Activities of Milan BRGLEZ related to 2021/2253(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Common European action on care (debate)
Common European action on care (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT towards a common European action on care
Amendments (154)
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
Citation 10
— having regard to the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and recommendations, and in particular C189 Domestic Workers Convention of 2011 and C190 on violence and harassment,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
— having regard to European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Opinion SOC/535- EESC- 2016 of 21 September 2012 The rights of live-in care workers,
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)
Citation 30 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 10 July 2020 on the EU’s public health strategy post-COVID-191a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0205.
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas social rights are part of human rights and constitutional rights; whereas the EPSR Action Plan sets out concrete initiatives for the implementation of principles that are essential for building a stronger social Europe for just transitions and recovery, such as gender equality, equal opportunities, work-life balance, childcare and support to children, inclusion of persons with disabilities and long-term care;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EPSR Action Plan sets out concrete initiatives for the implementation of principles that are essential for building a stronger social Europe for just transitions and recovery; whereas expanding the care workforce will be a prerequisite for the implementation of these initiatives, including those pertaining to the principle 18 in the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas all Member States and the EU are bound by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including the obligation enshrined in Article 19 of the UNCRPD to adopt effective and appropriate measures guaranteeing equal right of all persons with disabilities to live independently, to participate and be included in the community; whereas equal and effective access to affordable quality care and support services is an essential prerequisite for independent living of persons with disabilities, their participation in the community life and social inclusion;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas care encompasses services to address the physical, psychological and social needs of dependents, as well as support to guarantee the equal exercise of rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well-being for all members of society; whereas care, support to the vulnerable individuals and groups and their empowerment, do not only present an individual right but a direct tangible contribution to social and economic well- being in the Member States and in the Union;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas care encompasses all services to addresssupport autonomy and independence of persons in need for care, and by supporting their physical, psychological and, social needs of dependents, as well as support to, personal and household needs guarantees the equal exercise of the rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well-being ofor all members of society;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas care work means a variety of services carried out by individuals, families, communities, paid service providers, public organisations and state institutions in different types of settings, ranging from institutions to private households; whereas high numbers of care recipients that are dependent on paid or unpaid informal care are directly linked to inaccessibility and unaffordability of quality professional services throughout the life course;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the austerity measures, applied in times of previous crises, have undermined development of quality public services accessible to everyone;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the Commission defines personal and household services as "a broad range of activities that contribute to wellbeing at home of families and individuals: child care, long-term care for the elderly and for persons with disabilities, cleaning, remedial classes, home repairs, gardening, ICT support, etc."; whereas in personal and household services the activities of care and non- care are highly intertwined with a vast proportion of workers performing both;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas at global level, personal and household services are usually described under the term domestic work; whereas the inclusion of domestic workers in the care workforce therefore recognises that care provision includes not only personal care, but also non-relational indirect care, which provides the necessary preconditions for the provision of personal care; whereas a large proportion of personal and household workers thus belongs to the care workforce;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas the COVID-19 crisis highlighted the key role played by workers in personal and household services within our societies, demonstrating the urgent need to ensure full recognition for these workers in all Member States together with collective bargaining rights, social security and social protection; whereas due to the persisting lack of proper recognition of these workers in several Member States, many of them have lost their job during the COVID-19 pandemic without being able to benefit from state wage compensation and job retention schemes; whereas the pandemic resulted in the loss of accommodation for many workers in personal and household services, as well as exposed them to violence and harassment at work;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the stigma surrounding dependence and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination, above all gender and sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, ethnicity, as well as economic, social, migrant and other disadvantaged backgrounds;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas thedespite the fact that throughout the life course, each individual at least once assumes the roles of a carer and of a care receiver, there is stigma surrounding dependence and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing challenges in terms of access to formal care services; , contributing to a halt in the life expectancy and healthy life years, resulting in the unmet healthcare needs, increased feeling of loneliness and isolation, deteriorated mental health and general well-being of people of all generations across the EU, particularly in the Member States with lower pre- pandemic levels of investment in care1a; whereas the long-term effects of COVID- 19 pandemic for health and well-being of individuals as well as its social and economic consequences are yet to be fully assessed and mainstreamed in the relevant policy areas; _________________ 1a European Parliament study (2021) Ageing policies - access to services in different Member States.
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas high incidence and mortality rates due to COVID-19 in long- term care facilities highlighted systemic weaknesses related to too slow transition from institutional care to home- and community-based care services, staff shortages arising from difficulties in attracting and retaining the workers, poor employment and working conditions, lack of career development opportunities for workers in the care sector, difficulties for the cross-border carers, as well as the lack of support to informal carers;
Amendment 198 #
Eb. whereas in addition to the unmet medical needs, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatically negative impact on the access to education, decent housing and services that are essential for the well-being and development of children, generating an additional burden in care and education duties for all parents, above all women and single parents1a; whereas the empirical evidence confirms that the reduction of care services and increase in unpaid care work carried out by women during the COVID-19 pandemic has re-established and reinforced gender inequalities; _________________ 1a Eurofound brief (2021) Education, healthcare and housing: How access changed for children and families in 2020.
