16 Amendments of Philippe BOULLAND related to 2011/2067(INI)
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that, within the Europe 2020 strategy, Member States agreed on an employment target of 75% for the 20-64 years age group by 2020; calls on all stakeholders to intensify their efforts to make the Europe 2020 strategy a success; calls, however, on the Member States to ensure that such employment takes place in civilised, high-quality conditions;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that for many workers the reconciliation of work and family life remains a difficult task; calls on the Member States to give all parents, especially single-parent families, opportunities for integration not only into working life but also into lifelong learning processefinancial support to parents wishing to take care of their children, especially in the case of disadvantaged or disabled people, by means of appropriate allowances and/or the opportunity of leave for family reasons;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Regrets that the number of early school-leavers still remains high; calls on the Member States to implement policies to prevent early school leaving and to offer learning and training alternatives and retraining possibilities to students with learning difficulties;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to promote European centres of excellence within new academic specialisations for tomorrow’s jobs; and to improve the mobility of young people in this area;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages Member States to integrate ICT competences, digital literacy and transversal key competences such as communication in foreign languages, as well as entrepreneurship and the accreditation of professional experience, into their vocational training and lifelong learning policies;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages Member States to implement a dual system of education/training in order to introduce young people to the labour market from the earliest stage; furthermore, calls on relevant stakeholders to ensure that traineeships and apprenticeships lead to the provision of new jobs or correspond to a need, identified upstream, for local job market opportunities;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to stimulate creation of small and medium-sized enterprises, to provide them with a regulatory friendly environment and to improve their access to finance; recalls that 85% of jobs in the EU are provided by SMEs; urges all relevant stakeholders to remove barriers to business creation and its free movement; calls on the Member States to list the barriers to recruitment, to legislate only when strictly necessary and only following an impact study, and to avoid increasing the social and fiscal pressure on businesses;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Strongly condemns undeclared work which endangers both society and workers; calls on the Member States to carry out regular checks and to initiate information campaigns in order to raise awareness of long-term disadvantages for workers employed in the black economy; calls, however, for this fight against undeclared work to be undertaken in compliance with the law and adversarial procedure. Also calls for a definition of undeclared work;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that the health-care sector has a critical role to play in achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy; furthermore considers that, because of demographic change, the health and social care sector is an importantrepresents a possible source of employerment, whose significance is likely to grow; calls on the Commission to initiate a study on care assistants employed in clients’ homes in order to establish whether EU legislation provides sufficient social protection for this category of workers;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on states to ensure the strengthening of legal certainty for enterprises, for example by reducing the statute of limitations in the field of social disputes;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the Member States to develop teleworking, i.e. all forms of distance working and all kinds of work organisation and/or execution which exist outside the classic time-space format, by means of telecommunications and the Internet, in the form of a service provision or an employment relationship; would also like employers to transfer the most secondary tasks to junior employees;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls for special protection and adaptation of jobs for pregnant women and workers who suffer workplace accidents or illnesses;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises the importance of tackling youth unemployment as a matter of priority; calls on the Commission and Member States to continue their efforts to foster youth integration in the labour market, including the provision of incentives for young people and employers and the development of traineeships and apprenticeships; underlines in this context the crucial importance of facilitating the transition from school to work, as well as skills anticipation, upgrading and matching;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises the importance of tackling youth unemployment as a matter of priority; calls on the Commission and Member States to continue their efforts to foster youth integration in the labour market, including the provision of incentives for young people and employers and information on appropriate professional training; underlines in this context the crucial importance of facilitating the transition from school to work, as well as skills anticipation, upgrading and matching, personalised guidance and monitoring;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on states to ensure the strengthening of legal certainty for enterprises, for example by reducing the statute of limitations in the field of social disputes;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Considers that pursuing the objective of full employment has to be complemented by strengthened efforts to improve the job quality, working and living conditions of all employees, as well as ensuring their health and safety at the workplace;