Activities of Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS related to 2014/2238(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Green employment initiative - Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States EL
Amendments (8)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas there is clear evidence that shifting from labour to environmental taxation, investing in energy and resource efficiency, and developing the supply chain through a clear industrial strategy has a positive impact on job creation;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission to maintain policy coherence on the need for green employment, a just transition and decent work across all areas of its work, including by promoting this agenda in its Integrated Guidelines on economic and employment policies;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the 'just transition' and decent work agenda are part of its position in the climate negotiations at the COP21 summit in Paris this year;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the critical importance of workers’ participation in achieving these changes; calls fornotes that trade unions have stated that the lack of any legal obligation on employers to include workers' representatives in green workplace programmes is blocking the potential of this partnership; calls for the Member States to ensure the involvement of trade union ‘green representatives’ working with employers on increasing sustainability at their workplaces;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the tools for skills development and the forecasting of skill needs proposed by the Commission; stresses, however, that more ambitious action and investment is needed;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that these strategies should include the identification of skill gaps and targeted vocational and lifelong training programmes; stresses the need to actively include in the strategies both displaced workers and low-skilled workers at risk of being excluded from the labour market by ensuring that skills training must be targeted, accessible and free for these workers; stresses that steps need to be taken to counter the gender imbalance in certain sectors;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to use the EU Semester and the review of the Europe 2020 strategy to support green job creation; calls on the Commission to issue country- specific recommendations that contribute to higher employment and smaller ecological footprints, including a shift from labour to environmental taxation and the phasing out of counterproductive subsidies by 2020;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that environmental taxes in the form of consumption taxes are often regressive in nature and impact disproportionately on lower-income groups who should be exempt from consumption-based environmental taxes; calls for any new environmental taxation to target the major polluters; notes that if successful, environmental taxation will result in a lowering of pollution and therefore a fall in tax revenue in the medium to long term, which must be taken into account;