21 Amendments of Damian BOESELAGER related to 2020/2255(INL)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that, in order to face demograpenhance the Union’s global attractiveness and competitiveness, address inequalities and vulnerabilities migrant workers face, ensure decent working and living conditions for all, and allow migrant workers to play an active workforce, which challenges, the Union needsan offset a shrinking workforce, and fill labour market ad skill shortages, the Union needs a holistic European Migration Code; to achieve this, the Union should harmonise and approximate fundamental rights and improve access to social rights for migrant workers and their families, as well as create new avenues for third- country workers of all skill levels to increase its economic competitiveness and; without which the EU cannot maintain its global influence as the champion of democracy, inclusion, human rights, free trade in goods and services and the rule of law, and as the leader in the fight against climate change; ;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for the creation of a framework for the validation and recognition of qualifications and skills, including the formal and non-formal acquisition of skills in third countries, based on objective and uniform criteria; believes there is a need for national authorities to share best practices and build on national level common standards, systems and infrastructures for the recognition of qualifications and skills; believes that local authorities should be given more flexibility to recognise qualifications and assess and validate skills to facilitate an early integration of TCNs into the labour market;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes Directive (EU) 2021/...15 , but considers it insufficient due to the fact that the labour markets of the Union are also in need of low- and medium-skilled workers; calls, therefore, on the Commission to include in its proposal an admission scheme for low- and medium- skilled third-country workers, including the creation of a framework for the validation and recognition of their skills and qualifications, based on objective and uniform criteria; calls the Commission to implement targeted campaigns and promote through other means, the revised Blue Card Directive, including in start-up and IT sector, where skills are recognised equivalently to qualifications; _________________ 15EUT number of 2016/0176 COD to be inserted.
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the Union is in need of more self-employed people and entrepreneurs in order to remain competitive; calls on the Commission to include in its proposal an admission scheme for entry and residence of self- employed people and entrepreneurs, in particular those who establish small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, based on objective and uniform criteria; calls on the Commission to introduce EU- wide 10 year multiple-entry visa allowing to enter for up to 90 days per year;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Notes that the Covid-19 pandemic has restricted mobility for many third- country national workers, having an impact on businesses, small-and-medium sized enterprises, and start-ups, as well as TCN workers and their home countries; stresses that remote hiring has the potential to ameliorate these setbacks and emerge as a sustainable strategy for human mobility in the post-pandemic world; proposes the Commission sets up an EU Talent Remote network that would work together to better understand the benefits an challenges of hiring TCN international talent remote and promote fair remote hiring of international talent; calls the Commission to develop guidelines and standards for future international remote hire, focusing on different components of remote work, including wages, taxes and retirement schemes, labour laws and avenues for residence schemes, workers’ rights and conditions, skill and qualification recognition, and macroeconomic impact, as well as impact on countries of origin; considers that the Commission could assess a future policy to introduce EU- wide scheme for remote TCN workers;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Requests the Commission to include in its proposal a framework for talent partnerships between Member States and third countries, tailored to the situation of the third country in question, which should include vocational training programmes based on skills, in particular aptitude tests, workplace observation and simulations, and that Member States could opt into on a voluntary basis; calls on the Commission to ensure that the framework allows for Parliament to be able to fully exercise its scrutiny and evaluation role; highlights that inspiration could be found in existing skills-based agreements on the development of talent partnerships that allow the destination country to be directly involved in shaping the skill sets of TCNs potentially interested in migrating to the EU, including by establishing training facilities and programmes for third countries, and address the need for transparency of partnerships with third countries, including through the need to involve social partners;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the objective of Directive 2011/98/EU to simplify and harmonise the rules concerning permits currently applicable in the Member States and promote equal treatment has not been fully achieved with some of the provisions being implemented in different ways across Union; requests the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that the Member States implement that Directive fully; further considerwelcomes the European Commission’s planned review of the Directive, which presents an opportunity to increase labour market coherence and increase rights for a broader category of TCNs; recommends that thate Directive should be amended to allowrequire that applications for a single permit tomay be lodged both from within both a Member State and from a third country, and, in order to further simplify and harmonise the rules, to clearly regulate the procedure for obtaining an entry visa so as to avoid applicants having to submit the documents needed to obtain a single permit twice, and calls on the Commission to include such amendments in its proposalmore than once, and to reduce the dependency of workers and risks of exploitation, and