2021/2098(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3

— having regard to Articles 2, 3, 14, 15, 21, 31, 32 and 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)

— having regard to the report of the European Youth Forum of 2021 entitled “Beyond Lockdown: the ‘pandemic scar’ on youth” ;

Amendment 100 #

Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to recognise the high levels of mental health issues a~~cross the EU~~s one of the key priorities in EU health sector and commit to actions regulating and implementing a world of work which protects workers’ mental health and social protection rights; encourages the Commission to present comprehensive EU Mental Health Strategy and the Member States to prepare mental health national action plans;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to recognise the high levels of mental health issues across the EU and commit to actions regulating and implementing a world of work which strongly commits to the prevention and protectsion of workers’ mental health, work-life balance and social protection rights;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to recognise the high levels of mental health issues across the EU and commit to actions ~~regulating~~providing the most appropriate framework for, and implementing, a world of work which protects workers’ mental health and social protection rights; calls for dialogue and efforts to be made to that end with companies and workers’ organisations;

Amendment 103 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to recognise the prevalent levels of mental health issues which exist across the EU and commit to proportionate actions regulating and implementing a world of work which preserves workers’ mental health and social protection rights;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to recognise the high levels of mental health issues across the EU and commit to actions regulating and implementing a world of work which protects workers’ mental health and reinforce social protection rights;

Amendment 105 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to recognise the high levels of mental health ~~issue~~problems across the EU and commit to actions regulating and implementing a world of work which protects workers’ mental health and social protection rights;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for a follow-up on the implementation of the WHO European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Well-Being 2021-2025;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 108 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; c~~Considers mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission must, in cooperation with the Member States, examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy;

Amendment 109 #

Ádám KÓSA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; considers ~~mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent~~that the Commission must examine the creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12

— having regard to the Eurofound report of 9 November 2021 entitled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on young people in the EU’, and the Eurofound report of 10 May 2021 entitled ‘Living, working and COVID-19: Mental health and trust decline across EU as pandemic enters another year’,

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Re~~grets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken~~commends that the EU promotes the development of health in all of its Member states, with respect to the TEU and all of the Union legislation, and through the implementation of the most advanced technology and research; considers mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission, EU agencies and Member states must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy, coordinating the potential of all European stakeholders;

Amendment 111 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Regrets that the Treaty on European Union (TEU) allows for more EU action on health th~~Calls for EU action on health to be stepped up, within the competences laid down in the Treaty on European Union; recalls that Member States have primary responsibility for health systems and h~~as been take~~ealth care provision; Considers mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission must examine all relevant possibilities to approach this, including the ~~urgent~~possible creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy;

Amendment 112 #

Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Klára DOBREV, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Manuel PIZARRO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Marianne VIND, Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Brando BENIFEI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; considers mental health to be the next health crisis and ~~that~~urges the Commission ~~must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy~~to take action and tackle all potential risks through binding legislation and the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy; insists that poor mental health affects workers’ wellbeing and implies costs for welfare systems, triggering health care and social security expenditure;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; considers mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent creation of an comprehensive EU Mental Health Strategy, in line with the Council Conclusions of October 2019 on the Economy of Well-being;

Amendment 114 #

Sara SKYTTEDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; considers mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, including the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy;

Amendment 115 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; considers mental health to be the next health crisis and that the Commission must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy with adequate funding and relevant legislative proposals; stresses the essential role of stakeholders’ participation, such as civil society and social partners, in the definition and implementation of such initiative;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the TEU allows for more EU action on health than has actually been taken; considers mental health to be ~~the next~~a health crisis and that the Commission must examine all relevant possibilities to tackle this, including the urgent creation of an EU Mental Health Strategy;

Amendment 118 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that an EU Mental Health Strategy should aim to require Member States to integrate mental health services with physical services given the interlinkages between the two, to deliver evidenced-based, effective and compassionate care, to expand the services so that more adults can access treatment, to support people to find or stay in work, inter alia;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that the pandemic demonstrated the need for coordinated EU- level action to respond to health emergencies, revealing shortcomings in foresight, including in preparedness and response tools and adequate funding; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include mental health impacts in their health crisis and pandemic emergency response and preparedness work;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

— having regard to Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that the pandemic demonstrated the ~~need for coordinated~~weakness of EU-level action to respond to health emergencies, revealing shortcomings in foresight, including in preparedness and response tools;

Amendment 121 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that the pandemic demonstrated the need for coordinated EU level action and the sharing of best practices to respond to health emergencies, revealing gaps in foresight, including preparedness and response tools;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that the pandemic has demonstrated the need ~~for~~to coordinated at the EU-level ~~action~~ to respond to health emergencies, revealing shortcomings in foresight, including in preparedness and response tools; stresses in this sense that it is essential to adopt mental health risks prevention plans in all companies;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that the pandemic demonstrated the need for coordinated EU- level action to respond to health emergencies, revealing shortcomings in foresight, including in preparedness and response tools; believes that the current mental health crisis should be considered a health emergency;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes therefore the ongoing negotiations on a Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU, as well the ongoing negotiations on establishing a European Centre for diseases prevention and control and strengthening of the mandate of the European Medicine Agency;

Amendment 125 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Applauds~~Stands in awe of the frontline staff who sacrificed their own well-being to perform life-saving work during the pandemic; ~~calls for Member States to ensure that they have immediate access to adequate mental health resources;~~ stresses that essential workers, including in the health and care sectors, victim support services, education and food retail, are for a large majority women, facing greater work-related mental health risk, and stresses the particular concern for these vastly growing sectors suffering from staff shortages24a; calls for Member States to improve their salaries and working conditions and career prospects, address staff shortages and ensure that they have immediate access to adequate, accessible, available and quality mental health resources; __________________ 24a EIGE, Gender-Equality Index (2021), p. 35

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Applauds the frontline ~~staff~~and essential workers who sacrificed their own well-being ~~to perform life-saving work during the pandemic; calls for Member States to ensure that they~~during the pandemic; calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit the necessary resources in order to ensure that such a sacrifice is not demanded again, ensuring that workers have immediate access to adequate mental health resources and protection;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Applauds the frontline staff who sacrificed their own well-being to perform life-saving work during the pandemic; ~~calls for Member States to ensure that they have immediate access to adequate mental health resources~~recalls that many frontline workers, such as the ones in waste, retail and health sectors, have precarious working arrangements and low wages; stresses that inadequate workload as well as precariousness and financial instability may lead to mental health issues; calls for Member States to ensure that they have immediate access to adequate mental health resources and psychosocial interventions, which should be extended beyond the acute crisis period of time as post-traumatic stress (due to lack of protective personal equipment, workload and possibly high social demands) is likely to have repercussions in the long term; calls on the Commission to give special attention to frontline staff in upcoming Commission’s legislative proposals on mental health at work;

Amendment 128 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. AIs concerned about the greater work-related mental health risk among health and long-term care workers, sectors suffering from growing staff shortages; applauds the frontline staff who sacrificed their own well-being to perform life-saving work during the pandemic; calls for Member States to ensure that they have immediate access to adequate mental health resources, preventing mental ill health and supporting their mental health;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises that quality employment ~~can provide individuals with purpose and a sense of identity; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health and work productivity;14~~is necessary to provide workers with decent living standards; emphasises the positive relationship between good working conditions, high salaries, mental health, productivity14, wellbeing and quality of life; stresses that collective agreements, decent wages, active labour market programmes for quality employment and investing in public employment services can help to combat psychosocial risks by providing opportunities for a stable quality job and adequate social protection; __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health at Work

Amendment 13 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)

— having regard to Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises that employment can be one of the elements that provides individuals with purpose and a sense of identity; notes, however, that the purpose and sense of identity can be challenged in a context of increasing digitalisation of work; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health ~~and~~, well-being at work productivity;14 and adequate working conditions; __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health at Work

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises that employment can provide individuals with purpose and a sense of identity, as well as financial security and independence; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health and work p~~roductivity;14 __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health at Work~~erformance as well as extended working lives; emphasises the fact that improving mental health at work has many positive outcomes for individuals, employers, societies at large as well as public budgets; calls for the obligation for employers to set targets and defining relevant indicators to reduce work-related stress in consultation with workers via trade unions and workers’ health and safety representatives;

Amendment 132 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises that employment ~~can provide individuals with purpose and a sense of identity~~helps to build a sense of identity and give lives purpose; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health and work productivity;14 __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health at Work

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises that ~~employment~~good quality employment and decent wages can provide individuals with purpose and a sense of identity; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health ~~and work productivity;14 __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health~~, meaningful work and well-being at Wwork;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises that employment can provide individuals with purpose and a sense of identity; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health and work productivity;14 reiterates however that a negative working environment can lead to physical and mental health problems and subsequent absenteeism; prevention is therefore a key; __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health at Work

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Recognises the opportunities that the digital transformation creates for the employment of persons with disabilities on the open labour market; stresses, in this context, that the digital transformation should not lead to isolation and social exclusion;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Draws attention to the difficulties faced by older people due to changing working conditions and new digital tools; stresses the importance of access for all workers, but especially for older people, to lifelong learning and professional development adapted to the individual needs of workers;

Amendment 137 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as flexible work hours and establishing ~~employee~~worker assistance programmes, can help to mitigate work- related stress~~; notes that artificial intelligence systems may provide further options for this~~, when workers and their trade unions are duly informed and consulted;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that ~~proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as flexible work hou~~digitalisation must be strictly regulated to help to mitigate work- related anxiety and other mental disorders; notes that artificial intelligence systems as well as the use of digital tools for control and management at the workplace, and remote work practices, are negatively impacting working conditions, the health and safety of workers, and ~~establishing employee assistance programmes, can help to mitigate work-related stress; notes that artificial intelligence systems may provide further options for this;~~ increasing the cases of harassment, bullying and cyberbullying; stresses that if psychosocial risk factors are not addressed adequately at the workplace, workers might suffer from tensions at work that can turn into bullying and related violent practices that have a negative impact on their mental health; notes that online harassment tends to disproportionately impact the most vulnerable groups who are younger, female and LGBTQ workers; stresses that only 60% of Member States have specific legislation to address workplace bullying and violence at work, and thus calls on the Commission and Member States to propose adapted mandatory measures to reverse and tackle this increasing problematic at work and protect the victims with all necessary resources;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as flexible work hours negotiated between employers and employees, a human-centric design and use of technologies; and establishing employee assistance programmes, can help to mitigate work- related stress; notes that more research is needed on whether and how artificial intelligence systems ~~may~~or digital applications can provide further options for this;

