4 Amendments of Sven SCHULZE related to 2015/2284(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EGF was initially established to provide support to workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation; whereas the objective of the Fund is to prepare redundant workers for a new job and to provide them with support; whereas, by way of derogation, the scope of the EGF was expanded to include workers made redundant as a result of the global financial and economic crisis from 2009 to 2011, and this scope was further expanded to permanently include the crisis criterion and self-employed individuals from 2014 to 2020;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the functioning of the EGF has been improved by reforms to the regulation, but that care must nevertheless be taken to ensure that the Fund does not acquire a macroeconomic stabilisation function as a preliminary stage for a European unemployment insurance scheme;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that SMEs account for 8599 % of all EUthe total number of enterprises in Europe and, in this context, expresses concern that the EGF has had a very limited impact on SMEs, despite the fact that it clearly provides scope for SMEs to be targeted; stresses that greater account must be taken, in the support given to redundant workers, of proportionality between workers from SMEs and workers from large companies;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to proactively support redundant workers in SMEs using the flexibility provided for in Article 4(2) of the current regulation, in particular with regard to collective applications involving SMEs;