Activities of Branislav ŠKRIPEK related to 2016/2061(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The need for an EU strategy to end and prevent the gender pension gap (short presentation) SK
Amendments (18)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the aim of pension policies is to make sure that pension systems give all EU citizens a decent income that safeguards them against the risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the pension gap tends to leave women more at risk of economic social exclusion, vulnerability, poverty and dependence than men;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, owing to their longer life expectancy, women are likely, on average, to require more pension capitalincome than men to cover their retirement;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. considering long absence in the labour market of women who provide long-term informal care to family members, especially dependent children, elderly or disabled;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas women are more likely than men to be obligedopt to take career breaks and work on a part-time basis as a result of their disproportionate responsibility for providing care within their households;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
Ra. whereas the period of care for dependent members of the family, mainly for children but also elderly and disabled members of the family is not properly taken into account when calculating pension entitlements;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R b (new)
Recital R b (new)
Rb. whereas the importance and value of the informal work of women providing care for children and other dependant members of the family should be taken into account and reflected in pension entitlements;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. whereas successive fixed-term contracts may leave room for indirect discrimination;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)
Recital S b (new)
Sb. whereas women employed as replacements have no right to maternity leave even when the contract expires one day before giving birth;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S c (new)
Recital S c (new)
Sc. whereas discrimination related to pregnancy and parental leave was the most prominent form of discrimination in the workplace at the EU level and whereas women are still the main responsible for childcare;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S d (new)
Recital S d (new)
Sd. whereas 79.76% of the persons who reduced their working time to care for their youngest child aged less than eight were women and whereas it is scientifically proven that mothers who work in the first year of a child's life has detrimental effects on child's cognitive development;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas Member States have sole responsibility for the organisation of pension systems; whereas, nonetheless, the European Union has a supporting competence in this area and facilitates the exchange of experience and good practices;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise the importance of informal care and the investment in the human capital provided within the family in both, social and economic terms;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to make it easier for employees to negotiate voluntary flexible working arrangements giving them a better balance between their working and private lives, so that they do not have to favour one over the other when they are obliged to take on greater responsibility for looking after homes and families, and so that their free choice regarding family responsibilities are respected;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States, on the basis of a pooling of best practice, to introduce ‘care credits’ to offset breaks from employment taken in order to provide informal care to family members and to count those credits towards pension entitlements fairly;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to encourage employers to consider the needs of sudden leave requirements in women with young children;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Encourages the Member States to ensure social security benefits for part- time temporary, seasonal and home-based workers, with necessary flexibility in the time setting and autonomously of the children's age;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Member States to enable the transfer of the employee after the maternity or parental leave back to the same work arrangement;