2023/2116(INI) European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2024/03/11
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2024/03/11
Progress: Awaiting Parliament's vote
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | EMPL |
PÎSLARU Dragoş ( Renew)
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ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( EPP),
GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ Lina ( S&D),
PETER-HANSEN Kira Marie ( Verts/ALE),
BILDE Dominique ( ID),
RUOHONEN-LERNER Pirkko ( ECR),
RODRÍGUEZ PALOP Eugenia ( GUE/NGL)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57Subjects
Events
2024/03/11
Indicative plenary sitting date
2024/02/22
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2024/02/22
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2024/02/14
EP - Vote in committee
2024/01/16
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2023/12/07
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2023/07/12
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2023/06/29
EP - PÎSLARU Dragoş (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0050/2024
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0050/2024
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE757.976
- Committee draft report: PE757.055
- Committee draft report: PE757.055
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE757.976
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0050/2024
Activities
- Angel DZHAMBAZKI
Plenary Speeches (0)
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 217 |
2023/2116(INI)
2024/01/16
EMPL
217 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 a (new) – having regard to the Council Recommendation of 27 November 2023 on developing social economy framework conditions;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 c (new) – having regard to Eurofound and EEA (2023), Green, clean and keen to converge? A convergence analysis of environmental quality of life in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that some of the aims of sustainable economic growth must be to ensure an inclusive socio-ecological and digital transformation of our economies to prevent social, economic, digital and environmental imbalances by fighting poverty, reducing inequalities and creating decent jobs with adequate wages and working conditions, while ensuring alignment with the
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that some of the aims of sustainable economic growth must be to ensure an inclusive socio-ecological and digital transformation of our economies to prevent social, economic, digital and environmental imbalances by fighting poverty, reducing inequalities and creating decent jobs with adequate wages and working conditions, while ensuring alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals and the EPSR, as well as to strengthen economic
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls on the Commission to present a governance framework to anticipate ex ante and manage changes related to the green and just transition taking into account both regional and gender perspective in order to preserve jobs with social safeguards to avoid redundancies and deterioration of working conditions and to strongly involve trade unions in each step of the decision-making process, with mandatory rules on timely and quality information, consultation and participation, including by promoting collective bargaining on the anticipation and social management of change;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that the European Semester should remain focussed on objective, economic criteria, avoiding any kind of subjectivity;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Calls on the Commission to a better assessment of the distributional impact of existing and new policies and reforms monitored through the European Semester process and to set up ex ante and ex post distributional impact assessment requirements for national reform programmes and synergy with Cohesion and Regional Policy;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Suggests that, if EU institutions and authorities wish to incorporate a Social Semester with due regard to social policy competences as derived from the EU primary law, they should do so without adding subjectivity or ambiguity to the European Semester;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Calls for EU action to ensure the right for all to high quality and inclusive lifelong learning, at no cost to workers and during working time, which combats gender stereotypes and contributes to the inclusion of women in the green and digital sectors where they are currently still under-represented;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of regional innovation in the up-to-
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of up-to- date monitoring of the labour market and of supply and demand for skills at the occupational, sectoral and regional level to assist in the identification and forecasting of relevant occupational and transversal skills needs; stresses that anticipating and better matching the skills of the workforce to the labour market needs leads to more resilient economies in view of the future economy shocks which require active labour market policies;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 d (new) – having regard Eurofound (2023), Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Stresses that employers place unrealistic expectations on young people when entering the labour market, expecting them to have qualifications and work experience that, on average, a young person today can only acquire by the age of 30-35; recommends that employers should consider internships and traineeships, as well as various relevant student jobs, as work experience, and that the various secondary and higher education systems should emphasise practice-oriented, competency-based education;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Recommends that Member States respect nationals and legal residents for the allocation of public subsidies, including housing, health and schooling;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and subsidised education and training, including in areas linked to skills and competences that are in demand in
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and subsidised education and training in areas linked to skills and competences that are in demand in labour markets and future-oriented sectors according to local and regional needs, including though the recognition of an individual right to training during working time and free of charge for workers; further stresses the need to address
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and subsidised education and training in areas linked to skills and competences that are in demand in labour markets and future-oriented sectors according to local and regional needs; further stresses the need to address skills mismatches and labour market shortages as well as inequalities and discrimination; underlines the need to ensure that workers are ready for the green and digital transitions, that they can benefit from opportunities for new employment or career progression and that training and education programmes are aligned with the needs of the planet, the economy and society of the future;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and subsidised education and training in areas linked to skills and competences that are in demand in labour markets and future-oriented sectors according to local and regional needs; further stresses the need to address skills mismatches and labour market shortages; underlines the need to ensure that workers are ready for the green and digital transitions, that they can benefit from opportunities for new employment or career progression and that training and education programmes are aligned with the needs of the
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and subsidised education and training in areas linked to skills and competences that are in demand in labour markets and future-oriented sectors according to local and regional needs; further stresses the need to address skills mismatches and labour market shortages; underlines the need to ensure that workers are ready for the
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need to invest significantly in people and to offer quality, inclusive and subsidised education and training in areas linked to skills and competences that are in demand in labour markets and future-oriented sectors according to local and regional needs; further stresses the need to address skills mismatches and labour market shortages; underlines the need to ensure that workers are ready for the
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 e (new) – having regard Eurofound (2023), Measures to tackle labour shortages: Lessons for future policy, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Recalls the role of social partners, working jointly with governments and training providers, to identify existing skills needs and forecast future ones and to match these with the content and supply of training; highlights the need for a clear definition and associated training for green jobs and skills;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls on Member States to ensure that all skills trainings are adapted to the capacities and desires of individuals and tailor-made for groups in vulnerable situations, such as NEETs (not in education, employment or training) and older workers;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. emphasizes that immigration is not a solution, and that our efforts to remedy shortages must focus on training unemployed young people in Europe.