Amendment 14 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 c (new)

— having regard to Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as adequate workload and structural work organisation, flexible work hours and establishing ~~employee~~worker assistance programmes, when workers and their trade unions are duly informed and consulted can help to mitigate work- related stress; notes that artificial intelligence systems may provide further options for this while potentially posing a certain number of challenges such as constant surveillance of workers and lack of control over work allocation; stresses that AI solutions in the workplace must not be unilaterally imposed and be ethical, transparent, fair and must avoid any negative implications for workers’ health and safety and must be subject to consultation with workers and/or their representatives;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as strengthening the digital skills of workers, allowing flexible work hours and establishing employee assistance programmes, can help to mitigate work- related stress; notes that ethical and human-centric artificial intelligence systems that are focused on protecting and promoting human dignity may provide further options for this;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as flexible work hours and establishing employee assistance programmes, can help to mitigate work- related stress; notes that artificial intelligence systems, if used properly, may provide further options for this;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that proactive approaches to digitalisation, such as flexible work hours and establishing employee assistance programs, can help to mitigate work- related stress; notes that ethical AI systems may provide further options in this way;

Amendment 144 #

Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the preventive and protective measures aimed at eradicating violence, discrimination and harassment in the world of work, including third-party violence and harassment (i.e. by customers, clients, visitors or patients), where applicable, apply regardless of the reason and the cause of the harassment and that they are not limited to cases based on discriminatory grounds; calls on the Member States to ratify the ILO Convention No.190 and the Recommendation No.206 on violence and harassment and to put in place the necessary laws and policy measures to prohibit, prevent and address violence and harassment in the world of work; calls on the Commission to make sure that the directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence fully covers violence and harassment at work in its scope and among criminal offences and workers receive appropriate protection, with the involvement of trade unions;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Stresses the need to protect workers against exploitation by employers in the use of AI and algorithmic management, including prediction and flagging tools to predict employees behaviour and identify or deter rule- breaking or fraud by workers, real-time monitoring of progress and performance and time tracking software, automated behavioural nudges; calls for a ban on surveillance of workers; calls on the Commission and Member States to present a proposal to ensure appropriate protection of workers’ rights and well- being, including mental health, and fundamental rights, such as non- discrimination, privacy, human dignity in an increasingly digitalised workplace;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Considers it necessary to develop a new paradigm to factor in the complexity of the modern workplace in relation to mental health, taking the view that the regulatory instruments currently in force are not sufficient to guarantee the health and safety of workers and therefore need to be updated and improved;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)

8d. Emphasises that the use of technology and artificial at the work place should never be used to the detriment of the mental health and well-being of workers; Notes that deployment of artificial intelligence at work must not lead to excessive monitoring in name of productivity nor result in workers’ surveillance;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)

8e. Notes that there is a wide digital gender gap in specialist skills and employment in the ICT sector, where only 18% are women and 82% men25a; whereas it is vital for technology systems to be designed in an inclusive way, to avoid discrimination, mental health issues or harm caused by a non-inclusive design; urges the Commission and Member States to work together to close the digital gender gap of women in STEM, and look into providing incentives for ICT organisations to hire a diverse workforce; __________________ 25a European Commission, Women in Digital Scoreboard 2020

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers as providing flexibility and alleviating work-related issues; ~~stresses however, that women continue to be disproportionately affected;~~

Amendment 15 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20

— having regard to the report of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) of 2020 entitled ‘Preventing musculoskeletal disorders in a diverse workforce: risk factors for women, migrants and LGBTI workers’,deleted

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers ~~as it provides flexibility and alleviates work-related issues; stresses however, that women continue to be disproportionately affected;~~ ; stresses however, that women continue to be disproportionately affected by job instability and the negative effects of new mechanisms such as telework, that requires greater flexibility associated with permanent availability and an increase of work intensity, what makes it difficult to combine with caring responsibilities; calls on the Member States to encourage an equal share of caring responsibilities between women and men through non- transferable paid leave periods between the parents which would allow women to increasingly engage in full-time employment; highlights that women are in higher risk of suffering of stress, exhaustion, burn-out, and psychological violence due to new telework arrangements and the lack of regulation to control abusive labour practices;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers as it provides flexibility and alleviates work-related issues; stresses however, that women continue to ~~be disproportionately affected;~~ take up the bulk of family-related leave, which continues to negatively impact career progression, pay and pension entitlements;7a __________________ 7a Eurofound (2018); Striking a balance; Reconciling work and life in the EU

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers as it provides flexibility and alleviates work-related issues; stresses however, that women continue to ~~be disproportionately affected~~take up the bulk of caring duties which continues to have a negative impact on pay, personal development, career progression and pension entitlements, which needs to be addressed; Encourage the Member States to go beyond the provisions of the Directive; invites Member States to improve the number of days granted for carers’ leave and provide remuneration to informal carers taking leaves;

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers as it provides flexibility and alleviates work-related issues; stresses however, that women continue to be disproportionately affected; calls on the Member States to go beyond the requirements of the Directive and provide more favourable conditions for the workers who provide informal care to their dependent relatives; calls on the Member States to strongly commit to the protection of workers´ family time and work-life balance;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers as it provides flexibility and alleviates work-related issues; stresses however, that women continue to be disproportionately affected and therefore should be provided with the choice of either in-house professional support, external professional support and/or family support, without these needing to be of an exclusive nature, but rather could act as a supplement between each other;

Amendment 155 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic ~~and the flexibility it provided to employees could improve~~has been a challenge for many workers, in particular for the poorest households, namely the single- parent households; notes that remote working is proven to have a strong impact on the organisation of working time by increasing flexibility and workers’ constant availability, frequently resulting in work-life conflict; recalls that telework, if properly regulated, could provide workers with the freedom to adapt their working hours and schedules to meet their own personal and family needs; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to establishing minimum requirements for telework while not negatively affecting employment conditions of teleworkers; stresses that such a framework should clarify working conditions, including regarding the provision and use of and liability for equipment, covering existing and new digital tools, and that it should ensure that such work is carried out on a voluntary basis and that the rights, work- life balance~~; encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements;~~ , workload and performance standards of teleworkers are equivalent to those of comparable on-site workers; stresses that this legislative initiative should be based on a comprehensive assessment, including of the psychosocial risks associated with digital and remote working practises and permeable work environments; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure measures on accessibility and inclusive technology for persons with disabilities who are in the transition to teleworking and/or are undergoing remote vocational training; encourages companies and public administrations to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements, including provisions on ergonomically fit equipment and compensation for additional work-related expenses, in negotiation with the trade unions and/or workers representatives;

Amendment 157 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the flexibility it provided to employees c~~ould improve~~an impact work- life balance; ~~encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements;~~ calls on the Commission to present a legislative framework establishing a set of minimum standards and conditions for remote work across the Union ensuring decent working conditions; in the meanwhile, encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements to avoid risks such as longer working hours,8a social and professional isolation, or the blurring of work and home time; __________________ 8a Eurofound and ILO (2017), Working anytime, anywhere - the effects on the world of work

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the swift shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the consequent flexibility ~~it provided to employees could improve work-life balance; encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangement~~provided to workers better work-life balance but also led to risks on workers mental health due to an increase of working hours, isolation, high job intensity, massive control and surveillance, and blurred boundaries between private and professional life among many other factors; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to establishing minimum requirements for telework across the Union; notes that this framework should be developed in consultation with social partners and should clarify the working conditions, including regarding the provision and use of and liability for equipment, covering existing and new digital tools, at a time that ensures that such work is carried out on a voluntary basis and that the rights, work-life balance, health and safety, workloads and performance standards of teleworkers are equivalent and comparable to on-site workers without unfair repercussions; stresses that this legislative initiative should be based on a comprehensive assessment, including of the psychosocial risks associated with digital and remote working practises;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the flexibility it provided to ~~employee~~workers could improve work- life balance~~; encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangement~~ when the right framework is in place ensuring that remote working is a choice and not an obligation with the close involvement of workers and trade unions; acknowledges that an excessive amount of remote work can negatively affect workers’ health as a result of increased working hours, over-connection and feelings of loneliness, making it also harder for the employer or co-workers to catch early signals that someone is struggling with poor mental health; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to establishing minimum requirements for telework across the Union to be developed in consultation with Member States and the European social partners, with full respect for national labour market models; calls on the Commission and the Member States to pay particular attention to persons with mental or physical disabilities; stresses that the working conditions of teleworkers are equivalent to those working on-site and that specific measures need to be taken to follow up and support the wellbeing of remote workers;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20

Amendment 160 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the flexibility it provided to employees could improve work-life balance; encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements; reiterates, however, that the shift to teleworking is not possible for workers whose Member State of the employer is different from the Member State of their family residence; these workers were due to the inflexible EU social security rules forced to spend months without their families during the COVID-19 pandemic; calls therefore on the Commission to consider the revision of EU social security rules in order to enable teleworking from the different Member States than the Member State of the employer;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the flexibility it provided to employees could improve work-life balance; encourages companies and social partners to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements and urges the Member States to encourage this;

Amendment 162 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the flexibility it provided to employees could improve work-life balance; encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements; emphasises in this connection that a full or partial shift to teleworking should be the result of an agreement between employer and employee;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Points out that teleworking combined with childcare (especially for children with special needs) is a threat to family life and the well-being of both parents and children;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; ~~reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working;~~

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers that the right to disconnect ~~essential~~is one measure to ensur~~ing~~e the mental well-being of employees; re~~iterates its~~ calls onthat the ~~Commission to propose legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working~~right to disconnect can be and is, regulated by national governments and therefore rejects any interference from the Commission on the competences of a Member State;

