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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | EMPL | SYLIKIOTIS Neoklis ( GUE/NGL) | ROLIN Claude ( PPE), SIMON Siôn ( S&D), MCINTYRE Anthea ( ECR), DLABAJOVÁ Martina ( ALDE), REINTKE Terry ( Verts/ALE), AGEA Laura ( EFDD), MARTIN Dominique ( ENF) |
Committee Opinion | FEMM | Daniela AIUTO ( EFDD), Inés AYALA SENDER ( S&D), Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA ( ALDE), Anna ZÁBORSKÁ ( PPE) | |
Committee Opinion | AGRI | PIMENTA LOPES João ( GUE/NGL) | José BOVÉ ( Verts/ALE), Giulia MOI ( EFDD), Sofia RIBEIRO ( PPE), Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ ( GUE/NGL) |
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The European Parliament adopted by 504 votes to 111, with 59 abstentions, a resolution on working conditions and precarious employment.
It should be noted that an alternative motion for a resolution tabled by the ENF Group was rejected in plenary by 65 votes to 622, with 4 abstentions.
Parliament noted that during the last 10 years standard employment has fallen from 62 % to 59 %. If this trend continues it may well become the case that standard contracts will only apply to a minority of workers.
It noted that the risk of precariousness depends on the type of contract but also on the following factors:
little or no job security owing to the non-permanent nature of the work, as in involuntary and often marginal part-time contracts, and, in some Member States, unclear working hours and duties that change owing to on-demand work; rudimentary protection from dismissal and lack of sufficient social protection in case of dismissal; insufficient remuneration for a decent living; no or limited social protection rights or benefits; no or limited protection against any form of discrimination; no or limited prospects for advancement in the labour market or career development and training; low level of collective rights and limited right to collective representation; a working environment that fails to meet minimum health and safety standards.
Parliament highlighted that decent work should specifically provide:
a living wage, also guaranteeing the right of freedom of association; collective agreements in line with Member States’ practices; workers’ participation in company matters in line with Member States’ practices; respect of collective bargaining; equal treatment of workers in the same workplace; workplace health and safety; social security protection for workers and their dependents; provisions on working and rest time; protection against dismissal; access to training and lifelong learning; support for work-life balance for all workers.
At the same time, it called on the Commission and Members States to adopt economic policies to ensure job creation, and rights at work in accordance with the ILO Decent Work Agenda.
Parliament also stressed that digitalisation and automation, are contributing to the transformation of the nature of work , including the rise in new forms of employment. This in turn might need new forms of protection. It highlighted the fact that workers with very short contracts are those most exposed to adverse conditions and that atypical labour relations are being overused to the point of abuse.
The Commission and Member States are therefore called upon to strengthen social dialogue in the work place as well as reinforce labour inspectorates , particularly in sectors that employ migrants.
Proposals : overall, the Parliament asked the Commission and Member States to tackle precarious employment, including undeclared work and bogus self-employment , in line with the ILO Decent Work Agenda, and the European Social Charter.
It called on the Commission and the Member States to:
increase job quality in non-standard jobs by providing, at the least, a set of minimum standards as regards social protection, minimum wage levels and access to training and development; ensure that national social security systems are fit for purpose when it comes to new forms of employment; assess new forms of employment driven by digitalization and the collaborative economy; ensure that individual self-employed workers who are legally considered a sole- member company have the right to collective bargaining ; adopt targeted policies to protect workers in the informal economy ; protect vulnerable workers such as disabled people, migrants or women working in precarious conditions; tackle the phenomenon of ‘mobbing’ in the workplace, including the harassment of pregnant female employees or any disadvantage experienced after returning from maternity leave; ensure decent working conditions for all first work experience opportunities for young people, such as internships; introduce new measures to improve worker mobility ; ensure the rights of seasonal workers; combat undeclared work , bogus self-employment and all forms of illegal employment practices which undermine workers’ rights and social security systems.
Lastly, Parliament considered that under no circumstances should increase demands for flexibility on the labour market result in women continuing to be over-represented in atypical employment and among those with insecure employment status.
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the own-initiative report by Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS (GUE/NGL, CY) on working conditions and precarious employment.
Members noted that during the last 10 years standard employment has fallen from 62 % to 59 %. If this trend continues it may well become the case that standard contracts will only apply to a minority of workers.
Towards decent work - addressing working conditions and precarious employment : noting that here is no common definition of precarious employment so far, Members called on Member States to take into account the following: International Labour Organisation (ILO) indicators to determine the existence of an employment relationship:
little or no job security owing to the non-permanent nature of the work, as in involuntary and often marginal part-time contracts, and, in some Member States, unclear working hours and duties that change owing to on-demand work; rudimentary protection from dismissal and lack of sufficient social protection in case of dismissal; insufficient remuneration for a decent living; no or limited social protection rights or benefits; no or limited protection against any form of discrimination; no or limited prospects for advancement in the labour market or career development and training; low level of collective rights and limited right to collective representation; a working environment that fails to meet minimum health and safety standards.
The committee recalled the ILO definition of ‘decent work’ , which states that such work should be productive and deliver a fair income, with a safe workplace and social protection, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, and participate in the decisions that affect their lives, with equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men. The committee encouraged the Commission and the Member States to endorse this definition when reviewing or developing employment legislation.
At the same time, it called on the Commission and Members States to adopt economic policies to ensure job creation, and rights at work in accordance with the ILO Decent Work Agenda.