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need to consider the distribution of quality employment in society due to the prevalence of poverty and social exclusion among certain groups in order to better design tailored activation and inclusion policies; stresses the importance of devoting particular attention to the younger generation, which still faces difficulties entering the labour market, and to children who are at a higher risk of falling into poverty and social exclusion; insists, in that respect, on the need to better assess the impact of current policies, with the aim of enhancing Member States’ capacity to foster upward social convergence; underlines the important role of work time reduction to guarantee an equal redistribution of work and a fair digital and green transition, addressing their labour market consequences and skills needs and contributing to reduce emissions while improving work-life balance and workers well-being, also in terms of mental health and the promotion of gender equality; calls on the Member States, in consultation with the social partners, to explore a general reduction of working hours towards a 32-hour work week with no loss of pay; calls on the Commission to monitor and evaluate the impact of those measures, and to contribute to the sharing of best practices among Member States in order to stimulate the implementation of similar initiatives all across the EU; invites the Commission to study the feasibility of European initiatives of this type;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need to
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need to consider the distribution of quality employment in society due to the prevalence of poverty and social exclusion among certain groups in order to better design tailored activation and inclusion policies; calls on Commission to learn from the many initiatives across the EU in tackling long- term unemployment such as through a job guarantee; stresses the importance of devoting particular attention to the younger generation, which still faces difficulties entering the labour market, and to children who are at a higher risk of falling into poverty and social exclusion; insists, in that respect, on the need to better assess the impact of current policies, with the aim of enhancing Member States’ capacity to foster upward social convergence, on the basis of achievements of a progressive economic convergence;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need to consider the distribution of quality employment in society due to the prevalence of poverty and social exclusion among certain groups, such as Romany people, in order to better design tailored activation and inclusion policies;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need to consider the distribution of quality employment in society due to the prevalence of poverty and social exclusion among certain groups in order to better design tailored activation and inclusion policies; stresses the importance of devoting particular attention to the younger generation, which still faces difficulties entering the labour market, and to children who are at a higher risk of falling into poverty and social exclusion; insists, in that respect, on the need to better assess the impact of current policies, with the aim of enhancing Member States’ capacity to foster upward
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses that the cost of living crisis makes the child guarantee, the Reinforced Youth Guarantee and the EU Disability Rights Strategy even more important to be implemented at national level; calls on the Commission to be more active in combating poverty, especially child poverty and in-work poverty; calls on the Member States to swiftly implement their National Action Plan on the EU Child Guarantee, and to ensure the availability of affordable, accessible and quality social services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of- school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, as a necessary condition for ensuring equality;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls on the Member States to invest in safely transitioning people from informal employment to formal employment and in preventing false self- employment and to collaborate with the ELA to sanction employers who violate the law, offer incentives to employers to hire workers on formal contracts, grant secure and sustainable residence status, and expand regularisation possibilities for informal workers;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 f (new) – having regard Eurofound (2023), Job quality of COVID-19 pandemic essential workers, European Working Conditions Telephone Survey series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls on Member States to ensure that all skills trainings are adapted to the capacities and desires of individuals and tailor-made for groups in vulnerable situations, such as NEETs (not in education, employment or training) and older workers;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Highlights the demographic aging across the Union, and urges Member States to enact policies aimed at safeguarding and boosting birth rates;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Considers that an extraordinary EU action to protect jobs and incomes, including pensions, with decisive measures to address the social dimension of the cost-of-living crisis is needed. Introducing an European framework to promote upwards convergence on wages is key, defining a path towards equal pay for work of equal value with regard to wages paid to workers in different countries and guaranteeing a swift and ambitious transposition and implementation of the Directive on Gender Pay Transparency at national level leading to a re-evaluation of work predominantly done by women;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Recognises the potential benefits of reskilling programs for elderly individuals, enabling opportunities for reskilling the elderly populace could significantly contribute to the welfare system by allowing them to remain active in the job market, fostering a more fulfilling life, and mitigating the economic impacts associated with aging societies; stresses that this strategic approach not only supports a longer and more productive engagement in the workforce by older individuals but also contributes positively to social and economic well-being, thereby reinforcing the welfare system;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Stresses that to tackle high housing costs and ensure quality accommodation, it will be crucial for policymakers to address the regulatory set-up and policies for renting, as well as reviewing housing services and increasing housing supply;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 c (new) 4 c. Believes that gender equality policies must be anchored and mainstreamed in all phases of economic governance; stresses the need to ensure gender equality, non-discrimination and social equality in employment relationships; calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the feminisation of poverty in all its forms, particularly by improving working conditions in feminised sectors; highlights that highlights that many groups of critical workers work in occupations and sectors are highly imbalanced in terms of gender; stresses that the improvement of job quality and the development of sustainable work practices is key to supporting the creation of a more diverse workforce and enlarging the pool of potential workers;1f calls for the strengthening of gender-sensitive policies at the EU level, essential to ensure that the impact of the cost of living crisis does not widen gender inequality; _________________ 1f Eurofound 2023 - Job quality of COVID-19 pandemic essential workers
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 c (new) 4 c. Deems it necessary to ensure strong investments in care and to create a high quality public infrastructure of inclusive and non-profit care services and provide high quality jobs in public care service, as well as to develop a new social organisation of care, gender-responsive, for combating unequal distribution of caring responsibilities while providing opportunities and high-quality jobs in all territories;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Recalls that the creation of good- quality jobs and the implementation of retention strategies are the best ways to attract a skilled workforce and calls on employers to invest in their workers; highlights that recruitment difficulties and labour shortages are particularly prevalent in sectors with challenging working conditions and poor job quality; highlights that creating high-quality, well-paid jobs that improve quality of life is therefore crucial; highlights that staff shortages or unattractive jobs are considered key challenges by at least one side of the industry in five critical sectors: hospitals and healthcare, education, food and drinks, industrial cleaning, and local and regional government, with difficult working conditions being mentioned as one of the main causes of these challenges; stresses the need for Member States to rapidly and effectively ensure a decent standard of living, reduce in-work poverty, and promote social cohesion;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Recalls that the creation of good- quality jobs and the implementation of retention strategies are the best ways to attract a skilled workforce and calls on employers to invest in their workers; highlights that recruitment difficulties and labour shortages are particularly prevalent in sectors with challenging working conditions and poor job quality which one affects especially to youth, women and migrants; highlights that creating high- quality, well-paid jobs that improve quality of life is therefore crucial especially in the care sector; highlights that of the 11 groups of workers identified by Eurofound as essential to the functioning of critical services, six experienced poorer than average job quality with health and care workers being exposed to the poorest job quality overall;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Recalls that the creation of good- quality jobs and the implementation of retention strategies are the best ways to attract a skilled workforce and
