6 Amendments of Joachim SCHUSTER related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Criticises the basic orientation of the country specific recommendations (CSR), which largely focus on supply-side economic policies aiming at creating favourable conditions for companies, calls on the Commission to give more emphasis to demand-side economic policies in the CSR.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers it regrettable that in many CSR the Commission massively intervenes in the wage policy of many Member States by demanding to lower the statutory minimum wage or the minimum wage based on collective agreement, to reduce the degree of coverage of collective agreements and a to facilitate a decentralisation of collective bargaining arrangements; criticises that the recommendation made in many CSR to adapt wages in line with productivity developments is interpreted by the Commission in a biased way and that those countries, where wages have lagged behind productivity growth, have not received any CSR to increase wages;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers it regrettable the CSR are not better aligned with the Europe 2020 targets; criticises in particular that targets in the field of employment, poverty, social exclusion and education are not sufficiently taken into account in the CSR; considers it regrettable that this year’s reduction of CSR from 157 to 102 took place at the expense of those recommendations that would have been important to reach the Europe 2020 targets;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that fiscal policy and macroeconomic policy recommendations also have an effect on the social situation and the labour market; against this background, calls on the Commission to upgrade the social indicators as they are defined in the Joint Employment Report in order to improve the monitoring of social and labour market developments and to formulate CSR that are socially balanced;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
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 reducfighting taxes for labour and enterprises in pursuit of more redistributive forms fraud and tax avoidance in particular as far as corporate tax is concerned; __________________ 3 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’, June 2015.
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Criticises the recommendation made in many CSR to link the statutory retirement age to life expectancy. Recommendations related to the reform of the pension system and the adaptation of the statutory retirement age should reflect labour market trends, birth rate, demographic situation, health and wealth situation, working conditions and the economic dependency ratio. The best way to tackle the challenge of ageing is to increase the overall employment rate, building, inter alia, on social investments in active ageing.