Activities of Marijana PETIR related to 2016/2017(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Creating labour market conditions favourable for work-life balance (A8-0253/2016 - Tatjana Ždanoka, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė) HR
Amendments (23)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the European Social Charter of 3 May 1996, in particular Part I and Part II, Articles 2 (5), 4 (1), 16 and 27,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)
Citation 3 b (new)
- having regard to the European Pact for mental health and wellbeing of 2008 and its priority 'mental health in workplace settings',
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
Citation 10
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas achieving a genuine work- life balancbalance between professional, family and private life requires comprehensive policies including measures for reconciling work, caring for and spending time with family, and time for leisure and personal development;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas working hours are more often extended until late in the evening, workers are faced with night work, work on public holidays and Sundays without break and rest periods, which makes it difficult for workers to reconcile work with duties towards children and other dependents; whereas some sectors became more affected, such as retail services, where most of those employed are women;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas women are often faced with pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination in employment such as responding to pregnancy-related questions in job interviews, access to employment, dismissal from their work; denial of promotion, training, benefits, leaves or insurance or any other adjustments of working conditions or denial of workers’ rights;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to fully protect the rights of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding, including protection from discrimination on such grounds, ensuring that their rights are in no way negatively impacted upon because of their situation; encourages the European Commission to fully integrate these aspects in a renewed and ambitious effort to revise the Maternity Leave Directive;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the EU is facing unprecedented demographic challenges – an ageing population, low birth rates, changing family structurate marriages and late parenthood and parenting, low birth rates and migration; is concerned that austerity measures have had a negative impact on the sustainability of public finances needed for work-family life balance policies and services that foster demographic renewal;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the importance of the children's rights dimension in the context of policies to balance professional, family and private life;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s approach to work-family life balance policies as key in addressing socio- economic challenges; calls on the European Social Partners to come forward with an agreement on a comprehensive package of legislative and non-legislative measures regarding the reconciliation of professional, private and family life; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for such a package in the context of the announced European pillar of social rights should it not be possible for an agreement between the social partners to be reached;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in place policies that acknowledge the increasing diversity of family relationships and parentneed to respect the primary role of the Member States in devising their policies in support of the family, ing arrangements, in particular toccordance with the principle of subsidiarity and guarantee that a child is not discriminated against because of its parents’ marital status or family constitution;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to step up protection against discrimination and unlawful dismissal related to work-family life balance and to ensure access to justice and legal action;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of incorporating a lifecycle approach in work- family life balance policies in order to ensure that everyone is supported at different times throughout their life and can actively participate in the labour market and in society as a whole;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that the specific situation and particular needs of large families should be taken into account and given a special attention;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls upon Member States to make necessary steps so that the status of stay- at-home mothers would be appropriately recognized;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to address inequalities in paid and unpaid work and to promote an equal sharing of responsibilities and costs for children and care for dependants between women, men and society as a whole;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that promoting the individualisation of the right to leave as well as the role of fathers is essential to achieving gender-balanced reconciliation of work and private life; policies to balance professional, family and private life that comply with Article 23 of the EU Charter on Equality between women and men, thereby supporting the primacy of the role of guidance that the mother and the father share with respect to their children;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish qualitative standards for all care services ensuring that long-term care becomes, when adequate, deinstitutionalized;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out the high levels of working poor throughout Europe, with people having to work more and longer, even combining several jobs, in order to earn a decent income; calls on the Member States and social partners to develop measures ensuring adequate wages for all workers, and to close the gender pay gap between women and men;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to secure working hours respecting workers' health, safety and human dignity through the Working Time Directive and other relevant legislation and to regulate more efficiently the balance of work and private life of workers as well as to ensure a weekly rest period which shall, as far as possible, coincide with the day recognised by tradition or custom in the country or region on concerned as a day of rest;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to review and on Member States to implement the Equal Treatment Directive 2006/54/EC22 focusing on the added social value of family life; __________________ 22 Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast), OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23.
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Underlines the importance of work-family life balance for the cohesion of the societies in Europe, which depend inter alia on voluntary but reliable engagements of its citizens for sport, cultural and social life;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that gender segregation between women and men, pay and pension gaps, gender stereotypes andas well as high levels of stress in managing professional and private life are reflected in women`s high physical inactivity rate and have a huge impact on their physical and mental health23 ; __________________ 23 European Parliament Directorate- General for Internal Policies of the Union study of March 2016 entitled ‘Differences in Men’s and Women’s Work, Care and Leisure Time’.