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the drastic shift from standard work in the place of employment to telework during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need to better enforce, review and update the legislation related to working conditions in the digital environment and the use of artificial intelligence in the world of work;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the provision of quality care depends on the existence of a sufficiently large and well-trained workforce, the creation of decent working conditions andthrough social dialogue and collective bargaining, fair wages, as well as integrated services, and adequate funding;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to home- and community-based care; whereas that shift has been too slow;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women dominate in the care sector; care remains undervalued, receives little recognition, insufficient and often no financial compensation for the carers; whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women dominate in the care sector, representing 76 % of 49 million documented care workers in the EU1a, and the same time remain the main caregivers in the households; _________________ 1a European Parliament study (2021) Gender equality: Economic value of care from the perspective of the applicable EU funds.
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women dominate in the care sector, as well as the fact that homecare and other personal and household services are provided behind closed doors;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the undervaluation and invisibility of care work are closely linked with the fact that women and migrants – both EU and non-EU citizens - dominate in the care sector;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the conditions of undocumented third country nationals performing care work and/or other PHS work is particularly challenging as in many Member States they cannot report any violation of their rights without risking detention, or deportation;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas 6.3 million professionals work in long-term care, among whom women (81 %) are overrepresented and there are increasing numbers of workers aged 50+, platform workers, as well as migrant and mobile workers; , including live-in carers (around 8% of the workers are non-natives); whereas additional 44 million people in the EU provide informal long-term care to family members, neighbours or friends1a; whereas women dominate also among the informal carers and provide, on average, more demanding and intensive forms of daily care1b; _________________ 1a Eurofound report (2020) Long-term care workforce: Employment and working conditions. 1b Eurocarers (2021) The gender dimension of informal care.
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas 6.3 million professionals work in long-term care, among whom women (81 %) are overrepresented and there are increasing numbers of platform workers, as well as; whereas in 2020 migrant and mobile workers represented 28 % of personal care workers;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas 6.3 million professionals work in long-term care, among whom women (81 %) are overrepresented and there are increasing numbers of part-time, precarious and platform workers, as well as migrant and mobile workers;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in all the Member States, pay in the care sector is well below the average pay and is connected with lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector; lower than the pay that workers get for the same job in other sectors, especially in healthcare, which is connected with lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector; whereas the difference in relation to the average pay is smallest in the Member States with collective agreements for parts of the sector1a; _________________ 1a Eurofound report (2020) Long-term care workforce: Employment and working conditions.
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in all the Member States, pay in the care sector is well below the average pay and is connected with lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector; whereas those employees working in the for-profit and non-profit sectors do not have access to a union representation and collective bargaining;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has emphasised several challenges regarding the terms and conditions of employment of long-term care workers; whereas long- term care workers were at even greater risk of contracting COVID-19 than healthcare workers in hospitals due to lack of personal protective equipment and appropriate training to implement infection protocols and other prevention activities;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas women’s rights are fundamental human rights, and whereas the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and the ECtHR underline that human rights are part of the rule of law;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. Whereas many care workers are of an ethnic minority or are migrants, and many work as live-in care workers in violating of working time legislation, expected to be available 24 hours a day;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. Whereas the care sector has long been facing workforce shortages and in the years 2019 to 2020, 421,000 workers left the residential care sector1a; _________________ 1a see FORBA (2021), Research for FORESEE project: Impact of the Covid- 19 pandemic on the social services sector and the role of social dialogue, Intermediate Report)
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 80 % of all long-term care in Europe is provided by informal carers, which makes care an extremely gendered issue; whereas informal care provision is associated with reduction of employment rates, increase of poverty and social exclusion rates, reduced mental health and increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the high numbers of care recipients who are dependent on informal care are directly linked to the inaccessibility and unaffordability of quality professional services; as well as the choice of many Member States to rely on unpaid informal care as the major source of care provision;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas women in the EU carry out 13 hours more of unpaid care and housework per week than men; whereas 7.7 million women in the EU remain out of the labour market owing to their care responsibilities; and 29 % of women employed part-time refer to care duties as the main reason for taking up part-time work; whereas childcare responsibilities are a cause of change in employment for 60 % of women compared to 17 % of employed men and lead to reduction of working hours for 18 % of employed women and as little as 3 % of men1a; _________________ 1a EIGE report (2021) Gender inequalities in care and consequences for the labour market.