Members also stressed that digitalisation and automation, are contributing to the transformation of the nature of work, including the rise in new forms of employment. This in turn might need new forms of protection. They highlighted the fact that workers with very short contracts are those most exposed to adverse conditions and that atypical labour relations are being overused to the point of abuse.
The Commission and Member States are therefore called upon to strengthen social dialogue in the work place as well as reinforce labour inspectorates , particularly in sectors that employ migrants.
Proposals: overall, the report asked the Commission and Member States to tackle precarious employment, including undeclared work and bogus self-employment , in line with the ILO Decent Work Agenda, and the European Social Charter.
It called on the Commission and the Member States to:
increase job quality in non-standard jobs by providing, at the least, a set of minimum standards as regards social protection, minimum wage levels and access to training and development; ensure that national social security systems are fit for purpose when it comes to new forms of employment; assess new forms of employment driven by digitalization and the collaborative economy; ensure that individual self-employed workers who are legally considered a sole- member company have the right to collective bargaining ; adopt targeted policies to protect workers in the informal economy ; protect vulnerable workers such as disabled people, migrants or women working in precarious conditions; tackle the phenomenon of ‘mobbing’ in the workplace, including the harassment of pregnant female employees or any disadvantage experienced after returning from maternity leave; ensure decent working conditions for all first work experience opportunities for young people, such as internships ensure the rights of seasonal workers.
Lastly, Members considered that under no circumstances should increase demands for flexibility on the labour market result in women continuing to be over-represented in atypical employment and among those with insecure employment status.
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2017)619
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0290/2017
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0224/2017
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE601.282
- Committee opinion: PE592.286
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE597.730
- Committee opinion: PE595.615
- Committee draft report: PE587.795
- Committee draft report: PE587.795
- Committee opinion: PE595.615
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE597.730
- Committee opinion: PE592.286
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE601.282
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2017)619
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Amendments | Dossier |
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2016/2221(INI)
2016/12/07
AGRI
108 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital -A (new) -A. whereas agriculture and the agrifood industry account for 6% of EU GDP, 15 million businesses and 46 million jobs;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital Б B. whereas these inherent problems are compounded by short-term factors, such as economic uncertainties and changes and unpredictable weather, which, as can be seen today, make the situation of workers in the
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Recalls also the importance of a strong common agricultural policy which is able to help young farmers play a bigger role in the market and also to create living conditions conducive to their remaining in farming in the long term;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Notes the increasing reporting specific illnesses related to the use of synthetic pesticides by farmers and agricultural workers, e.g. non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Parkinson's disease and multiple chemical sensitivity;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Draws the attention of the Commission and the Member States to the inhuman working conditions of herders in areas where livestock farming is subject to predation by large carnivores and other animals;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Notes that, according to medics and scientists, the repeated and regular use of pesticides may lead to reproductive disorders and carcinogenic effects seen in rural populations;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Urges the Commission to repeal any regulations hindering collective bargaining or the agreement on minimum remunerative prices;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Urges the Commission, via the CAP, and the Member States to work to encourage shared ownership or co- ownership of family farms as an way of recognising the rights of non-owners in couples in which both partners work on the farm;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. Further notes that this cumulative exposure, including to a cocktail of chemical substances, is inadequately taken into account in the current authorisation process and its data requirements;
Amendment 107 #
5 e. Notes that improving working conditions of farmers and agricultural workers also depends on reducing their exposure to chemical treatments in the workplace; Is concerned that such exposure and measures intended to limit that exposure may be insufficiently recognised and controlled by EU and national authorities;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5 f. Calls the European Commission to report on the implementation of the European law in this field and specifically to assess how effectively measures are implemented by the Member States regarding farmers and agricultural workers' occupational exposure to chemical pesticides.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B B.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas age structural agricultural sector creates concern since from 2010 only 7.5% of farmers were under 35 years old and more than 4.5 million of those now running farms are aged over 65; whereas in the period 2000- 2012, 4.8 million full-time jobs were lost in the EU agricultural industry, 70% of which were in the new Member States and 93% were self-employed, and whereas, in that connection, it is difficult to accurately assess the number of people employed in agriculture since 'illegal' employment is, by its very nature, not included in the available data1a ; _________________ 1aEuropean Commission-Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development. 2014 Management Plan (July)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas, in many Member States, women in rural regions have limited access to employment in farming or other sectors of the labour market and experience a wider pay gap than in other areas, yet they play an extremely important role in the development and social fabric of rural areas, particularly on farms ;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the crisis of recent years has severely affected farmers’ capacity to invest and create employment, to the detriment of modernisation, innovation, the involvement of young people in farming and generational renewal;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights observed in its 2015 report that "the EU already has a solid legal framework that clearly proscribes labour exploitation, but implementation lags far behind"1a ; _________________ 1a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: "Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union States’ obligations and victims’ rights", 2015, p. 3.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas free trade agreements, which promote industrialised and finance-driven agriculture, undermine the rural fabric and may ultimately lead to the disappearance of rural labour;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas agriculture is an important factor in meeting the food needs of every State and contributes to the development of the country because it creates jobs;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the geography, topography and accessibility of the land, in particular in mountainous areas, necessarily make employment and working conditions in the farming industry very problematic and insecure; whereas the Troika's austerity policies affect agriculture even more and reduce employment in that sector;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas Union policies have contributed to a deepening of the crisis in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas agricultural work is often weather-dependent and seasonal;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas EU farmers' average annual incomes have stagnated or even declined over the past 10 years, while production costs have continuously increased, resulting in a substantial drop in the number of farms and the threat of many job losses in rural areas;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas