2020/2005(INL) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that traineeships should be understood as a limited period of work practice, which should help young people gain ~~confidence in their capacities, as well as~~ practical and professional experience, make an informed career choice, improve their employability and facilitate their transition into regular employment;

Amendment 10 #

Irena JOVEVA, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Morten LØKKEGAARD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong training or learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions such as a fair payment starting from the first day worked, in order to prevent a multiplicity of short traineeships of a duration which places them just below the obligatory salary threshold, fixed working hours, health and social coverage, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong training or learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions such as a fair payment, or at least compensation for the costs related to the training, fixed working hours, health and social coverage, appropriate mentoring, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;

Amendment 12 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong training or learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions such as a fair payment, fixed working hours, health and social coverage, adequate professional feedback and counselling, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to promote legislation reducing labour costs for businesses and to promote incentives for companies to promote training programmes that include the possibility of then being employed by that enterprise, thereby facilitating the transition from traineeship to regular employment;

Amendment 14 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that ~~all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities; insists that it is crucial~~it is crucial wherever possible to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities (in particular, physical disabilities, autism and Down Syndrome) by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to ~~persons~~young people with fewer opportunities; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility; insists that participation in traineeships should also be ensured to young vulnerable people such as migrants and refugees, whose inclusion in society is crucial to their successful integration;

Amendment 16 #

Gianantonio DA RE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility; calls on the Commission to propose specific initiatives to facilitate the participation of persons with a disability in cross-border traineeships;

Amendment 17 #

Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Laurence FARRENG

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities, including people with a migrant background; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility; highlights the need to promote accessibility for youth from vulnerable backgrounds;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility; underlines the need for traineeship opportunities for NEETs and young people coming from rural or isolated areas;

Amendment 19 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility; stresses the need to develop traineeships for people with visual and hearing impairment;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that traineeships should be understood as a limited period of training in work practice, which should help young people gain confidence in their skills and capacities, as well as ~~practical and~~ professional experience, ~~improve their employability and facilitate their transition into~~give them better knowledge of the labour market and improve their employability by increasing their chances of obtaining regular employment;

Amendment 20 #

Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities, especially newcomers, such as migrants and refugees, and hard-to-reach population groups; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that all traineeships should promote inclusiveness, especially with regard to persons with fewer opportunities, and should support gender equality; insists that it is crucial to ensure participation in traineeships for persons with disabilities by taking appropriate measures to increase awareness and accessibility;

Amendment 22 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that, according to Eurostat, at the beginning of 2020 youth unemployment rate was 14,9 % in the Union, and that the inevitable social effects of the COVID-19 outbreak will acutely impact the Union's labour market, triggering a more severe crisis than the 2008 financial crisis; therefore, the Youth Guarantee should turn into a permanent mechanism properly funded in order to better support youth labour market integration measures;

Amendment 23 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Notes that the latest available statistics1a highlight the persistence of a large proportion of unpaid or low-paid traineeships across Europe, which may create an equal access problem into regular employment. According to these data, 59 % of respondents who had concluded a traineeship declared that they had not received any financial compensation for their last experience, whereas of those receiving some form of remuneration, only 53 % considered that the amount received was sufficient to cover basic living costs; _________________ 1aFlash Eurobarometer 378, “The experiences of traineeships in the EU”;

Amendment 24 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Notes that the principle of active support for sustainable labour market integration and the commitment to enhance qualifications and skills of young people is a crucial part of the Commission efforts to promote upward convergence in working conditions and that this is the rationale of the European Pillar of Social Rights; therefore, calls on the new Commission to support the proper implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights into concrete actions that would benefit young people across Europe;

Amendment 25 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls on the Commission to encourage and support Member States to make use of the European Social Fund+ and the European Regional Development Fund, as well as other European funds for the 2021-2027 programming period to enhance the number and quality of traineeships in the Union;

