12 Amendments of Georgi PIRINSKI related to 2016/2061(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas the gender-specific employment gap, pay gap and associated pension gap, women's overrepresentation in precarious work1a and involuntary part-time work and interruptions in women's careers to care for children or other dependants contribute to the situation whereby women are particularly affected or in risk of poverty; _________________ 1aEuropean Parliament resolution of 19 October 2010 on precarious women workers (OJ C 70E , 8.3.2012, p. 1).
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas despite existing EU legislation and soft-law recommendations, progress in this area is extremely limited; whereas the situation is exacerbated by social dumping, together with the gender pay gap, which leads to a gender pension gap that puts elderly women at greater risk of poverty than elderly men;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas universal, residence- based or flat-rate minimum pensions indexed to wages appear to be particularly favourable to gender equality, because the full basic pension is paid irrespective of the previous employment status and family conditions;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas in 2015 women on average still earned 16 % less per hour than men for the same work; whereas the gender pay gap often leads to women receiving lower pensions than men and makes women more likely to fall into poverty after retirement, and whereas, on average across the EU, women's pensions are 39 % lower than men's;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat all forms of multiple discrimination on gender basis, to ensure application of the principle of non-discrimination and equality in the labour market and in access to employment, and in particular to adopt social protection measures to ensure that women's pay and welfare entitlements, including pensions, are equal to those of men with the same experience doing the same job or a job of equal value;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for full implementation of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, and for it to be revised with a compulsory requirement for companies to draw up measures or plans on gender equality, including actions on desegregation, the development of pay systems and measures to support women's careers;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Notes that the occupational old age pensions schemes are increasingly run according to insurance principles and this might give rise to many gaps in terms of social protection1c ; emphasises that the Court of Justice of the European Union has made it clear that occupational pension schemes are to be considered as pay and that the principle of equal treatment therefore applies to these schemes as well; _________________ 1c http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender- equality/files/conference_sept_2011/dgjus tice_oldagepensionspublication3march20 11_en.pdf
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Deplores that in many Member States there is no entitlement to available, affordable and quality child care and long-term care and more often women are forced to reduce their working time to care for children, persons with disabilities and other dependants; therefore calls on the Commission and Member States to increase their support for childcare and to introduce targets similar to the Barcelona targets on the availability of quality long- term care services;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for an adequate public minimum pension not related toindependent of the previous working life; stresses the importance of shifting towards individual, rather than family-rederived pension entitlements; highlights however the important role platyed, pension entitlements by survivor's pensions in safeguarding many older women from poverty;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to study the effects of different systems providing survivor's pensions in the light of high rates of divorce and non-married couples on poverty and social exclusion of older women;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Member States to adopt measures to extend pension coverage to atypical and self-employed workers;
Amendment 205 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is deeply concerned by the impact of the austerity driven Country Specific Recommendations on pension schemes and at the negative effects the CSR have on income levels and on social transfers needed to eradicate poverty and social exclusion; Calls on the Commission to carry out a thorough assessment of the impacts on the most vulnerable of the recommendations addressed to the Member States on pensions ;