farmers face many challenges, such as irregular and reduced incomes, large investments and the financial risks necessary to keep their farms going, which put them in an increasingly precarious situation;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas free-trade agreements and the focus on exports places great pressure on farmers to reduce prices at source, a further source of job insecurity;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) B b. whereas many agricultural activities are carried out by assisting family members, often without social protection;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas applying competition rules on farms prevents minimum price agreements between producers and the processing and distribution companies, which equates to handing the business and distribution sector a dominant position, thus jeopardising the jobs of farmers;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas the more vulnerable categories of seasonal workers are very often exploited in the farming sector;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas title deeds of family farms are mainly held by men, which means that women working on such farms are in a more precarious situation;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas social and economic circumstances and living conditions have changed substantially over recent years and whereas there are large disparities in this respect between and within Member States;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the geography, topography and accessibility of the land, in particular
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Recital B e (new) Be. whereas the EU's agri-food export sector is growing steadily and playing a key role in driving economic recovery and, as a result of the number of new businesses being set up, also in job creation;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 32 #
1. Stresses that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors, such as price and market fluctuations or even unpredictable weather, that make employment prospects precarious and insecure, and these have a particular impact on the ORs and mountain regions; considers that the Commission and the Member States must encourage the use of income-stabilisation and risk-
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors that make job prospects precarious and insecure, such as price and market fluctuations or even unpredictable weather
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors, such as price and market fluctuations or even unpredictable weather, that make employment prospects precarious and insecure; considers that the Commission and the Member States must encourage the use of income-stabilisation and risk- management tools and take measures to strengthen the agricultural sector within the Union;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors, such as price and market fluctuations or even unpredictable weather, that make employment prospects precarious and insecure; considers that
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors, such as price and market fluctuations or even unpredictable weather, that make employment prospects precarious and insecure; considers that the
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that farmers and farm workers are, by virtue of their profession, exposed to a range of external factors, such as price and market fluctuations, imbalances in agrifood chain o or even unpredictable weather, that make employment prospects precarious and insecure; considers that the Commission and the Member States must encourage the use of income-stabilisation and risk- management tools;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point a (new) (a) Considers that payments for nature conservation services - 'green' and 'blue' services - should be realistic;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Points out that most of the risk management instruments, mutual funds, income stabilisation and insurance tools made available under rural development programmes are being implemented unevenly and with limited budget funding; recommends, therefore, that the current second-pillar measures should be strengthened in order to make the EU farming industry more competitive and ensure that EU farmers have stable incomes and a decent standard of living;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the geography, topography and accessibility of the land, in particular in mountainous areas and the outermost regions - ORs, necessarily make employment and working conditions in the farming industry very problematic and insecure;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls on Member States to exchange best practice and to consider new innovative ways of developing an adaptable and flexible labour market to meet the challenges of a rural economy;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses that a stable income is essential if farmers are to gain access to loans;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Draws attention to the specific case of seasonal workers, whose working conditions are particularly precarious; understands ‘seasonal workers’ to be workers who have entered into open-ended or fixed-term employment contracts, the duration and renewal of which are contingent to a major degree on seasonal factors, such as the changing weather, public holidays and/or the timing of harvests; calls on the Commission and the Member States to regulate the social and legal status of seasonal workers and to provide them with social security cover, while complying with the principle of 'equal pay and equal social protection for the same work';
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Draws attention to the specific case of seasonal workers, whose working conditions are particularly precarious; understands ‘seasonal workers’ to be workers who have entered into open-ended or fixed-term employment contracts, the duration and renewal of which are contingent to a major degree on seasonal factors, such as the changing weather, public holidays and/or the timing of harvests; calls on the Commission
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Draws attention to the specific case of seasonal workers, whose working conditions are particularly precarious; understands ‘seasonal workers’ to be workers who have entered into open-ended or fixed-term employment contracts, the duration and renewal of which are contingent to a major degree on seasonal factors, such as the changing weather, public holidays and/or the timing of harvests;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Draws attention to the specific case of seasonal workers, whose working conditions are particularly precarious; understands ‘seasonal workers’ to be workers who have entered into
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Draws attention to the specific case of seasonal workers, whose working conditions
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Draws attention to the problematic situation of posted workers, whose status is regulated by Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996; calls for the withdrawal of this Directive, which is the basis for social dumping between Member States, unfair competition and de facto favouritism for workers from countries with lower social security costs;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the importance of never confusing family work with precarious work, recalling that family farms make up around 85% of all farms in Europe and account for 68% of the total utilised agricultural area, which means that it is important to establish a legal framework for this type of work at European level, with its own status, rights and obligations;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the geography, topography and accessibility of the land, in particular in mountainous areas and outermost regions, necessarily make employment and working conditions in the farming industry very problematic and insecure;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Member States to transpose Directive 2014/36/EU on seasonal workers into national legislation; calls on them also to make sure that it is correctly implemented, and asks the Commission to submit a progress report on its implementation by September 2019;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes reports of abuse of migrant workers' rights by organised crime groups operating in the EU who exploit insufficient job market transparency and systemic weaknesses of freedom of movement in order to take advantage of the workers; urges Member States to increase their oversight of migrant workers' employment conditions;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Recalls that Directive 2014/36/EU on the conditions of entry and stay of third- country nationals for the purpose of employment as seasonal workers establishes a minimum standard of rights covering accommodation, pay and dismissal, working hours, leave and holidays;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to