15 Amendments of Javi LÓPEZ related to 2015/0051(NLE)
Amendment 50 #
Recital 3
(3) The employment guidelines are consistent with the broad guidelines for the economic policies. A balance between employment policy and economic policy set out by Article 121 TFEU and Article 148 TFEU is necessary so as to ensure positive development of the Union. In order to meet the objectives set out in Article 9 TFEU, economic policy and social and employment policies should be given equal consideration so as to prevent economic and social imbalances, thus ensuring fully coherent public policy.
Amendment 79 #
Recital 7
(7) Member States and the Union should also address the social impact of the crisis and aim at building a cohesive society in which people are empowered to anticipate and manage change, and can actively participate in society and the economy. Access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion reduced, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and social welfare systems and removing barriers to labour market participation. Member States should also make sure that the benefits of economic growth reach all citizens and all regions. The scoreboard of key employment and social indicators within the Joint Employment Report is a particularly useful tool in this respect by helping to detect key employment and social problems and divergences in a timely way and identify areas where policy response is most needed. However, further editions of the scoreboard should include also gender disaggregated data.
Amendment 106 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 1
Member States should facilitate quality job creation, reduce barriers for business to hire people whilst respecting labour and social standards, promote entrepreneurship and in particular support the creation and growth of small enterprises in order to increase the employment rate of women and men. Member States should also actively promote the social economy and foster social innovation.
Amendment 121 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 2
The tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation, especially by low-paid and low-skilled workers, the long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, that are less detrimental to employment and growth while protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth enhancing expenditures. Reductions in labour taxation should be aimed at the relevant components of the tax burden and at removing barriers and disincentives to labour market participation, in particular for those furthest away from the labour market.
Amendment 128 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 3 a (new)
The Europe 2020 headline target on employment, on the basis of which Member States set their national targets, taking into account their relative starting positions and national circumstances, is to aim to raise the employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 to 75 % by 2020, including through the greater participation of young people, older workers and low-skilled workers and the better integration of migrants. A sub- target for youth employment, which should likewise be translated into national sub-targets, is to aim to reduce the rate of people aged below 25 who are neither in employment, education or training to less than 10 % by 2020, based on full implementation of the Youth Guarantee.
Amendment 129 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 3 a (new)
In order to reduce wage inequalities across the Union and limit nominal imbalances in competitiveness, the Commission together with the Member States should aim at a better coordination of wages via a European Framework on minimum wages, either by law or collective agreement whilst respecting national practices;
Amendment 168 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 4
Barriers to labour market participation should be reduced, especially for women, older workers, young people, the disabled and legal migrants. Gender equality including equal pay must be ensured in the labour market as well as access to affordable quality early childhood education and care, and a new approach on parental leave in order to tackle the gender gap and improve equal opportunities between women and men without deepening in ageing societies problems.
Amendment 177 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 5 a (new)
The Europe 2020 headline target on education, on the basis of which Member States set their national targets, taking into account their relative starting positions and national circumstances, is to reduce drop-out rates to less than 10 %, and increase the share of 30-34 year-olds having completed tertiary or equivalent education to at least 40 %.
Amendment 181 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 1
Member States should reducmake reforms to remove labour market segmentation in order to reduce precariousness. Employment protection rules and institutions should provide a suitable environment for recruitment while offering adequate levels of protection to those in employment and those seeking employment or employed on temporary contracts or independent work contracts. Quality employment should be ensured in terms of socio-economic security, education and training opportunities, working conditions (including health and safety) and work-life balance.
Amendment 189 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 2
Member States should closely involve National Parliaments and social partners in the design and implementation of relevant reforms and policies, in line with national practices, while supporting the improvement ofreinforcing the functioning and effectiveness of social dialogue at national level, especially in those countries with major problems of wage devaluation caused by recent deregulation of labour markets and weakness of collective bargaining.
Amendment 198 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 3
Member States should strengthen active labour market policies by increasing their targeting, outreach, coverage and interplay with passive measures. These policies should aim at improving labour market matching and support sustainable transitions on the labour market, with public employment services delivering individualised support and implementing performance measurement systems. Member States should also ensure that their social protection systems effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, protect those (temporarily) excluded from the labour markets and/or unable to participate in it, and prepare individuals for potential risks, by investing in human capital Member States should promote inclusive labour markets open to all and also put in place effective anti-discrimination measures. Member States and the Union should implement a joint approach on a framework of European unemployment insurance to prevent external shocks with uneven outcomes in different countries. It must be a complementary tool performing as an automatic stabilizer.
Amendment 204 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 4
Mobility of workers should be ensured with an aim of exploiting the full potential of the European labour market, including by enhancing the portability of pensions and the effective recognition of qualifications and skills. Member States should at the same time guard against abuses of the existing rulestackle the language barriers, improving training systems in this matter. The European Institutions should guarantee equal treatment, especially in occupational and non-occupational health and safety, and equal opportunities in the framework of the principle of free movement.
Amendment 208 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 4
Mobility of workers should be ensured as a fundamental right and a matter of free choice with an aim of exploiting the full potential of the European labour market, including by enhancing the portability of pensions and social security, and the recognition of qualifications. Member States should at the same time guard against abuses of the existing rules. Investment in regions experiencing labour outflows should be promoted to mitigate brain drain and encourage mobile workers to return.
Amendment 216 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 1
The Union and Member States should modernisensure basic standards of social protection. Member States should improve their social protection systems to provide effective, efficient, and adequate protection throughout all stages of an individual’s life, ensuring universal access, fairness and addressing inequalities. There is a need for simplified and better targetilored social policies complemented by, including on affordable quality childcare and education, training and job assistance, housing support and accessible health care, access to basicother services such as bank account and Internet and for action to prevent early school leaving and fight poverty and social exclusion. Child poverty, in particular, must be decisively tackled.
Amendment 235 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 3
The pension systems should be reformed in order to secure their sustainability and adequacy for women and men in a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, including by linking statutory retirement ages totaking into account not only life expectancy, by or increasing effective retirement ages, and by developif the sector or the profession allows it, but also increasing coempleoymentary retirement savings rates. Member States also have to guarantee future earnings in order to keep and improve the capacity of purchase.