Activities of Nils TORVALDS related to 2021/0116(BUD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund following an application from Finland – EGF/2020/007 FI/Finnair
Amendments (4)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Finnish authorities submitted the application on 30 December 2020, and that the Commission finalised its assessment on 6 May 2021 and notified it to Parliament on the same day; regrets that the assessment of the Commission took so long in current circumstances;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the application relates in total to 508 workers made redundant in company Finnair Oylj and one subcontractor; further notes that Finland expects that 500 out of the total eligible beneficiaries will participate in the measures (targeted beneficiaries);
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the social impacts of the redundancies are expected to be considerable for workers in the Helsinki- Uusimaa region, where Finnair has its operating hub, and where the number of unemployed jobseekers increased by 22,5 % between February and April 2020, and by 0.8 percentage points between 2019 and 202013 , leading to difficult prospects in terms of reemployment of the dismissed workers; notes positively therefore that the dismissed workers could benefit from customised job-search guidance and support, along with tailored upskilling and reskilling to increase their chances of re- employment; _________________ 13Finland's statistical database https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/Stat Fin/
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that personalised services to be provided to the workers and self- employed persons consist of the following actions: coaching and other preparatory measures, employment and business services, trainings, pay subsidy, start-up grant and allowances for travel, accommodation and removal; welcomes the provision of vocational qualification trainings to the beneficiaries, including courses such as artificial intelligence (A.I.), digital security and robotics; further welcomes the use of pay subsidy by Finland to reduce the payroll costs of the beneficiaries as well as start-up grants to promote the creation of business activity but reminds that this support should be conditional on the active participation of these beneficiaries in job-search or training activities;