7 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2013/2173(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas population ageing, incentives – which still unfortunately exist – for early retirement, the financial crisis and changes in production patterns require strong responses to enable older workers to remain active in the labour market;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the lifelong learning measures promoted by the ESF are on the whole well suited to keeping people in employment (e.g. by employability training or retraining);
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for a tracking system whereby providers can monitor the progress of individual participants, enabling evaluation to take place at regular intervals so that strengths and weaknesses can be judged and improvements made;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for measures to target not just employability but also progress in terms of skills (including ‘soft’ skills), higher self- esteem and greater motivation; notes that imparting life skills and providing informal training can make a major contribution in this respect;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Member States to provide a broad range of activities enabling participants to make an individual choice; notes that the availability of choices forms an important part of the employment and reintegration process;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for all barriers that hamper active aging and life-long learning opportunities to be monitored and removed. and for these benefits to become a regular feature of working life; calls for such measures to be constantly monitored, evaluated and improved;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls, in the new operational programmes, for a more uniform approach to the choice of target groups and use of labour market data, in order to set ambitious but realistic targets; notes, given the future importance of the growing cohort of older workers, that preparations for the operational programmes should also include a dialogue on the prioritisation of target groups.