calls on the Commission to include such amendments in its proposal; suggests that to reach a broader category of TCN workers, the scope and the application of the Directive should be expanded, to include seasonal workers and self-employed;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to include in its proposal an amendment to Directive 2014/36/EU to allow holders of work permits under that Directive a period of threesix months to seek new employment after having left their previous employer without having their work permit revokedand guarantee their right to stay within the EU during that time; in order to avoid labour exploitation, the EU Commission should encourage Member States to fully apply the provision on changing employers, thereby delinking residence permits from single employers and jobs; furthermore, the Directive should amend the length of stay for a period longer than 9 months;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is of the view that Directive 2003/109/EC should be amended to allow third-country nationalTCNs who are long-term residents of a Member State to reside permanently within another Member State from the day their permit is issued on terms similarequivalent to the terms applicable to Union citizens and to reduce the number of years of residence required to acquire Union long- term residence status from five to three years; calls on the Commission to include those amendments in its proposal; the Directive should facilitate intra- and extra-EU mobility by introducing more flexible rules for onward mobility similar to the Blue Card Directive, allowing for the TCN to accumulate years of stay throughout the EU towards the long-term residency; notes that the Directive should extend the period of absence to allow TCNs to travel to their home countries and provide them the right to re-entry; suggests simplifying procedures for residence permit holders by removing provisions on labour market tests and on other restrictive measures that hamper access to the labour market; calls on the Commission to include those amendments in its proposal and to take steps to ensure compliance with the terms of the Directive;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the implementation of Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification and to take any steps needed to further facilitate its implementation and decrease the financial and practical barriers to family reunification for third- country national migrant workers; furthermore, calls on the Commission should set out EU guidelines that address direct and indirect barriers that may prevent migrants from accessing the right to family reunification and that are in line with the recent CJEU case laws; notes that particular focus should be paid that Member States expand family scope, diminish the years required for the autonomous residence permit for family members, lifting waiting periods to the labour market for family members, and ensure that material conditions do not create further obstacles for family reunification;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Requests that the Commission includes in its proposal measures to ensure visa facilitation including through long-term multiple-entry visas, introduce in existing and future directives a system to facilitate the right to re-entry, and extend the period of absence for TCNs to allow for mobility in their home countries, making visa more easily available and preventing sanctions related to readmission or return that will adversely affect individual visa applicants;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 1 – title
Annex I – Recommendation 1 – title
Recommendation 1 (on the establishment of a EUnion-wide talent pool for legally migratingand matching platform for third-country national workers)
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 1 – indent 1
Annex I – Recommendation 1 – indent 1
- The European Parliament considers that the legislative act to be adopted should establish a Union-wide talent pool and matching platform for third-country nationals who wish to apply for work in and migrate legally to a Member Stateorkers, as well as for Union- based employers to search in third countries for potential employees, and should facilitate the admission and free movement of third- country workers. The European Parliament considers that such a Union-wide talent pool should establish synergies with the existing framework and the legislative act should therefore amend Regulation (EU) 2016/589 in order to expand the current scope of the EURES Portal, established by that Regulation;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 1 – indent 2
Annex I – Recommendation 1 – indent 2
- The talent pool, as established by the legislative act, would allow third- country nationals to express their interest in and apply for work, while also enabling employers to search for potential employees. Third-country nationals would be able to apply for work where there is a shortage in the Member States’ domestic labour markets, after having gone through an application and pre-screening process facilitate by the EU. The talent pool would serve as an optional tool that Member States could use to meet the demands of and shortages in the Member States’ labour markets that cannot be met by the domestic workforce. The talent pool should be complemented by increased coordination between participating national authorities, and it should take into account national specificities and the different demands of national labour markets. The talent pool could help to reduce bureaucracy at Member State level. The promotion of this tool and its usage could be enhanced if there is a targeted information dissemination, which promotes the talent pool and matching platform in third countries and participating Member States. Notes that the involvement of public employment services and local authorities in such a platform in both the EU and countries of origin could help to improve partnerships and build trust between EU member states and third countries, as well as help respond more adequately to local level employment needs or labour market shortages. In that spirit, the Union-wide transnational advisory service network, as referred to in Recommendation 5, should facilitate the running of the talent pool and serve as a contact point for the talent pool in the Member State.
