7 Amendments of Sven SCHULZE related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Notes that the gender-specific employment, pay and associated pension gap, together with the fact that most single-parent families are headed by women, contribute to the situation whereby women are particularly affected or threatened by poverty;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that closing the gender pay gap requirescan only be closed by increased transparency in pay systems, gender-neutral classification, a reversal of the onus of proof when it comes to challenging gender and an improvement in statistical data, gender-neutral job diescrimination in the workplace, and desegregation of theptions and a balanced workforce;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that efforts to closeing the gender pay gap will benefit from measures that improve conditions for all low- and medium-waged workers, including reversing the trend of declining labour income share and linking wage growth tocan be promoted by achieving gender equality and better using the talents and abilities of women, and that wage growth is dependent on increasing productivity1, increasing the minimum wage, reducing unemployment and boosting collective bargaining rights; __________________ 1 International Labour Organisation, Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and equitable growth, 2013.and that this also applies to the minimum wage; is aware that collective bargaining rights will be safeguarded;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precariousmore often employed in less stable work; urges the Member States to consider implementing the International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendations intended to reduce the scale of precarious work2, such as restrictflexible work2, e.g.by analysing the circumstances in which precarioussuch contracts can be used and limicreating the length of time workers can be employed on such a contract, after which they must be given a permanent contractrules restricting successive fixed-term employment contracts without substantial justification; __________________ 2 International Labour Organisation, Policies and regulations to combat precarious employment, 2011.
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the lack of affordable childcare contributes to the gender employment gap, the pay gap and related pension gap, and the disproportionate number of women who arwomen are particularly often in part-time work, which may be lin precarious work and in or at risk of poverty; urges the Member States to ensure access to childcare by, for example, increasing expenditure on the provision of childcare services and/or subsidies to households,ked to a lack of affordable childcare services; notes that access to childcare is important and calls on the Member States to incentivisinge employer contributions to childcare costs, and makinge better use of EU funds;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to make better use of the European structural and investment funds, particularly the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, to prevent women being in or at risk of poverty;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that women’s economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of domestic violence, and that women who have exhausted their paid leave are at risk of losing their jobs and economic independence; calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider introducing a statutory right to paid domestic violence leave.;