51 Amendments of Alicia HOMS GINEL related to 2022/2170(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to the International Labour Organization ‘Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all’ adopted in 2015,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
– having regard to the Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
– having regard to the Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European parliament and of the council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)
Citation 13 b (new)
– having regard to the opinion of the European Committee of the Regions of 25 May 2023 entitled ‘Zero long-term unemployment: the local and regional perspective’ (CDR 5490/2022),
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)
Citation 13 c (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 15 January 2013 on Information and consultation of workers, anticipation and management of restructuring (2012/2061(INL)),
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 d (new)
Citation 13 d (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 6 July 2022 on the EU action plan for the social economy (2021/2179(INI)),
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 e (new)
Citation 13 e (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 24 May 2023 on strengthening social dialogue (2023/2536(RSP)),
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 f (new)
Citation 13 f (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 17 December 2020 on a Strong Social Europe for just transitions (2020/2084(INI)),
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 g (new)
Citation 13 g (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 15 March 2023 on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023 (2022/2151(INI)),
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 h (new)
Citation 13 h (new)
– having regard to the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities, (COM(2023)314),
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 i (new)
Citation 13 i (new)
– having regard to the proposal for a Council Recommendation on developing social economy framework conditions (2023/0179(NLE)),
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. 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;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas a just transition should be socially just and inclusive, involve seizing the opportunity to create quality jobs, tackle discrimination at work, protect workers’ rights and raise labour standards; whereas just transition policies should focus first on the most affected communities and the most vulnerable groups;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas innovative direct employment initiatives have emerged at local level in different Member States, such as “Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée” in France and Belgium, « Territori a disoccupazione zero » in Italy, “Job Guarantee” in Austria, "Basisbaan"in the Netherlands and “Solidarity Basic Income” in Germany; whereas the local jobs created under these initiatives are often part of the social economy sector and implement projects addressing the unmet social and environmental needs of society by prioritising care and green services;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 will require the anticipation of change and suitable framework conditions to support job-to-job transitions, including the necessary skilling, reskilling and upskilling of the current workforceprocesses that offer access to well-paid decent jobs;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the investment gap for climate action has been estimated at EUR 520 billion a year until 2030; whereas this gap does not include considerations like social and climate justice policies;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the participation of workers and trade unions, accompanied by new rights, in the governance of the transition and the anticipation and social management of change is a prerequisite for a fairto secure a just, inclusive and successful transition for all workers in every region in Europe;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the enhancement of workplace democracy has virtuous consequences for the workers, the companies and the whole economy, and is key to a successful just transition;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas it is essential to complement companies' financial performance and to reflect their extra- financial practices towards more sustainable activities and investments;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas the concept of just transition should be mainstreamed across all policies of the EU and its Member States;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that a transition towards renewable and circular societies and economies generates the potential both to create new jobs and to transform existing employment into green and sustainable jobs in virtually all sectors; notes also the possible risks and social consequences if the transition is not well anticipated, led and massively funded; warns that the environmental, social, and economic consequences of climate change and the lack of climate and social justice in green policies are creating winners and losers, thereby exacerbating existing social inequalities; highlights that a Green Deal focused on investments to make the transition to a decarbonised, climate-neutral economy, will be a good deal if, at the same time, it invests in the people who cannot afford the change;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. NUnderlines the importance of a just transition which aims at maintaining and creating quality jobs and employment in Europe; notes that the transition has significant potential to create local jobs which cannot be offshored, which would contribute to strengthening European sovereignty and resilience;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that Union policies should ensure territorial and social cohesion in view of overcoming structural differences and unequal development between regions as well as social and territorial inequalities; calls for ambitious measures to support the re-industrialisation and