16 Amendments of Ángela VALLINA related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threat, clean energy transition, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in relevant skills, making growth more inclusive and by improving employment and social policies, including in view of voluntary labour mobility.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote employment through active interventions enabling (integration or re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, people with disabilities, the long-term unemployed and the inactive, as well as through promotinge social economy and self–-employment, and the social economyccompanied by specific training programmes and business incentives, and including a minimum income guarantee system linked to the interprofessional minimum hourly wage. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhancevoluntary workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote and protect women's participation in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcare. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Support through the ESF+ should be used to promote equal access for all, in particular for disadvantaged groups, to quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, thereby fostering permeability between education and training sectors, preventing early school leaving, improving health literacy, reinforcing links with non-formal and informal learning and facilitating voluntary learning mobility for all. Synergies with the Erasmus programme, notably to facilitate the participation of disadvantaged learners in learning mobility, should be supported within this context.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change, facilitating career transitions, voluntary mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, marginalised communities such as the Roma, the immigrant population and the working poor. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio- economic integration. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcare and long-term care, in particular family and community-based care services. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The ESF+ should support policy and system reforms in the fields of employment, social inclusion, healthcare and long-term care, and education and training. In order to strengthen alignment with the European Semester, Member States should allocate an appropriate amount of their resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to implement relevant country-specific recommendations relating to structural challenges which it is appropriate to address through multiannual investments falling within the scope of the ESF+. The conditions imposed by the European Semester and the macroeconomic conditionality of the Member States shall not under any circumstances block ESF + payments to recipients, nor shall non- compliance be linked to annulment of funding to the Member State in question. The Commission and the Member States should ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity between the shared- management and Health strands of ESF+ and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument. In particular, the Commission and the Member State should ensure, in all stages of the process, effective coordination in order to safeguard the consistency, coherence, complementarity and synergy among sources of funding, including technical assistance thereof.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The Member States and the Commission should ensure that ESF+ contributes to the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU to foster equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas, including regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression. They should also ensure that the ESF+ promotes equal opportunities for all, without discrimination in accordance with Article 10 TFEU and promotes the inclusion in society of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others and contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These principles should be taken into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and equal opportunities. The ESF+ should also promote the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care, in particular for those who face multiple discrimination, while ensuring that this places no extra burden on local families and structures. The ESF+ should not support any action that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion. Regulation (EU) No [future CPR], provides that rules on admissibility of expenditure are to be established at the national level, with certain exceptions for which it is necessary to lay down specific provisions with regard to the ESF+ strand under shared management .
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) ESF+ lays down provisions intended to achieve freedom of movement for workers on a non-discriminatory basis by ensuring the close cooperation of the central employment services of Member States with one another and with the Commission. The European network of employment services should promote a better functioning of the labour markets by facilitating the cross-border mobility of workers and a greater transparency of information on the labour markets. The ESF+ scope also includes developing and supporting targeted voluntary mobility schemes with a view to filling vacancies where labour market shortcomings have been identified.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
i) improving access to employment of all jobseekers, in particular the youthng and long- term unemployed, and of inactive people, promoting the social economy and self-employment, and the social economy;ccompanied by specific training programmes and business incentives, and including a minimum income guarantee system linked to the interprofessional minimum hourly wage.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
ii) modernising labour market institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and ensure timely and tailor-made assistance and support to labour market matching, transitions and voluntary mobility;
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
iii) pPromoting and protecting women’s labour market participation, a better work/life balance including access to childcare, a healthy and well–adapted working environment addressing health risks, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The ESF+ shall promote free universal access to quality healthcare.
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All programmes implemented under the ESF+ strand under shared management, as well as the operations supported by the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands shall ensure equality between men and women throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. They shall also promotguarantee equal opportunities for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The Member States and the Commission shall also support specific targeted actions to promote the principles referred to in paragraph 1 within any of the objectives of the ESF+, including the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care ensuring that this places no extra burden on local families and structures.
Amendment 173 #
The conditions imposed by the European Semester and the macroeconomic conditionality of the Member States shall not under any circumstances block ESF + payments to recipients, nor shall non- compliance be linked to annulment of funding to the Member State in question.