Activities of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2016/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A European Pillar of Social Rights (debate) PT
Amendments (29)
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
– having regard to the Council Conclusions of 7 December 2015 on ‘The promotion of the social economy as a key driver of economic and social development in Europe’,
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union needs a paradigm shiftprogress towards a strong European social model based on solidarity, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, gender equality, a high-quality public education system, quality employment and sustainable growth - a model that ensures good social protection for all, empowerprotects vulnerable groups, enhances participation in civil and political life, and improves the living standards for all citizens, delivering on the objectives and rights set out in the EU Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on fair working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self- employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeshipall forms of employment and work-related training; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workers;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
Paragraph 4 – point a
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to promote social economy business models as an effective way to ensure worker’s rights and social protection within the emerging collaborative and sharing economy;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need for renewed upward convergence in wages throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining; considers that to ensure decent living wages, minimum wages set at a decent level are necessary; recommends the establishment of minimum national wage floors withrough legislation ort harming collective bargaining, with the objective of attaining at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of collective rights; expects the Commission to step up concrete support for recommend strengthening social dialogue in Member States and sectors where it is weak owing to the prolonged crisis or the prevalence of non-standard forms of employment;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to fully take advantage of enterprise models based on solidarity and worker's participation in the decision- making process, such as within the social economy enterprise models;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)
Subheading 2 a (new)
High-quality traineeships to integrate young people into the labour market
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Commission to submit a proposal for a directive laying down decent conditions for traineeships, work placements, and apprenticeship programmes, limiting the number of cases in which such schemes are unpaid or the pay is so low that the workers cannot make ends meet, and providing for mandatory contributions to social security systems or equivalent schemes, while preserving statutory absence and leave entitlements;
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Agrees with the importance of universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all workers must be covered by health insurance or an equivalent assistance arrangement;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is aware that rising life expectancy and workforce shrinking pose a challenge to the sustainability of pensions and social security systems and to intergenerational fairness; reaffirms that the best response is to increase the overall employment rate; considers that pensionable ages should reflect, besides life expectancy, other factors including the total time worked, the sustainability of social security systems, labour market trends, the economic dependency ratio, the birth rate and differences in job arduousness;
Amendment 513 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that all workers should be covered by insurance against involuntary unemployment or part-time employment, coupled with job-search assistance and investment in (re)-training;
Amendment 548 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a European framework for minimum income schemes, without prejudice to subsidiarity; highlights the importance of such schemes for maintaining human dignity as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to undertake training and/or look for work; maintains that, in order to be effective, such schemes have to be encompassed within social integration systems, for they cannot serve merely as individual and household financial support models;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees that all persons with disabilities must be ensured enabling services and basic income security allowing them a decent standard of living and social inclusion, without prejudice to positive differentiation to help them gain access to work; urges the Member States to set up systems providing the necessary support to persons with disabilities during their school and academic career, so as to reduce the barriers that they face as regards access to education and training, whatever the level of education or course;
Amendment 584 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers access to quality and affordable long-term care services, including home-based care, to be a right that should be upheld with the help of suitably qualified professionals employed under decent conditions; believes that low- income households should therefore be targeted by adequate public services and tax deductions; repeats its call for legislation on carers’ leave accompanied by adequate remuneration and, social protection, and training;
Amendment 592 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers child poverty to be a major issue on which Europe should ‘act big’; calls foron the swift implementation of a Child Guarantee in all Member States, soCommission to draw up and establish a Child Guarantee to be implemented by all Member States, including common specific support arrangements ensuring that every child now living in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and proper nutrition;
Amendment 619 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for legislation to ensure that access to social housing or adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, obviously including homeless people, and that vulnerable people and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for tax incentives to help young people on low incomes set up their own households; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision;
Amendment 644 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for legislation ensuring fair access for all to good-quality and affordable social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e-communications, energy, transport and financial services; highlights the role of social enterprisconomy enterprises in providing these services;
Amendment 685 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
Paragraph 19 – introductory part
19. Is alarmed at the spread of precariousness arising from the excessivein many cases from the wrongful use of ‘atypical’ contracts; stresses the importance of ensuring sufficient institutional and budgetary capacities to provide adequate protection for people in non-standard forms of employment; considers in particular that:
Amendment 716 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 19 – point b a (new)
ba. Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999, which seeks to prevent abuses arising from the use of fixed-term contracts, should be strengthened and enforced under every arrangement and in all sectors of activity;
Amendment 787 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to better acknowledge and promote social economy's entrepreneurship models because of their effective contribution to the creation of decent jobs, to the social integration of vulnerable people and to the provision of high-quality social services;
Amendment 940 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for a rebalancing of the European Semester so that the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators and the new Convergence Code are directly taken into account in formulating CSRs and the euro area recommendation as well as for the activation of EU instruments; urges a stronger role for the Macroeconomic Dialogue with social partners; considers ‘macro-social surveillance’ to be of great importance for avoiding that economic imbalances are reduced at the expense of worsening the employment and social situation; calls, in this connection, for a social imbalances procedure to be introduced that will prevent a race to the bottom in terms of social standards in the EU;
Amendment 945 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Believes that economic growth should guarantee a positive social impact in the EU, therefore proposes, in the design of the European Semester Process, for a Social Imbalances procedure to be introduced which must prevent the deterioration of social and labour standards in the EU and must boost upwards social convergence;
Amendment 1027 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to refocus the EFSI on job creation and social investment and adapt its risk/return requirements accordingly;
Amendment 1058 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point a
Paragraph 32 – point a
a. a fund for renewed structural convergence, supporting the implementation of socially just reforms and investments that are necessary for increasing the growth potential of crisis- affected areas and restoring upward social convergence, including implementation of the Youth Guarantee, Skills Guarantee and Child Guarantee;
Amendment 1088 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 1112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 1114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Considers that the EPSR should be adopted in 2017 as a binding agreement between the European Parliament and the European Council, involving social partners at the highest level, as well as with other socio-economic stakeholders such as within the social economy and should contain a clear roadmap for implementation, with concrete commitments and target dates;