Amendment 26 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. StReiterates that ~~some employers tend to misuse traineeships; calls on the Commission to~~traineeships are an excellent way of getting to know the labour market and of introducing young preop~~ose monitoring mechanisms at Union level, especially in the framework of Erasmus+ programmes, and facilitate greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities~~le to the business environment; rates highly the important work done by the Erasmus+ programme in promoting cross- border traineeships and calls, as a consequence, for this to be taken into account at budget level in order to increase the intra-Union mobility of young people;

Amendment 27 #

Irena JOVEVA, Laurence FARRENG, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Ilana CICUREL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. States that some employers tend to misuse traineeships; ~~calls on~~invites the Commission to propose adequate guidelines and monitoring mechanisms at Union level, especially in the framework of Erasmus+ programmes~~, and facilitate greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities in order to increase the intra-Union mobility of young people~~; calls on the Member States and the Commission to work to ensure quality mobility experiences based on the principles of the European Quality Charter for Mobility, which makes clear that the quality of information, preparation, support and recognition of experience and qualifications, as well as clear learning plans and learning outcomes drawn up in advance, have a demonstrable impact on the benefits of mobility;

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. States that ~~some employers tend to~~there is a risk of some misuse of traineeships by some employers which requires action on appropriate level; calls on the Commission to propose monitoring mechanisms at Union level, especially in the framework of Erasmus+ programmes, and facilitate greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities in order to increase the intra- Union mobility of young people;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. States that some employers tend to misuse traineeships; calls on the Commission to propose monitoring mechanisms at Union level~~, especially in the framework of Erasmus+ programmes,~~ and facilitate greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities in order to increase the intra-Union mobility of young people;

Amendment 3 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Elżbieta KRUK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that traineeships should be understood as a limited period of work practice, which should help young people gain confidence in their capacities, as well as practical and professional experience, improve their employability and facilitate their transition into regular employment; reiterates the need to promote best practices in the field, especially with regards to the integration of traineeships as part of professional work experience;

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. States that some employers tend to misuse traineeships; calls on the Commission to propose monitoring mechanisms ~~at Union level, especially~~ in the framework of Erasmus+ programmes, and facilitate greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities in order to increase the intra- Union mobility of young people;

Amendment 31 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes that Union-funded programmes promoting access to traineeships, such as the Erasmus+ programme, as well as traineeships within the Union institutions should be at the forefront in the promotion of inclusivity and accessibility; invites the Commission to study possible ways to ensure more transparency and to provide easier and better access to funding in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme and other Union-funded programmes with particular regard to the financial conditions of the applicant and the living cost in the working place;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that insufficient advantage is taken of traineeship opportunities with the European Solidarity Corps in comparison with volunteering activities and calls on the Commission to give preference to traineeships instead of jobs within the programme's occupational strand;

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines the changes generated by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of work, traineeships and skills and calls for an adaptation of practices in the field;

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines the risks of unpaid traineeships and calls on the Commission to further put safeguards in place to prevent such situations;

Amendment 35 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the greater provision of cross- border traineeship opportunities in order to increase the intra-Union mobility of young people; traineeships in border regions should be further promoted in order to prepare them for the specific cross-border labour market context;

Amendment 36 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Considers that more effort needs to be put into developing an internal workers market, for which work on recognition of knowledge and skills acquired during traineeships, and training cycles especially, must continue;

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Welcomes the appearance of digital traineeships, calls on the Union institutions to develop such formats and recalls the importance of keeping the quality standards for traineeships high in the current context;

Amendment 38 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Underlines the need for common quality traineeship standards at Union level to be put in place and promoted through Union programmes;

Amendment 39 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of all key players’ involvement (the social and business partners, and civil society ~~organisations and, in particular, youth~~ organisations) in formulating guidelines and in monitoring and evaluating implementation of the framework.