Amendment 166 #

Ádám KÓSA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; reiterates its calls on the ~~Commission to~~Member States to consider proposeing legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; reiterates its calls on the Commission to ~~propose legislation~~evaluate the impact assessment of various forms of legislation, if needed, requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working, or else to coordinate the exchange of best practices coming from different Member States, as some of them are putting in place very innovative policies and projects;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the Right to Disconnect essential in ensuring the mental wellbeing of employees; recalls for the Commission, to ~~propose~~gether with the Member States, to look into the need for legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers t~~he right to disconnect~~eleworking arrangements tailored to the needs of the enterprise essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; reiterates its calls on the ~~Commission to propose legislation requir~~European social partners to update their autonomous framework agreement on teleworking lin~~e managers to set minimum requirements for remote~~ order to adapt to today's challenges, while respecting the progress that has already been achieved in setting out minimum standards on telework ing; certain Member States;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)

— having regard to report of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) of 22 October2021 entitled ”Telework and health risks in the context of the COVID-19pandemic: evidence from the field and policy implications” ;

Amendment 170 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees~~; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose legislation requiring line manag~~ in particular for female workers, who are more likely to combine work with caring responsibilities, and workers in non-standard forms of work such as platform work; recalls its request for the Commission to include the right to disconnect in the strategic framework for occupational safety and health and, explicitly, to develop new psychosocial measures as part of the framework; calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a directive on minimum standards and conditions to ensure that all workers are able to exercise effectively their right to disconnect and to regulate the use of existing and new digital tools for work purposes in line with its resolution of 21 January 2021; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose legislation requiring employers to set minimum requirements for remote working;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of ~~employee~~workers and complementary to a preventive and collective approach against work-related psychosocial risks; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose ~~legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working~~a directive on minimum standards and conditions to ensure that all workers are able to exercise effectively their right to disconnect and to regulate the use of existing and new digital tools for work purposes;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring ~~the~~workers mental well- being ~~of employees; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working~~, and as a preventive approach against work-related psychosocial risks; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose a directive on the right to disconnect without further delay;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose without delay legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working and telework;

Amendment 174 #

Sara SKYTTEDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose legislation requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working, whilst taking into consideration of the European Social Partners Framework Agreement on Digitalisation, which includes arrangements for connecting and disconnecting; recalls that the Framework Agreement provides for the social partners to take implementation measures and that a legislative proposal before the end of that implementation period would disregard the role of social partners laid down in the TFEU; insists that any legislative initiative respects the social partners' autonomy at national level, national collective agreements, and national labour market traditions and models, and does not affect the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements in accordance with national law and practice;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the right to disconnect essential to ensuring the mental well-being of employees; reiterates its calls on the Commission to propose ~~legislation~~a framework requiring line managers to set minimum requirements for remote working on the basis of implementation of the social partners’ framework agreement;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Notes, however, that teleworking is not yet available to all workers due to insufficient digital skills levels and that the increased use of home-based telework during the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the pre-existing digital divides across EU-countries and across population groups within countries; stresses the importance of fighting against the digital divide in Europe and the necessity of retraining in order to ensure a sufficient level of digital skills for all workers; calls for more targeted investments into the provision of digital skills, in particular to groups which are more digitally excluded, such as persons with low socio-economic status, low educational background, older persons and persons living in rural and remote areas;

Amendment 178 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that the ~~Direc~~ongoing initiatives on the minimum safety and health requirements in the workplace and for work display screen equipment, as well as the different projects developed by EU agencies and Member states, may open up opportunities for improving the protection of workers using digital devices, including platform workers;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that the Ddirectives on the minimum safety and health requirements in the workplace a~~nd for~~s well as the work display screen equipment ~~may open up opportunities for improving~~directive, if revised and updated, can contribute to the protection of all workers ~~using digital devices~~, including platform workers and self-employed;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 24

— having regard to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) health policy study of 2021 entitled ‘A New Benchmark for Mental Health Systems: Tackling the Social and Economic Costs of Mental Ill Health’, and the study of OECD of 2021 entitled ‘Fitter Minds, Fitter Jobs: From Awareness to Change in Integrated Mental Health Skills and Work Policies’,

Amendment 180 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that the Directives on the minimum safety and health requirements in the workplace and for work display screen equipment may open up opportunities for improving the protection of workers using digital devices, including self-employed workers and platform workers;

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses that AI solutions in the workplace must be ethical and human- centric, transparent, fair and avoid any negative implications for workers’ mental health; recalls that the pandemic has only highlighted the risks of a new digital economy, that is transforming the nature and organisation of work, and have dire consequences on the working conditions by increasing control, surveillance and pressure, work-loads and working hours, creating work-complexity, eradicating transparency and social interaction, and deeply affecting the health and safety of workers, including mental health; is concerned about the lack of knowledge of internal functioning of algorithms which can make the health risks they entail, go unnoticed, causing insufficient preventive measures to be taken; considers that by addressing issues such as privacy, vigilance and tracking, non- discrimination and ethical aspects, the EU must protect workers against surveillance at the workplace; highlights that tracking apps to monitor workers as well as recruitment discrimination due to the use of algorithms or employment screenings services in breach of data protection, represent dangerous trends and have to be urgently tackled; calls in this regard on the Commission, to urgently present a Directive to regulate the use of AI technologies at the workplace in views of protecting workers from health and safety risks, including mental health risks derived from discrimination, health and safety concerns of machine decisions, hyper-connectivity and macro surveillance; calls, in particular, for the introduction of safeguards against the adverse impacts of algorithmic management on the health and safety of workers; stresses that algorithms deployed in the areas of work must be transparent, non-discriminatory and ethical, and that algorithmic decisions must be accountable, contestable and, where relevant, reversible, and consequently must be subject to human oversight; calls for this directive to include a specific mandatory risk assessment that should be established as part of the occupational risk prevention plan and carried out by an expert in occupational risks;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Stresses that the provision of accessibility and reasonable accommodation is applicable in work- related digital environments and, therefore, employers should put in place measures to adapt and ensure fair and equal working conditions for persons with disabilities, including those with mental health issues, including the compliance with relevant digital accessibility standards derived from Directive (EU) 2019/882, as well as the provision of reasonable accommodation to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities and prevent any mental health problem among the workers;

Amendment 183 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12c. Stresses the impact of the shift to teleworking on the mental health of older people who remain active in the labour market; notes that older people are at particular risk of digital exclusion and that the digital divide between generations widens with age;

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)

12d. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to modernise the OSH legislative framework by reviewing Directive 89/654/EEC and Directive 90/270/EEC laying down minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace and work with display screen equipment;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)

12e. Calls on the Member States to expand the provision of digital education aimed at older people; stresses the importance of intergenerational exchange in the working environment;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)

12f. Stresses the importance of the working environment and of the integration of workers for mental health; calls for assurance that teleworking will not lead to an increase in psychosocial risks and social, technological or digital exclusion;

Amendment 187 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned about the disconnect between current policy on mental health and attitudes in the workplace ~~creating stigma; emphasises that due to stigma and discrimination, employees often feel unable to discuss mental health issues;~~ which do not take into account that protecting the employee is a key asset for the EU leadership up to 2030; emphasises that due to a lack of coordinated action between EU institutions, agencies and Member States, employees often feel unable to discuss mental health issues and report to their organisation all matters pertaining to their psychological well-being; recognises that employees who return after mental health leave are often poorly accommodated; calls for workplaces to provide clear information about their in- house mental health support services;15 __________________ 15 WTW, 2021 Employee Experience Survey

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned about the disconnect between current policy on mental health and attitudes in the workplace creating stigma; emphasises that due to stigma and discrimination, employees often feel unable to discuss mental health issues; recognises that employees who return after mental health leave are often poorly accommodated; calls ~~for workplace~~on Member States and the Commission to ensure that employers fulfil their obligations to provide support and clear information ~~about their in- house mental health support services;15 __________________ 15 WTW, 2021 Employee Experience Survey~~to all affected workers, and to ensure a fair reintegration into the workplace;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned about the disconnect between current policy on mental health and attitudes in the workplace creating stigma; emphasises that due to stigma and discrimination, employees often feel unable to discuss mental health issues; recognises that employees who return after mental health leave are ~~often poorly~~not always well accommodated; calls for workplaces to ~~provide clear information about their in- house mental health support services;15 __________________ 15 WTW, 2021 Employee Experience Survey~~set up in-house mental health support services to facilitate early recognition and access to treatment, increase their tools to identify employees who may suffer from depression and direct them towards treatment, support reintegration, help to prevent relapses, be prepared to deal with suicidal events with a view to avoiding cluster suicides;

Amendment 19 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25

— having regard to EU-OSHA and Eurofound report of 2014 entitled ‘Psychosocial risks in Europe: Prevalence and strategies for prevention’,

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 191 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned about the disconnect between current policy on mental health and attitudes in the workplace creating stigma; emphasises that due to stigma and discrimination, employees often feel unable to discuss mental health issues; recognises that employees who return after mental health leave are often poorly accommodated; calls for workplaces to provide clear information about their in- house mental health support services15, adopt clear and effective prevention strategies as well as support strategies for the workers who return to work after longer absence;15 __________________ 15 WTW, 2021 Employee Experience Survey

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Reminds that harassment and discrimination on multiple grounds exist in the workplace and are a frequent source of stress and disconnection from the workplace; reminds that in particular discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender and sexual orientation, racialised perceptions, educational or socio-economic status and belonging to perceived minorities are widespread and should be addressed; considers any form of harassment in the workplace to be a serious cause for mental health issues, particularly affecting women, including new avenues for such behaviours by digitalisation of work, whereas organisations often do not have anti-harassment policy in place, nor prevention measures; deems it important to include anti-harassment policy in health and safety measures at work;

Amendment 195 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Stresses the importance of prevention and combating harassment in the digital world of work, through awareness campaigns and support for businesses, especially SMEs, towards putting in place anti-harassment and bullying policies;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)

13c. Is concerned about an approach to health which makes no distinction between mental health problems that pre- exist before the integration into work (e.g. bipolar disorder, schizophrenia) and those resulting from exposure to psychosocial risk factors at work (e.g. reactional depression, burnout, musculoskeletal disorders); regrets that this approach risks focusing only on the individual state of mental health rather than on the causes likely to affect it (conditions of employment and work, staffing levels, workload);

