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REPORT on European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and Social Aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2016 PDF (489 KB) DOC (168 KB)
Amendments (29)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
- Having regard to the Commission's Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (October 2008),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 b (new)
Citation 19 b (new)
- Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 c (new)
Citation 19 c (new)
- Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015),
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)
Citation 30 a (new)
- - having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2014 on an EU Homelessness Strategy,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
- having regard to the Eurofound forthcoming report (16 February 2016) Role of social partners in the European Semester;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)
Citation 34 b (new)
- having regard to the debate with representatives of national parliaments on the priorities of the 2016 European Semester,
Amendment 85 #
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 homelessness has increased in many EU Member States; whereas in 2012 32.2 million persons with disabilities over 16 years were in this situation;
Amendment 130 #
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 more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three social 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 itself; welcomes the Commission's call for investment in services such as housing support, healthcare, childcare, and rehabilitation services;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the Commission for, in this AGS, having put social fairness at the heart of European economic recovery; Stresses the EU´s convergence achievements by creating an EMU and calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost for an European social convergence;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that good and qualityquality and inclusive jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; 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 157 #
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, individualised services, civil society and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to the needs of the labour market;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. In order to better adapt Member States' education and training systems to the needs of the labour market, calls on the Member States to support apprenticeship and to fully use the ERAMUS + funds available for apprentices in order to guarantee the quality and attractiveness of this kind of training;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services and social support services, including mainstream and individualised support services; emphasises the need to ensure that Youth Guarantees reach young people facing multiple exclusions and extreme poverty;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Urges the need to give a quick and correct answer to the unemployed people with 55+; Calls on both the Commission and the Member States to support flexible employment solutions to those people (including par-time and temporary jobs) that meet their specific needs, thus preventing their early-leave of work; Underlines the importance of elderly in the workplace to pass on their knowledge and experience to younger workers, for e.g. by involving them in workplace training processes, ensuring that 55+ workers do not fall in unemployment situation.
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises both the quality of work and workers’' access to social protection systems and national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimes; recognises the role of agency work to transform available work into declared employment and encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs and also through more and better cooperation between public and private employment services where applicable, 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 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Member States to consider overall progresses in public services incomes as well as in minimum income, when applyable, without putting aside the productivity growth and in a sustainable and stable way, without jeopardizing Member States own competences;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to modernise their current social protection systems, in order to guarantee their sustainability in the face of expected ageingperformance in tackling and preventing poverty and inequalities while ensuring their sustainability in the face of expected demographic, economic and social challenges; considers that pension schemes should be linked not only to life expectancy but also to other social and labour factors, while not jeopardising the sustainability of public finances;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. calls on the Member States to simplify regulatory frameworks and to avoid gold plating in order to reduce administrative burdens which hinder the creation and development of SMEs;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Member States to develop policies which boost entrepreneurship among young people, from an early age, by providing opportunities for internships and company visits;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate all these programmes in a holistic way, in order to prevent conflicts between its targets and demands and to cut red tape; in such a revision should be an analysis of each Member State appliance, thus guaranteeing more equity in its access to the funds;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. In order to boost entrepreneurship among Youth, calls on the Member States to support associations and initiatives which help young entrepreneurs in the development of innovative projects by providing them administrative, legal or organisational support ;
Amendment 297 #
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 support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; welcomes therefore the fact that part of the funding for the EaSI programme is earmarked to help provide access to finance for social and solidarity-based economy enterprises;
Amendment 301 #
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 support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; Urges the need to give them a legal framework, for e.g. an European statute for cooperative societies, associations, foundations and mutuals, recognizing their action in EU and avoiding unfair competition;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the Commission’'s call on Member States to increase their social investments, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on Member States to fully implement the European Commission's Investing in children recommendation of 2013 as requested by a majority of MEPs in the written declaration 2015/0042; 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 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to enhance the application of Article 349 TFEU in order to make the outermost regions more integrated in the Europe of Regions, differentiating EU policies in order to guarantee equity between regions and promote upward convergence; Underlines that it is necessary to maintain the special attention given to outermost regions, not only in terms of allocation of funds but also attending to the impact that European policies can have on their social situation and levels of employment, for e.g. the impact of the end of milk quotas; Calls on the Commission to ensure that European decisions and funding allocation are accompanied by proper monitoring, reproducing significant improvement on the welfare of outermost regions citizens.
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support labour mobility all around Europe as a way to create new job opportunities for workers and to provide labour for companies; Calls for the Member States to use and to promote the European tools available to facilitate this labour mobility, especially the European jobs network EURES; In cross border regions where the labour mobility is really high, encourages Member States to develop EURES cross-border partnerships to help workers in their mobility projects;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has clearly distinguished a European and a national phase with regard to the European Semester; stresses the need for closer coordination between the European institutions in the design, implementation and evaluation of the European strategy for growth; calls on the Commission to establish a clear agenda in this respect, also involving the social partners and the national parliaments; believes that the Commission could monitor and report whether suggestions to implement certain Country Specific Recommendations in 'consultation with the social partners' were taken up.
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Believes that the Commission could strengthen the role of the European Semester Officers by better defining their objectives and functions.