define minimum working conditions in agriculture in order to ensure safety at work, basic and further training facilities and workers' rights;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on all Member States to ratify Directive 2014/36/EU, under which seasonal workers from third countries must be given the same rights as European citizens in the EU country concerned;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Calls to the Commission together with the Members States to explore schemes to give seasonal workers long- term employment such as the implementation of pluriactivity contracts across the EU, or even via a European Agreement;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to disqualify from CAP and EAFRD support any employer who has been convicted of breaching worker safety regulations or using undeclared workers;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Calls on the Member States to transpose Directive 2014/36/EU on seasonal workers into national legislation; calls on the Commission together with Members States to address the cases of immigrants´ exploitation in agricultural sector in those regions where farm workers work for almost no money and live in deplorable conditions; draws the attention of the possible "inefficiency" of labour market intermediaries, allowing the increase of influence of gangmaster agencies operating at the limits of or even outside the existing rules;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that measures are taken to address the relatively high accident risk as well as structural and seasonal unemployment and to ensure that unskilled work is reduced by enabling workers to acquire skills by providing basic and further training facilities, thereby averting the possible exploitation of workers;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls on the Commission to gauge the scale of illegal employment networks in the EU by conducting investigations and compiling statistics, in particular in the parts of the EU in which undeclared work and farm labour exploitation are most common;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the geography, topography and accessibility of the land, in particular in mountainous areas, necessarily make employment
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Stresses the need to take effective action, including targeted inspections and checks, to ensure that seasonal workers enjoy decent working and living conditions in all parts of the EU, in particular in the areas in which seasonal working is most common, and emphasises the need to ensure that employment rights and labour laws are upheld and, in general, working conditions are very good;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2 c. Draws the attention to the increasingly high standards of professional competence required by agricultural sector and, therefore, the need to raises a real question about the content of vocational training to ensure a better qualification and employability of workers;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and women have particular
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and women have particular difficulty in finding jobs in rural areas or starting a farm of their own in Member States of the southern Europe, such as Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that funding for young farmers and support programmes for women in rural areas guarantee high- quality jobs with fair wages;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and women have particular difficulty in finding jobs in rural areas or starting a farm of their own;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and women have particular difficulty in finding jobs in rural areas or starting a farm of their own; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that funding for young farmers and support programmes for women in rural areas guarantee high- quality jobs with fair wages and that the investments made bolster and develop the local economy in a sustainable manner;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and women have particular
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that young people and women have particular difficulty in finding jobs in rural areas or starting a farm of their own; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that funding for
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas these inherent problems are compounded by short-term factors, such as economic uncertainties
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Draws attention to the fact that women are disproportionately affected by precarious working conditions; stresses that they are in an even worse position with regard to farm ownership, as only 29% of farmland is owned by women; urges action to tackle the gender gap in rural areas, in order to improve women's working conditions and their access to land; points out that the gender pay gap is more than 10% higher in rural areas than elsewhere; stresses the need for gender mainstreaming in EU agricultural and rural policies; emphasises, in this connection, the importance of having up- to-date statistics on farm ownership and female employment in rural areas;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage and facilitate women’s equality in the labour market and the compatibility of work and private life in rural areas, particularly regarding wages and social and pension rights, promotion of new qualifications and offering prospects and opportunities for women in agricultural employment, in line with the principle of equality and non-discrimination in EU policies and programmes;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to analyse and tackle the obstacles faced by women in rural areas, including a lack of public and social infrastructure and unequal access to credit, technical equipment and other important resources, such as land and water, in order to ensure the full participation of women in rural areas;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to step up support for technical training for seasonal farm workers, while involving producers' organisations in this process, in relation to both the drawing-up of training plans and dissemination and incentives for workers, as well as action to raise workers' awareness of their rights;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls on industry to take up all opportunities arising from innovation to develop precision farming which is accessible to all thus empowering people with disabilities, promoting gender equality and broadening the skills base and employment opportunities in rural communities;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on all the Member States to offer young farmers long-term prospects in order to address the problem of rural depopulation, to implement a comprehensive generational renewal strategy and, to this end, to make full use of all the opportunities available under the new CAP to support young farmers and new entrants to farming, with particular regard to the first- and second- pillar aid measures for young farmers, and also to help new entrants over the age of 40 to set up in farming;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Urges Member States to develop coordination mechanisms that will offer seasonal workers continuous work, through professional integration in the various businesses in the various agricultural subsectors, as a means of preventing precariousness;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to put into practice
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to put into practice the recommendations set out in the Andrieu report (‘How can the CAP improve job creation in rural areas?’), which was adopted by Parliament on 27 October 2016, and in particular t
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas these inherent problems are compounded by short-term factors, such as economic uncertainties and unpredictable weather, which, as can be seen today, make the situation of workers in the farming industry all the more difficult, leading to a decline in the number of farmers and small family farms, an increase in large-scale production facilities and the disappearance of the rural fabric;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to put into practice the recommendations set out in the Andrieu report (‘How can the CAP improve job creation in rural areas?’), which was adopted by Parliament on 27 October 2016, and in particular that concerning the mobilisation of funds from the EAFRD in an effort to develop a
