14 Amendments of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that many Member States still have large deficits and that there is a need to develop fiscal responsibility programmes that are fully compatible with quality job creation, economic growth and welfare state sustainability; calls on the Commission, which has already received the national budget proposals for 2016, and within the framework of COM(2015)00121, to provide a flexible process of fiscal responsibility at national level that allows for the adoption of socially responsible and economically efficient policies aimed at decent job creation; __________________ 1 COM(2015)0012, ‘Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the SGP’.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the country-specific recommendations (CSR) to include the Commission’s recommendation2 on private debt aimed at creating second chances for enterprises; calls for these programmes to be extended to families at risk of eviction from their first home and for these to be guaranteed, in particular, in banking entities within bank restructuring programmes supported by public money; eventive restructuring of businesses at risk of insolvency and discharge of debts of bankrupt entrepreneurs, whether natural or legal persons; __________________ 2 Recommendation of 12 March 2014 on a new approach to business failure and insolvency.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fostering of a European investment policy aimed at boosting growth and job creation; considers it regrettable, however, thatthat there should be stronger measures meeting Parliament’s call3 to promote social investment not only in pursuit of financial profit but also with the aim of promoting a positive social impact has been neglected; ; __________________ 3 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraphs 10 and 18.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note of the recommendations on the need to move forward within new labour reforms, and calls for such reforms, if carried out, to guarantee social dialogue and to ensure necessary political consensus in order to be sustainable and effective; considers it regrettable that many labour reforms have not ensured the required balance between flexibility and security, resulting in, for example, the exclusion of millions of workers from collective bargaining; calls for labour reforms capable of reducing improper fragmentation of work, putting an end to insecurity and increasing the productivity and competitiveness of our economy while ensuring decent jobs and living wages through investment in human capital;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems causrelated byto the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; considers it regrettable that there is nomaintains that there has to be a reference to the importance of increasing wages, especially in those countries where wages are below the poverty threshold, but that it must be made without undermining the subsidiarity principle or interfering with fiscal stability; recalls that minimum wages differ substantially between Member States (Bulgaria EUR 184/month, Luxembourg EUR 1 923/month), and reiterates its request for an in-depth study4 on this issuee impact of introducing minimum wages in Member States; __________________ 4 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraph 476.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas that, according to the Commission, have increased precariousness in the labour markets; of particular concern arewith concern the figures from some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90% for new contracts, which particularly affects young people and women and which, according to the OECD1, is one of the direct causes of increasing inequality; __________________ 1 OECD report ‘In it together: Why less inequality benefits all’, 21 May 2015.
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take note of the IMF2 report on the causes and consequences of inequality, which states that the increase in the income gap is negatively affecting economic growth and the potential for job creation; calls for effective action on labour taxation, labour markets and redistributive policies, taking into account the specific features of the individual Member States, to facilitate greater and upward economic and social convergence; __________________ 2 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’, June 2015.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that high rates in long-term unemployment in the EU, especially in some Member States, are resulting in an increasing number of workers losing their benefits before finding a new job; considers it regrettablenotes that manysome Member States have limited access to such benefits or have reduced the amount available and/or the eligibility period for them; considers it important to maintain a balance between adequate social protection and adequate incentives for active job searching; calls for a specific study on such incentives at EU level, and calls on the Member States to guarantee minimum income schemes to avoid pockets of social exclusion and ensure a minimum income to families, with the proviso that the subsidiarity principle and fiscal stability must be complied with;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the reduction in youth unemployment rates, but points out that they are still at alarming levels and not necessarily based on net job creation; stresses that job insecurity and underemployment have also risen and that 43% of young people work urges the Member States to keep existing employment contracts under review and to combat job insecurity, giving precarious conditions witharticular attention to cases involving involuntary part-time contracts or asand to bogus self- employed workers;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the fact that, according to an IMF report3, the progressivity of tax systems has been weakened in recent years, resulting in increasing inequality; considers that the tax wedge has been much higher for low-wage workers and SMEs with higher effective tax rates; points out the importance of reducing taxes for labour and enterprises in pursuit of more redistributive forms; __________________ 3 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’, June 2015.Points out the importance of reducing taxes for labour and enterprises in pursuit of more redistributive forms;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers it regrettableNotes that the Commission, regrettably, has not included in the CSR the importance of maintaining strong automatic stabilisers in Member States, as called for by Parliament4, given its important role in maintaining social cohesion and stimulating internal demand and economic growth; __________________ 4 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068).
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that the CSR should place stronger emphasis on the role of social economy enterprises in promoting social and economic cohesion in Europe as a whole, given that they have been helping to achieve the Europe 2020 goals and to build a resilient pluralist social market economy;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is deeply concerned by the limitedRecognises the role that national parliaments, social partners and civil society have played, and might come to play, in the drafting of the national reform programme (NRP) and the convergence programme (CP); calls on the Commission to favour, within the revision of thehen streamlining the existing economic governance mechanisms, a reform that grants adequate democratic legitimacy to the European Semester.