2020/2084(INI) A strong social Europe for Just Transition - Communication from the Commission
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2020/12/14
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2020/12/14
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | EMPL |
RADTKE Dennis ( EPP),
JONGERIUS Agnes ( S&D)
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TOOM Yana ( Renew),
TOOM Yana ( Renew),
REIL Guido ( ID),
PETER-HANSEN Kira Marie ( Verts/ALE),
RAFALSKA Elżbieta ( ECR),
VILLUMSEN Nikolaj ( GUE/NGL),
VILLUMSEN Nikolaj ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | CULT |
ROS SEMPERE Marcos ( S&D)
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Andrea BOCSKOR ( PPE),
Martina MICHELS ( GUE/NGL),
Salima YENBOU ( Verts/ALE),
Andrey SLABAKOV ( ECR),
Ilana CICUREL ( RE)
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| Committee Opinion | FEMM |
REGNER Evelyn ( S&D)
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Monika VANA ( Verts/ALE),
Christine ANDERSON ( ID),
Silvia MODIG ( GUE/NGL),
Radka MAXOVÁ ( RE),
Robert BIEDROŃ ( S&D),
Cindy FRANSSEN ( PPE)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Subjects
- 4.10.05 Social inclusion, poverty, minimum income
- 4.10.10 Social protection, social security
- 4.15.04 Workforce, occupational mobility, job conversion, working conditions
- 4.15.08 Work, employment, wages and salaries: equal opportunities women and men, and for all
- 4.40 Education, vocational training and youth
Events
2020/12/14
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
2020/11/16
Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading
2020/10/30
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2020/10/29
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2020/10/22
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2020/10/21
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2020/09/28
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2020/07/02
EP - RADTKE Dennis (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
2020/07/02
EP - JONGERIUS Agnes (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
2020/05/28
EP - REGNER Evelyn (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in FEMM
2020/05/27
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2020/05/27
EP - Referral to associated committees announced in Parliament
2020/04/07
EP - ROS SEMPERE Marcos (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in CULT
2020/01/14
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2020/01/14
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
Documents
- Committee opinion: PE657.285
- Committee opinion: PE650.720
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE659.082
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE658.882
- Committee draft report: PE657.413
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2020)0014
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2020)0014
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2020)0014 EUR-Lex
- Committee draft report: PE657.413
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE658.882
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE659.082
- Committee opinion: PE650.720
- Committee opinion: PE657.285
Activities
- Agnes JONGERIUS
Plenary Speeches (0)
- Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN
Plenary Speeches (0)
- Dennis RADTKE
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- Pedro SILVA PEREIRA
Plenary Speeches (0)
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 657 |
2020/2084(INI)
2020/06/08
CULT
56 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that education is a key tool for achieving the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which states that
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Asserts that an adequate education and training in transitions to environmentally and socially sustainable economies can become a strong driver of job creation, social justice and poverty eradication; calls for the Union to facilitate stronger cooperation, information sharing and exchange of best practices between Member States and their education and training systems;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Asserts that an adequate education and training in transitions to environmentally and socially sustainable economies can become a strong driver of job creation, social justice and poverty eradication and can contribute to the better matching with changing labour market needs;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Asserts that an adequate education and training in transitions to environmentally and socially sustainable economies can become a strong driver of job creation,
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that a transition to a more environmentally sustainable society requires skilled workers and believes that just transition funds should cover a strong investment in education, vocational education and training (VET) and retraining; stresses the importance to concentrate efforts on economic revitalisation of affected regions, rather than counting on worker mobility and risking depopulation, therefore insists that priority attention should be given to retraining provided in alignment with the needs of the regional labour market, particularly to on-the-job retraining or a combination of part-time working and part-time retraining;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that a transition to a more environmentally sustainable society requires skilled workers and believes that just transition funds should cover a strong investment in education, vocational education and training (VET) and retraining; stresses the importance of its full compliance with the principles of equal treatment and equal opportunities, in particular in regard to the most vulnerable in our societies and to disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that a transition to a more environmentally sustainable society requires skilled
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that a transition to a more environmentally sustainable society requires skilled workers, who should have local roots in order to reduce environmental impact, and believes that just transition funds should cover a strong investment in education, vocational education and training (VET) and retraining;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that a transition to a more environmentally sustainable society requires skilled workers and believes that just transition funds should cover a strong, market-driven and competitive investment in education, vocational education and training (VET) and retraining;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that a transition to a more environmentally sustainable society requires skilled workers and believes that just transition new funds should cover a strong investment in education, vocational education and training (VET) and retraining;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that education is an investment for the Union’s future and a key tool for achieving the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which states that ‘everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life- long learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society’;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 – point a (new) (a) Underlines the need for education and training both in skills related to the ecological and the digital transition, which can help to achieve the goals related to sustainability and digitalization, as well as in soft skills, which can facilitate to change or improve their employment sector;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 – point b (new) Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recalls that Member States’ education and training systems must be adapted to make full use of the opportunities offered by the digital transition; digital skills development, e- learning initiatives and the connectivity of schools must be fostered and most vulnerable groups should be supported in obtaining equal access to them; calls on the EU and Members States to provide incentives for digital education and careers; emphasises that the participation of women in STEAM studies must be promoted;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. highlights that any transition to new, sustainable and responsible models of societies require a policy of inclusion through general education measures, ensuring equal rights and equal participation in education for all; this transition must put education, including artistic and cultural education, at the centre of its efforts, in order to ensure a future for the next generations, with skills in compliance with a new labour demand and supply focusing on a more human and ecological dimension;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Urges the creation of synergies between the Just Transition Fund and the Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps to support projects aimed at repurposing spaces affected by closures as a result of their efforts to transition towards a climate- neutral economy to accommodate new cultural initiatives, educational projects, social efforts or to preserve industrial heritage;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notices the rapid and continuous growth of the silver economy in the European Union, which by 2025 is likely to contribute 32% of EU GDP and 38% of the Union’s employment; underlines the need of vocational education, digital education and re-training schemes to adequately reflect that fact to ensure the social inclusion of seniors;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Points to the need of providing sufficient funding to the re-skilling and up-skilling of workers in carbon- dominated industries form the EU Emissions Trading System Modernisation Fund so that to intensify action towards a just transition;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that a social protection schema is important for a just transition, as it enables workers and their families to meet basic needs, including the provision of both early childhood and long-term education, as well as to feel empowered to engage in lifelong learning actions and move into new jobs and sectors;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that a social protection schema is important for a just transition, as it enables European workers and their families to meet basic needs, including the provision of both early childhood and long- term education;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that education is a key tool for achieving the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which states that ‘everyone has the right to quality
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Highlights the appropriateness of broadening Erasmus+ programme sections supporting education and training to be developed in depopulated areas to contribute to benefiting social preservation, fostering cultural heritage curation, and promoting environmental sustainability;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for an enhanced university- business dialogue to
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for an enhanced university- business dialogue to
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for an enhanced European university-
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for an enhanced
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for an enhanced university- business dialogue and cooperation to allow for study in a sector where there will be jobs, particularly in vulnerable communities, regions and sectors;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls the Just Transition Fund to support the creative and cultural sector as key sectors that can help in the creation of new opportunities and jobs in the territories, in particular when projects include sustainable best practices and foster sustainability, energy efficiency and the protection of the environment;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls the Union to strengthen the portability and full recognition of skills and professional qualifications to increase mobility and optimal attainment of skills within the internal market and ultimately Europe’s competitiveness in the world;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls for the full implementation of this principle by the Union and its Member States in line with the commitments of the March 2017 Rome Declaration and the November 2017 Gothenburg Summit; stresses the need for an Action Plan to deliver the Pillar of Social Rights and welcomes the determination of the Commission in this regard; insists on Member States implementing the country specific recommendations of the European Semester, especially on social affairs;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines the importance of concrete and strong initiatives in the regions mostly affected by the just transition by allocating additional funding to projects related to education, culture, youth and sports;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on governments and employers to invest in programmes
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on governments and
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on governments and employers to invest in programmes and measures to ensure that vulnerable groups of individuals
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on governments and employers to invest in programmes and measures to ensure that
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on governments and
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that the European Education Area should include transversal training in skills related to the ecological and digital transition, while continuing to disseminate our European cultural foundation, which is a source of intellectual growth, as well as an adequate connection with the world of work, especially at the later levels of the curriculum
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses th
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that the European Education Area should include tra
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. At the start of the Parliamentary term, the European Commission presented the Green Deal and the Just Transition Fund as one of its priorities. The appearance of COVID-19, with its devastating health and economic effects, is forcing us to redefine our priorities in the short and medium term in order to prioritise health and social policies, as well as economic development and job creation;
Amendment 50 #
7a. Draws attention that a long tradition of coal mining or industrial work shapes the local culture and identity for the communities that could be particularly opposed to a change when they experience it as a loss of history and character without a vision for the future; calls on Member States and ensure sustainable support for cultural activities of communities in transition and to respect and promote their cultural heritage;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses that the societal transition towards a sustainable energy basis calls for respect and promotion of a changing regional identity; notes that active promotion of industrial cultural heritage and ethnographic research is one way of achieving this goal;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notices that financial obstacles account for a large portion of reasons why many young people cannot take part in the Erasmus - based exchanges; stresses that there is a necessity to make Erasmus+ more easily accessible for students with fewer opportunities;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Highlights the most effective and inclusive education systems are those that rely on pedagogical research; calls the Union’s next flagship research programme, Horizon 2020, to be a vehicle to help further excellence in education and training;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Stresses that just transition requires a holistic approach that encompasses economic diversification, comprehensive support for workers to transition to new jobs, environmental remediation, a due care for identity and cultural heritage of affected communities and inclusive processes that also address equity impacts for vulnerable and marginalized groups;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Calls for support for a regional settlement policy in declining mining areas by cultural and tourism enterprises through the restoration and repurposing of industrial sites, and a focus on exemplary renaturalisation measures that limit climate change by means of natural water reservoirs such as forests, floodplains and meadows;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Supports the promotion of democratic dialogue on a social and just transition by cultural and scientific institutions and educational establishments, and through an appropriate exchange of experience at EU level on successful developments towards an inclusive social transition;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the need of setting an annual breakdown of available allocations on education and culture by Member State under the objective of investment in employment and growth, on the basis of objective and transparent parameters and criteria in the distribution system, both from the EU to Member States and from Member States to their territories;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Underlines the convenience of fostering bilateral and multilateral exchange of experiences on lessons learnt and best practices in education and culture, as well as analysis, evaluation, monitoring and control of aid;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
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2020/10/01
FEMM
96 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the COVID- 19 pandemic as the majority of frontline workers are women (healthcare workers and childcare workers, for example), as women are more likely than men to be in temporary, part-time or precarious employment, and as women carry out most unpaid work at home; whereas the pandemic has highlighted that
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) B b. urges to the Council and the Commission to ensure that gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting are at the centre of all measures linked to the recovery, incorporating lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas despite gender equality being enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the gender employment gap stands at 11.7 %, the pay gap at 15.7 % and the pension gap at 30.1 %; and whereas there is a need to guarantee equal pay for equal work and to ensure that more value is placed on the time spent bringing up children, particularly where pensions are concerned;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas despite gender equality
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas despite gender equality being enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas gender discrimination in the home and on the labour market can result in an unequal distribution of resources, making women more vulnerable to poverty and social exclusion than men; whereas if they fall into poverty, women have less chance of getting out of it;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) C a. whereas 15% of households with children at EU level are single-parent households; whereas on average, 85% of these households are run by single mothers, while 47% of single parent households were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2017; whereas these single-parent households were disproportionally affected by the COVID- 19 pandemic;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) C b. whereas homelessness among women is a growing problem; whereas women experiencing homeless continue to encounter specific challenges in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, with temporary and emergency accommodation being particularly vulnerable to disease transmission, gender based violence and a lack of access to hygiene and healthcare facilities;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) C c. whereas horizontal and vertical labour market segregation in the EU is still significant, with women overrepresented in less profitable sectors; whereas especially women with precarious contracts were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as they were the first to lose their jobs leading to financial consequences for their families and to their economic independence, as well as insufficient social security protection in time of crisis;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) C d. whereas more than 50% of carers under 65 combine care with employment this way performing a difficult balancing act; whereas carers may prefer low-skilled and low-paid jobs, which can be adapted to their caregiving schedule, as well as be obliged to reduce their working hours or leave paid work; whereas between 7% and 21% of informal carers reduce their working hours and between 3% and 18% withdraw from the labour market;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the COVID- 19 pandemic