Amendment 4 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that traineeships should be understood as a limited period of work practice, which should help young people gain confidence in their capacities and develop work-relevant skills, as well as practical and professional experience, improve their employability and facilitate their transition into regular employment;

Amendment 40 #

Irena JOVEVA, Laurence FARRENG, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Ilana CICUREL, Morten LØKKEGAARD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of all key players’ involvement (the social partners, civil society organisations and, in particular, youth organisations) in formulating guidelines and monitoring and evaluating implementation of t~~he framework~~raineeship practices in Member States.

Amendment 41 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. STaking into consideration the strict link between the quality of the traineeship and the employability outcome, calls on the new Commission to put forward an updated proposal for a Council Recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships in order to broaden the scope of the current Quality Framework for Traineeships and cover all types of traineeships; stresses the importance of all key players’ involvement (the social partners, civil society organisations and, in particular, youth organisations) in formulating guidelines and monitoring and evaluating subsequent implementation of the framework.

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of all key players’ involvement (the social partners, civil society organisations, educational institutions and, in particular, youth organisations) in formulating guidelines and monitoring and evaluating implementation of the framework.

Amendment 43 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Elżbieta KRUK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the EU institutions to set an example by proposing more traineeships and offering more variety in their makeup, in order to move into line with courses offered by the Member States: work-study contracts, for example, which are a compulsory part of some French courses, particularly in the area of culture, but which sadly do not exist in those offered by the EU institutions;

Amendment 44 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines that this framework should be used by all Member States as a guideline in order to increase the quality of traineeships across the Union, taking into account that each Member State legislates separately;

Amendment 45 #

Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the need to include in traineeship programmes, regardless of their length, trainings on protection from, and prevention of, harassment and bullying in the workplace;

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Stresses that in 2019, Parliament's administration selected, from 6 058 applicants, 26 French trainees as against 60 from Italy, 54 from Spain and 27 from non-EU countries including one from Algeria, two from Albania, one from Kosovo, four from Uzbekistan...; calls on the EU institutions to give preference to applicants for traineeships who are citizens of the Member States and, in order to avoid unfairness, to award places in proportion to the number of young people attending school in the Member States;

Amendment 47 #

Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Stresses the need to ensure gender balance among trainees in a given company or institution and points to the desirability of striving for diversity; cautions against possible bias-based profiling in recruitment procedures;

Amendment 48 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Regrets the fact that the EU institutions can offer up to 10% of their traineeships to young people from non- EU countries, which is too large a proportion and leads to a great many European applications being rejected;

Amendment 49 #

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Peter POLLÁK, Loucas FOURLAS, Asim ADEMOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls for a report on the state of play of traineeships, particularly in the area of culture: museums, galleries, exhibitions, theatres, cinemas, libraries, festivals, concerts or other areas of music, performance art, painting, sculpture...; calls for specific proposals if there are shortages in these areas: financial support, platforms to combine proposals for traineeships in these cultural areas, etc.

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships, whether in private firms, the third sector or the public sector, should offer a strong training orand learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions (such as a ~~fair~~ppropriate and reasonable payment, ~~fixed~~suitable working hours, health and social coverage), and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;

Amendment 6 #

Łukasz KOHUT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong ~~training or~~hands-on learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions such as a fair payment, ~~fixed~~proper working hours, health and social coverage, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;

Amendment 7 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Pina PICIERNO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Victor NEGRESCU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong and high-quality training or learning content, safeguard adequate working conditions such as a fair payment, fixed working hours, health and social coverage, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement; stresses that prolonged periods of traineeships might have significant negative social security consequences for young people, in particular in terms of pension rights accumulation and access to unemployment benefits;

Amendment 8 #

Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that to facilitate access to regular employment, traineeships should offer a strong training or learning content, so that this experience may help trainees get new professional jobs. Thus, the mentor´s function must be a key factor to assess and guide the trainee by implementing a training project, which must determine the trainee´s skills and abilities developed during the traineeship period. Traineeships should be focused on safeguarding adequate working conditions such as a fair payment, fixed working hours, health and social coverage, and should in no case be a substitute for regular jobs or a precondition for a job placement;

Amendment 9 #