22 Amendments of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2017/2260(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas 46.4% of the unemployed in EU28 are long-term unemployed, that is to say, they have been out of work for 12 months or more (the corresponding figure for the euro area is 49.7%);
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the social economy sector comprises 2 million businesses (roughly 10% of the EU total) employing more than 14 million people (about 6.5% of EU workers); whereas this sector has an important role to play in meeting the innumerable challenges facing present- day societies, not least the ageing of their populations;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas high-quality education and training must be accessible to all, as the Commission has stated in the AGS; whereas vocational training is starting to become more credible both in the eyes of young Europeans and in the eyes of the businesses which are recognising their abilities; whereas training acquired in an informal context also provides Europeans with essential tools for the labour market;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas technological and scientific advances, which this AGS welcomes, are making it possible to find better, more efficacious, and more affordable treatments and medicines; whereas this progress is helping to ensure that people suffering from given conditions, for instance those suffering from chronic pain, will be fit to enter the labour market or continue working for much longer;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas population ageing and the rise in the number of dependent older people are having, and will have, a growing impact on health services and long-term care systems, as well as on the need for formal and informal care provision; whereas informal carers constitute a vital asset to society;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)
Recital H d (new)
Hd. whereas undeclared work deprives workers of their rights, encourages social dumping, entailing serious budgetary implications, and adversely affects employment, productivity, the quality of work and skills development, and the efficiency and effectiveness of the pension entitlements system; whereas continued efforts must be brought to bear in order to turn undeclared work into declared work;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)
Recital H e (new)
He. whereas the outermost regions have to contend with immense difficulties related to their specific characteristics that limit their potential for growth; whereas in those regions unemployment rates range between 11.2% and 27.1%, and the long-term unemployment rate, between 54.5% and 80.9%; whereas in those regions youth unemployment is above 40%;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission to bring efforts to bear with a view to helping people suffering from given conditions, for example chronic pain, to enter or remain on the labour market; maintains that the labour market needs to be geared to such situations, and made more flexible and non-discriminatory, so as to ensure that the people concerned can likewise contribute to the EU’s economic development, thus relieving the strain on social security systems;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights and believes its 20 key principles regarding equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions and social protection and inclusion should serve as a point of reference when implementing the European Semester policy coordination cycle; points out that the European Semester coordination process is an essential means of consolidating the European social model, from which the Social Pillar derives;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for partnerships encompassing employers, social partners, public and private employment services, public authorities, social services, and education and training institutions to be established and developed in order to provide the tools necessary to respond more effectively to labour market needs and prevent long-term unemployment; points out that it is essential to have personalised and individualised follow-up, capable of delivering effective solutions for the long-term unemployed;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that qualifications and skills acquired in non-formal and informal learning contexts are important to the extent that they improve the employability of young people and those who have been out of the labour market because they have had to act as carers; points, therefore, to the importance of establishing a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge and experience, especially those acquired through volunteering; welcomes the fact that the Commission has in the AGS taken into account the importance of recognising those skills for the purposes of the New Skills Agenda for Europe;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Member States to support apprenticeship programmes and make full use of the ERASMUS+ funding available for trainees in order to guarantee the quality of training of this kind and make it attractive, and draws the Commission’s attention to the need to boost the uptake of this programme by young people in the outermost regions, as was outlined in the Commission communication entitled ‘A stronger and renewed strategic partnership with the EU’s outermost regions’;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take all the necessary measures to improve the services and legislation that are important for a proper work-life balance; calls for the development of accessible and affordable childcare and early education services, and for the creation of favourable conditions for parents and carers by allowing for advantageous family leave take-up, with particular focus on training and social protection, and flexible working arrangements which tap into the potential of new technologies; underlines, in this respect, the potential of public-private partnerships;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States to develop policies which foster a real entrepreneurship culture among young people from an early age, providing them with internship and company visit opportunities; urges, in this context, the Commission to continue the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programmes; calls on the Member States to support associations and initiatives which help young entrepreneurs to develop innovative projects;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Points out that social economy enterprises were crucial in minimising the impact of the crisis; stresses, therefore, the need to give those enterprises more support, particularly with regard to access to the different forms of financing, including European funds, and reducing their administrative burden; stresses the need to give them a legal framework which recognises their activities in the EU and prevents unfair competition; deplores the fact that the assessment of their activities is not reflected in the AGS, as requested by Parliament;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Urges the Member States to double down on their efforts to transform undeclared work into declared work by bolstering their labour inspection mechanisms and putting measures in place that enable workers to move from the informal economy to the formal economy; reminds the Member States of the existence of the Undeclared Work Platform, which they should actively participate in by using it for the exchange best practices and with a view to tackling undeclared work, letterbox companies and bogus self-employment, all of which jeopardise both the quality of work and workers’ access to social protection systems and national public finances, leading to unfair competition between European enterprises;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of EU citizens and the high unemployment rates among young people in some parts of the EU, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability, safety, adequacy and effectiveness of social security systems over the coming decades; encourages the Member States, therefore, to tackle worklessness among people of working age;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Urges the Member States to assess whether they could reduce taxes on essential items, particularly food, a step which constitutes one of the most basic social justice measures;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up efforts for further inclusion of people with disabilities into the labour market by removing legislative barriers and creating incentives for their employment; stresses that training and education are the best means to boost quality employment and argues that measures should be taken to integrate people with disabilities in all levels of education and training, with the resources to meet their special needs;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the fact that the non- alignment of labour demand with labour supply is a problem that encompasses all EU regions, including the most developed; calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle this issue by introducing measures to facilitate the mobility of workers across jobs, sectors and locations in order to meet labour demand in less and better developed regions alike; calls on the Commission and the Member States, furthermore, to devote particular attention to the unique circumstances of cross-border workers and workers in peripheral and outermost regions;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Deplores the fact that, after countless requests from the European Parliament, the outermost regions are still not included in the AGS; urges the Commission, with the aim of guaranteeing equity between regions and furthering upward convergence, which has been much discussed, to step up the application of Article 349 TFEU in an effort to boost the integration of the outermost regions into the EU; stresses that the special attention given to the outermost regions must be maintained, not only with regard to allocation of funds but also in the light of the impact that European policies can have on their social situation and levels of employment;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the role of the social partners as essential stakeholders in the reform process and the added value of their involvement in the drafting, sequencing and implementation of reforms; supports the opinion that new forms of employment in the globalised market call for new forms of social dialogue; affirms that the Member States need to help people build the skills required in the labour market; Believes that, if we are to move towards upward convergence, social dialogue must be pursued in every phase of the European Semester process;