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) C e. whereas COVID-19 has exposed a long-standing problem in care provision in the EU; whereas care needs to be viewed holistically along a continuum, from childcare to afterschool care, to care for those with disabilities to care for older persons;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) C f. whereas adoption of the Work-life Balance Directive, was an important first steps towards harmonisation of different leaves within the EU allowing working parents to combine their professional and private life; whereas it has to be fully transposed and implemented on time by the Member States; whereas the work-life balance is in particular a difficult balancing act for many families during COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital C g (new) C g. whereas start-up entrepreneurs, 70% of whom are men while 30% are women and the self-employed, of whom 34.4% are women, have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis; whereas an updated study, showing COVID-19 short, medium and long term implications on women’s entrepreneurship in the EU 27 would be a valuable source of information for the European decision makers;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas digital education and skills are key to adjusting to the digital transition of Europe’s economy and society; whereas women are underrepresented in ICT professions; whereas the potential for just transition also rely in the new green jobs in sectors that often require high digital and ICT skills; whereas these sectors are often male-dominated; whereas when entering these sectors women face discrimination due to gender stereotypes and gender-related career expectations; whereas the proportion of green jobs held by women must be increased; whereas the obstacles for women’s access to green jobs can be tackled by elimination of labour market discrimination;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas digital education and skills are key to adjusting to the digital transition of Europe’s economy and society; whereas women are underrepresented in ICT professions; whereas only 17% of ICT specialists and 34% of STEM graduates are women; whereas at the same time women in the information and communication sector earn 19% less than men; whereas in digital skills, there is a gender gap of 11% and whereas the gap is higher for above basic skills and especially for those above 55 years;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas digital education and skills are key to adjusting to the digital transition of Europe’s economy and society; whereas women are underrepresented in ICT
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas digital education and skills are key to adjusting to the digital transition of Europe’s economy and society; whereas
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas digital education and skills are key to adjusting to the digital transition of Europe’s economy and society; and whereas
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) D a. whereas the pressure on women has increased further; whereas new forms of work imposed, stretchable and at the expense of the separation between work and private life have led to an explosion of new forms of psychological and sexual harassment online and offline during the period; whereas the vast majority of companies and governments have not put in place any measures to counter these phenomena;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) D a. whereas women are disproportionately affected by energy poverty and struggling to afford their energy consumption; whereas the energy sector workforce is composed mainly of men (77.9%) with women representing only 22.1%, the same trend seems to apply to the renewable energies sector, where women represent less than 30% of positions;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the COVID- 19 pandemic as the majority of frontline workers are women (healthcare workers and childcare workers, for example), as women have a lower social standing, as women are more likely than men to be in temporary, part-time or precarious employment, meaning that their pensions are much smaller, and as women carry out most unpaid work at home; whereas the pandemic has highlighted that family- friendly policies are a must;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) D a. whereas principle two of European Pillar of Social Rights enshrines equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the increasing use of digital technologies should not detract from traditional methods of education based on learning to read from printed books and learning handwriting;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Recital D b (new) D b. whereas women had to continue to take over major part of the domestic work and the education of children during this period, women have still seen their mental burden increase from a double to a triple day's work; whereas unpaid care responsibilities slow down or prevent progress of women’s careers and has little to no impact on men’s professional life, creating the subsequent pay gap and underrepresentation of women in certain sectors;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Recital D b (new) D b. whereas the digital and Green transitions and the demographic changes pose both challenges and opportunities and our strategy to deal with them must be socially fair and just; whereas this strategy must support, coordinate and complement equality actions by the Member States;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Recital D c (new) D c. whereas women were already the first victims of poverty in Europe; whereas among them are single-parent families made up of more than 80% of single-mothers who are at risk of precariousness and worsened poverty; whereas the NGO OXFAM estimates that 500million people in the world can fall into poverty which correspond to 10% of the world population, mostly women;
Amendment 35 #
D d. whereas this crisis has also shown the huge lack of solidarity at European level; whereas a number of governments are now using the pandemic to reverse environmental commitments but also the fundamental rights of workers and women;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to put the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) at the heart of economic recovery programmes
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to put the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) at the heart of economic recovery programmes, in order to promote equal opportunities,
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to put the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) at the heart of economic recovery programmes, in order to promote equal opportunities, women’s participation in the labour market, fair working conditions, affordable and sustainable social protection, and reduce the gender gap in the renewable energy and the circular economy sector’s employment;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women are considered to be disproportionately affected by the COVID-
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to put the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) at the heart of economic and demographic recovery programmes, in order to promote equal opportunities, women’s participation in the labour market, fair working conditions and sustainable social protection;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement policies and frameworks of social dialogue necessary to make progress in ecological transition to climate neutrality as no one left behind, which means that this process will open and enhance the resilience of the most vulnerable and marginalised Europeans, especially the women, by generating prosperity for the whole of society from an inclusive approach, suitably protecting workers, and creating quality jobs;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls on the Commission, Eurostat, the Member States and EIGE to regularly gather gender- and age- disaggregated data on COVID-19 and the socio-economic impact of the virus; stresses that recovery measures must be informed by gender-disaggregated data, with special attention to areas where data is scarce and incomparable, for the informed decision making at the EU, national and regional level;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Notes that the under- representation of women deprives energy transitions of diverse talent, and thus impedes the transformational change required to achieve the Paris Agreement goals (global climate targets) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; calls on the equal participation of women in the workforce, being important for business, the economy, social development, and the environment; highlights that a diversified workforce delivers better results, not only in terms of increased creativity and innovation potential, but also related to better decision-making and greater profits;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Calls on the Commission to monitor the European Strategy for Gender Equality (2020-2025) and invites the Member States to adopt national gender equality strategies on its basis as an important part for the socio-economic measures taken in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Emphasizes that the gender equality not only is a core development objective in its own right, but also enhances an economy’s productivity and improves future generations’ prospects; highlights the importance of having a higher percentage of women in decision- making positions at the local level related to the energy transition, circular non- toxic economy, which can increase innovation and profitability, decreases risk, and enhances sustainability practices;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1 d. Underlines the necessity to involve more women and youth in governments, banking sector, companies, universities and NGOs to implement a wide variety of strategies to make the green transition more diverse and inclusive;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1 e. Notes that women are vital to the sustainable energy sector and the success of a more rapid energy transition; underlines the necessity to attract, retain and promote more women, and invite more diversity of skills into the sustainable energy field;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work on improving the situation of women in the COVID-19 crisis and to adopt family-friendly policies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to launch an ambitious social and demographic investment plan to support Member States’ efforts to improve available and affordable high-quality childcare, out-of-school care and long-term care infrastructures; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make every effort to counter all forms of violence against women, children and the elderly, which has increased significantly owing to the restrictions put in place to address the pandemic, including by adopting the provisions of the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work on improving the situation of women in the COVID-19 crisis and to adopt family-friendly policies; calls
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work on improving the situation of women in the COVID-19 crisis and to adopt family-friendly policies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to launch an ambitious social and demographic investment plan to support Member States’ efforts to improve available and affordable high-quality childcare, out-of-school care and long-term care infrastructures; invites the MS and the Commission to exploit all synergies in relevant EU financial instruments for development of necessary care infrastructure and services;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and the
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and endorses the Member States to work on improving the situation of women in the COVID-19 crisis and to adopt family- friendly policies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to launch an ambitious social and demographic investment plan to support Member States’ efforts to improve available and affordable high-quality childcare, out-of-school care and long-term care infrastructures;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Calls on the Commission to collect data on the provision of different types of care to feed into a study examining the care gap, with a view to propose a Care Deal for Europe aimed at supporting a transition towards a care economy; notes that the Care Deal must build synergies with the competences of Member States and regions, should aim to improve cooperation and coordination, and ensure relevant investment and legislation at EU level with benefits;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Highlights the necessity to put an end to all austerity measures and structural adjustment plans and to invest in public services, in particular health, education, attention to addiction and care, transport, and research in order to meet people's needs, and enable women to no longer suffer double burden of work and unequally distributed domestic work and care responsibilities;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that the Commission and the Member States must hold as a guiding principle that women and men should receive equal pay for equal work, especially when designing response measures to the COVID-19 crisis; stresses in this regard the need for the Commission and Member States to introduce measures to combat gender segregation in highly feminised occupational sectors and to tackle the gender pay and pension gaps; welcomes the forthcoming proposal on binding pay transparency measures in this regard;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that the Commission and the
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls on the EU Member States to timely and effectively transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive as well as on the Commission to effectively monitor its implementation; invites the Member State to examine which complementary measures would be needed to ensure a better work-life balance of working parents, with due attention to single parents households;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member states to maintain and develop existing jobs by subsidizing and guaranteeing full-time wages, particularly for women facing higher unemployment rates;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Calls on the Commission to collect data on the provision of different types of care (childcare, care for older people and persons with disabilities or persons requiring long term care), feeding into a study examining the care gap to inform an initiative for a European Care Strategy; notes that the strategy in question has to respect the competences of the Members States as laid in the Treaties but would aim to improve the cooperation and coordination of all measures which could be beneficial for the EU informal carers and the people they are taking care of; stresses that cooperation at European level together with the efficient use of EU funds can contribute to the development of quality, accessible and affordable care services;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Condemns the use of the pandemic as a pretext for some governments to regress on some fundamental rights of workers and women; reminds the inalienable right to have access to health care as well as the right to dispose of ones own body, highlights therefore that reproductive healthcare, contraception and abortion rights must be guaranteed, including by an extension of the legal time for an abortion, public and universal infrastructures and its reimbursement at 100% by the social security system;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3 c. Stresses that new needs for childcare services appear with the growing number of dual-earning and single-parent families; points out that high quality, available, accessible and affordable childcare services are essential to allow parents to stay in or join the labour market and reduce the gender gap in employment; stresses however that these childcare services should also be available for children of job-seeking parents and for children in precarious family situations;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3 d. Highlights that in light of emerging demographic trends, such as ageing societies, lower birth rates and consequently the decline of the working age population, the need for formal and informal long-term care services becomes more important than ever; points out that the provision of care services and infrastructure are specially relevant for women, who are often more engaged than men in both formal and informal care of older persons and/or persons with disabilities. majority of whom are also women; stresses in the regard of informal carers the importance of family supporting leave schemes and to ensure the social security rights entitlement;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3 e. Highlights particular developments in the areas of provision of care during COVID-19 measures; against this background, calls on the Commission to serve as a platform to facilitate the exchange of best practices on the quality, accessibility and affordability of care services, as well as the different models of care services; urges the Commission to examine the situation of informal carers and to share best practices on how the Member States regularise their work;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to empower women in AI, ICT and STEM sectors through high- quality, tailored digital education and individualised training and skill development
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to empower women through accessible high-quality, tailored digital education and individualised training and skill development; stresses in this regard on the need to foresee not only training and skill development online, but also specific training in the field;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to empower women who so wish through high-quality, tailored digital education and individualised training and skill development;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and endorses the Member States to empower women through high-quality, tailored digital education and individualised training and skill development;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas women, are more often subject to multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination, including women with disabilities, health problems, migrant and ethnic minority women, older women, women with lower education levels, single parents, women living in rural areas, as well as LGBTQI+ persons;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Alerts with concern that telework, which was promoted as one of the measures to limit the spread of COVID- 19, according to all indications, tends to become more permanent in the labour market and that it could seriously affect working conditions, especially for women, with extendable hours, by pushing them to remain exploited from home while at the same time taking on domestic care and tasks; urges to take steps to comply with the law by strengthening controls on respect for working hours, promoting healthy and secure working conditions and rest times in accordance with labour law;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Notes that green-energy transition provides opportunities to tackle systemic gender discrimination and enable societies to reap the benefits of amore diverse workforce; calls on for a diverse range of skills, including civil engineering, environmental science, marketing, teaching, and community action;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Emphasises the creation of current and future careers opportunities and career paths in partnership with educational institutions, inclusive and incentivising programmes and policies for women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and non-STEM positions;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide equal access to technology, education, training, employment, social protection systems and healthcare for all, especially for vulnerable groups such as
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide equal access to technology, education, training, employment, social protection systems and healthcare for all,
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide equal access to technology, education, training, employment, social protection systems and healthcare for all, especially for vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, women living in rural areas, single mothers and elderly women, so they can fully benefit and actively participate in the life of their communities.
