19 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2015/2097(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the provisions necessary for the transposition of Directive 2013/62/EU take different forms in the various Member States; believes that the transposition should therefore comply fully with national legislation and usages in force in the area of collective bargaining between social partners;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers it regrettable furthermore that the Commission is being led to give a ruling while not in possession of all the regulatory elements enabling transposition;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that some Member States have transposed the provisions of the directive beyond the minimum field of application, enabling freelance workers, apprentices, same-sex couples and parents of adopted children to benefit;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that application of these provisions to same-sex couples is a matter to be decided upon solely at national level;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the high degree of variability between Member States regarding the maximum duration of parental leave; welcomes the various measures adopted to encourage fathers to take parental leave, all the more so since having the father and mother present either jointly or in turn enables balance in the child’s mental, social and emotional development;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Commission to respect the privacy, even intimacy, of family life and not establish any standards that would seek to impose ratios on the leave taken respectively by fathers and mothers;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Reiterates that the decision to take parental leave is a matter for the father or mother alone and should not be done to meet a ratio of some kind imposed arbitrarily by the European Union;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes the flexibility the directive grants to the Member States to define forms of parental leave – part-time or full-time – and the working and notice periods established as conditions for granting parental leave; welcomes the initiatives introduced by the Member States to give workers as much flexibility as possible in this area, ensuring that parental leave ties in with their professional and personal circumstances, but believes that any choices made to cede some of the decision- making power to employers should not undermine the target of increasing the taking of parental leave, in compliance with national legislation on the matter;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Supports individual Member States having autonomy concerning their rules on parental leave, in line with their national employment laws, with a view to being smart in boosting birth rates across Europe;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers that a country’s policy on its birth rate, and all measures taken to raise it, are above all a matter for domestic policy, a major factor in the demographic survival of each Member State;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Strongly dDeplores the fact that the proposed revision of the directive on maternity leave was withdrawn just before the publication of the roadmap ‘New start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families’ and the fact that, in the context of this roadmap, the Commission does not at this stage intend to publish a final report on the implementation of the directive on parental leave;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls onRecommends that the Member States to introduce financial compensation for parental leave with a view to reaching a level that would act as an incentive for income replacement, over the minimum time period guaranteed by the directive, based on the average EU maternity leave income replacement rateir national legislation, in order to safeguard families’ social and economic wellbeing;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Proposes, while respecting the sovereignty of each Member State, a parental education salary up to the amount of the minimum wage provided for under each Member State’s legislation and corresponding to real family obligations, with a view to supporting birth rates;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the social partners to offerto allow the Member States to take the measures necessary at national level to extend this minimum duration from four to six months to improve work-life balance;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17