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas these discrepancies are confirmed at the global level with women dedicating on average 3.2 times more (201 working days per year) time than men (63 working days) to unpaid care work and are most pronounced in the case of girls and women living in middle-income countries, with lower educational achievements, living in rural areas and with children under school age1a; _________________ 1a ILO (2018) Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work.
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M c (new)
Recital M c (new)
Mc. whereas due to the disproportional burden of care and housework, women also experience more career interruptions, tend to work shorter hours and are more likely to be in part-time, precarious or temporary employment; whereas sectoral segregation, unequal distribution of unpaid care and housework represent the key causes of the persisting employment, wage and pension gap, as well as greater risk of poverty and social exclusion of women;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M d (new)
Recital M d (new)
Md. whereas the feminisation of care sector contributes to the gender pay gap and gender pension gap because of the proportion of women working in formal and informal care;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M e (new)
Recital M e (new)
Me. whereas an equal distribution of unpaid care and household work has a clear positive impact on the proportion of women in paid employment and reduction of the gender pay gap; whereas access to affordable and quality formal long-term care services for the dependent family members and distribution of unpaid care and household work present crucial factors in determining whether women enter into and stay in employment and the quality of the jobs they perform1a; _________________ 1a EIGE report (2021) Gender inequalities in care and consequences for the labour market.
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M f (new)
Recital M f (new)
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M g (new)
Recital M g (new)
Mg. whereas despite being emotionally gratifying for a large majority of carers, care often generates negative effects on carers’ physical and mental health and difficulties in reconciling care with paid work, which is particularly significant in the case of female carers1a; _________________ 1a European Commission & Social Protection Committee (2021) 2021 Long- term care report.
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M h (new)
Recital M h (new)
Mh. whereas care remains one of the main fields of reproduction of gender archetypes, which are further reinforced by the lack of investment in quality services and gender bias in other policies that disproportionally affect women’s self- determination in social and professional life, such as tax benefit system;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas several Member States and regions in the EU are still failing to meet the goal of providing childcare for 90 % of children between the age of three and mandatory school age and for 33 % of children aged three and under; whereas enrolment rates of children with disabilities, children from the Roma and other minority communities, migrant children, children living in poverty and children from other disadvantaged groups, who would benefit the most from early childcare, remain much below the average1a; _________________ 1a European Social Partners joint statement on childcare provisions in the EU. https://www.etuc.org/en/document/europe an-social-partners-joint-statement- childcare-provisions-eu
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas in 2019, 22.2 % of children in the EU – almost 18 million – were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas children from low-income families, homeless children, children with a disability, children with a migrant background, children with a minority ethnic background, particularly Roma children, children in institutional care, children in precarious family situations, single-parent families, LGBTIQ+ families, and families where parents are away to work abroad face serious difficulties, such as severe housing deprivation or overcrowding, barriers in accessing fundamental and basic services, such as access to quality care, adequate nutrition and decent housing; whereas children with disabilities in the EU are disproportionately more likely to be placed in institutional care than children without disabilities, and appear far less likely to benefit from efforts to enable a transition from institutional to family-based care1a; whereas the European Child Guarantee is an EU instrument whose objective is to prevent and combat poverty and social exclusion by guaranteeing free and effective access for children in need to key services; essential care services, such as early childhood education and care, educational and school-based activities, healthcare and at least one healthy meal per school day, and effective access for all children in need to healthy nutrition and adequate housing1b; _________________ 1a European parliament Resolution of 29 April 2021 on European Child Guarantee 1b Council Recommendation (EU) 2021/1004 establishing a European Child Guarantee.
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas access to quality care services, especially long-term care, is increasingly preconditioned on individual and family income; whereas households with low incomes, lower educational levels, and migrant households experience the greatest difficulties in accessing formal home-based long-term care services; whereas across the EU, one third, and in five Member States even more than half of the households, report that they are in need of professional long- term care services but cannot access them due to financial reasons1a; _________________ 1a Social Protection Committee and the European Commission (2021) Long-term care report
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas some Member States and regions struggle with a severe outflow of trained workforce (i. e. ‘care drain’) to other Member States with better employment, working and living conditions, which exacerbates their existing challenges;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P b (new)
Recital P b (new)
Pb. whereas quality standards for care, especially for social care services, remain absent or inadequate;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P c (new)
Recital P c (new)
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P d (new)
Recital P d (new)
Pd. whereas the increased investment in the care economy in line with Sustainable Development Goals would result in 300 million additional jobs by 20351a; _________________ 1a ILO (2022) Care at work: Investing in care leave and services for a more gender equal world of work.
