20 Amendments of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2019/2188(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas there is enormous variety of minimum wage practices across the EU and considerable gaps in terms of coverage and adequacy to ensure decent living;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas research8a shows that the amount a household receives from a minimum wage tends to be sufficient to protect a single adult against the risk of poverty, but it is often not sufficient to support more than one person; __________________ 8aEurofound (2020), Minimum wages in 2020: Annual review. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publicat ions/report/2020/minimum-wages-in- 2020-annual-review
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU has clearly missed its target of reducing the number of people at risk of poverty by 20 million by 20209; __________________ 9Francesca Pepé and Gaia Teresa Sartori Pallotta, Fostering access to services to support people to move out of poverty, Report on poverty and inequalities in Europe, Brussels, November 2019, p. 7 and p. 13 et seq., and COM (2010) 2020 final, 3.3.2010.
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas 6.1% of the population of EU-28 were suffering from severe material deprivation in 201811 and extreme poverty exists in numerous regions and communities; __________________ 11 Severe material deprivation: inability to afford less than 4 out of 11: mortgage or rent payments, utility bills, hire purchase instalments or other loan payments, one week annual holidays, meals involving meat/fish/protein every second day, unexpected financial expenses, a telephone (including mobile), a colour TV, a washing machine, a car, heating; (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Quality_of_life_indic ators_- _material_living_conditions#General_over view)
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the level of wage is an important factor explaining the risk of poverty; whereas however, relevant other factors also come into play - specific household features, the institutional framework, and other policies such as housing and childcare;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas family poverty is increasing: every fourth child under the age of 18 is at risk of poverty or social exclusion and thus trapped in an intergenerational cycle of disadvantage; whereas single parents (34.2%) and large families are particularly affected12 ; __________________ 12https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Quality_of_life_indic ators_- _material_living_conditions#General_over view
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas old-age poverty continues to increase also in combination wdespithe fundamental pension reforms: the at-risk- of-poverty rate for people over 65 was on average 16.1% (EU-28); whereas this figure will continue to grow due to precarious and atypical employment15 ; __________________ 15 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/v iew/tessi012/default/table?lang=en
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas privatisation and outsourcing, arelthough proven economically effective, are sometimes reducing job security, and this ismight also an indicator of thelead to an increase in precarious employment;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that in-work poverty needs to be addressed at its root causes, such as but not limited to education and training; calls on the Commission to urge Member States to invest in qualitative education and training, to share good practices and to have specific attention for life-long learning;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that the axiom that ‘work is the best remedy for poverty’ no longer applies today in the face of low- wage sectors, atypical and precarious working conditions and the dismantling of social security systems and that a poverty- free life can only be secured by effective collective agreements and minimum wage systems are needed to realise a poverty- free society;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to improve the social convergence by introducing an EU legal instrument which guarantees that every worker in the European Union benefits from a fair minimum wage, taking into consideration national specificities; welcomes the Commission’s consultation with the social partners on a European framework for minimum wages, respecting the national practices and the collective bargaining;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that statutory minimum-wage setting is guided by national frameworks based on clear and stable criteria with reasonably frequent and regular updates;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure mandatory minimum working conditions and unified control criteria throughout the Union for all workers, in particular for those employed in atypical and precarious work or the bogus self-employed, either by improving existing directives or through new legal acts, and to ban zero-hour contracts;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and Member States to enforce, effectively and through sanctions, the right of workers to organise and to negotiate and conclude collective agreements, and to ensure that unions can enter plants, speak to workers at work and organise them;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Recalls that numerous frontline workers are in low-paid jobs and suffer from precarious working conditions and partially also from a lack of health and social protection;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Proposes to actively counter potential high unemployment through European and national employment programmes and to invest in new jobs, future-oriented infrastructure, digital change and ‘green transition’.; points out that minimum wage policies are an important element in a policy mix for income stabilisation to cope with the COVID-19 effects;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Proposes to actively counter potential high unemployment through European and national employment programmes and to invest in new sustainable jobs, future-oriented infrastructure, digital change and ‘green transition’.;