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 198 #

Dennis RADTKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Believes that the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers is not effective for the assessment and management of psychosocial risks; calls on the Commission ~~to recognise anxiety, depression and burnout as occupational diseases,~~ to establish mechanisms for their prevention and the reintegration into the workplace of those affected by psychosocial problems and to move from individual-level actions to a work organisation approach16 ; __________________ 16 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2021), Telework and Health Risks in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Field and Policy Implications

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

— having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights, in particular principle 10

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)

— having regard to the petitions submitted to the Committee on Petitions, for instance No 0956/2018 and No 1186/2018,

Amendment 200 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Believes that the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers are not effective for the assessment and management of psychosocial risks; calls on the Commission to ~~recognise anxiety, depression and burnout as occupational diseases,~~develop guidance and support for employers in order for them to establish mechanisms for their prevention and the reintegration into the workplace of those affected and to move from individual-level actions to a work organisation approach16 ; __________________ 16 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2021), Telework and health risks in the context of the COVID- 19 pandemic: evidence from the field and policy implications, 2021.of anxiety, depression and burnout as occupational diseases and the reintegration into the workplace of those affected;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Believes that the current measures to ~~encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers are not effective for the assessment and management of psychosocial risk~~improve the mental health and safety of workers are insufficient and non-effective, especially the assessment and management of psychosocial risks; highlights the importance of ensuring proper compensation claim options for workers in cases of mental occupational diseases; calls thus on the Commission to re~~cognise anxiety, depression and burnout as occupational diseases, to establish mechanisms for their prevention and the~~view the Commission recommendation concerning the European Schedule of Occupational Diseases of 2003, for the inclusion of work-related mental-health disorders such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and burnout as occupational diseases, and to include it into a directive that sets out minimum requirements for their recognition, ensuring adequate compensation for affected workers; stresses the need as well to establish mechanisms for prevention and to ensure the adequate and fair reintegration into the workplace of those affected workers, and to move from individual-level actions to a work organisation approach16 ; __________________ 16 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2021), Telework and health risks in the context of the covidovid-19 pandemic: evidence from the field and policy implications, 2021.;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Believes that the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers are not effective for the assessment and management of psychosocial risks; ~~calls on the Commission to recognise~~regrets that the data currently available from population-based surveys is often limited to a few specific mental health disorders, or specific age groups10a; calls on the Member States to collect data in a harmonised way on the self-reported work-related anxiety, depression and burnout in their labour force surveys; asks the Commission to assess, together with the EU-OSHA and the relevant scientific authorities, whether and how work-related anxiety, depression and burnout can be recognised as occupational diseases (i.e. where a direct link is established between the exposure to risk factors arising from work activities and the mental health issue contracted by the worker), to establish mechanisms for their prevention, treatment, and the reintegration into the workplace of those affected and to move from individual-level actions to a w~~ork~~hole organisational approach16 ; __________________ 10a Source OECD (2018) Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 State of Health in the EU Cycle, https://www.oecd- ilibrary.org/docserver/health_glance_eur- 2018- en.pdf?expires=1646167976&id=id&accn ame=ocid194994&checksum=380B3DA9 576D002F760CA6331F350BF2, P. 21. 16 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2021), Telework and health risks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the field and policy implications, 2021.

Amendment 203 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Believes that the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers are not effective for the assessment and management of psychosocial risks; calls on the Commission to recognise anxiety, depression and burnout as occupational diseases, to establish mechanisms for their prevention and the reintegration into the workplace of those affected and to move from individual-level actions to a work organisation approach16 ; calls on the Commission to revise the Commission recommendation concerning the European Schedule of Occupational Diseases of 2003 with additions such as work-related mental-health disorders, in particular anxiety, depression and burnout; calls on the Commission to transform this recommendation into a directive creating a minimum list of occupational diseases and setting out minimum requirements for the recognition and adequate compensation for individuals concerned, regardless the type of contractual relationship; __________________ 16 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2021), Telework and health risks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the field and policy implications, 2021.

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 206 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Considers that mental health issues are sometimes misused by employees to justify being granted extended periods of leave, to excuse workplace misbehaviour and to evade dismissal from the workplace; acknowledges that such examples can be costly for businesses and sometimes affect the mental wellbeing of fellow colleagues; considers that caution must be taken to distinguish between genuine mental health issues and those who seek to use it as an excuse;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Acknowledges that when tackling psychosocial risks, the national labour inspectorates can have an important role by enforcing preventive and/or corrective interventions in the context of work; calls on the ELA to work on a common strategy for the national labour inspectorates to tackling psychosocial risks, including the design of a common framework with regard to psychosocial risks evaluation and management, and the different labour inspectors' training needs;

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Calls for an EU wide information campaign on mental health awareness to address the stigma, misperceptions, and social exclusion that is often associated with poor mental health;

Amendment 209 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. C~~alls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a directive on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively~~onsiders that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks inand the ~~workplace; considers that occupational safety an~~refore calls on the Member States, having consulted the~~alth prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and~~ social partners, to complement these policies by factoring in the prevention of psychosocial risks;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the right to physical and mental health is a fundamental human right and also links to other fundamental rights such as the right to human dignity in Article 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the right to the integrity of the person, including mental integrity in its Article 3; whereas the WHO defines mental health as ‘a state of mental well-being in which people cope well with the many stresses of life, can realise their own potential, can function productively and fruitfully, and are able to contribute to their communities’10 ; __________________ 10 WHO, Mental Health: strengthening our response (Fact sheet, No. 220), 2018.

Amendment 210 #

Ádám KÓSA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the ~~Commission to propose, in~~Member States to consult~~ation~~ with the social partners~~, a directive~~ on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, ~~a directive~~guidelines on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace; notes that the OSH framework directive 391/98/EEC obliges the employer to assess all risks at the workplace, including mental health risks, considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a ~~directive~~strategy on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively prevent ~~psychosocial~~such risks in the workplace, taking into account the European Pillar of Social Rights; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a ~~directive on~~framework relating to psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;

Amendment 214 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to consider proposeing, in consultation with social partners, a directive on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aimed at the efficient prevention of psychosocial risks in the workplace; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Calls~~Believes that Council Directive 89/391/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work, may not prove effective enough for the digital world of work in the 21st century and the latest developments in labour markets, including the assessment and management of psychosocial risks; points out that the new EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027, rightly notes that changes in the work environment are required to tackle psychosocial wellbeing hazards but only focuses on individual level interventions, what is a limited aspect of psychosocial risks mitigation; stresses that a common basis for safeguarding the mental health of all workers is urgently needed, as they are not protected to the same extension across EU Member States, either by current EU legislation; calls in this regard on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a directive on psychosocial risks and well- being at work aiming to effectively prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace~~; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;~~ of, inter alia, anxiety, depression, burnout, and stress, and including mechanisms for the effective prevention of such risks, and for the reintegration into the workplace of affected employees, shifting from individual-level actions to a work organisation approach, in line with the general principles of hierarchy of prevention included in Directive 89/391/EEC;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a directive on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aim~~ing to effectively~~ed at the efficient prevention of psychosocial risks in the workplace~~; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks;~~ , such as anxiety, depression, burnout and stress, including risks caused by structural problems such as work organisation (i.e. poor management, poor work design or not properly matching workers’ knowledge and abilities with the assigned tasks); considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies are the responsibility of the employers but should also involve workers, trade unions and/or workers representatives in the in the conception and implementation of measures to identify and prevent psychosocial risks; considers the need to guarantee no repercussions for workers who raise concerns regarding psychosocial risks in the workplace; considers the need to provide means for labour inspectorates, including further funding and training to ensure they can adequately protect workers;

Amendment 217 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a directive on the management of psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace (also online), train management and workers, periodically assess progress and improve the work environment; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risks; notes that employee- attitude surveys can provide useful information on stress levels and sources, making it easier for the management to identify issues and make adjustments needed;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to propose, in consultation with the social partners, a directive on psychosocial risks and well-being at work aiming to effectively prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace; considers that occupational safety and health prevention policies ~~should also involve employees in the identification and prevention of psychosocial risk~~are the responsibility of the employers but should also involve workers and trade unions in the conception and implementation of measures to identify and prevent psychosocial risks; considers the need to guarantee no repercussions for workers who raise concerns regarding psychosocial risks at the workplace; considers the need to provide adequate means for labour inspectorates, including further funding and training to ensure that they can adequately protect workers;

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~the right to physical and mental health is a fundamental huma~~health is a fundamental human right indispensable for the exercise of other human rights and every human being is entitled to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health conducive to living a life in rdightnity; whereas the WHO defines mental health as ‘a state of mental well-being in which people cope well with the many stresses of life, can realise their own potential, can function productively and fruitfully, and are able to contribute to their communities’10 ; __________________ 10 WHO, Mental Health: strengthening our response (Fact sheet, No. 220), 2018.

Amendment 220 #

Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to take into account the latest scientific evidence and research in mental health, especially regarding potential of innovative approaches in mental health treatment; encourages the Commission to closely follow and monitor best practices that have been already successfully implemented in this area and to facilitate exchange of those best practices among the Member States;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls on Member States to ensure the establishment of more committees on health and safety at work in order to ensure more frequent and accurate risk assessments and to strengthen the prerogatives of existing health and safety committees by giving them rights to invoke external expertise, including independent, third-party evaluations of exposure to work-related psychosocial risks;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Calls for further integration of courses on similar psychosocial risks in the educational curricula;

Amendment 223 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that ~~it is essential for managers to be provided with the psychosocial training required to adapt to~~psychosocial training for employees in management positions can have a positive effect on work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of negative mental health and the workplace;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that it is essential for ~~manag~~workers to be provided with ~~the psychosocial training required to adapt to work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of negative m~~mandatory and free training on the prevention of work-related psychosocial risks with managerial staff receiving also specialised training to ensure better work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of work-related risks causing mental health disorders; believes that trade unions must play a central ~~health and the workplace~~role in the design and implementation of these trainings together with employers; highlights the need to provide means for labour inspectorates, including further funding and training to ensure they can adequately protect workers, and apply sanctions when needed;

Amendment 225 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that it is essential for ~~manag~~all workers to be provided with t~~he psychosocial~~raining on the prevention of work-related psychosocial risks and for managerial staff to receive specialised training required to proactively adapt to work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of ~~negative mental health and the workplace~~work-related risks causing poor mental health; encourages employers to foster a positive approach, policies and practice to good occupational mental health and well-being; underlines that social partners must play a central role in the design and implementation of both trainings and best practices to guarantee their success;