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P e (new)
Recital P e (new)
Pe. whereas neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory disabling diseases, remain underdiagnosed in most European countries; whereas there is a clear indication that the current number of 9 million confirmed cases of people with dementia is going to double by 2050; whereas women continue to be disproportionately affected by dementia1a; _________________ 1a Alzheimer Europe, Dementia in Europe Yearbook 2019 (2020) Estimating the prevalence of dementia in Europe.
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P f (new)
Recital P f (new)
Pf. whereas in February 2021, the European Ombudsman opened an own- initiative inquiry into the role of the Commission in the process of deinstitutionalisation in the EU, focusing on the fulfilment of Commission’s obligation to ensure that the Member States use the EU funds in a manner that promotes transitioning away from residential care institutions and towards independent living and participation in community life;
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P g (new)
Recital P g (new)
Pg. whereas the mechanism provided for by the 2001 directive on temporary protection has been activated for the first time as a response to the mass influx of refugees, above all women with children and other dependant persons, who are fleeing the war in Ukraine, guaranteeing the displaced persons equal access to the labour market and housing, medical assistance, and access to education for children; whereas activation of the aforementioned mechanism will have significant direct impact on the care sector, increasing the number of persons in the EU in need of comprehensive and personalised care services but also the numbers of both informal and formal carers;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P h (new)
Recital P h (new)
Ph. whereas the data on quality of care services is almost exclusively based on non-standard client satisfaction surveys;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P i (new)
Recital P i (new)
Pi. whereas difficulties associated with the provision of adequate, decent and affordable housing, especially for older people, single persons, persons with disability, persons at risk of poverty and social exclusion, families with young children and single parents, significantly hinder access to quality care services;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P j (new)
Recital P j (new)
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P k (new)
Recital P k (new)
Pk. whereas unions play an important role in representing employees’ interests, as well as raising and maintaining standards across the care sector in non- profit, for-profit and public care;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P l (new)
Recital P l (new)
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P m (new)
Recital P m (new)
Pm. whereas more than half of care workers say they do not earn enough to cover basic needs such as housing and food, and 31% do not have adequate access to personal protective equipment1a; _________________ 1a https://www.finanzwende- recherche.de/wp- content/uploads/2021/10/Finanzwende_B ourgeronMetzWolf_2021_Private-Equity- Investoren-in-der-Pflege_20211013.pdf
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P n (new)
Recital P n (new)
Pn. whereas despite the substantial resourcing needs in the Member States care systems, as well as the EU citizens’ expectations for a more social Europe after the pandemic, social targets, including investment in quality care services, have been left out of the EU recovery mechanisms;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P o (new)
Recital P o (new)
Po. whereas in 2018, the estimated annual investment gap in social infrastructure stood at 100-150 billion euro1a; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files /economy-finance/dp074_en.pdf
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that it is vital to ensure quality care across the life course; underlines the importance of the accessibility, availability and affordability of care, and that all users and their carers should have a genuine choice when it comes to care services; is concerned about citizens’ reports that whether and what type of care and support services they will use is currently principally dependent on structural limitations, especially financial constraints;
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that the genuine choice should extend to the family and community of a care recipient and should entail the decision on whether or not to provide informal care, and with what intensity;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of an integrated approach to common European action on care that pays equal attention to people’s physical, psychological and social needs, paving the way for better links between health and social systems as well as between formal and informal care; underlines the necessity of developing an inclusive European care strategy that focuses on vulnerable groups of individuals and contributes to social fairness; is convinced that alongside horizontal, sectoral integration, there is a need for a better coordination of local, regional and national care policies;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of an integrated approach to common European action on care that pays equal attention to people’s physical, psychological and social, personal and household needs;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee equal access for dependants to affordable quality care services, as well as an active professional life for carers, and therefore calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care; and thereby accelerate its recovery from the negative effects of the austerity measures, privatisation of care and the pandemic, measuring up to and creating synergies with the standards set for investment in digital and green transformation, with gender equality and inclusion of persons from vulnerable groups as the guiding principles; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines and recommendations for Member States in this sense;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee equal access for dependants to affordable quality care services, as well as an active professional life for carerscarer’s opportunity to earn fair wages and develop a career in the sector through skills certification and validation, and therefore calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the provision of funding for all types of care services through the European Social Fund+ and other financial instruments which aim to fund social infrastructure;
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recalls the obligations and commitments of the EU and the Member States for transition from congregated institutional settings to community- and homebased care; calls on the Member States to use the available European and national funds to accelerate transition to community-based care and to support the individual autonomy and independent living with full adherence to the provisions and objectives of the UNCRPD, general comments and recommendations of the committee monitoring its implementation; urges the Commission to take effective measures to prevent the use of EU funds that prolongs institutional care;
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that a substantial proportion of care models, services and facilities are outdated ands that care recipientsey put the needs of care providers, rather than the rights of persons in need for care in focus and that persons in need for care should be placed at the centre of care plans;