prevent the de-industrialisation of European regions through strategic investment projects and through development plans for vulnerable regions, especially in rural and remote areas; stresses the need to ensure fair redistribution of the projects, benefiting disadvantaged communities which are disproportionately impacted by underinvestment in critical infrastructure, pollution and climate change; points out that small and medium scaled local development projects can play an important role toward a just transition for all;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines that the ecological transition is the opportunity to build a powerful European industrial policy; calls for the EU industrial strategy to ensure that the jobs of tomorrow will be green, decent, well-paid, stable and based on good working conditions, including on health and safety at work, a robust social protection, a good work-life balance and gender equality;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CHighlights that for the EU to achieve its European Green Deal and social justice objectives, a more holistic understanding of sustainability, sustainable jobs and the just transition is needed; calls on the Commission to work on conceptual guidelines on what constitutes a green and high-quality job, based on its potential for greening the economy, its contribution to people’s health and wellbeing and decent work;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that the green transition of the job market should go hand in hand with upward convergence towards better working conditions and, protections and safety at work, stability of employment, higher wages, attractive career paths and meaningful jobs;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call that EU funding, including State aid, should be conditional on public policy objectives, in particular social requirements; underlines that public authorities should lead by example and set social criteria in public procurement; calls to revise the Public Procurement Directive to ensure that benefiting companies support collective bargaining, high-quality jobs, high-quality apprenticeships, decent and equal pay and training, to ensure that companies respect workers’ rights; calls also for conditions on a fair share of the profits with workers and a ban on dividends and bonuses;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that public authorities should lead by example and set social criteria and strong conditionalities in public procurement; calls to revise the Public Procurement Directive to further strengthen the social clause and ensure that benefiting companies and subcontractors fully respect and support collective bargaining, high-quality jobs, high-quality apprenticeships, decent and equal pay and training; calls on the Member States to use their purchasing power to promote Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) in order to ensure a good balance between the three pillars of sustainable development - economic, social and environmental - when procuring goods, services or works;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. RCalls on the Commission to safeguard the right to health and to a healthy environment at EU level, as this right is essential to ensuring the fulfilment of most other fundamental rights such as food, shelter and work as well as to achieving an inclusive transition; recalls that the EU health and safety strategy should take into account specific risks in new sectors and incorporatetackle the unequal vulnerability and exposure to risks deriving from climate change and environmental degradation in society and at work;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of involving young people in transition planning, especially NEETs; calls on the Member States to facilitate access for young people to paid, quality and inclusive traineeships and apprenticeships;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Emphasises that gender equality should become an integral part of green economy strategies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take all measures to ensure that pre-existing gender inequalities are not transferred to the emerging green economy to strengthen the fairness of our societies; believes it is essential to guarantee equal economic opportunities for women with inter- sectional approach, paying attention to the most vulnerable, such as women with disabilities, single mothers, women belonging to minorities, migrant women, etc; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take all measures to ensure that pre-existing gender inequalities are not transferred to the emerging green economy and to increase women’s participation in male-dominated sectors, as well as to encourage men to enter the sectors with predominantly female labour force, such as care;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the creation of decent jobs needed to implement a just transition could be done through the implementation of demand-driven direct employment initiatives already experimented in different Member States at local and regional level; recalls that these initiatives, implementing the right to employment, often address unemployment and climate change simultaneously and therefore offer the double benefit of creating employment while endowing people with competencies needed to reorient EU economy towards a greener and more sustainable model;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Skills for a just transition, anticipating changes
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Commission to present a governance framework to anticipate and manage changes related to the green and just transition 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 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to invest massively in people and to offer education and training in areas linked to skills needs that are identified in labour markets and future-oriented sectors to make sure that the labour market is ready for the green transition;and digital transition; calls more specifically on the Commission to invest adequately and effectively in education and training according to the local and regional particularities and needs.