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 – point a (new) (a) Calls on Member States to use the European Fund for Strategic Investments purposefully to create sustainable jobs in farming in order to stimulate employment in rural areas;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Points out that, in the outermost regions, the search for employment solutions, especially in times of economic contraction, is compromised by the lack of interconnectivity, and, given the importance of agriculture in these regions, takes the view that the funds under the CAP ought to continue to apply positive discrimination to these territories facing specific constraints as recognised in the TFEU, given its multiplier effect in terms of promoting other related activities, such as agro-industry, tourism, nature conservation, energy production and the circular economy, in a way that complements the multi-fund strategy for more cohesion and balanced territotrial development;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to assess the social impact of the current agricultural crisis, in particular in terms of job losses, especially in rural areas; calls on the Member States to look at how farming may be made more competitive in order to create jobs and generate added value which is shared equitably throughout the farming and agri-food industries, ensuring fair competition and minimising the damage done by social dumping and precarious employment, which disproportionately affect certain groups;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises the need for a proportion of EU cohesion funding to be granted to disadvantaged regions, such as mountain areas and the outermost regions, so as to ensure the fair creation, maintenance and development of decent working conditions and payment in all EU regions;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to set up programmes for inter-Member State exchanges of information and best practices concerning worker protection, action to combat the illegal employment of agricultural workers for very little pay and the exploitation of agricultural workers, in particular women workers;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission to harness potential new synergies between the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs), in particular the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), in order to leverage investment designed to improve working conditions and combat precarious employment;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to emphasise the role that the social partners and social protection agencies should play in rural areas in combating undeclared work and improving safety and well-being at work, with a view to integrating all types of farm worker, particularly young people
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to emphasise the role that the social partners and labour inspection and social protection agencies should play in rural areas in combating undeclared work and improving safety and well-being at work, with a view to integrating all types of farm worker, particularly young people and women, even - and above all - those engaged in seasonal work.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas these inherent problems are compounded by short-term factors, such as economic uncertainties and unpredictable weather, which, as can be seen today, make the situation of workers in the farming industry all the more difficult, and whereas CAP investment is not yet in line with the EU's 2020 EU sustainability targets because at least one euro in five is not being invested in sustainable farming;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 91 #
5. Calls on the Member States to emphasise the role that the social partners and social protection agencies should play in rural areas in combating undeclared work and improving safety and well-being at work, with a view to promoting the integrati
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point a (new) (a) Calls on the Commission to encourage simplification of red tape relating to social security, taxation and employment, and calls on Member States at the same time to implement such simplifications correctly in order to reduce the complexity and volume of regulation;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that over 4.5 million farmers are over 65 and that farmers aged under 35 account for only 6% of those in charge of farms; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement more vigorously the measures provided for under the common agricultural policy to help young farmers set up;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to study the relationship between undeclared agricultural work and the seasonal nature of activity in the sector, and invites them to develop employment insurance and social protection mechanisms that are compatible with the temporary nature of much agricultural work, which is not infrequently taken on alongside another job;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls the European Commission to promote, and the Members States to implement, simplified administrative requirements related to employment, taxes and social security, making the hiring process less complex and less redundant;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to assume responsibility for the assisting family members and to secure them economically and socially;
Amendment 97 #
5a. Calls on the Commission and Council to work on legislative proposals for the regulation of production and markets and the setting of minimum remunerative prices;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes the regular professional exposure of many agri-food sector workers to chemicals, which includes exposure to cocktails of hazardous substances;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls on the Commission to ascertain the effects of these agreements, including in terms of greater job insecurity and more precarious farming incomes, and establish the necessary instruments to ensure that no agricultural products enter the European market at below the actual costs of production and sale;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 (new) – having regard to draft general recommendation No 28, of 2010, relating to Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas all forms of
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas all forms of gender and sex discrimination must be firmly combated;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas ‘sex’ is defined as referring to biological differences between men and women, while ‘gender’ refers to socially constructed identities, roles and attributes for women and men and the social and cultural meaning that society gives to those biological differences, and whereas it is gender that results in hierarchical relationships between women and men and in the distribution and assignment of power and rights favouring men and disadvantaging women;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas ‘reducing the gender pay, earnings and pension gaps and thus fighting poverty among women’ is one of the priority areas set out by the Commission in its document entitled ‘Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019’
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas on the labour market most women, unlike men, are employed on precarious contracts; whereas precariousness does not make it possible to live in a dignified manner;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women suffer particular discrimination in relation to access to the labour market, with substantially lower wages for the same work and more uncertain and precarious employment ties; whereas maternity represents an unacceptable form of discrimination against women in relation to accessing
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women suffer particular discrimination in relation to access to the labour market, with substantially lower wages and more uncertain and precarious employment ties; whereas maternity
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital C C
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women suffer particular discrimination in relation to access to the labour market, with substantially lower wages and more uncertain and precarious employment ties, but also a majority of the part-time jobs; whereas maternity represents an unacceptable form of discrimination against women in relation to accessing and remaining in the labour market;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new) – having regard to the European Commission´s Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2020,
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas women suffer particular discrimination in relation to access to the labour market, with substantially lower wages and more uncertain and precarious employment ties; whereas m