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 g (new) – having regard Eurofound (2023), Bridging the rural–urban divide: Addressing inequalities and empowering communities, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Underlines the need to facilitate the recognition of skills and qualifications of third country nationals and their integration into the labour market while further ensuring fair working conditions for third-country nationals, who are easily victims of abusive and exploitive practices due to their vulnerable situation;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Stresses the need for Member States to rapidly and effectively implement the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages in this regard to achieve a decent standard of living, reduce in-work poverty, and promote social cohesion;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission to propose new initiatives on mental health, to prevent and manage the psychosocial risks at work and ensure the well-being of workers;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a framework directive setting quality standards for national minimum income systems, on basis of the Council Recommendation of 30 January 2023 on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion; tailor- made measures are needed to increase the adequacy, effectiveness and coverage of the minimum income according to the Porto anti-poverty strategy;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure a fair, rights- based approach to migration and asylum, taking into account that all workers, regardless of nationality, should be treated equally and have their rights respected;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. Reminds that the future of the single market and of global competition should go hand in hand with Cohesion Policy. Twin transitions could give raise to new layer of regional disparities if not properly addressed, therefore investments in infrastructure capacities in less developed regions are needed so that they could profit from EU Funds and Policies, giving labour opportunities to their citizens;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Supports the increase of EU funds dedicated to social objectives and the promotion of future-oriented investments focused on the just green and digital transitions, with a strong social dimension, including gender equality and equal access to essential services, such as education, health and digital infrastructure; stresses that financial instruments at all levels must become less fragmented and more blended and bundled; stresses the need to introduce social conditionality in the rules for allocation of EU funds; calls on the Commission to consider revising the Public Procurement Directive to further strengthen the social clause;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Supports the increase of EU funds dedicated to social objectives and the promotion of future-oriented investments focused on the just green and digital transitions, with a strong social dimension, including gender equality, equal opportunities for groups at higher risk of poverty and social exclusion, and equal access to essential services and social services, such as education, health and healthcare, social services affordable housing, and digital infrastructure; stresses that financial instruments at all levels must become less fragmented and more blended and bundled;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Supports the increase of EU funds dedicated to social objectives and the promotion of future-oriented investments focused on social protection, social services and the just green and digital transitions, with a strong social dimension, including gender equality and equal access to essential services, such as education, health, affordable housing and digital infrastructure; stresses that financial instruments at all levels must become less fragmented and more blended and bundled;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 h (new) – having regard Eurofound, 2023 - Fit for 55 climate package: Impact on EU employment by 2030
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Supports the
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Supports the increase of EU funds dedicated to social objectives and the promotion of future-oriented investments focused on the just green and digital transitions, with a strong social dimension, including gender equality and equal access to essential services, such as basic utilities, education, health and digital infrastructure; stresses that financial instruments at all levels must become less fragmented and more blended and bundled;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Supports the increase of EU funds dedicated to social objectives and the promotion of future-oriented investments focused on the just green and digital transitions, with a strong social dimension, including
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. calls on the Commission to consider revising the Public Procurement Directive to further strengthen the social clause and ensure that benefiting companies and sub-contractors support collective bargaining and respect workers’ rights, high-quality jobs, high-quality apprenticeships, decent and equal pay, and training; urges the Commission to promote collective bargaining, democracy at work, and social dialogue through the European Semester, and specifically in the country-specific recommendations, in order to ensure sustainable, decent wages through collective bargaining;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the Commission to propose long-term solutions to deal with abusive sub-contracting practices introducing a European regulation on decent work in subcontracting chains to guarantee for instance joint and several liability in sub-contacting chains, the proper verification of self-declarations by the economic operators, and by the limitation of sub-contracting chains, strengthening work stability, guaranteeing workers’ equal treatment and supporting trade unions and worker representatives along the entire subcontracting chain;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the Member States to swiftly implement their National Action Plan on the EU Child Guarantee, and to ensure the availability of affordable, accessible and quality social services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, as a necessary condition for ensuring equality;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Highlights the need to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens for companies, especially for SMEs and start- ups, while maintaining the highest standards of consumer protection;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Calls on the Member States to swiftly implement their National Action Plan on the EU Child Guarantee, and to ensure the availability of affordable, accessible and quality social services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, as a necessary condition for ensuring equality;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Calls on the Member States to implement the Social Economy Action Plan to promote decent and inclusive work, sustainability and the circular economy, and to support social economy organisations;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Recalls the crucial need for EU funding initiatives that support industry and sovereignty to ensure long term, sustainable growth as well as shared prosperity; considers also essential relevant aspects to be integrated in any future funding instrument: - Social and environmental justice as guiding principles in order to make the EU more resilient - Strong focus on workers: any investment should create good-paying jobs to lift up the low and middle classes and bring tangible benefits to communities that are often overlooked and left behind - Environmental Justice: ensure fair distribution of the benefits and profits of the investments and redistribution of the projects, benefiting notably vulnerable - Implementation of the territorial dimension, taking into account differences and integrating them in order to move towards effective convergence in Europe - Mainstreaming a gender equality perspective to improve the gender- responsiveness of public policy
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 i (new) – having regard Eurofound, 2023 Intergenerational inequalities: How to close the gaps?
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 d (new) 6 d. Believes that a European program supporting local initiatives on the creation of direct jobs would provide employment opportunities for the long-term unemployed through a state-run programme for job seekers unable to find opportunities in the open labour market. On the basis of a territorial approach and a bottom-up strategy with social dialogue and the involvement of other actors in each region, this programme could respond to unmet needs of the territory, with a new inclusive definition and avoiding gender stereotypes;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers that EU fiscal rules should allow for the necessary public investment and financing of the just transition to a zero-carbon economy, as well as for the
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers that EU fiscal rules should allow for the necessary public investment and financing of the just transition to a zero-carbon economy, as well as for the proper implementation of the principles of the EPSR and of social investments; stresses that, although there is a need to reduce public debt within a reasonable time frame, smaller or more indebted Member States need more flexible individual adjustment paths that allow them enough fiscal space to undertake the investments and reforms needed for socially fair green and digital transitions in a way that leaves no one behind; new EU fiscal rules should incorporate reforms efforts to potential output projections, make the fiscal framework coherent with the green and digital transitions, prevent contractionary austerity and taking into account that fiscal consolidations do not reduce debt to GDP ratios, partly because their negative impact on growth outweighs savings;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers that EU fiscal rules should allow for the
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers that EU fiscal rules should allow for the necessary public investment and financing of the just transition to a zero-carbon economy,
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers th