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that training should be of a good enough quality, assessed by the workers themselves, and lead to a qualification that is validated through transparent and clear recognition and certification systems which allow for comparability; calls also to ensure that the qualifications and certified competences are adequately remunerated;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recalls that if training and skills are crucial in a just transition, the first priority must remain the creation of high quality, well paid jobs that increase the quality of life;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to include for all environmental legislation a socio- economic impact assessment taking into consideration jobs, skills and working conditions in different countries, regions, sectors and companies in order to provide the necessary knowledge to develop adequate social policies and measures as well as territorial and sectoral just transition pathway adapted to regional realities; calls on the Commission to systematically map at regional level, and with a sufficient level of granularity, the employment situation, the development of quality jobs and the collective bargaining coverage rate;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasises the importance to closely involve and associate local and regional authorities, trade unions and civil society in change, as addressing the issue of the green and social transition requires actions at all levels - European, national and local - with a good degree of policy coordination; calls in this regard for the creation of a just transition observatory at EU level;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for mandatory just transition plans to be adopted by all companies affected by the green transition, negotiated with trade unions and worker representatives which must be involved at all stages of the process;
Amendment 308 #
20a. considers essential to integrate in the Semester multilateral surveillance the assessment of the distributional effects of climate policies financial burden on households as well as the distribution of the environmental benefits from such policies across different income groups, in order to identify policy measures needed to address these impacts;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Regrets that the Commission proposal on the economic governance review does not create enough fiscal space for Member States to make the green and social investment at the scale neededInsists that social and environmental policies and objectives must be integrated on an equal footing with economic ones; in this sense, is convinced that the Stability and Growth Pact is outdated and does not offer neither the flexibility nor the architecture necessary to put in place a new Sustainable Development and Social Progress governance in the EU; regrets that the Commission proposal on the economic governance review does not create enough fiscal space for Member States to make the green and social investment at the scale needed and is not sufficiently aligned with the achievement of the rights included in the EU Pillar of Social Rights; believes also that the European Union's monetary policy should focus on full employment; stresses that such green and social investments are needed in public services, and the Union's economic governance should be sensitive in this respect, taking into account the need for resources and personnel in the education sectors, public employment services and other local, regional and national public administrations that are key players in a just and social green transition;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a major shift in the EU from taxing labour to taxing capital, notably by shifting taxes on wages to taxinges on wealth, in order to incentivise job creation and reduce inequalities; calls also on the Commission to assess the feasibility and economic impact of a minimum tax on capital gains at European level;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Notes that these aids require substantial expenditure on public social security systems, and that governments will need to invest massively; stresses that the question of aids to affected workers will need to be regularly monitored in the context of national reports and country- specific recommendations under the European Semester and the exercises to implement the Council Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to work on a clear and harmonized definition of impact finance, based on the principle of compatibility of financial performance with ecological and social performances, so that financial products considered as finance impact products meet the necessary and ambitious enough criteria;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Stresses the need for quality assessments of the environmental risks and impacts of corporate practices, as well as the way in which companies manage their social responsibilities and the quality and ethics of corporate governance moving towards more responsible and ethical practices based on transparent and reliable information; welcomes in this regard the recent Commission proposal for a regulation on the transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities; points out the necessity for high quality ESG assessments that are clear and detailed for clients, transparent and supervised by ESMA, with a score for each aspect assessed, calculated on the basis of a harmonized method and weightings, aligned with the European taxonomy, and reflecting extra-financial practices and the impact of the company's activities on the entire supply chain;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for the swift creation of a European sovereignty fund with newly allocated EU money to mobilise large-scale investments in green technology; regrets the lack of ambition of the Commission's recent proposal in this respect, which falls far short of the resources needed to achieve this goal;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. 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 that the relevant aspects are integrated in any future funding instrument: - Social and environmental justice as guiding principles in order to make the EU more resilient to growing threats to health and well-being - 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 communities and regions which are disproportionately impacted by underinvestment in critical infrastructure, pollution and climate change;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Notes that the main instruments to support just transition are the Just Transition Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Social Climate Fund, as well as the Council Recommendation on Ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality; warns that the current instruments and proposals by the European Commission are too narrow and fall short of providing the holistic and legal just transition framework that society needs;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for an expansion in size andof thematic scope of the Just Transition Fund in order to provide for support to more regions and sectors that will be affected such as transport, tourism, agriculture and other industries;