Activities of Angelika MLINAR related to 2016/2061(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the need for an EU strategy to end and prevent the gender pension gap PDF (401 KB) DOC (85 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas increasing women's labour market participation contributes to efforts to reduce the gender gap in pensions within the EU, as there is a direct link between labour market participation and the level of pension;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the gender gap in pensions for the population aged 65-74 is estimated at 40.2% on average for the EU28 in 2014, showing wide country variation, ranging from 3.7% to 48.8% and whereas in 14 MSs, gender gaps in pensions exceed 30%;
Amendment 17 #
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 incomeensure economic independence to all EU citizens that safeguards them against the risk of social exclusion;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas there appears to beis a positive correlation between the pension gap and the number of children brought up; whereas, in view of this, the inequalities suffered by single mothers are likely to be exacerbated when they retire;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas women are more likely than men to be obliged to take career breaks and, work on a part-time basis as a result of their disproportionate responsibility for providing care within their householdor unpaid basis to provide care for relatives or others;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas there continues to be a gender pay gap in the European Union; whereas that gap, which stood at 16.3% in 2014, is caused in particular by discrimination and segregation resulting in the over-representation of women in sectors where pay is lower than in sectors dominated mainly by men; whereas other factors such as career breaks or involuntary part-time work to combine work and family responsibilities, stereotypes, undervaluing of women's work and differences in levels of education and professional experience also contribute to the gender pay gap;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
Ta. whereas pre-existing inequalities in the labour market, such as the gender pay gap, are mirrored in cumulated disadvantages in first and second pillar pensions, resulting in lower pensions and a risk of poverty in old age;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the Member States to promote action to close the gapender gap in pensions through their social policies, to raise awareness among decision-makers in this area and to develop programmes that will provide women with more information on the pension gap’'s implications for them, as well as with the tools they require in order to devise sustainable pension funding strategies that are tailored to their specific needs; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further raise public awareness relating to equal pay and the pension gap, and to direct and indirect discrimination against women at work at European, national, regional and local level;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU legislation against indirect and direct gender discrimination is properly implemented, with a view to making sure that men and women have an equal ability to make pension contributions;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to increase transparency, access to information and certainty for members and beneficiaries of occupational pension schemes, taking into account the Union principles of non- discrimination and gender equality; Calls on the Member States to ensure that their occupational pension funds guarantee an equitable spread of risk between generations, to protect the pensions of future generations against short-term policies;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to make it eaconsider forthat employees to negotiate voluntary should be given the possibility to negotiate flexible working arrangements giving themallowing for 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 which can promote higher employment rates among women; calls on the Commission to map the situation in the Member States of a 'Right to request flexible working arrangements';
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises the importance for policy making of having reliable, comparable and available quantitative and qualitative indicators related to gender gaps in pensions , as well as gender-based statistics, and recalls in this regard the role of the European Institute for Gender Equality; calls on the Member States to provide Eurostat with annual gender pay gap and gender gaps in pensions statistics so that it is possible to assess developments throughout the EU;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
18a. Stresses the importance of combating indirect discrimination in pension schemes, not only in occupational schemes but also in the practices of statutory pension schemes; emphasises that the CJEU has made it clear that occupational pension schemes are to be considered as pay and that the principle of equal treatment therefore applies to those schemes as well;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to introduce, in particular for the benefit of the most vulnerable groups, measures to address inequalities that are experienced throughout people’'s working lives and could result in pension disparities. especially with regards to disabled people, LGBTI persons and women with care responsibilities;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure application of the principle of non-discrimination and gender equality in the labour market and in access to employment, and to combat all forms of multiple discrimination, including discrimination against ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities and discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender identity, and to ensure that women's pay and welfare entitlements, including pensions, are equal to those of men with the same or similar experience doing the same job or a job of equal value;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to take a closer look at how the pension gap might be affected by a shift infrom statutory state pension systems towards more flexible arrangements for pension contribuin occupationsal and the establishment of pension entitlements and paymentprivate schemes for pension contributions, with regard to the calculation of the duration of contribution to the pension system and to arrangements for gradual retirement;