member States; suggests that the Commission should provide advice for Member States on such interpretation difficulties;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Asks the Members States to develop gender-neutral job classifications and evaluation systems as indispensable measures to foster equal treatment;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Member States to promote free high-quality public services that provide proper and necessary care and assistance for children, the sick and the elderly;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the Commission’s application report1 states that all 28 Member States have transposed the Directive into national legislation, but legislation alone is not enough to ensure full equality in the labour market and must be combined with appropriate policy action; __________________ 1 COM(2014)0002 COM(2014)0002
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the low number of complaints, which represent only a small percentage of actual cases of discrimination across the EU; notes that in some Member States the figures may be lower still because there are clear cases of discrimination that remain unreported and whose perpetrators are not prosecuted; stresses the need to redouble efforts to raise awareness, spread information, improve access to justice and complaint mechanisms, extend time limits for lodging a complaint for discrimination (which are currently too short), reduce the length and cost of processes and increase the availability of legal aid for complainants lacking resources, who are mostly women;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Deplores the fact that Directive 2000/78/EC contains no specific provisions on multiple discrimination, although it does at least state that women are often victims of it; notes, furthermore, that the combination of two or more forms of discrimination may pose problems arising from divergences in the guaranteed level of protection for different forms; stresses how important it is for the Council to reach an agreement as soon as possible for the adoption of a common position on the proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons, irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (COM(2008) 426), adopted by the European Parliament at first reading in April 2009, which explicitly addresses multiple discrimination;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to develop harmonised and homogeneous statistics designed to fill in all gaps in the collection of equality data
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to fill in all gaps in the collection of equality data; recalls that this data should be comparable,
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to fill in all gaps in the collection of equality data because the scarcity of equality data makes it difficult to assess situations of discrimination and establish proof of its existence, especially in the case of indirect discrimination, in which statistics play a key role in proving the adverse effects of a superficially neutral measure directed to a specific group; recalls that this data should be comparable
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to fill in all gaps in the collection of equality data; recalls that this data should be comparable, gender-disaggregated and take into account differences between women with and without children in order to allow for a correct assessment of multiple and indirect discrimination; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide systematic gender- disaggregated information and statistics as part of the national reporting process and in the annual Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to fill in all gaps in the collection of
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Member States to implement labour legislation that promotes labour regulation, collective bargaining, social protection and higher wages; calls likewise on the Member States to eliminate legislation that allows or regulates precarious employment;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the application and transposition of Directive 2006/54/EC have been assessed and Parliament, in its report dated 25 June 2015, set out its serious misgivings concerning the implementation of the Directive's provisions on putting into practice the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to strengthen their equality bodies, as these bodies should take on a leading role in simplifying and facilitating the lodging of complaints by victims of discrimination, improving complaint mechanisms and organising awareness campaigns as regards women’s rights on the labour market;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to strengthen their equality bodies, as these bodies should take on a leading role in improving complaint mechanisms and organising
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Member States to develop and strengthen national labour inspection bodies, providing the conditions and financial and human resources that will enable them to maintain an effective presence on the ground in order to combat precarious employment, unregulated employment and labour and wage discrimination, in particular from the point of view of equality between men and women;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the importance of reversing the burden of proof to ensure the correct processing of complaints of discrimination in the courts and by other relevant authorities; believes it necessary to foster the correct application of this concept by training national judges and legal practitioners;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to give priority to tackling the issue of discrimination against parents wishing to combine work with childcare, which stems from a lack of family-friendly employment practices such as flexible working arrangements and teleworking;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States, in particular by also making active use of gender budgeting, to pursue the implementation of equal treatment in employment policies and measures that would encourage the employment of women
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to pursue the implementation of equal treatment in employment policies and measures that would also encourage
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas social inequalities, in particular as regards employment equality, can be combated only through policies guaranteeing a better distribution of wealth, based on an increase in real wages, action to promote labour and working time regulation and labour protection, in particular through collective bargaining and guaranteed universal free access to high-quality public healthcare and education services;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to pursue the implementation of
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to pursue the implementation of equal treatment in employment policies and measures that would encourage the employment of women on fair grounds without insecure forms of employment and reduce pay and pension gaps.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Takes the view that equality in employment is severely hindered by the absence of EU legislation prohibiting discrimination outside employment and urges the Council to overcome ongoing political inertia and swiftly adopt the proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment of persons, irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation outside employment that was proposed by the Commission in 2008 and voted in the Parliament in 2009.
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes the fact that the overwhelming majority of Member States have considered some form of positive action within the scope of the Directive;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Notes with concern that national courts tend to apply the lower scale of sanctions provided for by law and award the lowest possible levels of compensation; emphasises the need for the Commission to pay close attention to the rules applicable to sanctions and redress in the Member States to ensure that domestic law does not, as the European Court of Justice has reported, provide for purely symbolic punishments or only issue warnings in cases of discrimination;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas austerity policies and policies that attack workers’ rights through labour deregulation and the destruction of specific labour inspection mechanisms have fostered precarious employment, inequality and exploitation;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas in most Member States the provision of free and high-quality public services providing care and assistance for children, the sick and the elderly has worsened as a result of privatisation policies, the destruction of public services and the imposition of austerity and poverty policies;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas women are most affected by unemployment and suffer negative discrimination in terms of access to jobs, particularly in the case of mothers and women who want to have children;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas, for these reasons, women are
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