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to set ambitious targets for care services in consultation with the Member Statestake leadership in the realm of care by setting ambitious targets regarding access, quality and sustainability of care services in consultation with the Member States and social partners; stresses that the EU should make use of the ILO’s 5R framework for decent care work: recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work, reward paid care work and guarantee care workers’ representation, social dialogue and collective bargaining;
Amendment 535 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to present an ambitious European care strategy that builds on everyone’s right to affordable, accessible and high-quality care, as well as on other principles set out in the EPSR and EU strategic documents, and the individual rights and needs of both care recipients and carers, and that encompasses the entire life course, targeting and responding to the needs of people at critical periods throughout their lifetime, laying the ground for continuity of care services throughout the lifespan and fostering solidarity between generations; calls for a European care strategy that is based on reliable and comparable data, and includes concrete and progressive goals with a timetable and indicators to evaluate progress;
Amendment 546 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 554 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to, alongside responding to the immediate care needs, adopt the policies and measures to tackle their causes, poverty, social exclusion and other structural barriers that stand in the way of equal access to quality care, before everything the challenges related to employment, education and training, as well as decent and affordable housing;
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission to address in the European care strategy the challenging working and employment conditions of all workers in personal and household services, including care and not care work; stresses the importance of adopting measures that facilitate the recognition of these workers;
Amendment 561 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Calls on the Commission to explicitly include the fight against all forms of abuse of older persons in the European care Strategy in order to combat the worrying phenomena such as non-assistance, neglect and the undue use of physical or chemical restraints, particularly in the field of long-term care and support; calls on the Member States to develop trainings for informal and formal carers to avoid such abuse as well as establish independent and effective mechanisms for reporting and redressing it;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for the revision of the Barcelona objectives as part of the European care strategy package; calls for upward convergence to be encouraged and for further investment in high-quality care for every child in the EU, amongst else by significantly raising the level of ambition for accessibility of childcare for children under 3 years of age and setting specific refined indicators for access to childcare for children aged below 1 year; calls on the Commission to integrate in the objectives a new target for provision of childcare after school hours;
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States that are lagging behind the 2002 Barcelona objectives to adopt all the necessary measures to reach the target of providing childcare to at least 90% of children between 3 years old and the mandatory school age and at least 33% of children under 3 years of age as soon as possible;
Amendment 569 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Underlines the importance of accessibility, availability and affordability of quality childcare that meets the demands during the parents’ working hours and is at the same time able to meet the specific needs of children and their parents, related to e. g. disability, illness and work in the specific sector, as one of the major factors of women’s full participation in the labour market;
Amendment 570 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to design childcare, education and other policies and measures in support of children and their families in an inclusive manner and one that upholds the swift and efficient implementation of the European Child Guarantee, sensitive to the needs of children in vulnerable situation, in or at the risk of poverty and social deprivation, and one that upholds the swift and efficient implementation of the European Child Guarantee; highlights that the COVID-19 crisis and the arrival of refugees following the war in Ukraine will further exacerbate the situation of children at risk of poverty and social inclusion or need access to quality care; therefore calls on the Member States and the Commission to urgently increase the funding of the Child Guarantee with a dedicated budget of at least €20 billion, to combat poverty affecting children and their families and to contribute to the goal of reducing poverty by at least half in all Member States by 2030; furthermore, calls on the Member States to neutralise all national expenditures dedicated to the eradication of child poverty within the implementation of fiscal rules;
Amendment 581 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential and calls on the competent national authorities to ensure adequate and accessible social protection systems and integrated child protection systems, including effective prevention, early intervention and family support, in order to ensure safety and security for children without or at risk of losing parental care, as well as measures to support the transition from institutional to quality family and community-based care; calls on the Member States to scale up investment in child protection systems and social welfare services as an important part of implementing the Child Guarantee;
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children; underlines the importance of adequate, accessible and affordable public care structures and services to single parents, the vast majority of whom are women, and to families with low and unsteady incomes, at risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children, as well as children with disabilities;
Amendment 598 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Underlines that provision of quality childcare is largely determined by investments and improvements in the employment and working conditions of the workers in the childcare sector; reminds of the role that social dialogue plays in developing practical tools for improved access to, availability and affordability of childcare;
Amendment 605 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to reform and integrate their social services and protection systems in such a way as to provide effective and equal access to care services throughout the life course, taking a personalised approach, in order to enhance the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation and, whenever possible, independent living and greater autonomy of users in choosing the services and the type of contractual or employment relation that suits the needs of both users and the care providers best, in order to enhance the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation, better prevention, diagnosis and treatment of occupational diseases and, whenever possible, independent living; draws attention to the necessity of decoupling care entitlements from other social transfers and eliminating other structural barriers, which lead to non-take-up or postponement of care and other support services;