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – title
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – title
Recommendation 2 (on an admittance scheme for low and medium-skillwaged third- country workers)
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – indent 1
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – indent 1
- It is a pressing need for the Union to improve its attractiveness for all skilled third-country workernd allow for the admission of third-country workers across all skill levels, not only for highly- skilled workers. With the revision of the Directive (EU) [EU BLUE CARD], the Union has taken further steps to achieve that goal for highly-skilled third-countryTCN workers. However, it is imperative to also achieve that goal for low- and medium- skilled third-countrywage TCN workers, in order to be consistent in practising EU values, fill vacancies and improve matching on the Member States’ labour markets, further enhancing the Union’s economic competitiveness.
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – indent 2
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – indent 2
- To properly address that issue, the European Parliament calls on the Commission to, within the legislative act to be adopted, include provisions setting up an admission scheme with conditions of entry and residence for low- and medium- skilledwage third-country workers. The scheme should ensure equal treatment in line with the existing EU acquis on labour migration, and include the creation of a framework within which third-country workers are able to have their skills andhard and soft skills and formal and non-formal qualifications properly recognised and validated for use on the Member States’ labour markets. In order to prevent any abuse of TCN migrant workers and to ensure their equal treatment when working or applying for work in the EU, the proposal should include the setting up of monitoring mechanisms and labour market inspections, equivalent to those established in Directive2009/52/EC with a specific focus on preventing the abuse of migrant workers.
Amendment 198 #
- To that end, the European Parliament considers that the legislative act to be adopted should include an admission scheme with conditions of entry and residence for self-employed people and entrepreneurs, in particular for third- country nationals who establish small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, which ensures robust rights and safeguards to promote social and employment standards for all workers. Furthermore, the European Parliament considers that the legislative act to be adopted should include flexible measures to not marginalise self-employed and entrepreneurs who are hired by European employers in third countries, and require travel to EU offices. Such measures can include 10-year multiple-entry business visas, which allow TCN workers to travel to and within the EU for up to 90 days. The definitions of ‘self-employed person’ and ‘entrepreneur’ should be based on objective and uniform criteria set by the Commission.
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 4 – indent 2 a (new)
Annex I – Recommendation 4 – indent 2 a (new)
- Either as part of the Talent Partnerships or separately, the Commission could consider developing European Youth Mobility Programme, to maximise opportunities for young persons to live, work and study in the EU. Such programmes could significantly benefit relations with third countries and building such programmes, the EU can draw experiences from similar schemes in Australia and Canada.
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 7 – indent 2
Annex I – Recommendation 7 – indent 2
- Therefore, the European Parliament considers that the legislative act to be adopted should amend Directive 2014/36/EU to allow holders of work permits under that Directive a period of threesix months to seek new employment after having left their previous employer without having their permit revoked. The European Parliament recommends that the Commission, at the same time, consider other appropriate amendments to that Directive in order to bring it up to date and in line with other more recent Union legal acts dealing with legal migration, including delinking residence permit from a single employer or a job and allowing application within the territory of the Member State.
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 9 – indent 2
Annex I – Recommendation 9 – indent 2
- Therefore, the European Parliament considers that the legislative act to be adopted should amend Directive 2003/109/EC to allow third-country nationals who are long-term residents of a Member State to reside permanently within another Member State from the day their permit is issued on terms similar to the terms applicable to Union citizens. The European Parliament recommends that the Commission, at the same time, consider other appropriate amendments to that Directive to bring it up to date and in line with other more recent Union legal acts dealing with third-country nationals legally staying in the Union. The European Parliament requests the Commission to, as a minimum, include in its proposal reducing the number of years required for acquiring a Union long-term residence permit from five to three years, particularly to enhance mobility and simplify and harmonise procedures. With this in mind, the Directive should facilitate intra- and extra-EU mobility by reducing the time required to obtain long- term residence status, by introducing more flexible rules for onward mobility and by extending the period of absence to allow TCNs to travel to their home countries and provide them with the right to re-entry. The European Parliament suggests that the Directive is amended in order to simplify procedures for residence permit holders by removing provision on labour market tests and other restrictive measures that hamper access to the labour market, including for family members. The Directive should allow for TCN to accumulate years of stay throughout the EU towards their long- term residency. The European Parliament requests the Commission to, as a minimum, include in its proposal reducing the number of years required for acquiring a Union long-term residence permit from five to three years.