46 Amendments of Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN related to 2021/2253(INI)
Amendment 26 #
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, ILO Convention C190 on Violence and Harassment of 2019 and ILO Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183),
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
— having regard to the 2022 ILO report Care at work: Investing in care leave and services for amore gender equal world of work,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas still the societal value that care work creates is not recognized in the economic statistics or taken into account in macroeconomic policies; whereas the value of care work, both paid and unpaid, needs to be put at the centre of our economies;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas we need to urgently respond to the social, gender equality and economic impacts of those with caring responsibilities; whereas care is essential for our wellbeing and sustaining our societies, particularly in view of demographic change;
Amendment 97 #
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, personal and household needs of families and individuals; whereas care should be recognised as a right, with, guarantee to the equal exercise of rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well- being for all members of society;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the stigma surrounding dependence prevails in all member states; whereas this stigma and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination and aggravate the risk of poverty or social exclusion;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas continuous cuts in public spending have heavily impacted the access and quality of healthcare and care services; Whereas a greater health inequality is fostered as private, for-profit providers cater to lower-risk and paying patients, whilst higher-risk and poorer patients, patients in need for long-term care or those needing emergency care, remain reliant on under-resourced public health service provision;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas states as the main guarantor of care must ensure the provision of quality and adequate funded public care services; Whereas the delivery of care depends on well financed and properly functioning public services and social protection systems; whereas public investments in care services can contribute positively to gender equality and close employment gaps;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing inequalities and challenges in terms of access to formal care services and has revealed the fragility of care work arrangements, societies dependence on unpaid care and the disproportionate reliance on women and girls; whereas this pandemic has even further increased predominantly women's participation in unpaid care at the cost of participating in paid employment;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the provision of quality paid care depends on the existence of a sufficiently large and well-trained workforce, working under the creation of decent working conditions, and integrated services, andwhich require adequate public funding; whereas a greater global investment in care could create almost 300 million care related jobs by 2035, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report1a; _________________ 1a https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---dgreports/--- dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_838 653.pdf
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Amendment 262 #
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 sectprevailing gender roles and norms that care and domestic work are still primarily provided by women; whereas the long and deep undervaluing of the contribution of family carers has resulted in an undervaluing of formal care-work;
Amendment 299 #
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; whereas this is due to a lower collective bargaining coverage in the care sector, as well as feminization and undervaluation of care in general;
Amendment 316 #
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 women’s contribution in unpaid care work adds an estimated US$11 trillion1a to the global economy each year, which is equivalent to 9% of global GDP1b; _________________ 1a https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---dgreports/--- dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_838 653.pdf 1b https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/fil es/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/Li brary/Publications/2020/Policy-brief- COVID-19-and-the-care-economy-en.pdf
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Amendment 333 #
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; whereas an increasing privatization and commodification of care exacerbates economic and gender inequalities;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas there is a lack of sufficient infrastructure offering quality and accessible childcare for all, specially early childhood services as most of Member States’ public expenditure on childcare is for children aged between three and the mandatory school-going age;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas access to quality care services, especially including long-term care, is increasingly preconditioned on individual and family income; whereas access to healthcare and care should be universal, irrespective of economic conditions or residence or migration status;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas women facing intersectional discrimination face additional barriers in accessing healthcare and care services and special attention must be put to address the effects of implicit biases in accessing private and public services generated due to persisting stereotypes and the underrepresentation of certain groups in these institutions;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Calls on the Commission to put forward in its upcoming Care Strategy an ambitious proposal for a “Care Deal for Europe” which should include a set of policies, programmes and recommendations, combined with an specific care investment package, aiming at fostering a transition towards a feminist care economy that recognizes care as a right and value it as the backbone of our society;
Amendment 449 #
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, personal and household needs and that takes into account the intersecting forms of discrimination that people with disabilities and with care needs can face;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a specific and increased EU investment package dedicated to promote the care economy; Highlights the need to increase public 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 offamilies and individuals to universal quality care services, and therefore calls on the Member States to earmark and significantly increase the care investment made through the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to invest in a care economy and ensure sustainable and adequate funding, at all levels of government, of public services, and ensure that procurement prioritises equality, wellbeing and sustainability, above lowest financial cost;
Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Calls on Member States to ensure universal health coverage, increase investments in healthcare, and prioritise funding towards community and primary care; Calls on member states to urgently remove existing barriers to healthcare for all, including for undocumented migrant and with special attention to women facing intersectional discrimination; Calls to ensure higher and fair pay and decent working conditions for care workers, healthcare assistants and other support staff;
Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Call on the European Investment Bank to ensure its annual budget is directed to the development of the care economy as part of its implementation of its own Strategy on Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment
Amendment 522 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to set new ambitious targets for funding and ensure universal care services, in consultation with the Member States;,
Amendment 542 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to present an ambitious European care strategy that pushes forward a care economy buildsing on everyone’s right to affordableuniversal, 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, is based on reliable and comparable and up-to-date data, and includes concrete and progressive goals with a timetable and indicators to evaluate progress;
Amendment 549 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers that the care economy ought to be a pillar of the post-covid economies and the value created in this sector must be accounted for in the calculation of GDP; Calls on the Commission to design statistical analysis and indicators to measure care, its provision and their impact on well-being, welfare and gender equality;
Amendment 558 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls the EU Commission to establish an EU Equal Care Day, every leap day of 29 of February, in order to raise awareness about the undervaluation and invisibility of caring and carers in our societies;
Amendment 566 #
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 and for the revised targets to include a focus on increasing access to quality care for children aged 0-3 and for those facing poverty, social exclusion and intersecting vulnerabilities;
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to ensure more public investment in early childhood services, and to design childcare, education and other policies and measures in support of children and their families in an inclusive and integrated manner and one that upholds the swift and efficient implementation of the European Child Guarantee;
Amendment 586 #
10. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential and calls on the competent national authorities to ensure universal, adequate and accessible social protection systems and integrated child protection systems;
Amendment 592 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic and integrated support to parentfamilies, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing oflow- threshold social services, such as day care, counselling, mediation or psychosocial support, parental entitlements and measures that ensures men’s equal participation in care responsibilities, including care for very young children;
Amendment 706 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to establish a comprehensive set ofand ambitious set of quality indicators for long-term care, and corresponding targets and tools for monitoring the accessibility, affordability, staffing levels and quality of care, for groups in vulnerable situation such as the elderly and people with disabilities, and reporting mechanisms similar to the Barcelona objectives for childcare;
Amendment 715 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for an EU right to care and for everyone to have access to high quality formal care services based on need; underlines that to guarantee this right, long-term care needs must be integrated into national social protection systems, as recommended by the Social Protection Committee5a, which are for equity and efficiency reasons best placed to deliver; _________________ 5a https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId =738⟨Id=en&pubId=7724
Amendment 795 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Member States to introduce ‘care credits’ through labour and social security legislation for both women and men as equivalent periods for building up pension rights in order to protect those taking a break from employment to provide informal, unpaid care to a dependant or a family member, and to recognise the value of the work that these carers do for society as a whole;
Amendment 849 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Urges Members states to promote reforms to recognize the rights of caregivers and care receivers and implement actions to protect fundamental labour rights and improving working conditions of care workers addressing the often precarious situations they faced such as informality, long working hours, inadequate pay, a lack of training and poor occupational health and safety policies and instances of abuse, harassment and violence among others;
Amendment 860 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the EU and member states to ratify the ILO convention no.190 on Violence and Harassment and adopt the necessary measures to ensure a work environment free of violence and harassment;
Amendment 863 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23 c. Regrets that only 8 member states have ratified the ILO Convention No189 on domestic workers that aims to provide legal recognition for domestic work, extend rights to all domestic workers, especially women, in the informal economy, and prevent violations and abuses; Calls on EU and all member states to urgently ratify and ensure compliance with the articles of this ILO Convention;
Amendment 914 #
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; stresses that only an equal share of care responsibilities between men and women by means of equal, non-transferable and adequately paid leave periods would enable women to increasingly engage in full-time employment and achieve a work-life balance; urges the Member States to ensure the participation on women in the labour market as a mean to achieve personal and societal development and not as a response to the market needs;
Amendment 924 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls that policies on work-life balance should encourage men to take up care responsibilities on an equal basis with women and stresses the need to progressively advance towards fully paid and equal length maternity and paternity leaves;
Amendment 932 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Member States, in close cooperation with the social partners, to shore up career pathways so as to make it easier for people to adapt to the different situations they may face in their lives, in particular via lifelong vocational training, adequate unemployment benefits, the transferability of social rights, and active, effective labour market policies;
Amendment 942 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote and guarantee effective protection and equal pay for men and women, through a gender transformative legislation and policy responses that aims to tackle precarious employment, the undervaluation of certain feminised sectors such as care and guarantee career paths and proper social security coverage;
Amendment 957 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
Subheading 7
Recognising, equally sharing and valuing the role of care in our societies and economies
Amendment 966 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Stresses the need for men to participate equally in unpaid care work; calls on the European Commission and Members states to promote transformative actions such as awareness campaigns on the co-responsibility of care, eradicating the stereotyped idea of women as responsible for this work;
Amendment 972 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Strongly urges all Member States to encourage and ensure that fathers are able to take up their paternity leave without fear of adverse or discriminatory conduct by their employers, which is an effective way of encouraging them to accept responsibility for looking after their children and their families and a useful mean to achieving genuine gender equality;