Amendment 607 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to reform and integrate their social services and protection systems in such a way as to provide effective and equal access to care services throughout the life course, taking a personalised approach, in order to enhance the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation and, whenever possible, independent living; as well as integrating the care needs of carers and especially those who, as non-nationals with various statuses living in the EU, may face particular barriers in accessing care, intersectional discrimination, marginalisation and in-work poverty
Amendment 619 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to identify and eliminate the administrative barriers that stand in the way of a timely and effective response to individual care needs and to actively support the care recipients and their families in the process of seeking and accessing adequate care and support solutions;
Amendment 639 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that digital technologies are a promising development in supporting care provision, especially for people with low and moderate care needs, but only if they are developed from a user-based starting point and are modular and tailored;
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Highlights the need to support the development of online services, the training to increase digital competencies of the cared and their carers, and improving of internet access and connections to improve the quality of care and to benefit from technology in offering quality care in all stages of life;
Amendment 645 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Believes that those planning, programming and providing the care services have the responsibility to be aware of the users’ needs and that long- term care services must be developed with the participation of the intended users;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Notes that platform work and the so-called ‘uber-isation of care’ is on the rise in the care sector, including in long- term care, which gives rise to additional challenges due to the vulnerability of care recipients, the potential lack of monitoring of care, and health and safety concerns when performing work in the care recipient’s home;
Amendment 658 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to lay the foundation in the European care strategy for recognition, regulation and professionalization of personal and household services, as a way of effective tackling of high share of undeclared work in the care sector and guaranteeing social protection, safe and decent working conditions for workers;
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recognises the essential role and contributions of both intra-EU mobile workers and non-EU migrant workers, including undocumented workers, in providing care in the European Union;
Amendment 671 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Repeats its call for a common definition of disability, as well as mutual recognition of disability status in the Member States; with the aim of removing the fundamental obstacle for intra-EU mobility of persons with disabilities and enabling access of persons with disabilities to health, care and other services that facilitate independent living, as well as equal education and employment opportunities;
Amendment 683 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the prioritisation of mental health within public health policy at EU level; calls on the Commission to put forward a European mental health strategy, identifying the challenges pertaining to mental health of all generations in all the relevant settings, including early age, education, the world of work, as well as later in life, with special emphasis on most vulnerable groups and strategies for prevention, detection and prompt access to adequate treatment of mental health disorders;
Amendment 697 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Amendment 699 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the Member States to guarantee immediate and full access of persons enjoying temporary protection to quality care services, without discrimination on any ground and with special attention to their physical and psychological needs generated by the circumstances of war and their displacement, and to secure, at the same time, equal and decent working and employment conditions and fair pay for the persons enjoying temporary protection who will seek employment in the care sector; underlines that additional capacities and investment in the care sector are essential to this end;
Amendment 701 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Points out that the risk of having their long-term needs unmet is particularly high for older women, who represent a majority of population in the need of long-term care while experiencing the greatest difficulties in covering the long-term care expenses due to persisting gender pay and pension gaps, more career breaks and interruptions due to care obligations, as well as higher propensity to take on precarious or part-time work;
Amendment 721 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for a framework directive on long-term, formal and informal, care that would lay down fundamental principles and provide evidence-based criteria for accessible and integrated quality long- term care and support services across the EU;
Amendment 729 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Stresses that older age, disability, severe illness or other circumstances leading to long-term care needs do not present an obstacle for active participation of individuals in the society and community life; reminds that social exclusion of dependent persons is above all a product of widely spread negative perceptions, socially constructed self- images and the persisting structural discrimination;
Amendment 737 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Amendment 739 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18d. Stresses that the sets of targets for quality long-term care should inevitably include the reduction of inequality in the access to long-term care;
Amendment 740 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
18e. Calls for quality indicators for long-term care that are based on the rights of the persons in need of care, the maintenance of their independence and autonomy as well as social inclusion, and focusing on the expected outcomes such as the improvement of well-being of persons in need for long-term care and support, the evolution of healthy life years;
Amendment 755 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Notes that women’s overrepresentation in informal care acts as a brake on gender equality and may limit the possibility to work formally especially for younger informal carers;
Amendment 759 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Notes that risk of poverty, worse mental and physical health, and social exclusion are associated with intensive informal care-giving;
Amendment 793 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Underlines that this package of actions needs to recognise and acknowledge the different forms of informal care and carers, ensure the personal and societal recognition of carers and acknowledging that carers would also have rights and obligations as a part of their role as a carer; as well as respect of the right to self-determination of the persons receiving care, set a certain criteria for carers to receive social support and other additional support services including time-off for the carer;
