21 Amendments of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2015/2097(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in various EU countries with low birth rates, women and couples would like to have children but are prevented from doing so not at their own choosing, but by the growing deterioration in their living and working conditions as a direct result of so-called austerity policies, which have created unemployment and precarious employment and led to the absence of and violation of maternity and paternity rights at the workplace, increasing the cost of essential goods and services, destroying public services and making it more difficult to access facilities for children;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
Citation 12
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas there is little chance of the 75 % employment rate target set in the Europe 2020 strategy being achieved for women (it currently stands at 63.5 %) by 2020achieving the target of high-quality, stable and decent work for women, on equal conditions to men without proactive policies designed to help women enter the job market, especially policies that promote a better work-life balance;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to jobs with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, since women continue to be worst affected and suffer most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers when women attend job interviews, when they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women's decisions and opting for childless workers who are 'more available', along with growing economic and work-related pressures for female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas many workers who are in precarious employment or unemployed do not have the right to parental leave;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is of the opinion that the social partners should activate the review clause; calls for the revision of the directive, including adoption of measures introducing adequate and incentive-based financial compensation for lost income for parents taking up parental leaveguaranteeing the allocation of parental leave allowances always on the basis of 100% of reference pay, in order to secure families’ social and economic well-being and to promote take- up of parental leave by fathers;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that family-related policy instruments such as parental leave should be designed as individual, non-transferable entitlements in order to improve their efficiency and take-up rates, especially among men, ultimately leading to a more equitable position of men and women in the labour market and minimising the discriminatory effects that prolonged periods of labour market inactivity have on women who take up maternity and parental leave; emphasises the need for a balanced distribution of non-transferable parts of the parental leave between bothtakes the view that the Member States should define ways in which leave can be shared or used simultaneously, in line with the outcome of consultations with women's organisations and trade unions, whereby this arrangement should not jeopardise the social rights already in place at paresents; calls in that respect for the minimum 4- month entitlement to be extended to 6 months; points out that consideration needs to be given to a minimum compulsory period of leave for mothers after confinement, in line with Parliament's proposal of 20 October 2010 with a view to amending Directive 92/85/EEC;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that everyone should be guaranteed the right to parental leave without discrimination, regardless of the type of contract working fathers and mothers are employed under;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU as a whole is facing a serious demographic challenge as birth rates are constantly decreasing in most Member States, and family policies that are fair to men and women should both improve women’s prospects on the job market and have a positive impact on demographic processes; not because of a choice made by women and couples over whether to have children but because of the growing deterioration in their living and working conditions as a direct result of so-called austerity policies, which have created unemployment and precarious employment and led to the absence of and violation of maternity and paternity rights at the workplace, increasing the cost of essential goods and services, destroying public services and making it more difficult to access facilities for children;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. whereas other types of parental leave should also be guaranteed, and for example there is a need to create a specific form of maternity leave in the case of premature birth for as long as the newborn baby has to remain in hospital, guaranteeing payment of 100% of the corresponding allowance based on the reference salary, as well as leave where babies are born with conditions that require hospitalisation;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to jobs with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, since women continue to be worst affected and suffer most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers when women attend job interviews, when they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women's decisions and opting for childless workers who are 'more available', along with growing economic and work-related pressures for female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas many workers who are in precarious employment or unemployed do not have the right to parental leave;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers it regrettable that not all Member States have provided the Commission with correspondence tables between the provisions of the directive and the transposition measures; considers it crucial for Member States to ensure that the necessary inspection resources are in place to verify that legislation protecting parents' rights is being complied with;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it regrettable that there are disparities between the transposition measures of the directive in the field of application, thus creating systems that benefit workers to varying degrees depending on their employment sector (public or private) and the length of their contract; stresses that everyone should be guaranteed the right to parental leave without discrimination, regardless of the type of contract working fathers and mothers are employed under;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that family rights assigned by public policies, including parental leave, should be individual rather than transferable, with a view to encouraging both parents to achieve a better work-life balance; designed to encourage both parents to achieve a better work-life balance, minimising the discriminatory effects that prolonged periods of labour market inactivity have on women who take up maternity and parental leave; takes the view that the Member States should define ways in which leave can be shared or used simultaneously, in line with the outcome of consultations with women's organisations and trade unions, whereby this arrangement should not jeopardise the social rights already in place at present;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes the flexibility the directive grants to the Member States to define forms of parental leave – part-time or full-time – and the working and notice periods established as conditions for granting parental leave, whereby these different arrangements should depend on requests being made by mothers and fathers; welcomes the initiatives introduced by the Member States to give workers as much flexibility as possible in this area, ensuring that parental leave ties in with their professional and personal circumstances, but; believes that any choices made to cede some of the decision-making power to employers should notwill undermine the target of increasing the taking of parental leave; points out that consideration needs to be given to a minimum period of leave of six weeks, which would be compulsory for mothers after confinement, in line with Parliament's proposal of 20 October 2010 with a view to amending Directive 92/85/EEC;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises the need to activate the revision clause in EU legislation on parental leave for that purpose, including, in particular: the adoption of measures guaranteeing the allocation of parental leave allowances always on the basis of 100% of reference pay, a specific form of maternity leave in the case of premature birth for as long as the newborn baby has to remain in hospital, and subsidised leave where babies are born with conditions that require hospitalisation;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the social partners to offer to extend this minimum duration from four to six months, paid at 100%, to improve work-life balance;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that, alongside legislative measures to promote work-life balance, the Member States, with the financial backing of the various EU instruments, should focus on introducing high-quality, accessible public childcare facilities with a view to meeting the Barcelona objectives;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Call on the Commission, in that regard, to incorporate workplace gender equality objectives into the European Semester for economic policy coordination to enable the targets of the Europe 2020 strategy to be met and to gauge the positive influence of legislative measures on improving work- life balance with a view to redistributing family and domestic responsibilities;