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide equal access to technology, education, training, employment, social protection systems and healthcare for all, especially for vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, single parents, women living in rural areas and elderly women, so they can fully benefit and actively participate in the life of their communities.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and endorses the Member States to provide equal access to technology, education, training, employment, social protection systems and healthcare for all, especially for vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, women living in rural areas and elderly women, so they can fully benefit and actively participate in the life of their communities.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide equal access to technology, education, training, employment, social protection systems and healthcare for all, especially for vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities,
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Urges the need to further incorporate the gender perspective in the upcoming Disability Equality Strategy 2021, with due attention to improved access to the labour market through targeted measures and actions;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. calls on the MemberStates to establish, while measures to face the Covid-19 crises are still inplace, a special leave for caregivers and working parents that is non-transferrable and is fully remunerated;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Stresses that neithermen nor women and girls should becoerced into taking digital education and training if this is contrary to theirpersonal career aspiration and choice;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the participation of women in the decision- making process concerning the policy responses to the Covid-19;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to adopt binding policy measures concerning pay transparency and minimum wage;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls on the Commission to have a specific approach for single mothers, as single mothers are particularly economically vulnerable as they often earn less than men and are more likely to leave the labour market when they become a parent; calls on the Commission to enhance in this regard the enforcement of existing legal tools on cross-border collection of alimony, with public awareness raising of their availability; urges the Commission to work closely with the Member States to identify practical problems linked with alimony collection in cross-border situations and to develop tools to effectively enforce payment obligations;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls on Member States to take a relevant step forward in gender pay gap by investing in predominantly female and precarious sectors, namely care and cleaning sectors, improve working conditions, and push for a higher economic and social recognition of this work;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Urges the Member States to unblock negotiations on Women’s on Boards Directive and Anti-Discrimination Directive;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to present binding measures on pay transparency by the end of 2020; stresses in this regard on the importance of a full cooperation and involvement of the social partners and all the stakeholders;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Calls on Member States to improve their plans for a shared and fair distribution of unpaid care responsibilities, namely child and elderly care, by following good practice and efficient examples;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognize the important value of care workers who were at the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to improve their working conditions and to revaluate these professions with involvement of the social partners and through collective bargaining;
Amendment 9 #
B b. whereas women are under- represented in economic and political leadership positions in concerning the policy responses to the Covid-19; whereas women should be included in decision- making to bring more perspectives, knowledge and experience leading to better policy outputs;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. Calls on Member States to ensure that employers and the public administration create an efficient structure to prevent and deal with violence against women while teleworking, perpetrated by or against their employees;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5 e. Highlights the fact that across Europe, single-parent families are more vulnerable to poverty and insecurity than other families; calls therefore to increased social protection, an increase in family allowances and guaranteed access to public services, including housing; calls for emergency measures to protect the most poor and vulnerable women including single-parent families and to further secure their lives;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5 e. Calls on the Member States to ensure adequate social and financial support is extended to those in precarious situations, including women at risk of poverty or those living in poverty, homeless or vulnerable to social exclusion;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5 f. Urges the need of ambitious policies at destination of the most vulnerable groups such as refugees, migrants, Roma etc. by legalizing their situation and permit their integration into the labour market and guarantying them access to healthcare, treatments and asocial security;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5 f. Emphasises the need for digital literacy supports through education and provision of resources to bridge the digital divide that has been highlighted as work and schooling, as well as many services and facilities, have suddenly moved online;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 g (new) 5 g. Encourage the Member States to follow the Commission's Guidelines for Employment Policies in the EU, including combating precarious work that often involves more women than men, having due regard to their national labour market models; invites the Commission to examine the working conditions of platform workers with a view to suggesting improvements in their particular situation, given the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic may only reinforce negative trends in their employment;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 g (new) 5 g. Stresses out the changes that just transition brings to the labour market and the distribution of the new green jobs; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop strategies to ensure women’s access to new green jobs and to reduce the gender gap in the renewable energy sector employment;
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505 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 — having regard to Articles 9, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 162 and 16
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 a (new) - having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 19 June 2020 on European protection of cross-border and seasonal workers in the context of theCOVID-19 crisis,
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas persons with disabilities and the elderly are particularly susceptible to the COVID-
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas, research based on the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey shows that twice as many regular teleworkers report working in excess of the 48 hours stipulated in EU legislation and resting for less than11 hours between working days compared to those working on the employers’ premises; whereas almost 30% of such teleworkers report working in their free time every day or several times a week, compared to below 5% of ‘office’ based workers; whereas regular teleworkers are also more likely to report suffering from work related stress, being affected by sleep disorders and struggling to reconcile work and family responsibilities;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. Whereas the crisis has resulted in rising urban poverty, affecting more middle-income households and creating new groups of people are at risk of poverty, the ‘new urban poor’ (including freelance professionals, self-employed, young people, etc.) and led to deepening territorial inequalities, exacerbating the social disadvantages and the unequal access to public services, generating an increasing demand for social services and social infrastructure at local level at a time that local budgets are overstretched;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas the COVID-19 crisis highlighted the importance of digital competences and the need to continually raise these competences in, among others, the educational sphere by providing equipment enabling distance learning in pupils' households, and educational institutions;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas a high level of human health protection must be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Union policies and activities;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. Whereas the pandemic has particularly affected the elderly, sometimes aggravating those who are isolated ;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) I b. whereas, as stated in article 151 TFEU, the Union and the Member States, having in mind fundamental social rights such as those set out in the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, shall have as their objectives the promotion of employment, improved living and working conditions, so as to make possible their harmonisation while the improvement is being maintained, proper social protection, dialogue between management and labour, the development of human resources with a view to lasting high employment and the combating of exclusion;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) I c. whereas the crisis is resulting in rising urban poverty, creating new groups of people are at risk of poverty, is leading to a deepening of territorial inequalities, exacerbating social disadvantages in deprived urban areas and the unequal access to public services, generating an increasing demand for social services and social infrastructure at local level at a time that municipal budgets are overstretched;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Firmly believes that sustainable development is deeply rooted in the European project and values; is fully committed with the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 a (new) - having regard to the Commission Report of 17 June 2020 on the impact of demographic change (COM(2020)241),
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a low-
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a low- carbon, climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy that must go hand in hand with increased wellbeing, social progress, security, prosperity, equality and inclusion; believes that social sustainability is a fundamental prerequisite for fair and inclusive digital and green transitions; believes that this recovery period must be the time for reforms based on solidarity, integration, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, gender equality, high-quality public social welfare systems, quality employment and sustainable growth; stresses that no one must be left behind in this transition initiated by the European Union and that all territories must be accompanied, including rural areas ;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a low- carbon, climate-neutral, resource-efficient
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a low- carbon, climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy that must go hand in hand with increased growth, wellbeing, social progress, security, prosperity, competitiveness, equality and inclusion; believes that social sustainability is
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a low- carbon, climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy that must go hand in hand with increased wellbeing, social progress, security, prosperity, equality and inclusion; believes that social sustainability is a fundamental prerequisite for fair and inclusive digital and green transitions; believes that this recovery period must be
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the EU has embarked on a transition towards a low- carbon, climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy that must go hand in hand with increased wellbeing, social progress, security, prosperity, equality and inclusion; believes that social sustainability is a fundamental prerequisite for fair and inclusive digital and green transitions; believes that this recovery period must be the time for reforms based on solidarity, integration, social justice,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 b (new) - having regard to the Opinion of the European Committee of the Regions of 18 January 2017 entitled ‘The EU response to the demographic challenge’ (2017/C017/08),
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Notes that the green, digital and demographic transitions affect European regions, sectors, workers and population groups in different ways; stresses that the triple transition will require significant reskilling and labour reallocation, and hence raises questions about the fair distribution of potential costs and risks in the employment and social domains; highlights that adverse employment impacts of the achievement of climate neutrality will be concentrated in coal, carbon and energy-intensive regions depending on sectors that will have to undergo extensive transformations, such as extractive industries (hard coal, lignite, peat or oil shale) and related energy production, as well as carbon intensive industries (aluminium, cement, steel, fertiliser or paper production);
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that a social Europe first and foremost should be an internationally competitive Europe; Highlights that in order to create jobs and a better social welfare for all European citizens in a world with rising global competition, the EU needs to ensure that the Union and the companies operating here stay competitive;
Amendment 122 #
1 b. believes that this recovery period must be the time for reforms based on solidarity, integration, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, gender equality, high-quality public social welfare systems, quality employment and sustainable growth- a model that ensures equality and social protection, takes into consideration the needs of vulnerable groups, enhances participation and citizenship and improves living standards for all; considers this as the best way for the EU to emerge from this crisis more sustainable, resilient and fairer for the next generation;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that an ambitious political agenda with identifiable, clear and mandatory targets and indicators of social sustainability must be designed; points out that the next EU Social Summit planned for May 2021 in Porto would be the perfect opportunity for adoption of this agenda at the highest political level by the leaders of the 27 Member States and of the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission; emphasises that the new agenda for a strong social Europe must be based on multi-level governance with a meaningful involvement of local authorities in all policies where they have direct or shared competences, building on the model of Urban Agenda Partnerships from the Pact of Amsterdam, to engage in a regular and direct dialogue with city leaders and representatives of local communities on how to fully implement the EPSR and to strengthen social Europe.
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises that progress towards a sustainable, fair and inclusive social Europe requires a strong shared commitment both to the advancement of the UN 2030 Agenda as well as to the implementation and materialisation of the principles and rights contained in the European Pillar of Social Rights; Highlights that an ambitious political agenda with identifiable, clear and mandatory targets and indicators of social sustainability must be designed; points out that the next EU Social Summit planned for May 2021 in Porto would be the perfect opportunity for adoption of this agenda at the highest political level by the leaders of the 27 Member States and of the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission; calls for the involvement of social partners throughout the process;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that an ambitious political agenda with identifiable, clear and mandatory targets and indicators of social sustainability
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that an ambitious political agenda with identifiable, feasible, sustainable, clear and mandatory targets and indicators of social sustainability must be designed; points out that the next EU Social Summit planned for May 2021 in Porto would be the perfect opportunity for adoption of this agenda at the highest political level by the leaders of the 27 Member States and of the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 a (new) - having regard to its resolution on European protection of cross-border and seasonal workers in the context of the COVID-19 crisis (2020/2664(RSP)),
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that an ambitious political agenda with identifiable, clear and mandatory targets and indicators of social sustainability must be designed; points out that the next EU Social Summit planned for May 2021 in Porto would be the perfect opportunity for adoption of this agenda at the highest political level by the leaders of the 27 Member States and of the European Council, the European Parliament
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Highlights that initiatives originating from the European Pillar of Social Rights are a shared responsibility between the EU and the Member States; insists that initiative must incorporate provisions that allow for exceptions in the event of higher levels of protection in collective agreements, as well as the respect for national collective bargaining models;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers that the Porto agenda should take a double approach, i.e. it should focus on the social sustainability part of the EU’s Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda, while at the same time paving the way for the materialisation of the EPSR principles, setting up ambitious targets and instruments;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers that the Porto agenda should take a double approach, i.e. it should focus on the social sustainability part of the EU’s Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda, while at the same time paving the way for the materialisation of the EPSR principles, setting up ambitious targets and instruments;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers that the Porto agenda should take a double approach, i.e. it should focus on the social sustainability part of the EU’s Sustainable Development
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers that the Porto agenda should take a double approach, i.e. it should focus on the social sustainability part of the EU’s Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda, while at the same time paving the way
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers that the Porto agenda should take a double approach, i.e. it should focus on the social sustainability part of the EU’s Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda, while at the same time paving the way for the materialisation of the EPSR principles through adopting an Action Plan, setting up ambitious mandatory targets and instruments; points out that part of the limited success of the social dimension of the Lisbon Strategy was due to the voluntary nature of the participation of Member States and the lack of effective implementation;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 a (new) - having regard to the Joint Research Centre Technical Report entitled "The COVID confinement measures and EU labour markets" published in 2020 and, in particular, its analysis of the most recent evidence available of the patterns of telework in the European Union;
Amendment 140 #
3. Considers that the Porto agenda should take a double approach, i.e. it should focus on the social sustainability part of the EU’s Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda, while at the same time paving the way for the materialisation of the EPSR principles
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Points out that part of the limited success of the social dimension of the Lisbon Strategy was due to the voluntary nature of the participation of Member States and the lack of effective implementation; considers that the existing tools for its implementation (the Semester Process, CSR, etc.) have played an important role in monitoring the evolution achieved and in making social and employment issues more visible in the EU governance process;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Recalls that the division of competences and the principle of subsidiarity must be respected;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 144 #
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 36 a (new) - having regard to the revised European Social Charter and the Turin Process, launched in 2014 with the aim of strengthening the treaty system of the European Social Charter within the Council of Europe as well as its relationship with the law of the European Union,
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must be reinforced through mandatory enforceability,
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must focus on protecting everyone and especially the most vulnerable and making the recovery inclusive and socially just and that these goals shall be reinforced through mandatory enforceability, mirroring economic and environmental obligations whose observance is linked to access to European funds;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must be reinforced through mandatory enforceability taking into account national specificities and needs, mirroring economic and environmental obligations whose observance is linked to access to European funds; is convinced that a governance framework for a social and sustainable Europe should be anchored in the following reforms: the integration of the EPSR and a social progress protocol in the Treaties, protecting and ensuring social rights
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must be reinforced through mandatory enforceability, mirroring economic and environmental obligations whose observance is linked to access to European funds; is convinced that a governance framework for a social and sustainable Europe should be anchored in the
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must be reinforced through mandatory enforceability, mirroring economic and environmental obligations whose observance is linked to access to European funds; is convinced that a governance framework for a social and sustainable Europe should be anchored in the following reforms: the integration of the EPSR and a social progress protocol in the Treaties, protecting social rights over economic freedoms in the single market, and the adoption of a Sustainable Development and Social Progress Pact
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the goals of a new agenda for a strong social Europe must be reinforced through mandatory enforceability, mirroring economic and environmental obligations whose observance is linked to access to European funds; is convinced that a governance framework for a social and sustainable Europe should be anchored in the following reforms: the integration of the EPSR and a social progress protocol in the Treaties, protecting social rights
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Is convinced that a Governance framework fora social and sustainable Europe should be anchored in the following reforms: the integration of the EPSR and a social progress protocol in the Treaties, protecting social rights over economic freedoms in the single market and the adoption of a Sustainable Development and Social Progress Pact making social and sustainable targets mandatory; considers that, additionally, the Semester Process should follow the community method and be agreed between the Council and the European Parliament, while more social policy areas should fall under the qualified majority decision process, in particular non-discrimination, social protection of workers (outside cross-border situations, the protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated, the representation and collective defence of the interests of workers and employers and conditions of employment for third- country nationals legally residing in the EU;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. calls for the introduction of a EU Social Imbalances Procedure to complement the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, strengthen social welfare systems, finance quality jobs, public services, the fight against poverty and the green and digital transitions; welcomes NextGenerationEU, the EU’s recovery plan; calls for a balance between the green and digital transitions on the one hand and education, social and health care infrastructure on the other, in order to ensure social fairness, social cohesion and prosperity for all; is concerned that, in the current crisis, social welfare systems are experiencing unprecedented pressure and that related public expenditure will exponentially increase; underlines that the expenditure for the crisis measures should not come at the expense of the least well-off, but should be carried fairly; stresses therefore that in order to fuel the recovery, the EU’s investment effort through the Recovery Plan must have a strong social dimension strengthening social welfare systems and investing in social security, access to health care and education, affordable housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups in order to combat the social impact of the crisis; considers that investment in education, well-designed progressive tax and benefit systems, social investment and the provision of quality public and social services are essential levers for preventing the transfer of disadvantage from one generation to the next; stresses the importance of the implementation of the EPSR in the context of the European Recovery Plan, at the same level as the
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to temporarily make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis; stresses the importance of
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis; stresses the importance of the implementation of the EPSR in the context of the European Recovery Plan
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis; stresses the importance of the implementation of the EPSR in the context of the European Recovery Plan
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the fiscal flexibility to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis; stresses the importance of the implementation of the EPSR in the context of the European Recovery Plan
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Highlights that social investment in the recovery package should match the Porto Agenda targets in ambition, in order to provide the necessary financial support
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Highlights that social investment in the recovery package should match the Porto Agenda targets in ambition, in order to provide the necessary financial support as well, and that as such, specific Social Progress Plans (SPPs) should be complementary to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans and the National Climate and Energy Plans; calls on the Member States to ensure financial support is channelled in a transparent and accountable manner to where it is needed the most and most urgently to mitigate the social consequences of the crisis at local level.
