7 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2015/2097(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the target of a 75 % employment rate set in the Europe 2020 strategy has already been met for men and is unlikely to be achieved for women (currently at 63.5 %) by 2020 should there be no large-scale improvements in the provision of measures to supportmeasures to allow effective work-life balance for women and mothers and to increase women’'s labour market participation, predominantly through policy packages equalising the workload related to family and domestic activities between men and women through support of their return to professional life after maternity or parental leave;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas motherhood and maternity care are not sufficiently recognised and equalised to labour market participation, thus creating pressure on women to prioritise career over maternity;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the aim is to reduce the persisting gender pay, earnings and pension gaps and thereby inequality in access to financial resources of women throughout life, thus reducing the currently high poverty risk of women in old age;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas a framework agreement between social partners respecting subsidiarity principle is the best possible way to achieve the minimum common standard regarding parental leave and any further regulatory effort in this regard might prove counterproductive;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the social partners, on the basis of the draft implementation report, to acknowledge the failurelimits of the EU directive on parental leave in achieving its objectives in terms of work-life balance, female labour market participation, demographic challenges and men’s share of family tasks;
Amendment 20 #
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 ofCalls for further discussion on the directive in the context of the recently adopted staff working document of the Commission "Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019", including recommending measures introducing adequate and incentive-based financial compensation for lost income for parents taking up parental leave, in order to secure families’' social and economic well-being and to promote take-up of parental leave by fathers;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that family-related policy instruments such as parental leave should be designed asto individual, non- transferable entitlements in order to improve their efficiency and take-up rates, especially among mencrease take-up rates, ultimately leading to a more equitablevalued 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 both parents; calls in that respect for thand economic and social well- being of parents; notes that the minimum 4-month entitlement as stipulated in the framework agreement should be mainimum 4-month entitlement to be extended to 6 monthstained;