Amendment 812 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Member States to place adequate staffing levels and investment in care staff at the centre of their care policies, and to support the creation of quality jobs in the sector with clear, sustainable and attractive career paths that allow permanent professional and personal development; underlines the need for initiatives and projects that would make work in the care sector more appealing to young people and encourage more men to take up care professions;
Amendment 824 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the Member States to place adequate staffing levels and investment in the care personnel at the centre of their care policies, in order to reduce the physical and psychological pressures on workers, to avert the requests for short- notice work, rapid and severe workforce outflows and to increase resilience of the care systems for future crises; stresses the benefits of maintaining healthy work-life balance and recalls the severe toll of the pandemic on physical and mental health and well-being of the care professionals;
Amendment 830 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Highlights the central role of education and training as well as of programmes for reskilling and upskilling of workers for provision of quality care services and professionalization of care; underlines the central role of paid educational and in-work training in the process of transition from residential to community- and home-based care;
Amendment 834 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22 c. Emphasises that care work is an essentially interpersonal service that requires a range of complex skills, some of which are not recognised and remunerated;
Amendment 837 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions for all workers in the care sector, both formal and informal, also as a means of tackling care drain in certain Member States which have seen an outflow of long-term care workers to other Member States with better employment, working and living conditions, which exacerbates their existing challenges, and to adopt high standards of occupational health and safety, in line with and beyond the ambition of the recently adopted EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027;
Amendment 842 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions and the right for all workers to join a representative trade union in the care sector, both formal and informal, and to adopt high standards of occupational health and safety, in line with and beyond the ambition of the recently adopted EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027;
Amendment 848 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Member States to adopt high standards of occupational health and safety, in line with and beyond the ambition of the recently adopted EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027, paying special attention to the specific challenges of work in the care sector, which often includes exposure of workers to hazardous substances or medicinal products, work in the potentially infectious environments, as well as mental and psychosocial risks related to emotionally demanding work and encountering adverse social behaviour;
Amendment 858 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Repeats its call on the Commission to raise the level of ambition and to propose a broader and more comprehensive legislation that would allow better prevention and management of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic diseases, as well as mitigate psychosocial risks and negative effects of care work on well-being of workers;
Amendment 861 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23 c. Is concerned about the high share of minimum wage and sub-minimum earners among the care professionals, persistent gender pay gap and discrepancies in the pay levels of specific care professions; welcomes therefore the Commission proposals for a directive on adequate minimum wages, that would ensure a more decent pay to the lowest paid workers in the care sector, and for a pay transparency directive, tackling persistently inadequate enforcement of the fundamental right to equal pay for equal work of equal value in the EU;
Amendment 864 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Strongly encourages the Member States to provide, with the support of EU funds, training to care staff on the rights of care recipients, particularly the rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 866 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 e (new)
Paragraph 23 e (new)
23e. Calls on Member States to recognize COVID-19 as an occupational disease in the care sector;
Amendment 869 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to strengthen social dialogue and promote collective bargaining and collective agreements in the care sector, both profit and non-profit, as crucial mechanisms for the improvement of employment and working conditions and for tackling the gender pay gap, and as the most effective tools for securing an increase in the minimum wage and in wages in general; calls on the Member States to remove all obstacles to the creation of unions in this industry and to facilitate the process of union access to workers in order to ensure the right and freedom of association;
Amendment 871 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to strengthen social dialogue and promote collective bargaining and collective agreements in the care sector, both profit and non-profit, as crucial mechanisms for the improvement of employment and working conditions and for tackling the gender pay gap, and as the most effective tools for securing an increase in the minimum wage and in wages in general; stresses that especially mobile workers are not sufficiently aware or informed of the terms and conditions of employment applicable to them;
Amendment 885 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote and support age-friendly working environments;
Amendment 890 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that mobile and migrant workers play a significant role in the provision of both residential care and home care in the EUresidential, community- and home-based care in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure fair mobility and recruitment of workers from the EU and from the third countries by improving the reciprocal recognition of their qualifications and by closing the gaps in transnational social protection; repeats its call for proper monitoring and enforcement of rules pertaining to mobility and better informing workers of their rights;
Amendment 903 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Recognises that in many cases this care is being provided undeclared or under-declared, in exploitative conditions, impacting on the rights and well-being of workers and their families, as well as on care service users; stresses that decent work should be integral to definitions and priorities around sustainable and quality care systems;
Amendment 907 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to commit and set concrete actions to promote decent work for all care workers, regardless of their status;
Amendment 908 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25 c. Calls on Member States to combat undeclared work and to create a clear legal framework to promote quality jobs with social protection coverage for all care workers;
Amendment 909 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 d (new)