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Highlights that social investment in a the Member States recovery packages should
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas sustainable development aimed at achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as well as at reinforcing the implementation the European Pillar of social rights and the Paris Agreement, is a fundamental objective of the European Union; whereas the social market economy is based on two complementary pillars, namely the enforcement of competition and robust social policy measures
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Highlights that social investments in the
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Highlights that social investment in the recovery package should match the Porto Agenda targets in ambition, in order to provide the necessary financial support as well, and that as such, specific Social Progress Plans (SPPs) should be complementary to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. calls upon the Commission and Member States to better target EU funds, such as cohesion funds, as well as the easing of fiscal rules and competition law to detach social investment from other types of expenditure, allowing for further investment in social and affordable housing;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE);
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE);
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE);
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE); invites the Commission to
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE);
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas sustainable development is a fundamental objective of the European Union; whereas the social market economy is based on two complementary pillars, namely the enforcement of competition and robust social policy measures. to guarantee social justice by correcting negative outcomes and bolster social protection;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE);
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE); invites the Commission to
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the establishment of the Instrument for Temporary Support to Mitigate Employment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) and underlines that this is a key instrument to support national short-time work schemes thus allowing to safeguard jobs and skills and to preserve large parts of wages and incomes ; invites the Commission to examine the possibility of introducing a permanent special instrument in this respect; stresses that companies benefiting from public financial support are not to lay off workers, reduce wages, reduce workers’rights and protections, or pay bonuses to executives or dividends to shareholders;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. Whereas there is a strong and assumed need for a transition, in Europe and the world, to sustainable resource exploitation, lowering of CO2 emissions and strong protection of the environment in order to protect the livelihoods, security, health and prosperity of future generations, yet the transition will require ambitious reforms and refocusing of priorities, which can potentially generate social issues and worsen social exclusion for impoverished categories of society or falling behind regions;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the announcement of
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the announcement of an EU Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Scheme;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the announcement of an EU Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Scheme and urges the European Commission to present its proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the announcement of an EU Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Scheme for Member States that have introduced the common currency;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the announcement of the President of the European Commission to present an EU Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Scheme;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 6 a (new) - having regard to the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015, in specific its preamble “Urging Parties, in implementing their policies and measures, to promote a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities and strategies”
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas the three pillars of Sustainable Development are the economic, social and environmental pillar; whereas Sustainable development is based, amongst others, on full employment and social progress; whereas it is a fundamental objective of the European Union laid down in Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union(TEU); whereas, up to now, priority has been given to economic and environmental sustainability;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Welcomes the recent Commission Report on the impact of demographic change, which analyses the impact of demographic change on different groups in society and on areas and regions disproportionately affected in Europe and puts forward measures to address these challenges; welcomes the announcement of a Green Paper on Ageing and a Long- term vision for Rural Areas; urges the Commission to mainstream demographic considerations across EU policy using all instruments the Union has at its disposal, notably through the Multiannual Financial Framework and the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; stresses that broad social acceptance of environmental protection and climate action measures is vital for their effective implementation; urges Member States to effectively involve workers and regional and local governments in the elaboration of Territorial Just Transition Plans; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions, sectors and their people; stresses that the creation of green and decent jobs is crucial in order to achieve an inclusive and balanced job market to accompany the fair and just transition towards a renewables-based, highly resource- and energy-efficient, circular and carbon- neutral economy by 2040 at the very latest and to make sure no one is left behind; Insists on increasing the amount put forward in May on the Just Transition fund by the Commission in its amended proposal and stresses the importance of having social cohesion as the guiding principle for providing support under the fund
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions and their people; calls for the Just Transition Fund to have sufficient financial means to support regions in transition and to ensure that new quality jobs are created; stresses that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund is pivotal in supporting social plans for workers hit by restructuring, and calls upon the Commission and Member States to agree with a substantially increased budget for this instrument aspart of the broader European Just Transition financial support;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions and their people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the Just Transition Fund to support local communities from affected territories to help upskilling and reskilling to ensure every person in vulnerable sectors can requalify and develop new skills to remain active in the labour market.
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions and their people; highlights that the Just Transition Funds shall be, above all, dedicated to workers in industries facing the biggest risk of decommissioning - to these workers' training, requalification and measures aiming to counteract energy poverty;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) A b. Whereas the transition towards a stable and sustainable green and environment-friendly economy and social dimension can only be done in close cooperation between public and private actors, by implementing bold measures and ensuring the flexibility that all citizens and all regions can access the sustainable resources and energy sources they require in order to pursue Europe's climate goals;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions and their people and calls for sustainable and ambitious use of the funds available in order to support the most vulnerable and lagging behind regions by using transitionary measures where needed;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions and their people, especially on those with lower income;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the introduction of a Just Transition Fund; recalls that the fight against climate change and the subsequent structural changes will have a severe impact on many European regions, sectors and their people and workers;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Considers that the green transition in the Union must be accompanied by a process of reindustrialisation, the modernisation of its industrial base, the strengthening of the internal market and the design of a competitive framework for industry to reinforce its resilience and strategic autonomy; believes that, in the transition to a low-carbon economy, it is necessary to address the problems and challenges of specific industries, such as energy prices, the available technologies to reduce emissions and enabling digital technologies; encourages Member States to make use of the available EU funds (such as the Just Transition Fund and the Recovery and Resilience Facility) for these objectives; considers that special protection measures should be allowed to protect jobs and avoid the closure of industrial plants in those regions most affected by aging and depopulation processes; encourages all parties to continue the negotiations to save the aluminium plant in Lugo (Spain) and its jobs;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Recalls that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 million Europeans were struggling with poverty and material deprivation on a daily basis and that the situation will deteriorate further as a result of the crisis; recognises the crucial role of all European funds and programmes in the social area and the even more essential role the future ESF+ and EGF will play in the next 7 years; Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, the resilience and fairness of our societies and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, addressing social and economic inequalities and the needs of those hardest hit by the crisis, particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, such as those in poverty, jobless, elderly, young people, persons with disabilities, single parents, mobile workers and migrants;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. It calls for boosting to rural areas in the development of new companies and the relocation of families, which means investing in appropriate access routes, educational and health infrastructures, as well as the promotion of social, cultural and sports activities that encourage a healthier quality of life and optimal for children's development, in more affordable way;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle child poverty will become imminent in the coming years;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak,
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle child poverty will
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle child poverty will become imminent in the coming years; underlines that Member States should allocate at least 5 % of the European Social Fund (ESF+) resources under shared management to support activities under the European Child Guarantee; insists that a separate budget line under ESF+ needs to be created for the European Child Guarantee, with an allocation of EUR 20 billion and complemented by a comprehensive Anti-Poverty Strategy including measures ensuring affordable housing and tacking homelessness; recalls that any strategy to eradicate child poverty must take into account the reality of single parenthood, given that single- parent households are among vulnerable groups in society;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) A b. whereas the EU entered the deepest economic recession in its history, economic activity in Europe dropping at an unusually fast speed; whereas according to the Summer2020 Economic forecast, EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 8.3% and the euro area by 8.7% in 2020;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle poverty including child poverty will become imminent in the coming years; underlines that Member States should allocate at least 5 % of the European Social Fund (ESF+) resources under shared management to support activities under the European Child Guarantee; insists that a separate budget line under ESF+ needs to be created for the European Child Guarantee, with an allocation of EUR 20 billion; also underlines that Member States should allocate at least 3% of the European Social Fund plus (ESF+) resources under shared management to tackle food and material deprivation as well as to support social inclusion of the most deprived ;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle child poverty will become imminent in the coming years; underlines that Member States should allocate at least 5 % of the European Social
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 (new) Recalls the increased need of public spending to prevent and mitigate the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis; Is concerned about the large amounts of tax revenues foregone due to large-scale tax avoidance; calls on the Council to speed up the negotiations on legislation regarding public country- by-country reporting and common consolidated corporate tax base, and to revise both the criteria of the Code of Conduct Group for business taxation and the criteria for the EU list of non- cooperative jurisdictions.
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes in this context the Commission’s plans to strengthen the European Youth Guarantee; recalls the need for a binding, more effective and inclusive Youth Guarantee that provides remunerated traineeships, apprenticeships, and internships, for all groups of people not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) within a clear quality criteria framework governing the Youth Guarantee; calls on the Commission to put forward a legal framework for an effective and enforceable ban on unpaid internships, traineeships and apprenticeships;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes in this context the Commission’s plans to strengthen the European Youth Guarantee; believes that solid binding quality criteria and minimum standards must be adopted to ensure a more effective implementation of the reinforced youth guarantee; stresses that the reinforced youth guarantee must lead to provide, in a reasonable time, quality and permanent jobs for all young people involved;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes in this context the Commission’s plans to strengthen the European Youth Guarantee; calls on the Member States and the Commission to make the fight against youth unemployment a priority and to make full use of financial instruments, EU programmes such as Erasmus+ and tailored measures for tackling youth unemployment and fostering youth employability;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. underlines the crucial role played by the European Globalisation Fund, being an instrument of European solidarity, in supporting displaced workers who have lost their jobs due to the transitions to a climate neutral and digital economy in their process of requalification, training and reintegration into the labour market; points out that the Commission’s undertaking to mobilise the EGF in response to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the social and economic level, and notes that extending the scope of the EGF to digital and green transitions will require sufficient funding for the years to come; calls on the Member States to make full use of this fund in order to accompany the displaced workers in these transitions ;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) A c. whereas there are emerging challenges that Europe is facing, such as increasing inequalities between generations, diminished social, health, economic and environmental opportunities and resources, territorial disparities and unequal access to fundamental social and health services, jobs and business opportunities and social infrastructure;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12.