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Recognize the role of social protection in addressing the social risks and challenges posed by both climate change and digitalization; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and enhance sustainable, comprehensive and shock responsive social protection systems to support a just transition towards a sustainable future for all, and to integrate them in climate and digital policies and plans by formulating accompanying policies through social protection, including unemployment benefits, skills training and upgrading, workforce redeployment and other appropriate measures to support workers in sectors negatively impacted by the transition to sustainable development;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a proposal to revamp SURE in order to support short-time work schemes, workers’ income and workers who would be temporarily laid off in the context of the green and digital transitions; calls on the Member States to consider making use of employment guarantee schemes to enhance resilience to climate change and automation while creating new productive and sustainable assets and invites the Commission to consider the making a proposal for a European initiative of this type;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to undertake reforms and make investments that have a social impact and contribute to the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as contribute to the implementation of the EPSR through their national recovery and resilience plans, their future medium term fiscal-structural plans, and national action plans for the implementation of the EU Child Guarantee; calls, in this sense, for a mainstreaming of the EPSR in all EU funds through the introduction of social conditionality in their allocation rules, as part of the Financial Regulation
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 j (new) – having regard Eurofound 2023: Right to disconnect: Implementation and impact at company level
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to undertake reforms and make investments that have a social impact and contribute to the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as contribute to the implementation of the EPSR through their national recovery and resilience plans and national action plans for the implementation of the EU Child Guarantee; calls, in this sense, for a mainstreaming of the EPSR in all EU funds through the introduction of social conditionality in their allocation rules, as part of the Financial Regulation1 covering the EU general budget;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to undertake reforms and make investments that have a social impact and contribute to the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and sustainable and inclusive growth
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to undertake reforms and make investments that have a social impact and contribute to the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as contribute to the implementation of the EPSR through their national recovery and resilience plans;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to undertake reforms and make investments that have a social impact and contribute to the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as contribute to the implementation of the EPSR through their national recovery and resilience plans; calls, in this sense, for a mainstreaming of the EPSR in all EU funds through the
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to undertake reforms and make investments that have a social impact and contribute to the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and sustainable and inclusive
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the adequacy of pensions through the European Semester, strengthening EU action to promote robust welfare social systems; calls in that regard on Member States to improved access to pensions for people working on non-standard contracts and to include compensation for unpaid care work in their pension systems, for example through the provision of pension rights for care-related career breaks in pension schemes; calls on Member States to guarantee adequate pension indexation to keep pace with inflation as well as the availability of services to the older population, in particular healthcare and long-term care, and to assess the adequacy of minimum pensions, ensuring a decent standard of living for older people by increasing basic or minimum pensions and survivor pensions; underlines in this regard the need to set objective mechanisms and criteria for the setting and revalorisation of minimum pensions to ensure that they are high enough for a decent life;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Highlight that place-based innovation policies transform and empower regions to tackle and profit from the twin Green and Digital transitions; insists that it is essential to mark the future of Cohesion Fund;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Takes note of the Commission’s proposals for new regulations within the revision of the economic governance framework of April 2023 to strengthen debt sustainability and enhance sustainable and inclusive growth through investment and reforms, including fiscal adjustment paths that allow for social investment; calls on the Commission to assess which expenditures and investments are necessary to achieve the long-term socioeconomic objectives required to comply with
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Takes note of the Commission’s proposals for new regulations within the revision of the economic governance framework of April 2023 to strengthen debt sustainability and enhance sustainable and inclusive growth through investment and reforms, including fiscal adjustment paths that allow for social investment;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Takes note of the Commission’s proposals for new regulations within the revision of the economic governance framework of April 2023 to strengthen debt sustainability and enhance sustainable and inclusive
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 k (new) – having regard Eurofound 2023 - Societal implications of labour market instability;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Takes note of the Commission’s proposals for new regulations within the revision of the economic governance framework of April 2023 to strengthen debt sustainability and its reduction and enhance sustainable and inclusive economic growth through investment and reforms, including fiscal adjustment paths that allow for social investment; calls on the Commission to assess which expenditures, reforms and investments are necessary to achieve the long-term socioeconomic objectives required to comply with milestones in the national recovery and resilience plans; calls on the Commission to propose a new system for excessive deficit calculations based on this assessment in order to increase fairness during the green and digital transitions, social resilience and the implementation of the EPSR, while ensuring the sustainability of public finances in the Member States and with compliance of the Stability and Growth Pact;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Takes note of the Commission’s proposals for new regulations within the revision of the economic governance framework of April 2023 to strengthen debt sustainability and enhance sustainable and inclusive growth through investment and reforms, includingfiscal adjustment paths that allow for social investment; calls on the Commission to assess which expenditures and investments are necessary to achieve the long-term socioeconomic objectives required to comply with milestones in the national recovery and resilience plans; calls on the Commission to propose a new system for excessive deficit calculations based on this assessment in order to increase fairness during the
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Calls on the Commission to study in depth the phenomenon of bogus self - employment in all its sectors, its seriousness and impact and calls on the Member States to fully support an effective application of the employment presumption in platform work and to extend this presumption to all sectors;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU social funds, in particular what is necessary for Member States' national recovery and resilience building plans, are made available to all Member States on equal terms and to stop withholding social and cohesion funds without justification;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9 b. Calls for a general EU legal framework on subcontracting to limit the length of the subcontracting chain and ensure joint and several liability of companies for the recruitment and working conditions of workers; Calls for a revision of the EU public procurement rules to align with this new framework and for the introduction of strong social conditionality linked to all forms of public funding to promote quality jobs and gender equality;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to develop an economic governance architecture in the EU based on transparency, accountability, solidarity, integration, social justice, convergence, gender equality, high-quality public services, including a quality public education system for all, quality employment and sustainable development; Point out that the regional balance is key in this new economic governance architecture in the EU and that the regional innovation partnership should be a lever;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to develop a
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to develop an economic governance architecture in the EU based on transparency, accountability, solidarity, integration, social justice, convergence, gender equality, high-quality public and social services, including a quality public education and training system for all, quality employment and sustainable development;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to develop an economic governance architecture in the EU based on transparency, accountability, solidarity, integration, social justice, convergence,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 a (new) – having regard to the informal joint declaration by Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands and Sweden, presented at the Porto Social Summit in May 2021, calling for respect for "national autonomy in social policies
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Strongly urges the Commission and Member States to implement robust and decisive measures in combating both tax avoidance and tax fraud; highlights that addressing these issues is paramount not only in diminishing economic disparities but also in bolstering the overall collection of tax revenue within the Member States; highlights that by prioritising these actions, we can significantly contribute to fostering greater economic equality and enhancing the integrity of tax systems across the Union;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Reminds the need to enhance strong social protection systems, universal and adequate, to provide a decent standard of living for people with social risks, such as old age, sicknness, unemployment, etc. as a pillar of the European social and economic model and the European social welfare state;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the fact that, in order to promote upward social convergence, the multilateral surveillance procedure set out in Article 148(4) TFEU has been, for the first time, complemented by an early warning system within the European Semester through a social convergence framework that could encourage the correction of risks to social convergence identified through the Social Scoreboard headline indicators and through social convergence reports published by the Commission and the European Parliament reports, such as Women's Poverty in Europe and The gender aspects of the rising cost of living and the impact of the energy crisis; highlights the importance of including social divergence risks in the country-specific recommendations, especially those risks that concern people’s early development and that can have long-
