7 Amendments of Sven SCHULZE related to 2015/0051(NLE)
Amendment 38 #
Recital 1
(1) Member States and the Union should work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and particularly for promoting a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce and labour markets responsive to economic change through the targeted promotion of training in the MINT-sectors and with a view to achieving the full employment and social progress objectives set out in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union. Member States, having regard to national practices related to the responsibilities of management and labour, are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and coordinate their action in this respect within the Council.
Amendment 67 #
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The introduction of EU-wide unemployment insurance is not considered a suitable coordination tool.
Amendment 68 #
Recital 5 b (new)
(5b) The regulatory competence at EU level is lacking for the creation of a regulatory framework for a European minimum wage.
Amendment 126 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 3
Member States should, together with the social partners, encourage wage-setting mechanisms allowing for a responsiveness of wages to productivity developments. In this respect, differences in skills and local labour market conditions as well as divergences in economic performance across regions, sectors and companies should be taken into account. When setting minimum wages, Member States and social partners should consider their impact on in- work poverty, job creation, productivity and competitiveness.
Amendment 150 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 2
High unemployment should be tackled and long-term unemployment prevented. The number of long-term unemployed should be significantly reduced by means of comprehensive and mutually reinforcing strategies, while avoiding disincentives, including the provision of specific active support to long-term unemployed to return to the labour market. The youth unemployment needs to be comprehensively addressed, including by equipping the relevant institutions with the necessary means to fully and consistently implement their national Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans.
Amendment 209 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 4
Mobility of workers should be ensursupported with an aim of exploiting the full potential of the European labour market, including by enhancing the portability of pensions and the recognition of qualifications. Member States should at the same time guard against abuses of the existing rules.
Amendment 236 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 3
The pension systems should be reformed in order to secure their sustainability and adequacy for women and men in a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, including by linking statutory retirement ages to life expectancy, by increasing effective retirement ages, and by developing complementarycreating incentives to take personal responsibility for accumulating capital for retirement savings.