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Believes that a strong Social Europe agenda for sustainable development should encompass economic, social and environmental wellbeing indicators and should cover the following areas: decent work, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; considers that, in order to achieve more tangible results, this new agenda should combined quantitative and qualitative targets and should be anchored on a rights based approach;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Believes that a strong Social Europe agenda for sustainable development should encompass economic, social and environmental wellbeing indicators and should cover the following areas: decent work, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems access to essential social and care services, including childcare, education, healthcare, housing, and fair mobility;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Believes that a strong Social Europe agenda for sustainable development should encompass economic, social and environmental wellbeing indicators and should cover the following areas: decent work, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems eradicating poverty and fair mobility;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility to invest in social and healthcare infrastructure and services at local level to build resilience particularly in the care sector, including healthcare, childcare, elderly care and social care, and enhance support for active inclusion measures to tackle child poverty, in work poverty and the digital divide, and prevent a further exacerbation of poverty and inequalities from the COVID-19 crisis
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Calls on the Commission to propose an ex-ante competitiveness check for all new proposals;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to actively tackle the digital divide in access to public services, many of which have been digitalised during COVID-19, by ensuring EU financial support for social innovation at local level for making public services more easily accessible, including capacity- building and the scaling up of innovative bottom-up initiatives for e-inclusion and data literacy to ensure all citizens have access to high-quality, accessible and user-friendly services of general interest.
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A d (new) A d. whereas reducing inequalities is a shared responsibility between the EU and the Member States; whereas Member States do not have the same fiscal space to reduce inequalities through public policies and public investment;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to present a legal framework for minimum wages
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to present a
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to present
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A e (new) A e. whereas reducing inequalities is a shared responsibility between the EU and the Member States;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to present a
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to present a legal framework for minimum wages and collective bargaining in order to eliminate in-work poverty, reduce social inequalities and promote collective bargaining, including flexible sectoral agreements and company-by-company arrangements; reiterates its call on the Commission to carry out a study on a living wage index, which could serve as a reference tool for social partners;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to present a working legal framework for minimum wages and collective bargaining that will respect national competencies and specificities in order to eliminate in-work poverty and promote collective bargaining; reiterates its call on the Commission to carry out a study on a living wage index, which could serve as a reference tool for social partners;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to intensify their efforts towards better facilitating active and healthy aging in the workplace, for example by stimulation job sharing between old and young employees, also with the aim to help mitigate the pressure of demographic change on pension- and healthcare systems;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Reiterates that the path to fair jobs and growth runs through economic development; Notes in this regard that the regulatory framework on labour markets needs to be clear, simple and flexible;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to
Amendment 26 #
A f. whereas inequalities (of income and of opportunities) have risen in a majority of Member States after the 2008 economic crisis, challenging both the sustainability and inclusiveness of growth and social cohesion and that, in this context, progress towards the EU 2020 targets has been difficult;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, together with social partners, to commit to reaching collective bargaining coverage of 90 % by 2030 in those national systems that combine statutory and social partners regulation of employment and working conditions; stresses that collective bargaining contributes to the social market economy, as aimed for within the Lisbon Treaty; reiterates that the European treaties, which explicitly protect the autonomy of social partners, and that self-regulatory systems in place in some Member States, must be protected and social partners must keep the power to regulate autonomously, ensuring strong legitimacy and collective agreement coverage progress; calls on Member States to remove any national legislation that hampers collective bargaining, including by ensuring trade union access to workplaces for the purpose of organizing; calls on the European Commission to revise European public procurement directive in order to establish preferential treatment for companies complying with collective bargaining agreements; underlines that reforms in Member States should not negatively affect collective bargaining and that collective bargaining needs to be promoted at sectoral level; urges the Commission and Member States to fully involve social partners in European policy making, including in the European Semester process; believes that these targets would contribute to the eradication of working poor and to ensure fair wages for the European workers;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to aim at reaching collective bargaining coverage of 90 % by 2030 while respecting the autonomy of social partners and national labour market traditions; believes strong social dialogue and collective bargaining is one of the most effective tools to achieve better working conditions; calls on the Commission to identify barriers to social dialogue and to invest in long-term capacity building for national and sectoral social partners by means of EU- programs such as EFS+; invites the Commission to provide incentives and promote well-functioning collective bargaining in Member States, involving the national social partners while respecting their autonomy; invites national social partners to strive for a continuously strengthening of the collective bargaining capacities and high coverages;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and the
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to reaching collective bargaining coverage of 90 % by 2030, as well as to promote flexible sectoral agreements and company-by- company arrangements;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 a. Calls on the Commission, within the revision of the public procurement directive, to strengthen the social clause and to exclude tenders from companies who have engaged in criminal activities, social dumping, unionbusting or refused to engage in collective bargaining, ensuring that public money is used to invest in those engaged in Just Transitions, with an aim to promote collective agreements and increase trade union densities;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 a. Reminds the Commission and the Member States of the urgent need for a social progress protocol in the European Treaties that, in the event of conflicts between fundamental economic freedoms and social rights, wages and working conditions in collective agreements or national legislation, accords priority to the latter;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to work to ensure that public service institutions, whether privately or publicly managed, respect at least minimum working conditions for their staff, in particular the freedom to negotiate and conclude collective or company-level agreements and the right to adequate wages;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14 b. Urges the Commission to come up with a targeted revision of EU competition law to allow for collective price setting for precarious self-employed, in order to ensure a better balance in bargaining power and a fairer internal market;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A g (new) A g. Whereas Eurofound research reveals the complexity of the social dimension of the European Union and suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the European Pillar of Social Rights with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument to support initiatives such as those above with the aim of reducing long-term and youth unemployment by a
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument to support initiatives such as those above with the aim of reducing long-term and youth unemployment by at least 50 % by 2030; believes that it is time to make the Youth Guarantee binding for all Member States; stresses the need to ensure efficient, quality and accessible education and training systems, to reinforce upskilling and reskilling measures and to promote lifelong learning so that young people can develop the skills that are necessary to face the green and digital transitions and a fast changing labour market;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Notes that youth unemployment remains at a highlevel; stresses the importance of including young people into the labour market; calls for common initiatives of Member States and social partners to promote youth employment and to open markets for young people; Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument to support initiatives such as those above with the aim of reducing long- term and youth unemployment by at least 50 % by 2030, and to include criteria for quality job creation;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument to support initiatives such as those above with the aim of reducing long-term and youth unemployment by at least 50 % by 2030 and make the instrument inclusive by adopting active outreach measures towards long term NEETs and young persons coming from a disadvantaged socio-economic background, such as young persons with disabilities and young Romani people;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument to support initiatives such as those above with the aim of reducing long-term and youth
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for a reinforced Youth Guarantee instrument
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Calls on Member States to take into account the particular situation of elderly workers on the labour market through measures such as individual trainings, and the optimalisation of the working time;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Calls on the Commission to take long term measures to reduce the significant unemployment rates among women and ensure women's participation in the labour market.
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A h (new) A h. whereas decisive measures and investment are needed for a speedy recovery that should focus on mitigating the economic and social effects of the pandemic, restart the economic activity, foster sustainable development, the green transition, the digital transformation and implement the principles of the EPSR in order to achieve more effective and stronger welfare states;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Commission to include the overall objective of raising work quality at the European level in the Semester process and the Social Scoreboard, with a view to guiding and assessing the contribution of employment policies across Member States
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses that a European agenda for quality jobs is not only a question of decency but it is also good for the economy as it improves productivity and boosts internal demand; considers that a quality job must include a living wage, work security and access to social protection, life long learning opportunities, good working conditions in safe and healthy workplaces, reasonable working time with good work-life balance and trade union representation and bargaining rights; Calls on the Commission to include the overall objective of raising work quality at the European level in the Semester process and the Social Scoreboard, with a view to guiding and assessing the contribution of employment policies across Member States to the implementation of the SDGs and the
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Commission to include the overall objective of raising work quality at the European level in the Semester process and the Social Scoreboard, with a view to guiding and assessing the contribution of employment policies across Member States to the implementation of the SDGs and the EPSR; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the European Semester as an instrument to coordinate the EU employment and social policies in order to ensure a socially fair and ecologically responsible recovery and transition; calls on the Member States to give equal importance to the social and employment related Country specific recommendations, especially the ones following the COVID-19 crisis, as they give to the economic and budgetary ones;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Commission to include the overall objective of raising work quality at the European level in the Semester process and the Social Scoreboard, with a view to guiding and assessing the contribution of employment policies across Member States to the implementation of the SDGs and the EPSR; demands the revision of the EU Employment Guidelines to promote quality jobs with fair pay and decent working conditions for all people, including those working in platform and gig economy, promote investments and reforms to make labour markets more inclusive and skills training more accessible for everyone, especially people being or at risk of becoming unemployed.
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16 a. Calls on Eurofound to contribute to the measurement of job quality of men and women in different contractual and employment settings and to provide policy relevant analyses to assist the improvement of job quality and make work sustainable;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment so that it accounts for less than 10 % of total employment, with over 80 % of jobs created being middle or high paying and concentrated in sustainable sectors; urges the Commission and the Member States to eliminate the practice of zero-hour contracts and bogus self- employment; Calls on the Commission to initiate legislative action to ensure better protection and working conditions for people employed on short-term, atypical contracts and insecure forms of employment, including platform work;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; whereas it has been implemented and monitored in the context of the European Semester – framed by the general goals of pursuing growth, competitiveness and productivity – in a political context of public spending cuts, debt consolidation and deficit contention; whereas despite the words ‘sustainable’ and ‘inclusive’, the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy gave priority to growth above most other objectives;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment so that it accounts for less than 10 % of total employment, with over 80 % of jobs created being middle or high paying and concentrated in sustainable sectors;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Is concerned about the increased number of workers in precarious forms of employment, bogus self-employed and workers with zero-hour contracts; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment so that it accounts for less than 10 % of total employment, with over 80 % of jobs created being middle or high paying and concentrated in sustainable sectors; urges the Commission and the Member States to eliminate the practice of
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment so that it accounts for less than 10 % of total employment, with over 80 % of jobs created being middle or high paying and concentrated in sustainable sectors; urges the Commission and the Member States to eliminate the practice of zero-hour contracts and to effectively prevent and sanction discriminations and abuses against fixed-term workers;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment, including in national public administrations, so that it accounts for less than 10 % of total employment, with over 80 % of jobs created being middle or high paying and concentrated in sustainable sectors; urges the Commission and the
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards the objective of reducing temporary employment so that it accounts for less than 10 % of total employment, with over 80 % of jobs created being middle or high paying and concentrated in sustainable sectors; urges the Commission and the Member States to
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 — having regard to the ILO conventions and recommendations, in particular the Labour Inspection Convention of 1947 (No 81), the ILO Centenary Declaration (2019), and the ILO Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030; urges the Commission to come up with ambitious proposals
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030; urges the Commission to come up with ambitious proposals on musculoskeletal and stress-related disorders; calls on the
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030; urges the Commission to come up with ambitious legislative proposals on musculoskeletal and stress-related disorders; calls on the Commission to present a strategic EU carers’agenda as a step further in qualitatively empowering the healthcare sector in the EU; Welcomes the Commission proposal for a fourth revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (CMD) which sets Binding Occupational Exposure Limit Values (BOELs) on Acrylonitrile, Nickel compounds and Benzene; Calls on the Commission to continue to update the CMD and propose BOELs for a minimum of additional 50 substances by 2024 and to include substances with damaging effects on the reproductive system in the Directive;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030; urges the Commission to come up with ambitious proposals on musculoskeletal and stress-related disorders; calls on the Commission to present a strategic EU carers’agenda as a step further in qualitatively empowering the healthcare sector in the EU; reiterates that the carers´ agenda needs to reflect also the situation of 100 million of informal carers in the EU who provide 80% of long-term care but remain mostly unrecognized;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths and health afflictions by 2030; urges the Commission to come up with ambitious proposals on musculoskeletal and stress- related disorders; calls on the Commission to present a strategic EU carers’agenda as a step further in qualitatively empowering the healthcare sector in the EU;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Calls on the Commission, in coordination with Member States and in full compliance of the principle of subsidiarity, to develop a regulatory framework that guarantees quality care services and allows for a broader use of telecare and telemedicine, by providing care professionals with legal safeguards and laying down the necessary requirements for training, with the purpose of securing care and primary care to all EU citizens, whatever their age, in any geographical area across the EU, including those suffering demographic handicaps, such as sparsely populated and depopulated areas;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Calls the Commission and the Member States to assess new opportunities in the health care sector benefiting consumers and patients, while respecting the role of public and private institutions in its provision to citizens; stresses that the EU must follow-up on the European Framework for action on Mental Health; notes that one of the targets is also the prevention of cancers, as a percentage of 40% is considered to be preventable;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Calls on the Commission to regularly update and enlarge the scope of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive to better protect workers from hazardous chemicals, including reprotoxic substances;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18 b. Calls for the role of EU-OSHA to be strengthened to promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union and further develop initiatives to improve workplace prevention in all business sectors;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18 b. Calls the Commission to present an ambitious Beating Cancer Plan to help to reduce the suffering caused by this disease;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18 c. Reminds that according to Eurofound, just one in three workers with limiting chronic disease have their workplaces suitably adapted; Calls on the Commission and Member States to sustain their work to foster the employment, maintenance at work and reintegration into the labour market of people with disabilities and chronic diseases in Europe;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 316 #
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. C
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy, also covering non-standard workers, workers in platform companies and the self-employed;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy, also covering non-standard workers, workers in platform companies and the self-employed
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to impro
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Acknowledges that fair, socially sustainable work and real employee participation in shaping working conditions are more important than ever in digital platforms and in any other sector and that workers must have democratic influence over the governance of work; underlines that the benefits of digitalisation must be shared broadly and equitably and workers in the digital sector must enjoy same rights and working conditions as those in other sectors; regrets that the announced Platform Work Summit had to be postponed; Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy, also covering non- standard workers, workers in platform companies and the self-employed;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy, also covering non-standard workers, workers in platform companies and the self-employed; urges the Commission to include in this directive minimum standards for fair teleworking
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy, also covering non-standard workers, workers in platform companies and the self-employed; urges the Commission to include in this directive
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on decent working conditions and rights in the digital economy
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of digital solutions, particularly teleworking; believes that properly regulated flexible working arrangements and teleworking offers opportunities such as better work-life balance, reduced CO2emissions related to the daily commute, and enhanced employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and may serve as a tool to tackle rural depopulation; calls on the European Commission to propose a legislative framework laying down clear common minimum standards and conditions for telework in the EU to protect the health and safety of workers and to ensure decent working conditions, including respect for working hours, leave, work-life balance and the right to disconnect;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new framework directive on workers’ information, consultation and participation for European company forms, including subcontracting chains and franchises, and for companies that use European company mobility instruments, in order to establish minimum standards