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the fact that, in order to promote upward social convergence, the multilateral surveillance procedure set out in Article 148(4) TFEU has been, for the first time, complemented by an early warning system within the European Semester through a social convergence framework that could encourage the correction of risks to social convergence identified through the Social Scoreboard headline indicators and through social convergence reports published by the Commission; stresses the importance of implementing the Social Convergence Framework as as a permanent feature of the Semester from the 2025 cycle onwards; highlights the importance of including social divergence risks in the country-specific recommendations, especially those risks that concern people’s early development and that can have long- lasting consequences for individuals, such as equal access to quality education and care as well as healthcare, and highlights the importance of taking them into account when defining fiscal adjustment paths and medium term fiscal-structural plans;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Raises the need of a revision and enhancement of the social scoreboard, with the inclusion of relevant indicators, that fully reflect the trends in and causes of inequality, such as indicators on equal opportunities, good-quality employment, wealth distribution, universal access to good-quality public services including energy, water and sanitation, adequate pensions, the homelessness rate, minimum income schemes, occupational diseases (including mental health conditions) and unemployment benefits, as well as indicators measuring the social impact of environmental degradation and climate change;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Calls for progress on the social dimension of EU Taxonomy; highlights that in February 2022 the technical Report from the Commission’s advisory group on Sustainable Finance already highlighted several merits of a social dimension for EU Taxonomy; 1g regrets that, although the EU Taxonomy Regulation 2020/852 mandated the European Commission to publish a report by 31 December 2021 describing the provisions that would be required to extend the scope of the Regulation beyond environmentally sustainable economic activities, such report has not been published yet; _________________ 1g https://finance.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2 022-08/220228-sustainable-finance- platform-finance-report-social- taxonomy_en.pdf
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Calls for the swift implementation of the Pay Transparency Directive; calls on Member States to assess work of equal value in accordance with objective gender-neutral criteria;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 b (new) – having regard the European Parliament report Women's Poverty in Europe (2021/2170(INI))
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas, according to the Commission’s 2023 autumn economic forecast, the EU labour market continued to perform strongly in the first half of 2023, despite the slowdown in economic growth and differences reported across Member States and regions, as well as across sectors; whereas employment growth in the EU is projected at 1.0 % this year, with a projected easing to 0.4 % in both 2024 and 2025; whereas the unemployment rate in the EU is expected to remain broadly stable at 6.0 % in 2023 and 2024 and to edge down to 5.9 % in 2025; whereas gender inequalities in the labour market remain widespread and are reflected in both gender employment and pay gaps; whereas despite some recent improvements, persons with disabilities still face significant barriers in the labour market; whereas young people continue to face challenges integrating into labour markets in many Member States; whereas youth unemployment remains almost three times higher than for the overall working-age population in the EU; whereas the risk of poverty or social exclusion remains greater for women, young adults, people with a low level of educational attainment and for the unemployed;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for a more democratic European Semester process, with Parliament closely involved in setting macroeconomic and social policy priorities, in particular focused in reducing the weight of debt sustainability analysis to overriding national government decisions lacking democratic legitimacy; considers that a revised European Semester process should follow the ordinary legislative procedure and so be agreed on between the Council and Parliament; underlines that the European Parliament is called upon to increase the transparency and the accountability for the decisions on macroeconomic and social policy priorities that shall be channelled through a special working group including national and European Parliament representatives;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for a more democratic European Semester process, with Parliament closely involved in setting macroeconomic and social policy priorities as well as in the taking of socio-economic governance decisions, in particular; considers that a revised European Semester process should follow the ordinary legislative procedure and so be agreed on between the Council and Parliament; calls to strengthen the European Semester by codifying it into a standalone EU regulation that could define the Semester and its thematic objectives and give more weight to the process, by also setting quality standards for stakeholder consultation in the regulation, explicitly including civil society and social economy actors;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for a more democratic European Semester process, with Parliament closely involved in setting macroeconomic and social policy priorities, in particular;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for a transformed and more democratic European Semester process, with Parliament closely involved in setting macroeconomic and social policy priorities, in particular; considers that a revised European Semester process should follow the ordinary legislative procedure and so be agreed on between the Council and Parliament;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Calls for a more democratic Semester process, paying attention to those sections of the population that feel excluded and disengaged, posing a threat to trust in national government and in the EU, especially among low-income and rural populations;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. calls for the European semester process to be abandoned, leaving the Member States free to act on their own social and employment policies
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Reconfirms the role of social partners in strengthening social dialogue and considers that the revision of the European Semester process should promote further dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, in particular
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas, according to the Commission’s 2023 autumn economic forecast, the EU labour market continued to perform strongly in the first half of 2023, despite the slowdown in economic growth; whereas employment growth in the EU is projected at 1.0 % this year, with a projected easing to 0.4 % in both 2024 and 2025; whereas the unemployment rate in the EU is expected to remain broadly stable at 6.0 % in 2023
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Reconfirms the role of social partners in strengthening social dialogue and considers that the revision of the European Semester process should promote further dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, in particular relevant social partners and civil society organisations, on the main policy issues where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the TFEU and national legal and political arrangements; considers that it is necessary to assess the social dialogue impact and respect and suggests to introduce an alert mechanism to report when Member States have not lived up to their commitments in this regard;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Reconfirms the role of social partners in strengthening social dialogue and considers that the revision of the European Semester process should promote further dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, in particular relevant social partners and civil society organisations, on the main policy issues where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the TFEU and national legal and political arrangements and emphasises the importance of transparency and dialogue in the process, and underlines that the needs of Member States should be better considered and integrated into this process;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Reconfirms the role of social partners in strengthening social dialogue and considers that the revision of the European Semester process should promote further structured and meaningful dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, in particular relevant social partners and civil society organisations, on the main policy issues where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the TFEU and national legal and political arrangements;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Reconfirms the role of social partners in strengthening social dialogue and considers that the revision of the European Semester process should promote further dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, in particular