Paragraph 25 d (new)
25d. Stresses that live-in care workers are predominantly organised through a complex chain of agencies posting workers who are thus covered by the Posting of Workers Directive;
Amendment 912 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to swiftly and fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and encourages them to go beyond the minimum standards laid down in the directive, promoting additional flexibility of work arrangements for groups of workers, such as parents with young children, single parents, parents with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities; stresses that only an equal share of care responsibilities between men and women by means of non-transferable and adequately paid leave periods would enable women to increasingly engage in full-time employment and achieve a work- life balance;
Amendment 926 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States to develop a set of comprehensive measures and incentives to encourage and facilitate the labour market reintegration of workers after care leave or longer career breaks and to guarantee workers’ return to the same or equivalent position;
Amendment 931 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Member States to promote broader collective bargaining coverage in the care sector, provide greater access and information to unions seeking to represent and build membership among the care workforce and remove unnecessary barriers in public sector workplaces, including private contractors working on public contracts, that impede unions’ ability to organize public sector workers and increase their membership;
Amendment 939 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Member States to develop mechanisms and tools for better monitoring of domestic care work;
Amendment 943 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Stresses that the European directive on platform work and national legislation regulating platform economy should duly accommodate the specific nature of care work, providing minimum standards for the quality of services and decent working conditions for workers;
Amendment 947 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Stresses that the forthcoming European care strategy should, amongst else, comprehensively address the impact of digitalisation on working conditions of workers and the effects of teleworking on mental health, as well as on the amount and unequal division of unpaid care and housework;
Amendment 951 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Paragraph 27 d (new)
27d. Calls on the Member States to present an adequate framework for declaration of personal and household services, and to invest in flexible quality professional services to halt precarisation of care and discourage consumption of care services that involve undeclared work;
Amendment 953 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 e (new)
Paragraph 27 e (new)
27e. Urges the Member States that have not yet done so to ratify and implement ILO conventions no. 189 concerning decent work for domestic workers, no. 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work and no. 149 on nursing personnel;
Amendment 955 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 f (new)
Paragraph 27 f (new)
27f. Calls on targeted revision of Directive 89/391/EEC to ensure the inclusion of domestic workers within its scope;
Amendment 959 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the utmost importance of mainstreaming care and measures for the empowerment of women, dependent persons andpersons in need for care and support as well as vulnerable individuals in all relevant national and EU policies, together with encouraging increased public investment in accessible, affordable and high quality care services; calls for these priorities to be reflected in the external dimensions of the EU policies, as well as pre-accession and official development assistance; emphasises that a rights-based approach to care would enable such a mainstreaming across often disconnected policy fields, such as health, employment, pensions and social affairs, spatial planning, education, culture, mobility, digital policies, etc.;
Amendment 969 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Underlines the necessity of systematic implementation of gender and equality mainstreaming in all the stages of budgeting process, both within Commission’s central budgets as well as policies and programmes supported by the EU;
Amendment 974 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put care at the centre of recovery after the pandemic;
Amendment 975 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)
Paragraph 28 c (new)
28 c. Firmly believes that the implementation of national recovery and resilience plans must include targeted actions for the improvement of gender equality in all spheres of life, including measures for reduction and redistribution of unpaid care and household work;
Amendment 981 #
29a. Calls on the Members States to adopt effective policies and programmes for tackling ableism, ageism, gender- based and other forms of discrimination that intersect with prejudice and stereotypes associated with care, paternalism and ideologies of dependency;
Amendment 985 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Calls on the Commission to carefully consider the calls for a Care deal for Europe and to provide the ground for transition to care economy with relevant investment and legislation at the Union level;
Amendment 987 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Member States to depart from the narrow focus on market processes and monetised economy and to adopt approaches to measuring and valuing the contribution and outputs of care, in particular unpaid care and houseworkdomestic work; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include alternative measures of economic and social well-being in the policy-making process;
Amendment 996 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to foster the positive public image and attractiveness of work in the care sector for both men and women by planning educational and public information campaigns and supporting pilot projects advancing this goal;
Amendment 997 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to investigate the causes of large proportion of COVID-19 infections and deaths that have occurred in residential services for older people, persons with disabilities and other social service facilities, in order to draw the necessary lessons and prevent reoccurrence of such tragedies in the future crises;
Amendment 1000 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30 c. Points to the clear benefits of minimum income and minimum pension schemes for timely and effective access to care and support services, as well as for ensuring decent living standard to carers, especially those providing informal unpaid care;
Amendment 1001 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 d (new)
Paragraph 30 d (new)
30d. Calls on the Commission to link the upcoming care strategy to the European action plan for the social economy, raising the awareness of the potential of social economy in improving the working conditions in the care sector as well as creating opportunities for better access of women to quality jobs;
Amendment 1009 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Member States to formulate and revise their care policies in permanent dialogue with social partners, experts, civil society and representative organisations of care recipients ands well as formal and informal carers;