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new framework directive on workers’ information, consultation and participation for European company forms, including subcontracting chains and franchises, and for companies that use European company mobility instruments,
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new framework directive on workers’information, consultation and participation for European company forms, including subcontracting chains and franchises, and for companies that use European company mobility instruments, in order to establish minimum standards;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20 a. Calls on the Commission to promote the development of employee share ownership and profit sharing, as a tool to improve inclusion of workers improving democracy at work, while reducing inequality as well as the risk of job losses during downturns; stresses that such measures should come on top of fixed salaries and benefits and should not distract from the need to ensure that workers' salaries guarantee them a decent living wage;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish the necessary
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish the necessary conditions and requirements in order to
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; whereas
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish the necessary conditions and requirements in order to
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21 a. Calls for a Directive on binding human rights due diligence and responsible business conduct - including workers’ rights such as right of association and collective bargaining, health and safety, social protection and working conditions - establishing mandatory due diligence covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, including supply and subcontracting chains; stresses this Directive should ensure the full involvement of trade unions and workers’ representatives in the whole due diligence process and guarantee the right to bargain collectively at the relevant levels on the due diligence policies; underlines that both national labour inspectorates and the ELA must be able to conduct inspections throughout the chain, are open to file complaints, and can offer mediation, on all EU companies and companies wanting to access the internal market; calls upon the Commission to insist on ratification of ILO Conventions 81 (labour inspection)and 129 (labour inspection in agricultural sector) by all trading partners of the EU;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21 a. Calls for a Directive on binding human rights due diligence and responsible business conduct establishing mandatory due diligence covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, including supply and subcontracting chains without prejudice to existing and future requirements on chain liability in subcontracting chains; the Directive should ensure the full involvement of trade unions and workers’ representatives in the entire due diligence process and guarantee the right to bargain collectively at the relevant levels on the due diligence policies;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21 a. Calls for a Directive on mandatory supply chain due diligence binding human rights, and responsible business conduct establishing mandatory due diligence covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, including supply and subcontracting chains; the Directive should ensure the full involvement of trade unions and workers’ representatives in the whole due diligence processand guarantee the right to bargain collectively at the relevant levels on the due diligence policies;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21 b. Encourages the European Commission to take into account the specificity of social economy enterprises, which are proving to be very important for society during the pandemic, and to evaluate the development of specific programs and financial instruments; underlines that everyone should be enabled to do fulfilling work; calls on the Commission and Member States to invest in subsidised work schemes for people on a distance to the labour market;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22.
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22.
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Insists that Member States increase
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Underlines that effective enforcement is essential for the protection workers and implementation of social rights; regrets that most Member States fall behind their commitment in the ILO Labour Inspection Conventionwith regard to the number of labour inspectors; Insists that Member States increase their enforcement capacity so as to achieve a ratio of at least one labour inspector per 10 000 employed persons, by 2030 at the latest;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22 a. Calls on the Commission to revise the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive to include limit values for a minimum of 50 substances in the Directive on exposure to carcinogens and mutagens at work, and inclusion of substances with damaging effects on the reproductive system in the Directive.
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas a living wage has been defined by the ILO as ‘a measure of income that allows an employee a basic but socially acceptable standard of living’; whereas several initiatives on living wage calculate the income required to achieve a basic standard of living, taking into account existing levels of state transfers; whereas when this is calculated, living wages are invariably higher than the relevant statutory minimum wage, in a range of 15-80% higher, according to Eurofound research;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22 a. Calls on the Commission to update its framework for the establishment and development of cooperatives and social economy entreprises, which by nature place a stronger emphasis on fair working conditions and empowerment of workers;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22 a. Underlines that in 2018, there were nearly 109 million persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU-27, equivalent to 21.7 % of the total population, with 23 million being children; notes the target in the Lisbon Strategy of reducing poverty with 50%, with a target below 3% in 2050, was not achieved;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to speed up the implementation of the European Child Guarantee so that by 2030 every child in the EU has full access to quality and free healthcare, education and childcare,
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to speed up the implementation of the European Child Guarantee so that
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to speed up the implementation of
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Stresses that eradicating child poverty and ensuring children well-being and equal opportunities must be among the highest priority for Europe; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to speed up the implementation of the European Child Guarantee so that by 2030 every child in the EU has full access to quality and free healthcare, education and childcare, is living in a decent house and receives an adequate nutrition; asks the Commission to develop the related indicators in order to measure progress towards these objectives; calls on the Member States to allocate at least 5% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the European Child Guarantee scheme; stresses that it is essential that a separate budget of EUR 3 billion is created for the first year of its implementation, when the EU suffers the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which will have an ever greater impact on children as the most vulnerable group among the most disadvantaged, and that a total of at least EUR 20 billion is invested in the ECG in 2021-2027;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to speed up the implementation of the European Child Guarantee so that by 2030 every child in the EU has full access to quality and free healthcare, education and basic digital skills and childcare, is living in a decent house and receives an adequate nutrition; notes that this policy must be integrated with other measure targeting poverty and family policy in order to lead to well- rounded policy cycles able to offer opportunities for social inclusion to children and their families;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to speed up the implementation of the European Child Guarantee so that by 2030 every child in the EU has full access to quality and free healthcare, education and childcare, is living in a decent house and receives an
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take care of the most vulnerable families, who are deprived of the minimum conditions for their human development, such as a decent salary and housing; Likewise, it is essential to crate greater awareness in parents of their responsability in the care and education of their children, it is a right and a duty of inescapable fulfilment; the work of the Member States and society will therefore consist in supporting and managing all the agreed initiatives so that each family can obtain sufficient resources to facilitate their full development;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23 a. Calls on Member States to use resources available from the Cohesion Fund, and ERDF as well as ESF in particular, in order to improve the accessibility to public spaces for persons with special needs, including persons with disabilities, for persons with children and for the elderly, who still encounter the problem of social exclusion; calls on for a greater mobilisation of funds under the ESF in order to effectively counteract the digital gap and digital exclusion, particularly of the elderly;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas social welfare systems guarantee a decent life; whereas social welfare systems include social security, healthcare,
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23 a. Notes with concern the risk of silo- policies, where the Commission and Member States target with important resources single policy areas, such as children, health, education or labour market inclusion, failing to create synergies between social investment cycles; calls for a lifelong policy-cycle approach, where the overall aim is to break vicious social cycles and ensure sustainable social inclusion for all;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23 a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to introduce a European Elderly Guarantee, like the European Child Guarantee, aiming at ensuring that elderly people receive the health care, decent housing and social security they are entitled to in their home Member State;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 b (new) 23 b. Calls for greater commitment of resources available under ERDF towards improving transport and telecommunication infrastructure in areas with a high ratio of ageing population, high proportion of rural areas, and depopulation;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas social welfare systems include social security, healthcare
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24.
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24.
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Insists that the Commission proposes a framework
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Insists that the Commission proposes an EU framework for minimum income schemes
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Insists that the Commission proposes a framework for minimum income schemes, with 100 % coverage; underlines that every person in Europe should be covered and pensions ensure an income over the poverty line;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the currently 16% gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - with
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - with a 0 % target for 2030
Amendment 38 #
C. whereas social welfare systems
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to co
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - with a 0 % target for 2030,
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - with a 0 % target for 2030, and to present a legal framework on binding pay transparency; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal participation and opportunities for men and women in the labour market and to introduce initiatives to promote women access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s financial independence;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to commit to eliminating the gender, ethnic and disability pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - with a 0 % target for 2030, and to present a legal framework on pay transparency; calls on the Commission and the Council to swiftly adopt the long-awaited Women on boards directive in order to address the considerable imbalance between women and men in economic decision making at the highest level;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25 a. calls on the Commission to introduce concrete measures applying to both public and private sectors with due account taken of the specificities of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as the clear definition of criteria for assessing the value of work, gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, gender pay audits and reports to guarantee equal pay, workers’ entitlement to request full pay information and right to redress, and clear targets for companies’ equality performance; Calls furthermore for improved access to justice and the introduction of stronger procedural rights to combat pay discrimination; calls on the Commission to promote the role of the social partners and of collective bargaining at all levels (national, sectoral, local and company) in the upcoming pay transparency legislation; calls on the Commission to include strong enforcement measures for those failing to comply, such as penalties and sanctions for employers that violate the right to pay equality;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25 a. Highlights that certain Member States have legally enforced linguistic requirements for employment in the private sector which can possibly be considered as an obstacle for freedom of movement or a measure having equivalent effect; calls on the Commission to assess linguistic requirements and their compatibility with EU legislation;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas social welfare systems include social security, healthcare, education, childcare, long-term care, housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups; whereas social dialogue and collective bargaining are key instruments for employers and trade unions in order to establish fair wages and working conditions;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to eliminating the glass ceiling effect on the boards of listed companies
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to eliminating the glass ceiling effect on the boards of listed companies
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to eliminating the glass ceiling effect on the boards of listed companies by
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Member States to unblock the Women on Boards directive and to adopt an ambitious Council position in order to address the considerable imbalance between women and men in decision-making at the highest level; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to eliminating the glass ceiling effect on the boards of listed companies by introducing the objective of reaching at least 40 % representation of women in senior management positions;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to eliminating the glass ceiling effect on the boards of listed companies by introducing the objective of reaching at least 40 % representation of women in senior management positions and improve the access of women in STEM areas;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to counteract the discrimination of the elderly in the employment sphere;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy containing ambitious, clear and measurable targets, planned actions with clear time frames and allocated resources as well as backed by an adequate and sufficiently-resourced monitoring mechanism with clear benchmarks and indicators; supports the promotion of vocational training, including for vulnerable groups and
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 a (new) - having regard to the ILO Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all of February 2016
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas social welfare systems include social security, healthcare, education, housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups and minorities; whereas social dialogue and collective bargaining are key instruments for employers and trade unions in order to establish fair wages and working conditions;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward an upscaled post-2020 European Disability Strategy
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy, including concrete measures to take into account the needs of persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD); supports the promotion of vocational training, including for vulnerable groups and people with disabilities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up efforts towards the further inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market by removing barriers with the opportunities that digital work offers for their inclusion and creating incentives for their employment;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy; supports the promotion of vocational training, including for vulnerable groups, elderly people and people with disabilities;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy; supports the promotion of vocational training, including for vulnerable groups, the elderly and people with disabilities;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward an ambitious post-2020 European Disability Strategy; supports the promotion of vocational training, including for vulnerable groups and people with disabilities;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a post-2020 European Disability Strategy; supports the promotion of vocational and digital training, including for vulnerable groups and people with disabilities;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Reminds that poorer people tend to live 6 years less than wealthier peoples and that people with disabilities often face difficulties in accessing healthcare; Highlights the need to address the social, economic and environmental determinants of health in order to tackle these health inequalities; calls on the Commission to develop common indicators and methodologies to monitor health as well as the performance and accessibility of healthcare systems with a view to reducing inequalities, identifying and prioritising areas in need of improvement and increased funding;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven the need for a EU model which promotes and safeguards the dignity and fundamental rights of the elderly; calls on the Commission to elaborate and adopt a European Charter for the rights of the elderly on the basis of Article 25 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas social welfare systems include social security, healthcare, education, housing, employment, justice and social services for
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Stresses that the European skills strategy for sustainable competitiveness, social equity and resilience must guarantee the right to lifelong learning for all and in all areas, but must also ensure that these skills are consistent with the labour market in order to achieve real synergy ;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Calls on Member States to provide all households, all educational establishments and all pupils with broadband internet access, which is a key element in elevating digital competences, as well as guaranteeing equal opportunities;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Notes the ambitious plans of the Commission on the Roma Strategy and calls for all transition policies to provide adequate resources for the social inclusion of the Roma communities;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Calls upon the Commission and Member States to develop job market inclusion programmes for citizens over 55 years of age, with life-long learning as a key priority;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Calls on all Member States to ratify the revised European Social Charter;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 b (new) 27 b. Welcomes the new EU skills agenda; highlights the importance of access to training andre-skilling of workers in industries that need to undergo fundamental changes with a view to a green and digital transition; highlights that qualifications and certified competences provide added value to the workers, improving their positions in the labour market and can be transferred in labour market transitions; calls for public policy on skills to be oriented to certification and validation of qualifications and competences; stresses that skills based compensation systems should be established in companies accessing public funds for upskilling workers and in agreement with workers representatives, as this system would ensure that there is a return in that public investment;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 c (new) 27 c. Recalls that in the EU, workplace discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, disability, ethnic or racial origin, religion or belief, or sexual orientation, is banned and that everyone is entitled to equal treatment in recruitment, working conditions,promotion, pay, access to training and occupational pensions; calls on the Commission to present a strategy to prevent labour market segregation of ethnic minorities as well as to present a Communication on guidelines and standards for discrimination-free recruitment policies for Member States and employers, including recommendations for the adoption of equality plans at company level and in sectoral collective agreements and the implementation of diversity taskforces in the workplace, including tackling stereotypes, prejudice and negative attitudes, preventing discrimination in recruitment, promotion, pay and access to training; highlights that these equality action plans should be also used to promote ethnic and cultural diversity at the workplace, to develop internal regulations against racism, related discrimination and harassment in the workplace, to monitor and review recruitment, progression and retention of workforce by equality strand in order to identify direct or indirect discriminatory practices and to adopt corrective measures to reduce inequality in each of these areas and, to this effect, collect equality data in respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 Robust social welfare systems eradicating poverty
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 a (new) Welcomes the proposal of the European Commission to develop a Platform for European Collaboration on Homelessness in 2021, as a new policy initiative under the action plan to deliver on the EPSR; calls on the Commission to launch and implement such a Platform so as to support EU governments and stakeholders to make decisive progress towards the goal of ending homelessness during the mandate of this Commission.