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas in 2014 the employment rate in the EU for people aged between 15 and 64 stood at 59.6% for women and 70.1% for men; whereas the gap is smaller for higher levels of professional qualification; whereas the economic costs of this gap are substantial and were estimated at EUR 370 billion according to a 2013 calculation, or 2.8% of GDP for the EU-28; whereas the female employment rate has risen only slightly since 2008, with the convergence in employment driven by the decline in the male employment rate; 1a __________________ 1aData from Eurofound report ‘The gender employment gap: challenges and solutions’ (2016)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas a glass ceiling still exists for women on the labour market which is partly attributable to the fact that women are viewed with reference to their reproductive characteristics, which means that women’s career opportunities are hampered by the very possibility of pregnancy later in working life;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas in an effort to find the balance between family and work, many women prefer non-standard employment contracts such as part-time work, or home office; whereas it is important that employment legislation recognizes their right to do so;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the economic crisis has impacted on the entire European Union, with rural areas especially experiencing devastating levels of unemployment, poverty and depopulation, which affect women in particular;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas very often single women with dependent children are compelled to accept atypical and precarious work in order to reconcile their private and working lives;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas unemployment rates soared in the period 2008-2014 owing to the profound economic crisis that raged across the EU, and in 2014 the female unemployment rate (10.4%) was still higher than the rate for men (10.2%); 1a
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas in 2015, 33% of women worked part-time against 10% of men working part-time 1b , and a significant proportion of them were working part- time on an involuntary basis; __________________ Data from Eurofound report ‘6th 1b European working conditions survey’
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas on average in 2014, women’s hourly pay was 16.1% lower than the corresponding pay for men 1a; whereas women’s economic situation in the household is also characterised by marked inequalities, and where the household comprises a single woman, 40% have incomes in the lowest quintile against 18% of men, and where the household comprises a women working full-time and a man working part-time, 30% of women have incomes in the lowest quintile, against 6% of men in a similar situation 1b ;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas the data show that the main reason for women leaving the labour market is the need to care for children and elderly people (27%), their own illness or incapacity (23%) and other personal or family responsibilities (18%) 1a;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 b (new) – having regard to the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention),
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas in the period 2008-2014, so-called NEETs in the 15-29 age group showed a percentage increase, with women being the most heavily represented group (17.1% in 2014), and whereas 34% of these women are in this situation because of family responsibilities and 16.5% are long-term unemployed 1a ;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas labour deregulation policies and the attack on collective bargaining are enabling and fostering an extension in working time in a number of Member States, without wage compensation, which is contributing to increased working class poverty; whereas these policies are promoting and encouraging precarious employment and the downgrading of the value of work, which has a particular impact on young people and working women, who are obliged to accept jobs with increasingly precarious conditions, often without any social protection;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas this labour and social context is at the root of the pensions gap, which on average stands at 40%;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Recital C i (new) Ci. whereas EU policies have promoted the privatisation and destruction of the network of public services and infrastructure providing care for children, the elderly and the sick, and the supply of these high-quality and free public services is now reduced or non- existent;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Recital C j (new) Cj. whereas women are particularly affected by precarious work and various forms of ‘atypical work’, such as teleworking or homeworking, and are increasingly having to contend with the phenomenon of ‘worker and career individualisation’, an approach which bolsters the more broadly based offensive against collective bargaining;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Recital C k (new) Ck. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to jobs with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, since women continue to be worst affected and suffer most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers on women attending job interviews at which they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women’s decisions and opting for childless workers who are ‘more available’, along with growing economic and work-related pressures on female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Recital C l (new) Cl. whereas many workers who are in precarious employment or unemployed do not have the right to parental leave;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the EU’s macro-economic and austerity policies have resulted in increasing levels of poverty and inequality, particularly affecting women, and whereas these policies act as a brake on a birth- rate policy which could present a long- term solution to the crisis which Europe is facing both economically and on the labour market, preserving us from a dangerous and uncontrolled migration policy;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the EU’s macro-economic and austerity policies have resulted in increasing levels of poverty and inequality, particularly affecting women, which has adverse repercussions on the conditions in which their families live, particularly their children;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas it is deplorable to note that the EU’s macro-economic and austerity policies have resulted in increasing levels of poverty and inequality, particularly affecting women in the southern European Member States such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 c (new) – having regard to the Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Strategy 2014- 2017,
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas combating poverty is one of the Commission's five measurable targets proposed for EU 2020; whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, migrant, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific austerity measures because it is particularly public sector jobs and services in the care sector that are being eliminated;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the EU’s macroeconomic and austerity policies have had a detrimental effect both on policies on flexibility and occupational safety, particularly as regards everything connected to women’s occupational safety, and on social and public services providing childcare and care for the elderly, and whereas all this has had a major impact on women’s employment;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas levels of poverty and social exclusion in the EU-28 remain extremely high, standing at more than 118.6 million people in 2015 (23.7% of the population), and women are particularly affected, with more than 62.4 million women in this situation (24.4%);
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas one must also take into account, when comparing the situations of men and women on the labour market, that social factors, such as pregnancy and motherhood, are natural reasons for drawing a distinction between the situations of women and men;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas precarious employment is a contributory factor towards women’s poor mental and physical health, subjecting them to five times more stress, anxiety and depression than colleagues, both male and female, who are employed on indefinite contract;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Recital D b (new) Db. is alarmed at the disastrous long term impact of austerity measures on women's economic empowerment and gender equality, with rising unemployment and cuts in public services and benefits resulting in a care crisis; underlines that reductions in care services, cuts in child, disability, carers' benefits and reductions in tax credits, cuts in statutory leave, including parental and paternity leave, tend to shift care services onto unpaid women who, as a result, are unable to pursue insurable employment or may only be employed on a part-time basis;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Recital D b (new) Db. whereas this gap is part of the widening social, economic and gender inequalities in the European Union, a situation that is undeniably linked to the neoliberal and austerity policies imposed by the Commission and the EU, which are responsible for rising poverty, rising unemployment and greater inequalities in the distribution of wealth;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Recital D b (new) Db. whereas all too often women are subject to various forms of gender discrimination at their workplace, including being employed at lower levels and being passed over for promotion, along with verbal, psychological and physical harassment and abuse (sexual or otherwise);