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Notes that critical occupations that are currently suffering from labour shortages, such as jobs in health and care, can be made more attractive to workers by improving job quality and bringing their pay into line with their value to society; Underlines that the EU’s capacity to deal with future shocks, crises and polycrises while navigating the demographic, digital and green transitions will depend greatly on the conditions under which critical workers will be able to perform their work;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a mandatory EU ‘Youth Test’ so that all EU legislation and policy is subject to a youth focused impact assessment, consultation with youth, youth organisations and experts focused on youth, and the development of mitigation measures in case a negative impact is identified; calls on the Member states to consider a youth clause assessing the impact of an initiative on young people when putting forward new initiatives across all policy areas;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. is particularly concerned about the revision of the European Semester process, which provides for a broader scope of application and enhanced multilateral surveillance;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas recent studies have shown that social inequality, unemployment and immigration are the main concerns of EU citizens
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas the European Semester includes a macroeconomic imbalance procedure, and a stability and growth pact:
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey for 2024 highlights that despite marked wage increases in the EU in 2022 and the beginning of 2023, these remained below the high inflation rates and resulted in reduced purchasing power, affecting lower incomes the most; whereas despite unprecedented boosts to statutory gross minimum wages, these large nominal increases did not result in significant gains in purchasing power among minimum wages earners in the majority of Member States, confirming that in countries where statutory minimum wages apply, ensuring the purchasing power through taking into account the cost of living as one of the criteria guiding their setting and updating is of vital importance in an inflationary environment1a; whereas real wages in the EU decreased by 3.7 % in 2022, increasing the risk of poverty and in-work poverty; whereas real wages are expected to increase as of next year as a result of continued nominal wage growth and declining inflation; whereas this is combined with adequate and secure housing becoming unaffordable for many.1b _________________ 1a Eurofound (2023), Minimum wages in 2023: Annual review, Minimum wages in the EU series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg 1b Eurofound (2023), Unaffordable and inadequate housing in Europe | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (europa.eu)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey for 2024 highlights that despite marked wage increases in the EU in 2022 and the beginning of 2023, these remained below the high inflation rates and resulted in reduced purchasing power, affecting lower incomes the most; whereas real wages in the EU decreased by 3.7 % in 2022, increasing the risk of in-work poverty; whereas
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey for 2024 highlights that despite marked wage increases in the EU in 2022 and the beginning of 2023, these remained below the high inflation rates and resulted in reduced purchasing power, affecting lower incomes the most; whereas real wages in the EU decreased by 3.7 % in 2022, increasing the risk of in-work poverty; whereas real wages are expected to increase as of next year as a result of continued nominal wage growth and declining inflation; whereas in this context, strong social dialogue and effective collective bargaining, in accordance with national practices, is crucial to achieving an overall wage growth that supports purchasing power, notably of low and middle-wage earners;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey for 2024 highlights that despite marked wage increases in the EU in 2022 and the beginning of 2023, these remained below the high inflation rates and resulted in reduced purchasing power, affecting lower incomes the most; whereas real wages in the EU decreased by 3.7 % in 2022, increasing the risk of in-work poverty; whereas these circumstances especially concern those already vulnerable groups, who live in poverty and social isolation due to, among other factors, low educational attainment and various housing and employment disadvantages; whereas real wages are expected to increase as of next year as a result of continued nominal wage growth and declining inflation;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey for 2024 highlights that despite marked wage increases in the EU in 2022 and the beginning of 2023, these remained below the high inflation rates and resulted in reduced purchasing power, affecting lower incomes the most; whereas real wages in the EU decreased by 3.7 % in 2022, increasing the risk of in-work poverty; whereas real wages are expected to increase as of next year as a result of continued nominal wage growth and declining inflation with country disparities;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas the persistent challenges of the cost of living across all EU Member States, where nearly half of the population faces difficulties in meeting their expenses; whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has exacerbated existing inequalities within the EU, triggering humanitarian, energy, and economic crises; whereas we see the detrimental impact of wide income disparities on both economic growth and social unity; whereas the EU is still facing a surge in the cost of living and the rise in inflation, largely propelled by soaring prices of energy, fuel, food, and essential commodities, precipitating an economic and social crisis throughout Europe;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) – having regard to the European Social Charter (ESC), referred to in the preamble of the EPSR;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas fiscal consolidation can only be fair and sustainable if the distributional impact of reallocated expenditure or shifts in revenues is well calibrated and contributes to reducing social, economic and regional inequalities;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas, energy prices in the EU remain high on average compared to pre- crisis levels and the rest of the world, which jeopardizes the social-economic stability within the EU;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the Commission’s 2023 autumn economic forecast stressed that uncertainty and downside risks to the economic outlook have increased in recent months and that the transmission of monetary tightening may weigh on economic activity for longer and to a larger degree than projected in this forecast, as adjusting the finances of firms, households and governments to the high interest rate environment could prove more challenging; whereas households with flexible rate mortgages are already facing increased costs;1c whereas there remain many gaps in access to unemployment benefits (and minimum income schemes), including among the self-employed and workers with non-standard contracts, and groups of younger people, with 61% of unemployed receiving no benefits or assistance in the EU in 2022.1d _________________ 1c Eurofound (2023), Unaffordable and inadequate housing in Europe | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (europa.eu) 1d Eurofound (2024, forthcoming), Social protection 2.0 - Unemployment and minimum income schemes | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (europa.eu)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the Commission’s 2023 autumn economic forecast stressed that uncertainty and downside risks to the economic outlook have increased in recent months because of Russia's protracted war of aggression against Ukraine and the wider regional consequences of the Hamas' brutal terrorist attacks against Israel and that the transmission of monetary tightening may weigh on economic activity for longer and to a larger degree than projected in this forecast, as adjusting the finances of firms, households and governments to the high interest rate environment could prove more challenging;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas climate change, global warming and biodiversity loss are accelerating exponentially and the consequences of climate breakdown and extreme weather events are being felt more intensely and more frequently than before by EU citizens and workers; whereas 2030 decarbonisation targets have been increased in order to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2050; whereas increased mitigation and adaptation efforts would require the profound transformation of European and national economies and labour markets;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas the European Union's attempts to get rid of nuclear energy, which enables the production of low- carbon energy at an unbeatable cost, sends the wrong signal to the industry, and seriously jeopardizes our energy sovereignty by considerably increasing our dependence on external sources of supply
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the digital and green transitions could have a significant impact on the environment and the people affected, but also on the economy, including the labour market; whereas according to the OECD, overall, 26.7% of the workforce in member countries were in jobs at high risk of automation in 2019; whereas social dialogue and collective bargaining are crucial in such context to ensure a participatory approach to managing change due to technological developments, addressing potential concerns, while fostering workers’ adaptation (including via skills provision); whereas significant further efforts are needed to improve the digital skills of the population, particularly for the low-qualified, older people and non- EU nationals; whereas digitalisation, robotisation, automation and artificial intelligence must benefit workers and society by improving working conditions and quality of life, ensuring a good work- life balance, creating better employment opportunities, and contributing to socioeconomic convergence; whereas workers and their trade unions will play a critical role in anticipating and tackling risks emerging from those challenges;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas twin transitions could give rise to new layer of regional disparities, if not properly addressed; whereas the digital and green transitions could have a significant impact on the environment and the people affected, but also on the economy, including the labour market, the inequalities and the opportunities; whereas the green transition will greatly expand economic activities related to renewable energy, energy efficiency and the circular economy, while transforming other economic activities which can be negatively impacted if the socio-economic dimension is not adequately addressed and necessary investments are not sufficiently and properly designed; whereas the consequences of the ecological transition will be unevenly distributed in the European Union and among its territories; whereas Next Generation EU has addressed the green and digital transitions, primarily affecting sectors and professions which are male- dominated;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the digital and green transitions could have a significant impact on the environment and the people affected, but also on the economy, including the labour market; whereas it is of paramount importance to ensure an inclusive and just green transition, which is not only about training and skills, but should also be about decent work and skills for all EU citizens, coherence of public policies and investment in job creation;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) – having regard to the European Social Charter (ESC), referred to in the preamble of the EPSR,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the digital and green transitions
