11 Amendments of Sven SCHULZE related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes that many Member States still have large deficicontinue to be highly indebted and face budgetary constraints and that there is an urgent need to developachieve fiscal responsibility programmes that are fully compatible with quality, with balanced budgets, leading to job creation, and economic growth and welfare state sustainability, as a result, securing the welfare state for future generations too; calls on the Commission, which has already received the national budget proposals for 2016, and within the framework of COM(2015)00121, to provide a flexible process of fiscal responsibility at national level that allows for the adoption of socially responsible and economically efficient policies aimed at decent job creationobserve the Stability and Growth Pact agreements and, as a result, establish socially responsible job creation policies in support of the economy; __________________ 1 COM(2015)0012, ‘Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the SGP’.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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3. Welcomes the fostering, under the agreed rules on deficits, of a European investment policy aimed at boosting growth and job creation; considers it regrettable, however, thatreinforces Parliament’s call3 to promote social investment not only in pursuit of financial profit but also with the aim of promoting a positive social impact has been neglected; __________________ 3 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraphs 10 and 18.
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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4. Takes note of the recommendations on the need to move forward within new labour reforms, and calls for such reforms, if carried out, to guarantee social dialogue and to ensure necessary political consensus in order to be sustainable and effective; considers it regrettable that many labour reforms have not ensured the required balance between flexibility and security, resulting in, for example, the exclusion of millions of workers from collective bargainingstresses that, in connection with labour reforms, the flexicurity approach developed by the Commission is being followed; calls for labour reforms capable of reducing fragmentation, puttingspurring on the labour market to put an end to insecurity and increasinge the productivity and competitiveness of our economy while ensuring decent jobs and livingsocial-partner- negotiated wages through investment in human capital;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
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5. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems caused by the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; considers it regrettable that there is no reference to the importance of increasing wages, in so far as productivity advances permit, especially in those countries where wages are below the poverty threshold; recalls that minimum wages differ substantially between Member Statesset in Member States differ substantially (Bulgaria EUR 184/month, Luxembourg EUR 1 923/month), and reiterates its request for a study4 on this issue; __________________ 4 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraph 47.;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
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6. Notes that, in some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas that, according to the Commission, have increased precariousness in the labour markets; of particular concern are some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90 % for new contracts, which particularly affects young people and women and which, according to the OECD1, is oneMember States, there are ossified, intergenerationally unbalanced labour markets failing to obey the laws of the market on which firms cannot flexibly recruit or release workers in the light of the state of their order books and that, accordingly, some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas which, in many instances, unfairly demand flexibility from the younger generation only; notes further that, in many instances, part-time, project-based ofr the direct causes of increasing inequality; __________________ 1 OECD report ‘In it together: Why less inequality benefits all’, 21 May 2015.emporary work makes it easier for the low skilled to enter employment; stresses that such employment arrangements are often specifically sought by workers because they make it possible to have a better work-life balance or additional earnings;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
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7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take note of the IMF2 report on the causes and consequences of inequality, which states that the increase in the income gap is negatively affecting economic growth and the potential for job creation; calls for effective action on labour taxation, labour markets and redistributive policies to facilitate greater and upward economic and social convergenc and for fairer, supply-and- demand-based labour markets ensuring freedom of movement for workers in Europe; __________________ 2 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’', June 2015.
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
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8. Notes that high rates in long-term unemployment in the EU, especially in some Member States, are resulting in an increasing number of workers losing their benefits before finding a new job; considers it regrettable that manya number of Member States have limited access to such benefits or have reduced the amount available and/or the eligibility period for them; considers it important to maintain a balance between adequate social protection and adequate incentives for active job searching; calls for a specific study on such incentives at EU level, and calls on the Member States to guaranteelook into minimum income schemes to avoid pockets of social exclusion and ensure a minimum income to families;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
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10. Underlines the fact that, according to an IMF report3, the progressivity of tax systems has been weakened in recent years, resulting in increasing inequality; considers that the tax wedge has been much higher for low-wage workers and SMEs with higher effective tax rates; points out the importance of reducing taxes for labour and enterprises in pursuit of more redistributive formgreater demand and new jobs; __________________ 3 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective', June 2015.
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
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12. Considers it regrettable that, although the Commission has acknowledged tha there is no reference in the CSR to the fight against ‘poverty and marginalisation have increased’5, there is no reference in the CSR to the fight against poverty, and that no comprehensive strategy to fight it has been prepared; __________________ 5 COM(2015)0250 final.that Member States are not being called on to adopt poverty reduction strategies which take account of the various causes of poverty in the countries concerned; points out that education, and hence empowerment for employment, is the best anti-poverty tool;
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion
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13. Calls for pension reforms to be made which look into a link between retirement age and increasing life expectancy, taking into account Parliament’s6 repeat recommendations to ensure their sustainability and adequacy; __________________ 6 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068); Resolution of 22 October 2014 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2014)0038); Resolution of 25 February 2014 (Texts adopted, P7_TA(2014)0129).
Amendment 171 #
14. Is deeply concerned by the limited role that national parliaments, social partners and civil society have played in the drafting of the national reform programme (NRP) and the convergence programme (CP); calls on the Commission to favour, within the revision of the economic governance mechanisms, a reform that grants adequate democratic legitimacy to the European Semester.