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental right that presupposes a guarantee of equal opportunities and equal treatment, and policies aimed at ensuring such equality promote smart and sustainable growth;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Recital D c (new) Dc. whereas social inequalities and inequalities between men and women can be combated only through policies guaranteeing a better distribution of wealth, based on measures to ensure decent working conditions, an increase in real wages, action to promote labour regulation and labour protection, in particular through collective bargaining and the regulation of working time, and guaranteed universal free access to high- quality public healthcare and education services;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Recital D c (new) Dc. whereas it is important to establish a set of measures to remove existing obstacles and guarantee genuinely equal opportunities for women and men in access to the labour market and to decent work, and in carrying out that work;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Recital D d (new) Dd. whereas it is important to tackle and eliminate undeclared work and unpaid overtime that increase poverty and social exclusion; whereas women domestic workers in general, and migrant and fictitiously self-employed women workers in particular, are especially vulnerable and face particularly precarious working conditions;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that combating poverty and inequalities between men and women necessarily entails a fairer distribution of wealth and better employment legislation, notably through collective bargaining,
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that combating poverty and inequalities between men and women necessarily entails a fairer distribution of wealth and better employment legislation, notably through collective bargaining, higher wages, and implementation of the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ or ‘work of equal value’, and social protection; and invites the Commission to promote gender equality at the work place, including awareness-raising campaign on the Gender Pay Gap, the European Equal Pay Gap and exchange of good practices;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that combating poverty and inequalities between men and women necessarily entails
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that combating poverty and inequalities between men and women
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor, protect and tackle the phenomenon of mobbing in the workplace, including the harassment of pregnant female employees or any disadvantage experienced after returning from a maternity leave; Calls on the Commission and the Member states to provide both gender and parenthood or motherhood disaggregated data regarding pay and pension gaps;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Considers that, in order to combat poverty and a lack of equality, vigorous measures need to be taken against discrimination and harassment on the labour market in conjunction with a more equitable distribution policy; considers that a zero target for sexual harassment should be instituted as a code of conduct on the European labour market;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental right that presupposes a guarantee of equal opportunities and equal treatment
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Deplores the austerity policy pursued by the current Junker Commission, which is intended to overcome the economic crisis but in reality has contributed to an increase in precarious employment and hence poverty;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that women often decide to work part-time because they want greater employment flexibility in order to make it easier to reconcile family life and professional life;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Calls for the development of a legal framework for – and the increased popularisation of – flexible employment models, accompanied by adequate social protection, in order to make it easier to reconcile responsibilities associated with caring for children and other dependents with professional responsibilities;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay differential between women and men and put an end to all forms of precarious employment; likewise urges Member States to give priority to drafting active policies and positive action to boost women’s participation in the labour market and their economic independence and to eliminate the gaps between men and women in terms of wages, the levels at which they are employed, promotions, earnings and pensions;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay differential between women and men and put an end to all forms of
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the unjust pay differential between women and men
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay differential between women and men and put an end to all forms of precarious employment, investing in the creation of permanent jobs and lifelong learning and professional training;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on Member States to take immediate measures to eliminate the pay and pension differential
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on Member States to build up and strengthen national labour inspection bodies by providing them with the necessary conditions and financial and human resources to give them an effective presence on the ground and thereby enable them to combat job insecurity, unregulated work, and labour and wage discrimination, particularly from the point of view of gender equality;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas gender equality
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to monitor the labour market in order to protect women who are compelled to accept precarious and low- cost employment in order to survive;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Considers that under no circumstances should the increased demands for flexibility on the labour market result in women continuing to be over-represented in atypical employment and among those with insecure employment status;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Notes that measures to increase wage transparency are fundamental to close the gender pay gap; calls on the Member States to implement Commission's recommendation on wage transparency;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Urges the Commission to refrain from recommending reorganisation and cuts in Member States’ government departments or promoting greater flexibility in employment or the privatisation of public services, as those approaches have unquestionably served to weaken the social rights of workers and have made themselves felt more severely among women;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect or increase maternity, paternity and parental rights and asks that this protection should also be reflected in employment legislation; urges the Commission to
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect or increase
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect or increase maternity, paternity and parental rights and asks that this protection should also be reflected in employment legislation