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas social dialogue and collective bargaining are key instruments for employers and trade unions in order to establish fair wages and working conditions, and that strong collective bargaining systems increase Member States’ resilience in times of economic crisis; whereas societies with strong collective bargaining systems tend to be wealthier and more equal; whereas the right to establish collective bargaining is an issue that concerns all European workers with crucial implications for democracy and rule of law, including the respect of fundamental social rights and that collective bargaining is a European fundamental right and European Institutions are bound by Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights to respect it; whereas, in this context, policies that respect, promote and strengthen collective bargaining and the workers’ position in wage-setting systems play a critical role in achieving high-level working conditions;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28.
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission and the
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest 30 % of the Recovery and Resilience Facility in the implementation of the EPSR principles in order to eradicate poverty; notes that the current investment in social infrastructure in the EU has been estimated at approximately EUR 170 billion per year and that the Commission estimates the investment needed in social infrastructure in EUR 192 billion, with health and long-term care accounting for 62% of the investment needed(affordable housing EUR 57 billion, health EUR 70 billion, long-term care EUR50 billion, education and life-long learning EUR 15 billion);
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest 30 % of the Recovery and Resilience Facility in the implementation of the EPSR principles in order to eradicate poverty and inequality;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Stresses, moreover, the need for the Commission and the Member States to collect better and more harmonised data on the number of homeless people in Europe, as this constitutes the basis of any effective public policy;
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward a rights-based, comprehensive and integrated EU Anti-poverty Strategy with a designated poverty-reduction target in order to tackle the multidimensionality of poverty;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. Whereas public administrations have too often relied on temporary workers to replace civil servants, although they usually have more precarious working conditions and are equally exposed to abuse and harassment from third parties;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. insists that gender equality is taken into account in the allocation of RRF resources;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 b (new) 28 b. Calls on the Commission to explore a framework for the establishment of stress tests practices on the European for social welfare systems in Europe, in order to verify their degree of resilience when they undergo shocks with different degrees of severity, and to study in what way they can be made more resilient and robust to resist future crises;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 b (new) 28 b. Calls for an EU level goal to end homelessness by 2030; calls on the Commission to propose an EU Framework for National Homelessness Strategies and calls on Member States to take urgent measures to prevent and tackle homelessness, prioritising permanent housing solutions;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 c (new) 28 c. is concerned about the imbalances of healthcare quality and access across the EU that the Covid-19 crisis has laid bare, by conducting a study to minimum standards for the quality, reliability, efficiency and universality of the Member States’ healthcare systems;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29.
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles)
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles)
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) C b. whereas collective bargaining is a key institution to promote rights at work; whereas, according to OECD data, over the last decades, both the trade union density and collective bargaining coverage have significantly declined; whereas collective bargaining coverage is going down in 22 of the EU’s 27 member states since 2000; whereas the quality of work and of the working environment is higher on average in countries with well- organised social partners and a large coverage of collective agreements; whereas collective bargaining, providing that it has a wide coverage and is well co- ordinated, fosters good labour market performance;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29.
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing in accordance with fundamental rights such as articles 16, 30 and 31 of the European Social Charter and the European Pillar of Social Rights; highlights that investments in social and affordable housing are crucial in order to ensure and improve the living quality for all EU citizens; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles),
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing in accordance with fundamental rights such as articles 16, 30 and 31 of the European Social Charter and the European Pillar of Social Rights; highlights that investments in social and affordable housing are crucial in order to ensure and improve the living quality for all EU citizens; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles),
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent, safe and affordable housing in line with United Nations Agenda 2030, in particular Goal 11 ; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles), ensuring that at least 30 % of all newly built houses constitute affordable housing for both of these income groups, and to eliminate energy poverty by 2030; Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take measures and implement programmes for the youth who reach the age of 18 and finds themselves at risk of being homeless; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on youth homelessness.
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing, including through measures to progressively eradicate homelessness; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles), ensuring that at least 30 % of all newly built houses constitute affordable housing for both of these income groups, and to eliminate energy poverty by 2030;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29 a. Calls on Member States to provide equal access to medical and care services, healthcare, and care facilities with no discrimination on the grounds of age;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29 a. Reiterates that social systems in member states are based on deeply rooted political choices and societal traditions;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Insists that
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30.
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Insists that all workers, in particular platform workers, are included in the social security system and entitled to unemployment benefits, paid sick leave, accident insurance and protection against unfair dismissal;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) C c. whereas, according to Eurofound, collective bargaining has come under pressure and the recession of2008 resulted in a decentralisation of collective bargaining; whereas while every sixth worker in the EU is estimated to be covered by a collective wage agreement, there is difficulty to get good evidence on more in-depth bargaining coverage data and collective agreements across the EU;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Insists that all workers are included in the social security system and entitled to unemployment benefits, paid sick leave, parental leave, accident insurance and protection against unfair dismissal;
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31.
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Highlights that
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all; acknowledges the challenges faced by Member States to strengthen the sustainability of pension systems, but stresses the importance of safeguarding solidarity in pension systems by strengthening the revenue side without necessarily increasing the retirement age; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems which provide an adequate retirement income well above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; believes that the best way to ensure sustainable, safe and adequate pensions for women and men is to increase the overall employment rate and quality jobs across all ages, improve working and employment conditions and commit the necessary supplementary public spending; believes that pensionsystem reforms should focus among other aspects on the effective retirement age and reflect labour market trends, birth rates, the health and wealth situation,working conditions and the economic dependency ratio; considers that these reforms must also take account of the situation of millions of workers in Europe, particularly women, young people and the self-employed, suffering insecure, atypical employment, periods of involuntary unemployment and reduced working time;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 a (new) 31 a. is concerned at the way the pandemic has further deepened the vulnerability, isolation, risk of poverty and social exclusion of the elderly population; calls on the Commission to present a plan to ensure the mental health, dignity and wellbeing for people, including the elderly, by supporting adequate public quality healthcare and care services, investing in community based services, decent housing and infrastructure, privileging social economy projects including cohousing and cooperative housing, health and wellness programs, adult day care and long-term care and protecting the role and working conditions of caregivers, and by fostering inter-generational solidarity;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 a (new) 31 a. Calls on the Member States to invest in health prevention and promotion, early diagnosis, healthcare infrastructures and social protection in order to address the needs of an ageing population and a growing demand; and to ensure that every citizen can have timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality as enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 b (new) 31 b. Highlights that freedom of movement of workers in the EU is a fundamental freedom and an integral part of the internal market success; notes that there are grey areas and legal loopholes with some workers exercising this freedom in precarious conditions and often through fraudulent recruitment agencies and labour market intermediaries; warns that this creates labour exploitation, unfair competition and market distortions; calls on the Commission and Member States to guarantee decent working conditions and equal treatment to all mobile workers in the EU;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) C d. whereas, according to ETUI data, the average level of union membership across the European Union is around 23%, with a great variety of levels of union membership, ranging from 74% to 8% in some Member States; whereas the membership of employer organisations and the share of the markets they represent vary significantly as well;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary; stresses that this legal framework should include: a ban on labour market intermediaries who do not comply with the TWA Directive operating in the single market, a guaranteed
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32.