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the digital and green transitions
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the digital and green transitions could have a significant impact on the environment and the people affected, but also on the economy, including the labour market; whereas decisions taken in the name of transition will have a negative impact on economies, such as the decision to ban the combustion engine by 2035
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas EU climate policies and legislation disproportionately affect the poor and most vulnerable; whereas the extension of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) to the building and transport sectors will push millions more Europeans into fuel poverty;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas Eurofound research shows that the EU’s Fit for 55 climate package of legislation is estimated to lead to a net creation of 204,000 jobs in the EU over the 2019–2030 period;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) D b. whereas Eurofound research shows that both non-permanent contracts and job insecurity are associated with lower trust in other people and a lower perception of fairness; whereas workers on a non-permanent contract and workers with no formal contract are less satisfied with the functioning of democracy in their country, as are people experiencing job insecurity;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy needs to support monetary policy in reducing inflation and needs to safeguard fiscal sustainability, while providing sufficient space for additional investments,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy needs to support monetary policy in
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy needs to support monetary policy in reducing inflation and needs to safeguard fiscal sustainability, while providing sufficient space for additional investments, including investment in social protection, social infrastructure and social services and support for long-term growth and enhancing democracy legitimacy by reducing the weight of debt sustainability analysis and including the reform effort on decision making;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy needs to support monetary policy in
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) – having regard to the Council Recommendation of 30 January 2023 on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy of the Member states needs to support monetary policy in reducing inflation and public debt, and needs to safeguard fiscal sustainability, while providing sufficient space for additional investments, including investments in social protection, quality social infrastructure and social services and support for long-term
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy needs to support monetary policy in reducing inflation and needs to safeguard fiscal sustainability, while providing sufficient space for additional investments, including investment in social infrastructure and services and support for long-term grow
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas with regard to the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact, which expires at the end of 2023, fiscal policy needs to
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the joint employment report for 2024 provides a first assessment of Member States
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the joint employment report for 2024 provides a first assessment of Member States’ state of play on the three headline targets for 2030 and shows: good progress towards the employment target with an employment level of 74.6 %, but with significant differences according to employment stability, quality of working conditions, gender and age; progress by the majority of Member States towards their national poverty reduction targets, but changes in the opposite direction by others; a need for significant progress to reach the EU headline target of 60 % of adults in learning every year in the EU by 2030, from a low level of 37.4 % in 2016;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the joint employment report for 2024 provides a first assessment of Member States’ state of play on the three headline targets for 2030 and shows: good progress towards the employment target with an employment level of 74.6 %, but with significant differences according to gender
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the joint employment report for 2024 provides a first assessment of Member States’ state of play on the three headline targets for 2030 and shows: good progress towards the employment target with an employment level of 74.6 %, but with significant differences according to
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas there were still over 3.300 fatal accidents and almost 3 million non- fatal accidents in the EU-27 in 2021; whereas over 200.000 workers die each year from work-related illnesses; whereas these data do not include all accidents caused by undeclared work, making it plausible to assume that the true numbers greatly exceed the official statistics; whereas in 2017, according to Eurofound, 20% of jobs in Europe were of “poor quality” and put workers at increased risk regarding their physical or mental health; whereas 14% of workers have been exposed to a high level of psychosocial risks; whereas 23% of European workers believe that their safety or their health is at risk because of their work;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas the labour shortage is worsening due to low wages and the unattractiveness of certain professions, and demographic trends mean that nearly 7 million jobs will need to be filled throughout the Union by 2030;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the inclusion of a social convergence framework in the European Semester should foster upward social convergence and should improve the assessment and monitoring of employment and social developments in the Member States and the EU avoiding shorterism by identifying risks to upward convergence for Member States in the joint employment report based on the Social Scoreboard headline indicators and through the Commission’s publication of social convergence reports for those Member States identified as facing risks to upward social convergence; whereas Eurofound convergence analysis shows that AROP and AROPE populations are more impacted by economic downturns and are more vulnerable to energy crisis and inadequate housing; whereas Eurofound research monitoring the progress of the Child Guarantee shows that children in rural areas and living at risk of poverty are more likely to have a less successful academic path and leave education sooner;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (new) – having regard the Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Social Progress Protocol (2023/C 293/09)
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the inclusion of a
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the inclusion of a social convergence framework in
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the inclusion of a social convergence framework in the European Semester should foster upward social convergence and should improve the assessment and monitoring of employment and social developments in the Member States and the EU by identifying risks to upward convergence for Member States in the joint employment report
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the inclusion of a social convergence framework in the European Semester should foster upward social convergence and should improve the assessment and monitoring of employment and social developments in the Member States and the EU by identifying and addressing risks to upward convergence for Member States in the joint employment report based on the Social Scoreboard headline indicators and through the Commission’s publication of social convergence reports for those Member States identified as facing risks to upward social convergence;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas forms of exploitation and abuse of workers in certain sectors, including social fraud, bogus self- employment, posted workers and illegal employment, are leading to an increase in the number of precarious jobs
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas skilled workers that can respond to the demands of the labour market and education, training and lifelong learning are of key importance to ensure sustainable growth, increased innovation and competitiveness and the sustainable and just transition of the EU economy, recognising the unique challenges faced by recent graduates and young professionals in their first jobs, and emphasising the need for targeted support and opportunities to facilitate their successful integration into the workforce, thereby contributing to the dynamism and adaptability of the EU labour market;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas skilled workers that can respond to the demands of the labour market and education, training and lifelong learning are of key importance to ensure sustainable growth, increased innovation and competitiveness and the sustainable and just transition of the EU economy; whereas while the EU unemployment rate remains stable at 6% in 2023, EU companies keep struggling to find employees with required skills; whereas the availability of skilled employees is one of the biggest problem for EU’s small and medium-sized enterprises, representing 99% of all EU businesses;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas skilled workers that can respond to the demands of the labour market and education, training and lifelong learning are of key importance to ensure sustainable growth,
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas skilled workers that can