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect or increase maternity, paternity and parental rights and asks that this protection should also be reflected in employment legislation;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas Eurofound's report on gender employment gap estimates that gender employment gap is costing EU around 370 billion euros per year, or 2.8% of EU GDP1a; __________________ 1a1a Eurofound report (2016) the gender employment gap: challenges and solutions.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that the Commission has withdrawn the revision of the Maternity Leave Directive and calls for it to put forward an ambitious proposal with high- level standards, to ensure that women are paid and covered by social protection for the duration of maternity leave in order to support families and combat inequalities, strengthen women's social and economic independence and avoid them being financially penalised for having children; stresses that maternity leave must be accompanied by effective measures protecting the rights of pregnant women and new, breastfeeding and single mothers, reflecting the recommendations of the International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organisation;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on MS and the Commission to reformulate tax and benefit systems that give financial incentives for the spouse earning less to withdraw from the labour market or to work part-time as it may run counter to a higher take-up rate of parental leave by fathers and brings negative consequences for women, such as reinforcing the gender pay, care and pension gap;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Urges Member States to adopt legislation to guarantee women’s inclusion in the social security system, protecting women workers during periods of unemployment and guaranteeing the right to obtain a pension;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Urges Member States to comply with and enforce legislation on maternity rights so that women do not suffer disadvantages in terms of pensions because they have been mothers during their working lives;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on Member States to create childcare services infrastructure in order to promote the reconciliation of private and working life for the benefit of working women;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Highlights the importance of adequate minimum income schemes for maintaining human dignity and to combat poverty and social exclusion as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to participate in society, and to undertake training and/or look for work; invites the Commission and Member States to assess minimum income schemes in the European Union, including whether the schemes enable households to meet their needs; invites the Commission and Member States to evaluate on this basis the manner and the means of providing an adequate minimum income in all Member States and to consider further steps in support of social convergence across the European Union, taking into account the economic and social circumstances of each Member State as well as national practices and traditions;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on Member States to promote public policies to support families, with particular regard to the creation of free, high-quality public childcare services, notably crèches and preschool services, and to strengthen the network of specialised services providing care to the elderly, particularly in their own homes, as a way of removing constraints that, by discriminating against women, objectively contribute to women’s withdrawal from the labour market;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Notes that the European Social Partners have not come forward with an agreement on a comprehensive package of legislative and non-legislative measures regarding the reconciliation of professional, private and family life; calls on the Commission to respect to put forward as soon as possible a proposal for such a package as part of the Commission Work Programme 2017 in the context of the announced European pillar of social rights
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on Member States to draft legislation introducing preventive policies such as gender equality plans to combat gender discrimination at the workplace and create a suitable working environment for women and for men;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on Member States to take steps to regularise undeclared work and the abuse of temporary contracts to which women in particular are subject, with the aim of improving the position of and protection for the most vulnerable groups, in particular women domestic workers and fictitiously self-employed women workers; urges Member States to implement measures such as the provision of services offering advice and acting to prevent occupational discrimination, and the setting-up of employment monitoring and regulation authorities to ensure compliance with rules on hiring, payments, training, working practices and the termination of contracts;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the resolution of 15 September 2016 on application of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishes a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation ('Employment Equality Directive');
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Recommends that Member States ensure that all young people have access to high-quality free public education at all ages, particularly at the higher levels of education and training, since it has been shown that raising the level of training helps to reduce labour inequalities between men and women;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on the Member States to provide adequate income replacement and social protection during any type of family- or care-related leave, in particular to ensure that low-income workers can benefit from leave measures on an equal footing with others;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Underlines that migrants and refugees should have the same rights and should have access to the same benefits and services through a universal model that is not related to insurance contributions and employment history;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Calls on the Commission to draw up a compendium of practices that have proved successful in the Member States, with a view to disseminating and promoting them in order to prevent gender discrimination at work and protect women’s rights in particular;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Calls on Member States and social partners to promote decent working conditions and quality employment for care workers, including through decent pay, recognition of care workers' status and the development of high quality vocational training pathways for care workers;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Asks the Commission to guarantee that part-time workers, workers facing job discontinuity and workers with career gaps or with periods where fewer hours were worked have an effective equalisation to full time workers in their right to access a decent pension scheme without any form of discrimination;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new) 3f. Stresses that women workers with mental health problems are at a very high risk as regards all elements of precarious work: those workers are over-represented in time-limited contracts, in-work-poverty, part-time, career disruptions and other precarious contract arrangements; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that European health and safety legislation is sufficiently strong and efficient to protect those vulnerable workers in a better way; stresses that all types of harassment at work strongly effect quality of life and work, health and well-being;
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activities/2 |
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activities/3/type |
Old
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single readingNew
Debate in plenary scheduled |
activities/4 |
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procedure/stage_reached |
Old
Awaiting committee decisionNew
Awaiting Parliament 1st reading / single reading / budget 1st stage |
activities/2 |
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activities/1/committees |
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activities/1/type |
Old
Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single readingNew
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading |
procedure/Modified legal basis |
Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament EP 150
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activities/1/date |
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2017-05-29T00:00:00New
2017-05-30T00:00:00 |
activities/1/date |
Old
2017-05-30T00:00:00New
2017-05-29T00:00:00 |
activities/1/date |
Old
2017-04-25T00:00:00New
2017-05-30T00:00:00 |
other/0/dg/url |
Old
http://ec.europa.eu/social/New
http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/employment-social-affairs-and-inclusion_en |
activities/1/date |
Old
2017-03-22T00:00:00New
2017-04-25T00:00:00 |
other/0 |
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activities/0/committees/2/date |
2016-09-19T00:00:00
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activities/0/committees/2/rapporteur |
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committees/2/date |
2016-09-19T00:00:00
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committees/2/rapporteur |
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activities/0 |
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procedure/dossier_of_the_committee |
EMPL/8/04582
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procedure/stage_reached |
Old
Preparatory phase in ParliamentNew
Awaiting committee decision |
activities |
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committees |
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links |
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other |
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procedure |
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