Amendment 226 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that it is essential for managers to be provided with the ~~psychosocial training required to adapt to work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of negative mental health and the workplace~~mental health training to be able to take appropriate and timely action to support employees experiencing mental health issues and foster a deep understanding of the interlinkages between mental health and the workplace; believes that enterprises should explore the designation and training of a mental health reference employee or the creation of an informative section on the workplace’s internal communication platform to signpost employees to mental health services;

Amendment 227 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that it is essential for managers and senior staff to be provided with the psychosocial training required to adapt to work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of negative mental health and the workplace;

Amendment 228 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that it is essential for managers, including middle management, to be provided with the psychosocial training required to adapt to work organisation practices and foster a deep understanding of negative mental health and the workplace; insists that trade unions must play a central role in the design and implementation of both trainings and best practices;

Amendment 229 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to acknowledge and raise awareness on the impact on the mental health of workers of highly prevalent and disabling neurological disorders such as migraine; notes the importance of raising awareness in the workplace on the importance of identifying and avoiding triggers to prevent migraines;

Amendment 23 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the understanding of mental health issues in the workplace concerns both non-clinical aspects such as well-being, stress, burnout, and clinical aspects, mental disorders such as depression, drug addiction, alcohol disorders; whereas there needs to be a clear distinction between non-clinical and clinical mental health issues in order to avoid misunderstanding and stigmatisation, and in order to design and implement the right measures and treatments to manage them;

Amendment 230 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Calls on the labour inspectorates to target the psychosocial working environment in inspections; invites the Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee to put forward a new campaign on psychosocial risks building on the findings of the 2012 campaign and the recent developments;

Amendment 231 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4

A modern world of work for ~~healthy and resilient labour~~the wellbeing of workers

Amendment 232 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines that the management and mitigation of psychosocial risks is first and foremost the responsibility of the employer; regrets that given the lack of sufficient mental health support and policies in the workplace, employees often have to rely on services provided by non- governmental organisations (NGOs)~~; calls for workpla~~ and expensive private consulting firms; calls for employers to ensure workers have access to in-house mental health support and remedies or be provided access to e~~nsure employees have access to in-house mental health support and remedie~~xternal supports at the expense of the employer should in-house services be unavailable; calls for the establishment of dedicated bodies at the workplace where they do not exist or access to external assistance should this be necessary, but also to strengthen the prerogatives of existing health and safety committees; calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish mechanisms for the prevention of such risks and the reintegration into the workplace of affected employees, and to shift from individual-level actions to a work organisation approach in line with the general principles of hierarchy of prevention included in Directive 89/391/EEC; calls on the Commission to prepare guidelines as regards the minimum number of personnel providing occupational health services that are required to ensure adequate occupational health surveillance; considers that protection and promotion of mental health should be an integral part of OSH preparedness plans for future health crises; stresses that specific attention should be paid to the mental health of healthcare workers and of other essential workers; recalls the crucial role of trade unions, including health and safety representatives, and effective social dialogue on health and safety matters;

Amendment 233 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines that given the lack of ~~sufficient mental health support and policies in the workplace, employee~~adequate procedures to address work- related psychosocial risks as well as insufficient mental health support, workers often have to rely on services provided by non- governmental organisations (NGOs)~~; calls for workplaces to ensure employees have access to in-house mental health support and remedies~~, many of whom are chronically under- resourced and faced with additional significant human and funding strains during the pandemic; calls for workplaces to encourage mental health literacy and ensure workers have access to quality and targeted in-house mental health support and remedies or be provided access to external supports at the expense of the employer should in-house services be unavailable; calls for workplaces to execute external audits on the wellbeing and safety of their workers, as to oversee where improvements can be made;

Amendment 234 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines that given the lack of ~~sufficient mental health support and policies in the workplace, employees often have to rely~~adequate support and mechanisms to prevent psychosocial risks at work, and to help affected employees suffering from work-related mental health disorders, they often have to rely on private and non- affordable services or on services provided by non- governmental organisations (NGOs); calls ~~for workplaces to ensure employees have access to in-house mental health support and remedi~~on the Commission and the Member States to coordinate health and safety services in order to provide access to in-house mental health support and for full protection and information; highlights that when in-house services are unavailable, it should be mandatory to establish dedicated bodies at the workplace assisted by mental health professional and with the involvement of trade unions or workers representatives;

Amendment 235 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines that given the lack of sufficient mental health support and policies in the workplace, employees often have to rely on services provided by non- governmental organisations (NGOs) who often lack support and resources themselves; calls for workplaces to ensure employees have access to in-house mental health support and remedies and information to steer the employees to healthcare professionals able to provide evidence-based treatment; calls on the Member States to ensure that public healthcare includes easy access to remote counselling;

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

Amendment 237 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines that given the lack of sufficient mental health support and policies in the workplace, employees often have to rely on services provided by n~~on- governmental organisations (NGOs)~~ational hospital facilities that involve considerable waiting time; calls for workplaces to ensure employees have access to in-house mental health support and remedies;

Amendment 238 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines that given the lack of sufficient mental health support and policies in the workplace, employees often have to rely on services provided by non- governmental organisations (NGOs); calls for workplaces to ensure employees have access to in-house mental health support and remedies with due respect to workers' privacy and confidentiality, and where feasible, provide relevant support in collaboration with a certified, independent provider;

Amendment 239 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on a recognition that self- employed and platform workers face the most precarious situations of employment conditions with a particular impact in their general wellbeing, work-life balance and mental health; urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise these precarious conditions and to include in the existing or to be defined legal frameworks instruments to reinforce their protection, namely by assuring equal rights and work conditions to access measures and practices in place for the workers with a regular contract;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas according to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment under the conditions established by national laws and practices, and a high level of human health protection shall be ensured in the definition and implementation of all the Union's policies and activities;

Amendment 240 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Stresses the importance of mental health professionals and services and calls on the Member States to involve them more closely in the provision of mental health services and solutions at the workplace;

Amendment 241 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Encourages the ~~Commission~~Member States to launch education and awareness initiatives on mental health in the workplace; urges the Commission to make 2023 the EU Year of Good Mental Health to achieve this;

Amendment 242 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Encourages the Commission to launch education and awareness initiatives on mental health in the workplace as well as the Commission and the Member States to leverage EU funds towards the establishment of mental health digital platforms and applications; urges the Commission to make 2023 the EU Year of Good Mental Health to achieve this;

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Encourages the Commission to launch education and awareness initiatives on mental health in the workplace; urges the Commission to ~~mak~~designate 2023 the EU Year of Good Mental Health to achieve this;

Amendment 244 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Encourages the Commission to launch education and awareness initiatives on mental health in the workplace; urges the Commission to make 2023 the EU Year of Good Mental Health to achieve this; calls on the Commission to study the feasibility of establishing a common EU helpline number for mental health support; calls on the Commission to dedicate an adequate budget to relevant calls for proposals under its EU4Health, work programme, Erasmus+, HorizonEurope, DigitalEurope and other EU programmes;

Amendment 245 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Urges the Commission to consider adding psychosocial health and well- being indicators and targets to its revised Social Scoreboard; urges the Commission to reflect the occupational health and safety considerations in the annual European Semester cycle, as well as the monitoring of the implementation of the national Recovery and Resilience Plans of the Member States; recommends the Commission and the Member States to apply the Health Equity Impact Assessments in relation to mental health impacts of existing and planned employment and digital work policies;

Amendment 246 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Urges the Member States to include costs with Mental Health Occupational Diseases in their annual budgets; calls on the Commission in cooperation with Member States to ensure local and other relevant public authorities to have sufficient staff and public resources to provide mental health support and services to all who need them;

Amendment 247 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)

18c. Reminds that employers’ responsibility for occupational health and safety continues to apply in a telework context; calls for support in the provision of ergonomic equipment, guidance on ergonomic workspaces at home and on the importance of taking regular breaks and ensuring human interaction;

Amendment 248 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recognises that the lack of statistics on the prevalence of mental health issues within the workplace especially within SMEs and among SME owners and the self-employed, undermines the need for urgent intervention; calls for Eurostat to gather statistics which include mental ill health and ~~its negative impacts~~data on the effectiveness of the different types of interventions to promote a better mental health in the workplace;

Amendment 249 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recognises that the lack of statistics on the prevalence of mental health illnessues ~~within~~at the workplace undermines ~~the need for urgen~~a fast intervention; calls ~~for Eurostat to gather statistics which include~~on public institutions, experts and the research community, to collaborate and gather up- to-date data of work-related mental ~~ill~~ health ~~and its negative impact~~risks and impact among other factors, to support the creation of accurate and effective binding mechanisms;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the pandemic has changed working conditions for many workers in Europe, highlighting new and current issues related to well-being in the workplace; whereas many workers had to cope with increased stress due to the increased care responsibilities connected to home-schooling and childcare during lockdowns or providing informal care to dependent relatives;

Amendment 250 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recognises that the lack of statistics on the prevalence of mental health issues within the workplace undermines the need for urgent intervention; calls for Eurostat to gather statistics disaggregated by gender, age and other relevant features which include mental ~~ill~~ health ~~and its negative impacts~~, risk factors leading to mental ill health and the impact of poor mental health;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. IStresses that all workers should be adequately protected no matter their status or the size of the enterprise and that support should be provided to micro enterprises to help them in the correct application of OSH rules; is concerned that entrepreneurs and SMEs in particular are in need of support to promote mental health awareness in the workplace and calls for EU-level efforts to assist them in risk assessment and the implementation of good practices; highlights the role of EU- OSHA in providing micro-enterprises and SMEs with the tools and standards they need to assess the risks to their workforce and implement adequate prevention measures; considers that EU-OSHA should be strengthened in order to better promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union and further develop initiatives to improve workplace prevention in all sectors of activity;

Amendment 252 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Is concerned that entrepreneurs and SMEs in particular are in need of support to manage the impact of everyday pressures and stressors, as well as the challenges of running a business on their mental health, as well as to promote mental health awareness in the workplace and calls for EU-level efforts to assist them in risk assessment and the implementation of good practices;

