23 Amendments of João PIMENTA LOPES related to 2016/2221(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in 2014 the employment rate in the EU for people aged between 15 and 64 stood at 59.6% for women and 70.1% for men; whereas the gap is smaller for higher levels of professional qualification; whereas the economic costs of this gap are substantial and were estimated at EUR 370 billion according to a 2013 calculation, or 2.8% of GDP for the EU-28; whereas the female employment rate has risen only slightly since 2008, with the convergence in employment driven by the decline in the male employment rate; 1a __________________ 1aData from Eurofound report ‘The gender employment gap: challenges and solutions’ (2016)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas unemployment rates soared in the period 2008-2014 owing to the profound economic crisis that raged across the EU, and in 2014 the female unemployment rate (10.4%) was still higher than the rate for men (10.2%); 1a
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas in 2015, 33% of women worked part-time against 10% of men working part-time 1b , and a significant proportion of them were working part- time on an involuntary basis; __________________ Data from Eurofound report ‘6th 1b European working conditions survey’
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas on average in 2014, women’s hourly pay was 16.1% lower than the corresponding pay for men 1a; whereas women’s economic situation in the household is also characterised by marked inequalities, and where the household comprises a single woman, 40% have incomes in the lowest quintile against 18% of men, and where the household comprises a women working full-time and a man working part-time, 30% of women have incomes in the lowest quintile, against 6% of men in a similar situation 1b ;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the data show that the main reason for women leaving the labour market is the need to care for children and elderly people (27%), their own illness or incapacity (23%) and other personal or family responsibilities (18%) 1a;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas in the period 2008-2014, so-called NEETs in the 15-29 age group showed a percentage increase, with women being the most heavily represented group (17.1% in 2014), and whereas 34% of these women are in this situation because of family responsibilities and 16.5% are long-term unemployed 1a ;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital C g (new)
Recital C g (new)
Cg. whereas labour deregulation policies and the attack on collective bargaining are enabling and fostering an extension in working time in a number of Member States, without wage compensation, which is contributing to increased working class poverty; whereas these policies are promoting and encouraging precarious employment and the downgrading of the value of work, which has a particular impact on young people and working women, who are obliged to accept jobs with increasingly precarious conditions, often without any social protection;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Recital C h (new)
Recital C h (new)
Ch. whereas this labour and social context is at the root of the pensions gap, which on average stands at 40%;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital C i (new)
Recital C i (new)
Ci. whereas EU policies have promoted the privatisation and destruction of the network of public services and infrastructure providing care for children, the elderly and the sick, and the supply of these high-quality and free public services is now reduced or non- existent;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital C j (new)
Recital C j (new)
Cj. whereas women are particularly affected by precarious work and various forms of ‘atypical work’, such as teleworking or homeworking, and are increasingly having to contend with the phenomenon of ‘worker and career individualisation’, an approach which bolsters the more broadly based offensive against collective bargaining;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital C k (new)
Recital C k (new)
Ck. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to jobs with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, since women continue to be worst affected and suffer most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers on women attending job interviews at which they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women’s decisions and opting for childless workers who are ‘more available’, along with growing economic and work-related pressures on female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital C l (new)
Recital C l (new)
Cl. whereas many workers who are in precarious employment or unemployed do not have the right to parental leave;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas levels of poverty and social exclusion in the EU-28 remain extremely high, standing at more than 118.6 million people in 2015 (23.7% of the population), and women are particularly affected, with more than 62.4 million women in this situation (24.4%);
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas this gap is part of the widening social, economic and gender inequalities in the European Union, a situation that is undeniably linked to the neoliberal and austerity policies imposed by the Commission and the EU, which are responsible for rising poverty, rising unemployment and greater inequalities in the distribution of wealth;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas social inequalities and inequalities between men and women can be combated only through policies guaranteeing a better distribution of wealth, based on measures to ensure decent working conditions, an increase in real wages, action to promote labour regulation and labour protection, in particular through collective bargaining and the regulation of working time, and guaranteed universal free access to high- quality public healthcare and education services;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay differential between women and men and put an end to all forms of precarious employmentlegislation that allow or regulate precarious employment; calls on Member States to implement labour legislation that promotes labour regulation, collective bargaining, social protection and higher wages, as means of overcoming gender inequalities;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay differential between women and men and put an end to all forms of precarious employment, investing in the creation of permanent jobs and lifelong learning and professional training;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on Member States to build up and strengthen national labour inspection bodies by providing them with the necessary conditions and financial and human resources to give them an effective presence on the ground and thereby enable them to combat job insecurity, unregulated work, and labour and wage discrimination, particularly from the point of view of gender equality;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges the Commission to refrain from recommending reorganisation and cuts in Member States’ government departments or promoting greater flexibility in employment or the privatisation of public services, as those approaches have unquestionably served to weaken the social rights of workers and have made themselves felt more severely among women;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect or increase maternity, paternity and parental rights and asks that this protection should also be reflected in employment legislation; urges the Commission to submit a newreview the existing maternity directive, respecting Parliament’s position., including the adoption of measures guaranteeing the allocation of parental leave allowances always on the basis of 100% of reference pay, in order to secure families’ social and economic well-being and to promote take-up of parental leave by fathers;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges Member States to comply with and enforce legislation on maternity rights so that women do not suffer disadvantages in terms of pensions because they have been mothers during their working lives;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to promote public policies to support families, with particular regard to the creation of free, high-quality public childcare services, notably crèches and preschool services, and to strengthen the network of specialised services providing care to the elderly, particularly in their own homes, as a way of removing constraints that, by discriminating against women, objectively contribute to women’s withdrawal from the labour market;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recommends that Member States ensure that all young people have access to high-quality free public education at all ages, particularly at the higher levels of education and training, since it has been shown that raising the level of training helps to reduce labour inequalities between men and women;