11 Amendments of João PIMENTA LOPES related to 2015/2116(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas social inequalities, in particular as regards employment equality, can be combated only through policies guaranteeing a better distribution of wealth, based on an increase in real wages, action to promote labour and working time regulation and labour protection, in particular through collective bargaining and guaranteed universal free access to high-quality public healthcare and education services;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas austerity policies and policies that attack workers’ rights through labour deregulation and the destruction of specific labour inspection mechanisms have fostered precarious employment, inequality and exploitation;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas in most Member States the provision of free and high-quality public services providing care and assistance for children, the sick and the elderly has worsened as a result of privatisation policies, the destruction of public services and the imposition of austerity and poverty policies;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas women are most affected by unemployment and suffer negative discrimination in terms of access to jobs, particularly in the case of mothers and women who want to have children;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, for these reasons, women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children, family and household; whereas these responsibilities also have a direct effect on women’s careers, negatively affect their conditions of employment and produce pay and pension gapaccess to jobs;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas labour deregulation policies, in particular the destruction of the notion of occupational careers and categories and attacks on collective bargaining, have left women in particular more vulnerable to precarious employment, wage discrimination and a lack of social protection, which has consequences for their contribution record and leads to pension disparities that are significantly wider than the corresponding wage disparities;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to promote free high-quality public services that provide proper and necessary care and assistance for children, the sick and the elderly;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to implement labour legislation that promotes labour regulation, collective bargaining, social protection and higher wages; calls likewise on the Member States to eliminate legislation that allows or regulates precarious employment;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to strengthen their equality bodies, as these bodies should take on a leading role in improving complaint mechanisms and organising awareness campaigns as regardscampaigns to affirm women’s rights on the labour market;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to develop and strengthen national labour inspection bodies, providing the conditions and financial and human resources that will enable them to maintain an effective presence on the ground in order to combat precarious employment, unregulated employment and labour and wage discrimination, in particular from the point of view of equality between men and women;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to pursue the implementation of equal treatment in employment policies and measures that would encourage the employment of women and reduce pay and pension gaps.