Amendment 253 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Is concerned that entrepreneurs and SMEs in particular are in need of support to promote mental health awareness in the workplace and calls for EU-level efforts to assist them in risk assessment ~~and~~, prevention and awareness raising campaigns as well as the implementation of good practices;

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Is concerned that ~~entrepreneurs and SMEs in particular~~SMEs are in need of support to promote mental health awareness in the workplace and calls for EU-level efforts to assist them in risk assessment and the implementation of good practices;

Amendment 255 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Calls on the Member States to assess the possibility of creating local and/or regional level intermediation services for psychosocial risks to provide advice and technical support to the self- employed, employers/managers and workers (especially from micro- enterprises and SMEs), organisations and social partners on psychosocial risk prevention, on psychosocial conflicts in the workplace, as well as to disseminate information on psychosocial risks and their prevention;

Amendment 256 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Points out that 64 % of young people between 18 and34 were at risk of depression in 2021 due to lack of employment, financial and educational prospects, as well as loneliness and social isolation; stresses that one of the best tool to tackle mental health issues amongst young people is to provide them with meaningful, stable and desirable educational and employment perspectives; calls on the Commission to address the disruption in access to the labour market which has put young people at greater risk of experiencing mental health issues17 ; calls on the Member States to facilitate access for young people to paid, quality and inclusive traineeships, apprenticeships and internships; calls for the reinforcement of monitoring schemes, ensuring that young people receive adequate and quality first working experiences, opportunities for upskilling and new qualifications or credentials; condemns the practice of unpaid internships, apprenticeships and traineeships as a form of exploitation of young workers, and a violation of their rights, and calls on the Commission and the Member States, in collaboration with Parliament, to propose a common legal framework for an effective and enforceable ban on unpaid internships and to ensure fair remuneration for traineeships and apprenticeships in order to avoid exploitative practices leading in many cases to mental health issues; __________________ 17 OECD, Supporting young people’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis, 2021, and European Youth Forum, ‘Beyond Lockdown: The ‘Pandemic Scar’ on Young People’.

Amendment 257 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. PMental health of young people has worsened significantly during the pandemic11a ; regrets that young people are not the centre of mental health research investments, in spite of the predictable long-term benefits of early intervention;12a; points out that 64 % of young people between 18 and 34 were at risk of depression in 2021 due to lack of employment, financial and educational prospects, as well as loneliness and social isolation; calls on the Commission to address the disruption in access to the labour market which has put young people at greater risk of experiencing mental health issues17 ; __________________ 11a https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy- responses/supporting-young-people-s- mental-health-through-the-COVID-19- crisis-84e143e5/ 12a Woelbert, Eva; White, Rory; Lundell- Smith, Kierstin; Grant, Jonathan; Kemmer, Danielle (2020): The Inequities of Mental Health Research (IAMHRF). Digital Science. Report. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13055 897.v1 17 OECD, Supporting young people’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis, 2021, and European Youth Forum, ‘Beyond Lockdown: The ‘Pandemic Scar’ on Young People’.

Amendment 258 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Points out that 64 % of young people between 18 and 34 were at risk of depression in 2021 due to lack of employment, financial and educational prospects, as well as loneliness and social isolation, with young women and young people in marginalised situations more severely affected; calls on the Commission to address the disruption in access to the labour market which has put young people at greater risk of experiencing mental health issues17 and take action to support young people in accessing and retaining adequate employment; __________________ 17 OECD, Supporting young people’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis, 2021, and European Youth Forum, ‘Beyond Lockdown: The ‘Pandemic Scar’ on Young People’.

Amendment 259 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Points out that 64 % of young people between 18 and 34 were at risk of depression in 2021 due to lack of employment~~, financial and educational prospects, as well as loneliness and social isolation~~ and financial stability; calls on the Commission to address the disruption in access to the labour market which has put young people at greater risk of experiencing mental health dissues17 ; __________________ 17 OECD, Supporting young people’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis, 2021, and European Youth Forum, ‘Beyond Lockdown: The ‘Pandemic Scar’ on Young People’.orders;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~the pandemic has~~Eurofound research shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped organisational and managerial practices1a; whereas the pandemic has also changed working conditions for many workers in Europe, highlighting new and current issues related to psychological well-being in the workplace; and aggravating pre-existing ones; __________________ 1a Eurofound (2021a), ‘Monitoring and surveillance of workers in the digital age’ (Research digest) in The digital age: Implications of automation, digitisation and platforms for work and employment, Challenges and prospects in the EU series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 260 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Is concerned about the under- recognition of depressive symptoms among older adults12a; notes that depression and mental ill health can be a barrier to keeping and gaining employment;13a believes, therefore, that job centres need to re-pivot to acknowledge this, providing via trained experts, psychosocial counselling and coaching, in addition to providing support to find a job, and have the tools to direct unemployed persons to health professionals who can give a diagnosis and a guideline-oriented, evidence-based treatment. __________________ 12a Balsamo, M., Cataldi, F., Carlucci, L., Padulo, C., & Fairfield, B. (2018). Assessment of late-life depression via self- report measures: a review. Clinical interventions in aging, 13, 2021–2044. https://doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S178943 13a Sources 6-8 referenced in Olesen, S. C., Butterworth, P., Leach, L. S., Kelaher, M., & Pirkis, J. (2013). Mental health affects future employment as job loss affects mental health: findings from a longitudinal population study. BMC psychiatry, 13, 144. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-144

Amendment 261 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Stresses that fundamental rights, such as mental health, must be the subject of a single European regulatory approach, with a view to ensuring equal respect and equal conditions for all workers, not least in order to eliminate the worst forms of dumping at the expense of workers’ health;

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)

21c. Calls on the Member States also to address the obstacles and difficulties arising, including those linked to mental health problems, and to the recruitment and continued employment of persons with disabilities, who were among the most neglected during the pandemic;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the pandemic has changed the working conditions for many workers in Europe~~, highlighting new and current issues related to well-being in the workplace~~; whereas the COVID-19 crisis has placed extraordinary demands on healthcare and essential workers; whereas a demanding work environment, lack of protection and fears for safety, have led to a negative psychological impact of these frontline workers;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas according to Eurofound, 20 % of jobs in Europe were of ‘poor quality’ in 2017 and put the physical or mental health of workers at increased risk; whereas psychosocial risks can arise from bad organisation and management as well as unfair working conditions; whereas according to the OECD, financial uncertainty and job insecurity are risk factors associated with poor mental health; whereas strengthening public employment services and investing in long-term and quality jobs are key to combat poor mental health among workers;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas Eurofound found in its COVID-19 surveys that the pandemic posed many challenges for workers working remotely, with consequences in relation to the organisation of working time, well-being, and the physical work environment, all these aspects negatively affecting mental health;

Amendment 3 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)

— having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas research shows that the pandemic prompted remote work and with it, longer working hours, including in the free time, and experiences of isolation, aspects that negatively affect mental health;2a __________________ 2a https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publicat ions/article/2021/workers-want-to- telework-but-long-working-hours- isolation-and-inadequate-equipment- must-be-tackled

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)

Bd. whereas one-third of the workforce in Europe is working remotely;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)

Be. whereas the considerable increase in teleworking may benefit workers and businesses; whereas the right to physical and mental health must also be safeguarded in this context;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)

Bf. whereas teleworking has brought positive consequences such as increased flexibility and autonomy and in some cases, a better work-life balance; whereas these positive gains do not however outweigh the perceived negative consequences such as over-connection and technostress, breach of the right to disconnect and work-life balance, blurring of lines between professional and private life, longer working hours including working in free-time, increasing addiction to screens, lack of available ergonomic office equipment at home, increased worker surveillance by artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and lack of social interaction11a; whereas Eurofound data show that teleworkers are twice as likely to exceed the 48-hour working time limit, take insufficient rest and work in their free time, with knock-on effects on their physical and mental health; whereas psychosocial risks are the most prevalent health risks associated with teleworking; whereas a higher prevalence of teleworking has also resulted in long working hours and work-related stress;12a __________________ 11a EU-OSHA, Telework and health risks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the field and policy implications, Publications office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021 12a Eurofound, Right to disconnect: Exploring company practices, 2021

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)

Bg. whereas according to EU-OSHA, psychosocial risks may result in negative psychological, physical and social outcomes such as work-related anxiety, burnout or depression; whereas working conditions leading to psychosocial risks may include excessive workloads, conflicting demands and lack of role clarity, lack of involvement in making decisions that affect the worker and lack of influence over the way the job is done, poorly managed organisational change, job insecurity, ineffective communication, lack of support from management or colleagues, psychological and sexual harassment, and third party violence;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B h (new)

Bh. whereas this new situation requires us to adopt a fresh and broader definition of health and safety at the workplace, which can no longer be separated from mental health;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B i (new)

Bi. whereas increasingly, employers use digital tools such as apps, software and AI to manage their workers; whereas algorithmic management presents new challenges for the future of work, such as technology-enabled control and surveillance through prediction and flagging tools, remote real-time monitoring of progress and performance and time-tracking, automated behavioural nudges which can generate excessive speed and efficiency pressure for workers, track employees’ behavioural patterns, exacerbate discriminatory practices and entail significant risks for, workers’ health and safety, notably including mental health, workers’ right to privacy and human dignity13a; __________________ 13a Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance, Data & Society, Mateescu, A., Nguyen, A., Explainer: February 2019

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B j (new)

Bj. whereas workers experience stress when the demands of their job are excessive and greater than their capacity to cope with them; whereas in addition to mental health problems, workers suffering from prolonged stress can go on to develop serious physical health problems such as cardiovascular disease or musculoskeletal problems;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B k (new)

Bk. whereas for work-organisation, the negative effects of psychosocial risks include poor overall business performance, increased absenteeism and presentism (workers turning up for work when sick and unable to function effectively) and increased accident and injury rates; whereas, absences tend to be longer than those arising from other causes, and work-related stress may contribute to increased rates of early retirement; whereas the cost to businesses and society are significant;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic ~~has~~, in particular the overzealous response from governments to the pandemic, have disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty~~, as well as of vulnerable populations, including ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people~~;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5

~~— having regard to the United Nations Mental Health and Well-being Strategy of 2018,~~deleted

