23 Amendments of Martina DLABAJOVÁ related to 2015/2330(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed; highlighting the need for further structural reforms which at the same time promote flexibility in the labour markets and security for the employed; Whereas employment has increased in the EU28 by 0.8 % and in the Eurozone by 0.4 % in 2014;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas fiscal consolidation in the EU28 is improving with the general budget deficit decreasing from 4,5 % in 2011 to 2,5 % in 2015;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skillsdigital skills and 40 % of the EU population can be considered insufficiently digitally skilled, while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required digital skills, whereas low educational level is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas there are approximately 2 million unfilled vacancies in the EU, of which almost 900.000 are in the digital sector, which hampers economic growth and job-creation; whereas in 2012 one in three Europeans were either over- or under-qualified for their job; whereas this mis-match negatively affects growth;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion; whereas the number of Europeans in risk of poverty increased in the period 2009- 2012, the situation has improved as the number stabilized in 2013 and 2014;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060 highlighting the pressing need of labour market and pension reforms which aims at maintaining people in the labour market; whereas these factors may appear as sufficient justification for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important to restructure their pensions systems; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay moregives attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three socialheadline indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itselfencourages investments in social development in accordance with national customs and traditions as a means of achieving economic growth and employment and social convergence;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that good and quality jobsquality employment constitutes an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners in accordance with national customs and traditions, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to combat skills mis-matches and meeting the needs of the labour market;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes with concern, that data on government spending in education confirm an increasing risk of investment gaps in human capital, including digital skills; Notes further that educational efforts primarily are focused on the younger part of the workforce, however, many countries need a broader focus on educating the workforce including adult education and vocational training opportunities; Underlines that insufficient investments in education, especially in digital skills, poses a threat to Europe's competitive position and to the employability of Europe's work force; encourages therefore Member States to prioritize broad education in digital skills;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to thefor active employment policies to be efficient they must include requirements for the competent national authorities as well as for each of the long-term unemployed;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms creating a more flexible and secure labour market and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobsemployment while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation, increasing employment and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls onemployment; encourages the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantepromote more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources with due regard to overall competitiveness, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls onEncourages the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’ capacity to ensure their children’s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a family;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on SMEs as a fundamental key for sustainable development and job-creation; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs, and to develop mechanisms that might impel such enterprises to achieve or operationalise in an international dimension;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more supportensure that all enterprises have equal access to funding, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the Commission’s call onencouragement to some Member States to increase their social investments in order to increase European economic and social cohesion, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion between Member States and their regions, but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social dialogue plays a key roleand that the social dialogue must play a key role in the achievement of this; points out that social policies are Member States' competence and that this must be respected as a matter of subsidiarity;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls onEncourages the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusionway out of unemployment and social exclusion and into the labur market, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entering the job market, stresses that a job is the best and only sustainable way out of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls onEncourages the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees; stresse and migrants legally residing in the EU; considers that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability of social security systems over the coming decades, encourages therefore the Member States to develop strategies which ensure that more people are maintained as an active part of the labour force for a longer time;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are not treated abusivelyequally with non-mobile workers;