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas skilled workers that can respond to the demands of the labour market and education, training and lifelong learning are of key importance to ensure sustainable
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (new) – having regard to the Council recommendation of 30 January 2023 on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas Eurofound research shows that health and care workers, food system workers, cleaners and refuse workers, transport workers, manual workers, and protective services workers are essential workers whose health and well-being were at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic; whereas that risk continues post-pandemic because of poor job quality and the weaker sustainability of the work practices they experience and, if this is not well addressed, it will exacerbate existing labour shortages, which in turn will reduce the capacity of societies to function and benefit from quality services in the future;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas working time reduction, with no cut in pay and no reduction of social security contribution, and with compensatory staff recruitment where necessary, is good for the workers, for the companies and for the environment; whereas rethinking the organisation of work through working time reduction can improve productivity and allow to redistribute work and create new employment;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas productivity is the main driver of competitiveness, average productivity growth in the EU has stagnated over the last decade; whereas the stagnation of production represents an obstacle to greater competitiveness in the EU;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas decreasing birth rates pose a challenge across EU Member States, contributing to an aging population and a decline in the workforce which can strain social security systems and negatively impact economic growth;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas the protection of family, as the bedrock of society, should be at the centre of the European Union's social policy;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) H b. whereas Eurofound recent research shows that a larger share of workers in companies without a right to disconnect policy said they experienced health issues such as frequent headaches, stress and anxiety. In companies with a right to disconnect policy, very high levels of job satisfaction are reported by twice as many workers and they also report a better work–life balance (92%, compared to 80%); whereas Eurofound latest data reveals that a match between working time and workload is crucial, taking into account that the new survey findings demonstrate that 37% of workers work additional hours to complete tasks they were unable to do during working hours;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) H b. whereas EU businesses are burdened by administrative obstacles that hinder their ability to invest; whereas joint efforts are required to enforce existing rules, remove barriers, and explore areas for further integration;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) H b. whereas demographic ageing in the Union makes it advisable for Member States to implement policies to protect birth rate;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H c (new) H c. whereas bogus self-employment is a phenomenon that undermines the European Social Model, social and labour rights, solidarity and social dialogue;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas, as a result of demographic ageing, the number of people over 65 is rising rapidly and, at the same time, a growing number of critical jobs cannot find suitable candidates to fill open positions, leading to a decrease in the number of employees financing the social welfare model in the EU; whereas in 2021, more than 15 million people aged 65 and above (16,8 % of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU, and since 2016[JSC1] there has been little progress to reduce it; whereas the right to a pension that ensures an income enabling dignity in old age is enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights, and Member States should ensure that everyone can enjoy good quality pension scheme, long-term income security and minimum pensions that are high enough to prevent poverty;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 b (new) – having regard the Opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairsfor the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (COM(2023)0240 - C9-0150/2023 - 2023/0138(COD))
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas, as a result of demographic ageing, the number of people over 65 is rising rapidly and, at the same time, a growing number of critical jobs cannot find s
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas in many workplaces employers' expectations are not up to date, as young people today at the age of 25 cannot meet the experience requirements that a young person had 20- 30 years ago, the main cause of this is the lack of integration of practical experience into higher education courses; whereas performance appraisals based on grading systems are not consistent with the qualifications and competences required in employment;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas young people are the basis for sustainable economic and social prosperity for Europe and are a key priority for the EU, as affirmed by the European youth strategy and the reinforced Youth Guarantee, and therefore warrant priority measures for their support, protection, guidance and inclusion, and deserve to fully benefit from the new employment opportunities created by the green transition;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas negative demographic trends might magnify regional disparities in the EU, especially in the rural and outermost regions; whereas brain drain within the EU as well as outwards worsens the overall negative impact of these trends;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas Eurofound research shows that income trends among the older population are influenced by effective social protection over the life course, while those among younger groups are mostly driven by employment;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. Whereas the proper integration of third country nationals requires their acceptance of and alignment to the principles and values corresponding to the hosting Member State;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) I b. whereas many people in the most vulnerable communities face the difficulties of undeclared work, short-term precarious work and working in poorer conditions, leading to further uncertainty and jeopardising access to existing social support systems, especially pensions;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas Parliament has repeatedly stressed the importance of its proper involvement in the European Semester process and dialogue in a regular and structured way in order to increase the transparency, democratic accountability and ownership of the decisions taken, in particular by means of an economic and social dialogue; whereas the involvement of social partners and civil society organizations is also crucial to improve the ownership and democratisation of the semester process;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas there is an urgent need to profoundly revise the European economic governance framework in order to give equal importance to economic, social and environmental policies while preparing the European economies and societies to the twin transitions; whereas the revision of the Economic Governance rules must guarantee that Member Sates have the flexibility to cover their needs of public investment to promote climate transition and conversion, in order to achieve the climate goals defined in Paris Agreement, as well as to achieve the objectives of the European Social Pillar;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas the EESC has approved the Social Progress Protocol (SPP), which is considered a key component of a new EU economic and governance model; whereas SPP should guarantee a principle of non-regression of social standards;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 b (new) – having regard to the Council Recommendation of 27 November 2023 on developing social economy framework conditions,
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas the EU social and employment policy should be limited to Articles 3 TEU and Articles 9, 10, 19, 45 to 48, and 145 to 161 TFEU, with full respect to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas gender equality and gender mainstreaming should be at the core of the 2024 annual sustainable growth strategy;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) J b. whereas the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has adopted its position on new economic governance rules, replacing the regulation on multilateral budgetary surveillance, also known as ‘preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact’; whereas the proposal aims to a more credible and flexible fiscal rules and to strengthen the investment, democratic, and social dimensions of this framework;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) J b. whereas workers have the right to a high level of protection of their health and safety, with an accessible work place and environment that lives up to and contributes to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and Occupational Safety and Health standards;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J c (new) J c. whereas the Joint Research Centre has performed extensive research that quantifies the impact of regional policies and of the contribution of EU policies on place-based development;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J d (new) J d. Stresses that EU institutions and Member States should put forward both necessary legislative initiatives and funding to make sure that upward social convergence in living and working conditions is ensured for everybody in all territories achieving synergies with Cohesion Policy and Funds;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that some of the aims of sustainable economic growth must be to ensure an inclusive and just socio- ecological and digital transformation of our economies to prevent social, economic, digital and environmental imbalances by fighting poverty, reducing inequalities and creating decent jobs with adequate wages and working conditions, while ensuring alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals and the EPSR, as well as to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
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