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected the mental wellbeing of those in financial uncertainty, as well as vulnerable populations~~, including ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people~~;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty, as well as of vulnerable populations, including ~~ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community,~~ the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people, as well as those living in rural and mountain areas;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty, as well as of vulnerable ~~population~~groups, including ~~ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community~~big families, single parents, informal carers, the elderly, persons with disabilities ~~and~~or young people;

Amendment 43 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty, as well as of vulnerable populations, including ~~ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community~~citizens from a disfavoured background, the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of ~~those facing financial uncertainty, as well as of vulnerable populations, including ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people;~~ healthcare and long-term care workers -the majority of whom are women-, young people (particularly LGBTQ youth)2a and people with lower socio-economic status, as well as of persons with disabilities and pre-existing mental health issues, and the unemployed; __________________ 2a Hawke LD Hayes E Darnay K Henderson J Mental health among transgender and gender diverse youth: an exploration of effects during the COVID- 19 pandemic. Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers. 2021; 8: 180-187; Fish JN McInroy LB Paceley MS et al. “I'm kinda stuck at home with unsupportive parents right now”: LGBTQ youths' experiences with COVID-19 and the importance of online support. J Adolesc Health. 2020; 67: 450-452;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of ~~those facing financial uncertainty, as well as of~~ vulnerable ~~population~~groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people; whereas the mental health of young people has worsened significantly during the pandemic, with problems related to mental health doubling in several Member States compared to the pre-crisis level;

Amendment 46 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty or care responsibilities, with women constituting a majority of these groups, as well as of vulnerable populations, including ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities ~~and young people;~~ , neurodiverse people, workers in non-standard forms of work and young people; whereas mental health problems doubled amongst people aged between 15 and 24 in most countries during the pandemic; whereas young people are 30% to 80% more likely to experience depression or anxiety than adults14a; whereas suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents aged 15 to 19 and as consequence 3 lives per day are lost to suicide in Europe15a; __________________ 14a Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), Supporting young people’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis, 2021 15a UNICEF, The state of the World’s Children 2021. On my Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health, 2021

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty, with particular negative consequences for women, workers with chronic health conditions as well as of vulnerable populations, including ethnic minorities, single parents, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities, homeless and young people;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental well-being of those facing financial uncertainty, as well as of vulnerable populations, including ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community, the elderly, persons with disabilities and young people; people living in the outermost regions or areas on not well connected country sides;

Amendment 49 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the pandemic unleashed a steep increase in caring responsibilities in combination with working, affecting women disproportionately and widening the gender disparity in unpaid care; whereas this negatively impacted the mental health of people with care responsibilities16a; __________________ 16a EIGE, 2021 Gender Equality Index.

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

— having regard to the WHO Framework for Action on Mental Health,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas nine million adolescents in Europe (aged 10 to 19) are living with mental health disorders, with anxiety and depression accounting for more than half of cases1a; __________________ 1a European Parliament Resolution on empowering European youth: post- pandemic employment and social recovery (2021/2952(RSP))

Amendment 51 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas the pandemic has significantly impacted young people’s employment and income, with many experiencing job loss and a decrease of their income, therefore negatively impacting their mental health and well- being17a; __________________ 17a https://www.youthforum.org/files/Europe an20Youth20Forum20Report20v1.2.pdf

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~before the pandemic it D. was estimated that 25 % of EU citizens would experience a mental health problem in their lifetime11 ;~~ 23 % of European workers believe that their safety or health is at risk because of their work; whereas in 2019, 88 % of EU workers experienced stress problems at work11; whereas work- related stress can be a consequence of several factors, such as time constraint pressures, long or irregular working hours, and/or poor communication and cooperation within the organisation;11a __________________ 11 European Network for Workplace Health Promotion, A Guide for Employers. To Promote Mental Health in the Workplace, 2011. 11a https://www.etui.org/sites/default/files/202 1-12/01-ETU%20BM2021-Chap5- Occupational%20health%20and%20safet y%20inequalities%20in%20the%20EU_1. pdf

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas before the pandemic it was estimated that 25 % of EU citizens would experience a mental health problem in their lifetime11 ; whereas mental well-being has reached its lowest level across all age groups since the onset of the pandemic; whereas this is especially prominent among young people and those who have lost their job; whereas in spring 2021, there was an overall increase in negative feelings, such as tension/anxiety, loneliness, and feeling downhearted and depressed, across most social groups in the EU; whereas, according with Eurofound, an increase in depressive feelings was recorded particularly among younger groups, while the highest increase in loneliness was recorded for women over 50; __________________ 11 European Network for Workplace Health Promotion, A Guide for Employers. To Promote Mental Health in the Workplace, 2011.

Amendment 54 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the mental health of young people has worsened significantly during the pandemic, with problems related to mental health doubling in several Member States compared to pre- crisis levels; whereas 64 % of young people in the 18-34 age group were at risk of depression in spring 2021, partly as a consequence of the lack of employment, financial and educational prospects in the longer run as well as a result of loneliness and social isolation; whereas the worsening of mental health can be also attributed to disruptions in access to mental health services and an increased workload, and a labour market crisis that disproportionately affected young people; whereas suicide is the second leading cause of death in Europe among young people;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas self-employed workers are excluded from the scope of application of the strategic framework for health and safety at work; whereas all workers should be equally and fully protected against psychosocial risks by the European occupational health and safety framework; whereas the new OSH framework 2021-2027 lacks efficient measures to prevent psychosocial risks at the workplace; whereas evidence shows that non-legislative measures are insufficient for psychosocial risks prevention; whereas approaches to and legislation on psychosocial risks vary significantly indifferent Member States;

Amendment 56 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas mental health issues are currently the leading cause of global morbidity; whereas there exist strong associations between migraine or severe headaches and depression and anxiety, among other comorbid psychiatric disorders, impairing work performance and employee absences4a; whereas, clinical/applied research into prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health conditions are considerably underfunded;5a __________________ 4a Minen MT, Begasse De Dhaem O, Kroon Van Diest A, et al Migraine and its psychiatric comorbidities Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2016;87:741-749. 5a Woelbert, Eva; White, Rory; Lundell- Smith, Kierstin; Grant, Jonathan; Kemmer, Danielle (2020): The Inequities of Mental Health Research (IAMHRF). Digital Science. Report. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13055 897.v1

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D d (new)

Dd. whereas prevention, awareness raising, well-being activities and promotion of mental health and healthy culture at work can provide positive outcomes at improving the health of employees as well as provide new employment or volunteering opportunities;

Amendment 58 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital D e (new)

De. whereas a safe working environment that is not harmful to physical and mental health must be fully recognised as a fundamental right at national and European level;

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D f (new)

Df. whereas many EU inhabitants don’t have access to public mental and occupational health services; whereas public mental and occupational health services are notoriously underfunded;

Amendment 6 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

— having regard to the 2008 European Mental Health Pact,

Amendment 60 #

Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Klára DOBREV, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alicia HOMS GINEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas workplace issues that affect mental health include job burnout, harassment, ~~violence, stigma and discrimination~~physical or psychological violence and failure to achieve a work-life balance and the right to disconnect; whereas one in four European workers feel work has a negative impact on their health12 ; __________________ 12 Eurofound, 6th European Working Condition Survey, 2017.

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas workplace issues that affect mental health include job burnout, harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination; whereas last year, the WHO revealed that worldwide more than 300 million people suffer from work- related mental disorders such as burnout, anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress; whereas one in four European workers feel work has a negative impact on their health12 ; __________________ 12 Eurofound, 6th European Working Condition Survey, 2017.

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas workplace issues that affect mental health include job burnout, harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination; whereas one in four European workers feel work has a negative impact on their health12 ; whereas negative working environment may lead to physical and mental health problems, harmful use of substances or alcohol, absenteeism and lost productivity; __________________ 12 Eurofound, 6th European Working Condition Survey, 2017.

Amendment 63 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas workplace issues that affect mental health include job burnout, harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination and could be further aggravated online; whereas one in four European workers feel work has a negative impact on their health12 ; __________________ 12 Eurofound, 6th European Working Condition Survey, 2017.

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas workplace issues that affect non-clinical mental health aspects include job burnout and stress, harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination; whereas one in four European workers feel work has a negative impact on their health12 ; __________________ 12 Eurofound, 6th European Working Condition Survey, 2017.

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas workplace issues that affect mental health include job burn-out or bore-out, harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination and lack of ability to grow or be promoted; whereas one in four European workers feel work has a negative impact on their health12 ; __________________ 12 Eurofound, 6th European Working Condition Survey, 2017.

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas stress, anxiety or depression belong to the second largest group of self-reported work-related health problems;13 whereas work-related stress can significantly increase the risk of triggering and exacerbating various health problems and diseases including psychological problems, heart diseases, autoimmune diseases or musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic/chronic inflammatory diseases; ____________________ 13 Eurostat: Self-reported work-related health problems and risk factors - key statistics,2020

Amendment 67 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas persons with a history of mental ill health are among those facing the greatest barriers accessing the labour market and therefore are often afraid to disclose these issues with their employer or colleagues; whereas these people are more than average unemployed and lack the support needed to access and retain employment;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas the initial response to the pandemic failed to include a workplace dimension and the critical role trade unions play to defend workers’ fundamental human right to a safe and secure workplace;

Amendment 69 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)

Ed. whereas most EU sectoral social partners in the second half of 2020 recognised the importance of health and safety at work, the critical role of social dialogue and of sufficiently resourced public services to develop a preventive crisis strategy both in the public and private sectors;

Amendment 7 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)

— having regard to the Presidency Conclusions of October 2019 on the Economy of Well-being, calling for a comprehensive EU Mental Health Strategy,

Amendment 70 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the costs of mental ill health are estimated at more than 4 % of GDP across all EU Member States;6a whereas the cost of work-related depression has been estimated at EUR 620 billion a year, resulting in EUR 240 billion lost economic output13 ; ~~__________________~~ whereas the calculated costs of all headache in the EU are over EUR 110 billion annually, of which, about EUR 50 billion correspond to the costs of migraine;7a __________________ 6a OECD/European Union (2018), Health at a Glance: Europe 2018: State of Health in the EU Cycle, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Union, Brussels, https://doi.org/10.1787/health_glance_eur -2018-en. 7a Linde M, Gustavsson A, Stovner LJ, Steiner TJ, Barré J, Katsarava Z, Lainez JM, Lampl C, Lantéri-Minet M, Rastenyte D, Ruiz de la Torre E, Tassorelli C, Andrée C. The cost of headache disorders in Europe: the Eurolight project. Eur J Neurol. 2012 May;19(5):703-11. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03612.x. Epub 2011 Dec 5. PMID: 22136117. 13 Opinion of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH): ‘Supporting mental health of health workforce and other essential workers‘, 2021.