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary, including recruiting agencies; stresses that this legal framework should include: a ban on labour market intermediaries who do not comply with the TWA Directive operating in the single market, a guaranteed minimum wage, a guaranteed minimum number of
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary; stresses that this legal framework should include: full access in a language that the worker can understand to their employment contract and labour rights, a ban on labour market intermediaries who do not comply with the TWA Directive operating in the single market, a guaranteed minimum wage, a guaranteed minimum number of
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary; stresses that this legal framework should include: a ban on labour market intermediaries who do not comply with the TWA Directive operating in the single market, a guaranteed minimum wage, a guaranteed minimum number of hours per week/month that the employer cannot deduct under any heading from the minimum wage or wages laid down by collective agreements, no deductions from the wage in the case of part-time contracts,
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary, including recruitment agencies; stresses that this legal framework should include: a ban on labour market intermediaries who do not comply with the TWA Directive operating in the single market, a guaranteed minimum wage, a guaranteed minimum number of hours per week/month that the employer cannot deduct under any heading from the minimum wage, no deductions from the wage in the case of part-time contracts, guaranteed equal treatment for any person who, in the Member State concerned, is protected as a worker working in the same company/sector, a requirement that all temporary work agencies operating in the internal market are listed on a European register and are certified to operate in the
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32 a. Calls on the Commission to revise the Public Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU with the aim to implement a social clause that requires economic operators and subcontractors to fully respect workers’ right to collective bargaining, and to set conditions for the full implementation of the applicable sectorial collective agreements and the working conditions described herein while at the same time respecting national labour market traditions and models; calls on the Member States to ensure compliance, monitoring and enforcement;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32 a. Notes that cross-border, frontier and seasonal workers are an integral part of the European labour markets, providing key assistance to otherwise key or labour intensive sectors and ensuring the needed flexibility for adapting to change and transition; calls for their increased protection and the facility of their unhindered access and opportunity to employment in other Member States, while enjoying equal levels of social protection as provided in Art 45(2) TFEU;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) C e. whereas taxation can help to tackle challenges related to inequality and social mobility; whereas the progressivity of the tax system refers to how the tax burden is shared across taxpayers, taking into account all types of taxes; whereas according to Commission study, evidence suggests that the role of fiscal redistribution in offsetting increases in market income inequality has weakened in recent decades, amongst others due to a reduction of the overall progressivity of tax systems; whereas progressive taxation is a necessary precondition to reduce overall inequality and finance well- functioning welfare states;
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32 a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal on a European Social Security Number, which includes provisions for introducing a personal labour card, as an effective instrument for enforcing rules on social security and labour rights and to promote fair mobility;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 b (new) 32 b. Calls on the Commission to require receivers and beneficiaries of EU funding, grants, structural funds, Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), lease contracts and other relevant actors support and respect collective bargaining as well as applicable working conditions;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 b (new) 32 b. Calls on the Commission to revise the Directive on Transfer of Undertakings with a view to establish its original intended purpose of protecting workers and ensuring that this protection covers all affected workers;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 c (new) 32 c. Calls on the Commission to revise the Union's rules on public procurement in order to strengthen social clauses in public procurements and to establish a European mechanism for excluding primary contractors and subcontractors who repeatedly engage in social dumping and abusive practices;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Underlines that the practices of establishing subsidiaries or creating subcontracting chains with the aim of reducing social security contributions without creating effective social insurance coverage in practice are detrimental for the sustainability of welfare systems and have to be addressed by the
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Underlines that the practices of establishing subsidiaries or creating subcontracting chains with the aim of reducing social security contributions without creating effective social insurance coverage in practice are detrimental for the sustainability of welfare systems and have to be addressed by the Commission and the Member States;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Underlines that the practices of establishing subsidiaries or creating subcontracting chains with the aim of reducing social security avoiding employers’ obligations and contributions without creating effective social insurance coverage in practice are detrimental for both the protection of workers and the sustainability of welfare systems and have to be addressed by the Commission and the Member States; calls on the Commission to take legislative action to limit the possible length of the subcontracting chain, as well as to ensure general joint and several liability throughout the whole subcontracting chain in order to protect workers’ rights and their claims in cases such as wage-arrears, non-payment of social contributions, bankruptcy, simply vanishing or notproper-paying letterbox- subcontractors;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Underlines that the practices of establishing subsidiaries or creating subcontracting chains with the aim avoiding employers’ obligations and of reducing social security contributions
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Underlines that the practices of establishing subsidiaries or creating subcontracting chains with the aim of reducing social security contributions without creating effective social insurance coverage in practice are detrimental for the sustainability of welfare systems and have to be addressed by the Commission and the Member States; calls on the Commission to take legislative action to
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Underlines that the practices of establishing subsidiaries or creating subcontracting chains with the aim of evading employers' obligation and reducing social security contributions without creating effective social insurance coverage in practice are detrimental for the social protection of workers and the sustainability of welfare systems and have to be addressed by the Commission and the Member States; calls on the Commission to take legislative action to limit the possible length of the subcontracting chain, as well as to ensure general joint and several liability throughout the whole subcontracting chain in order to protect workers’rights;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas social investment is about investing in people in order to improve their living conditions and that key policy areas for social investment include social security, healthcare, education, housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups; whereas well-designed social policies strongly contribute to sustainable development and growth as well as to protecting people from poverty and acting as economic stabilizers;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) 33 a. calls for a coordinated approach at EU level in order to avoid unhealthy labour cost competition, and to increase upward social convergence for all; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the portability of rights and ensure fair and just working conditions for mobile, cross-border and seasonal workers in the EU; calls on the Member States to commit fully to the digitalisation of public services in order to facilitate fair labour mobility, particularly with regard to the coordination of social security systems; asks the Commission. therefore, to put forward a proposal for a digital EU social security number;
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) 33 a. Calls the Commission to put forward a proposal for a digital EU social security number which also has the potential of establishing a control mechanism for both individuals and relevant authorities to ensure that social security is paid in accordance with obligations; believes, moreover, that every worker must have access to a full overview of who their employers are and their own salary entitlements and working rights, either in accordance with collective agreements or national legislation where applicable;
Amendment 482 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) 33 a. Urges the Member States to ensure adequate social security coordination, including through the revision of Regulation 883/2004, in order to establish a real European labour market; stresses the need to urgent implementation of digital tools in order to foster and protect workers' mobility, including the ESSN, EESSI and the SDG;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) 33 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Social Security Number and consider additionally a personal labour card as effective instruments for on one hand social security rights and their enforcement and on the other labour rights as an integrated part of the European Union’s efforts to promote and improve rights-based free movement of workers;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 b (new) 33 b. Calls on the Commission to revise the public procurement directive to strengthen social clauses in public procurements, exempt all social and welfare services from the procurement obligations and establish a European exclusion mechanism, to exclude primary contractors and subcontractors who repeatedly engage in unfair competition and tax fraud
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas key policy areas
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority (ELA) to be effective in combating social dumping and the exploitation and abuse of workers,
Amendment 491 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority (ELA) to be effective in
Amendment 492 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority (ELA) to be effective in combating social dumping and the exploitation and abuse of workers, it should be given the ability to
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Welcomes the establishment of the European Labour Authority (ELA); calls for the ELA to be fully operational as soon as possible; calls the ELA for continuous exchange of information on best practices with the respective labour authorities of the Member States and enforcement of tentative inspections; Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Welcomes the establishment of the European Labour Authority (ELA); calls for the ELA to be fully operational as soon as possible; calls the ELA for continuous exchange of information on best practices with the respective labour authorities of the Member States and enforcement of tentative inspections; Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority (ELA) to be
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new) 34 a. Invites the Commission to put forward, following a proper impact assessment, a proposal for a digital EU social security number, as announced by the Commission in 2018, which also has the potential of establishing a control mechanism for both individuals and relevant authorities to ensure that workers are covered and social security is paid in accordance with obligations;
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 b (new) 34 b. Invites the Commission to put forward, following a proper impact assessment, a proposal for a digital EU social security number, as announced by the Commission in 2018, which also has the potential of establishing a control mechanism for both individuals and relevant authorities to ensure that workers are covered and social security is paid in accordance with obligations; believes moreover that every worker must have access to information about the employer/s and their salary and working rights, in accordance with the sectorial collective agreement or national legislation where applicable;
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and its entry into force in the EU on 21 January 2011, in accordance with Council Decision 2010/48/EC of 26 November 2009 on the conclusion, by the European Community, of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, having regard to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas key policy areas for social investment include social security, healthcare,
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Is deeply concerned at the current increase of the share of third-country national
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Is deeply concerned
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35.
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 36. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Invites the Commission to study the possibilities of enabling third country nationals to get a work permits in the EU under the precondition this will not result in labour market distortions and social dumping; Is deeply concerned at the current increase of the share of third- country nationals in sectors with a reputation for precarious working conditions and cases of abuse; underlines that third country nationals are often more vulnerable for exploitation and therefore need protection; highlights that this includes abusive practices such as bogus posting, bogus self-employment, subcontracting, recruiting agencies, letter-box companies and undeclared work; calls on Member States to implement the protective elements of Directive 2009/52/EC, ensuring accessible and effective complaint mechanisms to effectively claimback due wages and social security contributions;
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Is deeply concerned at the current increase of the share of third-country nationals in sectors with a reputation for precarious working conditions and cases of abuse;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas key policy areas for social investment include social security, healthcare,
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas key policy areas for social investment include social security, healthcare, education, housing, employment, justice, quality healthcare and social services for
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas key policy areas for social investment include social security, healthcare, education, long-term care, housing, employment, justice and social services for vulnerable groups;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. Whereas the number of single- person households and older people living alone is increasing and single-person households are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion and particularly older women are at higher risk of poverty than older men if they live alone; whereas lone parent households are at high risk of poverty and deprivation, and have difficulties budgeting due to single incomes and lower employment rates; whereas an increasing number of young adults rely on the parental home to protect them from poverty, but 29% of households with three generations are at risk of poverty and 13% are severely deprived;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas increasing longevity and low fertility rates have brought about an aging population and a shrinking workforce in Europe;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) D b. whereas job destruction in carbon- intensive and energy-intensive sectors is expected to further increase as a consequence of the green transition;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas homelessness has increased by 70 % consistently in most Member States over the past decade; with at least 700,000 people are homeless on any given night in the EU; whereas COVID-19 has demonstrated that homelessness is both a social and public health crisis; whereas about one-fifth of people in the EU are at risk of becoming over-indebted and many people do not receive the social benefits they are entitled to according to their national systems;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas homelessness has increased by 70 % consistently in most Member States over the past decade; whereas such an increase arose from rising housing costs and the perpetuation of austerity measures which provoked the deterioration of public policies aimed at tackling homelessness, including the reduction of social programmes and benefits;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD);
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas homelessness has increased by 70 % consistently in most Member States over the past decade; with at least 700,000 people are homeless on any given night in the EU; whereas COVID-19 has demonstrated that homelessness is both a social and public health crisis;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E.
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas homelessness has increased by 70 % consistently in
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) E a. Whereas the European regions where there is the greatest need for a sustainable transition are generally also the ones with high levels of poverty and exclusion, rank constantly lowest in social indicators and will require the greatest levels of investments and flexibility in order to ensure that all citizens will be given the opportunities they require;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) E a. whereas the poverty rate is predicted to increase as one of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemics; whereas women, older people, persons with disabilities and big families are more endangered by this development;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 67 #
F. whereas job polarisation is expected to increase further and there are expected to be more jobs at the higher and lower ends of the skills spectrum; whereas technological change and the use of artificial intelligence will significantly change the labour market;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. Whereas there is hardly transition from fixed-term to permanent employment contracts; whereas 60% of workers is captured involuntarily in fixed- term employment; whereas transition rates are particularly low in countries with high levels of fixed-term employment;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F b (new) F b. Whereas the gap in employment participation among men and women was11.7% in 2019; whereas this differential has a huge economic cost for the European Union corresponding to EUR 320 billion per year, or 2.37% of EU GDP;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 b (new) - having regard to Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (Employment Equality Directive),
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F c (new) F c. whereas Eurofound research on ‘new forms of employment’ shows that emerging and increasingly important employment forms, deviating from traditional employer-employee relationships and/or characterised by non-traditional work organisation and work patterns, tend to be less covered by social protection, social dialogue and collective bargaining; whereas, as such,employment forms are also found to be more intensively used during economically challenging time, interventions should be considered against the expected labour market crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 71 #
G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to COVID-197
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % a
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to COVID-197 ; whereas the current generation of young people is unprecedently affected by the pandemics as a consequence of the closure of the educational institutions, interruption of the vocational trainings, traineeships and apprenticeships; _________________ 7Unemployment statistics: Eurostat, July 2020
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 %, concerning especially women and workers in low-skilled positions1a, and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to the unfold impact of the COVID- 197
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to COVID-197
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to COVID-197 while some Member States show a good example in dealing with youth employment is; _________________ 7Unemployment statistics: Eurostat, July 2020
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further knowing that young people risk being hit the hardest due to the COVID-197 crisis; _________________ 7Unemployment statistics: Eurostat, July 2020
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to COVID-197 ; whereas there is significant disparities between member states. _________________ 7Unemployment statistics: Eurostat, July 2020
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas the COVID-19 crisis disproportionally affects women's labour and social position. 26.5% of women are in precarious jobs and women comprise 60% of part time workers, and those working flexibly(EIGE numbers). Whereas women also typically earn les then men and hold less secure jobs. Recalls the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, in particular goal 5 on Gender Equality and goal 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 c (new) - having regard to Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin,
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas according to Eurostat, in 2018, there were 8.3 million underemployed part-time workers in the EU-28, 7.6 million persons were available to work, but did not look for a job, and another 2.2 million persons were looking for jobs, without being able to start working within a short time period; whereas in total 18.1 million persons experienced some resemblance to unemployment in the EU-28 in 2018;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas 63% of young Romani people (age 16-24) are not in education, employment or training1a and only 43% of Romani people (aged 20-64) are in paid work, 29% women and 56% men1b _________________ 1ahttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:5201 9DC0406&from=FR 1bhttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:5201 9DC0406&from=FR
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas the total number of persons of working age (15-64 years old) will have dropped by 20,8 million between 2005-2030 as the "baby-boom" generation will transition into retirement;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas since 2013 the rate of inactive young people remained stable or even increased in most Member States and amongst NEETs, the gender gap has also increased;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) G b. whereas the unemployment rate of persons with disabilities is almost twice of the general population, i.e. 17,1% against 10,2%1a, and the unemployment of persons with disabilities lasts longer regardless of qualifications; _________________ 1a EU SILC 2017
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) G b. whereas the number of the very old (80 years old and older) will have increased by 57,1% between 2010 and 2030, which has significant consequences for the social security system;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G c (new) G c. whereas the elderly are at the highest risk of no access to the internet and modern technologies, and are consequently are at a higher risk of exclusion, also digital exclusion;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G d (new) G d. whereas the fight against unemployment of the youth as well as the elderly remains one of the greatest challenges of EU regions;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G e (new) G e. whereas rural and peripheral areas are strongly affected by demographic changes;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas the crisis has brought to light abuses regarding the rights of cross- border and seasonal workers
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 d (new) - having regard to the Commission proposal for a Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (COM(2008)0426) and Parliament’s position thereon of 2 April 20091a, _________________ 1a OJ C137E , 27.5.2010, p. 68.
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has brought to light abuses regarding the rights of cross-
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas the crisis has brought to light abuses regarding the rights of cross- border, frontier and seasonal workers as well as problems regarding tax and social security coordination when teleworking;
Amendment 92 #
H. whereas the crisis has brought to light
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas the crisis has brought to light
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas the crisis has
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas women are more affected than men by the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the employment sectors in which they are prevalent and the care of the elderly and children which still weighs particularly heavily on their shoulders;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas persons with disabilities are particularly susceptible to the COVID- 19 crisis; whereas many persons with disabilities as well as older persons became victims of the insufficient prevention in the long-term care facilities as well as long time neglected process of deinstitutionalisation which made the long-term care facilities particularly vulnerable to the spread of the virus;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas persons with disabilities
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas persons with disabilities are particularly susceptible to the COVID- 19 crisis; whereas the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated the already persistent social segregation and discrimination against persons with disabilities;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas persons with disabilities and the elderly are particularly susceptible to the COVID-
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