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the costs of mental ill health are estimated at more than 4 % of GDP across all EU Member States; whereas the cost of work-related depression has been estimated at EUR 620 billion a year, resulting in EUR 240 billion lost economic output13 ; whereas the prevention-related budgets across all EU Member States remain low at 3% of total health expenditure21a; __________________ 13 Opinion of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH): ‘Supporting mental health of health workforce and other essential workers‘, 2021. 21a Eurostat, available at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210118-1

Amendment 72 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the costs of mental ill health are estimated at more than 4 % of GDP across all EU Member States; whereas depression is one of the leading causes of disability and the cost of work- related depression has been estimated at EUR 620 billion a year, resulting in EUR 240 billion lost economic output13 ; __________________ 13 Opinion of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH): ‘Supporting mental health of health workforce and other essential workers‘, 2021.

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the costs of mental ill health are estimated at more than 4 % of GDP across all EU Member States in 2015; whereas the cost of work-related depression has been estimated at EUR 620 billion a year, resulting in EUR 240 billion lost economic output13 ; __________________ 13 Opinion of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH): ‘Supporting mental health of health workforce and other essential workers‘, 2021.

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas digitalisation and new advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machinery, are transforming the nature of work and having detrimental effects on workers mental health; whereas work is increasingly overseen and coordinated by algorithms and AI based on big data, tracking data on workers productivity, location, vital signs, stress indicators, and micro-facial expressions; whereas about 40 % of human resources departments in international companies now use AI applications and 70 % consider this a high priority for their organisation12a; whereas algorithmic management presents new challenges for the future of work and generates excessive speed, pressure and control on workers, that increase the risk of work-related psychosocial risk factors; whereas new digital economy must be regulated to foster shared prosperity and ensure the wellbeing of society at large; __________________ 12a https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/dig italisation-and-occupational-safety-and- health-eu-osha-research-programme

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas under EU occupational health and safety regulations, employers have the duty to protect workers’ safety and health in all aspects of work; whereas the reference to psychosocial risks is not explicitly referred to in the EU legal OSH framework; whereas Member States do not share legally binding common standards and principles regarding psychosocial risks, which leads to de facto unequal legal protections for workers;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)

Fc. whereas inaccessible digital environments can cause distress, frustration and further fatigue for many workers with disabilities having a negative impact on their mental health, and the obligation of providing reasonable accommodation also applies in digital workplaces;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)

Fd. whereas stable employment, health (including mental health), conditions for full development, and young people’s sense of influence and involvement are the basic preconditions for exiting the crisis, strengthening societies and rebuilding economies;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F e (new)

Fe. whereas ensuring the health and safety of workers throughout their careers is a precondition for a balanced working life and active ageing;

Amendment 79 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Recital F f (new)

Ff. whereas, in many set-ups, workers’ well-being is businesses’ core concern;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 c (new)

— having regard to the Council Conclusions of June 2020 on Well-being at work,

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F g (new)

Fg. whereas there are multiple occupational risk factors resulting from having AI systems managing work such as algorithms; whereas workers are concerned about the amount of personal data companies collect about them; whereas the feeling of being permanently observed is a risk factor in itself; whereas invasive technological control and lack of privacy can cause various psychosocial risks such as techno-stress, techno- anxiety, techno-fatigue or burnout; whereas Directive89/391/EEC states that ‘The employer shall have the duty to ensure the safety and health of the workers in every aspect related to the work’ and companies are obliged to perform assessments of occupational risks, i.e., the risks to workers’ safety and health from workplace hazards; whereas such assessments involve a systematic examination of all aspects of work, looking at what could cause injury or harm, whether the hazards can be eliminated and, if not, what preventive or protective measures are, or should be in place, to control the risks;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F h (new)

Fh. whereas there is a risk of certain workers being coerced into working remotely on a permanent basis, particularly older workers and workers with disabilities, as a way of avoiding making workplaces accessible; whereas these categories are already at increased risk of social exclusion and the mental health problems that come from being cut off from the community around them; whereas it must therefore be ensured that remote working is a choice and not an obligation;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F i (new)

Fi. whereas high rates of workers are moving to platform work, non-traditional work or atypical employment; whereas those workers may be subjected to increased psychosocial risks at work because of unpredictable working hours, job instability, lack of clarity in working relations, abusive control and surveillance as well as isolation;

Amendment 83 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Ilana CICUREL, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Michal ŠIMEČKA, Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Motion for a resolution
Recital F j (new)

Fj. whereas in 2020, 11% of individuals between 55 and 64 have never used the internet; whereas the pandemic and telework context has put under particular stress workers who lack basic digital skills22a; __________________ 22a Eurostat

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F k (new)

Fk. whereas according to the 13a OECD , around 39% of workers suddenly shifted to telework at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number increased afterwards; whereas people who regularly work from home are more than twice as likely to work in excess of the requisite maximum 48 hours per week; whereas almost 30 % of teleworkers report working in their free time every day or several times a week; whereas the risk of suffering work-related mental illnesses is directly associated with an increased workload and pressure, excessive working hours and unhealthy work-life balance; whereas there are gender differences in the use of telework and women are at higher risk of suffering the negative consequences of working remotely; __________________ 13a https://read.oecd- ilibrary.org/view/?ref=1094_1094455- bukuf1f0cm&title=Tackling-the-mental- health-impact-of-the-COVID-19-crisis- An-%20integrated-whole-of-society- response.%20

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F l (new)

Fl. whereas telework can blur existing lines between work and private life, implying higher work intensity and control; whereas the increase in working hours and blurring professional and personal boundaries may exacerbate online harassment even further; whereas harassment and bullying have a severe impact on workers mental health;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F m (new)

Fm. whereas, according to an ILO research14a, violence and harassment may have consequences on both physical and mental well-being, and increase stress levels, often considered a psychosocial hazard itself; whereas, in turn, stress can lead to frustration and anger, and thus be itself an antecedent of violence and harassment at work; whereas, in many cases, psychosocial risks that cause stress are also factors that contribute to violence at the workplace; whereas, in particular, bullying is likely to prevail in stressful working environments where workers are exposed to high levels of interpersonal conflict and noxious leadership styles; whereas those who experience violence and harassment at work may suffer such severe trauma to their mental health, well- being and self-esteem that they may never recover; __________________ 14a https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---ed_protect/---protrav/--- safework/documents/publication/wcms_75 1832.pdf

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Regrets that during the COVID-19 pandemic, worker’s mental health has been affected by many factors ~~including education, health, economic, employment and social inclusion policies and poverty; calls for mental health to urgently be tackled by cross-sectional polici~~and stressors such as financial insecurity, fear to unemployment, insufficient health and safety protections, technostress, isolation, high work intensity and control, lack of conciliation and the increase of working hours; calls on the Commission for the protection of worker’s mental health that should be an integral part of OSH preparedness plans to prevent for future health crises;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Regrets that during the COVID-19 pandemic mental health has been affected by many factors including education, health, economic, employment and social inclusion policies ~~and poverty~~, poverty, social support and more limited access to treatment; calls for mental health to urgently be tackled by cross-sectional ~~policie~~and integrated policies, as part of a comprehensive EU Mental Health Strategy that is supplemented by national action plans;

Amendment 89 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Regrets that during the COVID-19 pandemic mental health has been affected by many factors including education, health, economic, employment and social inclusion policies, inadequate work organisation and teleworking arrangements and poverty; calls for mental health to urgently be tackled by cross- sectional policies;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 17 February 2022 entitled Empowering European youth: post-pandemic employment and social recovery

Amendment 90 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Believes that excessive COVID-19 restrictions from the EU and national governments have contributed significantly to the deterioration of mental wellbeing in the workplace; considers, in particular, that vaccination requirements to maintain gainful employment in some Member States is both immoral and unjustified and has undoubtedly exacerbated the mental wellbeing of unvaccinated employees;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis ~~have caused a huge strain on the well-being of EU citizens, with higher rates of stress, anxi~~, together with the use of new digital technologies have caused a huge strain on the well-being of EU workers, with an increasing prevalence of work-related psychosocial risks; highlights that supporting the mental health of workers and reversing the causes of work related stress is fundamental for the workers long term health perspective, their integration in the labour markety a~~nd depression~~s well as for the well-functioning of the public services and the economy;

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis have caused a huge strain on the well-being of EU citizens and workers, particularly self-employed and platform workers, with higher rates of stress, anxiety and depression;

Amendment 93 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis have caused a huge strain on the well-being of EU citizens, with higher rates of stress, anxiety and depression; , particularly among young people23a; __________________ 23a Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), Supporting young people’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis, 2021

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis have caused a huge strain on the ~~well-being~~mental health of EU citizens, with higher rates of stress, anxiety and depression;

Amendment 95 #

José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to prioritise mental health in the upcoming European care strategy; underlines that the link between socioeconomic factors, such as unemployment, housing insecurity, mental health and wellbeing, must be addressed to ensure a holistic and comprehensive approach towards mental health at EU level; highlights that uncertainty about the future, including the impact of climate change, is having a detrimental effect on the mental health, especially on youth; calls on the Member States, therefore, to make mental health an integral part of the EU’s socioeconomic recovery from the pandemic and an occupational health priority, in particular in educational and workplace environments;

Amendment 96 #

Jordi CAÑAS, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Michal ŠIMEČKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the transition from education to work, and can therefore cause high levels of stress, anxiety and uncertainty for young people at the beginning of their careers, also likely to worsen their employment prospects and feed into their mental health and wellbeing issues in a vicious cycle; calls for strengthened mental health support, including from public employment services, to address the wellbeing of unemployed persons;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Regrets that mental health has not had the priority awarded to physical health, has been deprived of funds and has been short of qualified staff across Member States, despite the intrinsic benefits associated with improved health and wellbeing and the large economic productivity gains and higher levels of work participation that derive from investments in public mental health; believes that rapid actions are needed to improve the current situation;

Amendment 98 #