Activities of Dragoş PÎSLARU related to 2023/2586(RSP)
Institutional motions (1)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on a roadmap towards a social Europe – two years after the Porto Social Summit
Amendments (23)
Amendment 21 #
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas according to the OECD the risk of downward mobility among lower middle-income households has risen in the last two decades and is expected to continue;1a __________________ 1a OECD (2018), A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264301085 -en.
Amendment 24 #
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the social economy is a key driver for the implementation of the EPSR and can actively contribute to achieving the headline targets by 2030;
Amendment 31 #
Recital E
E. whereas according to the European working conditions telephone survey carried out by Eurofound, the target of 60 % in training courses (paid for by the employer) was not reached in any Member State in 2021; whereas the data also shows that those most in need of training (young people, those with lower levels of educational attainment and those in low- skilled occupations) benefited the least;
Amendment 38 #
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates the importance of the conclusions of the 2021 Porto Social Summit, which underline that w; recalls as well the are still living in unprecedented times; notes that COVID-19 and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on our doorstep resulted in the cost of living and energy crises, which are hitting the most vulnerable groups in our society the hardest, leading to increasing inequalities; reiterates the importance of the EPSR as a guiding compass to a more social Europe; stresses, however, that the resultinglevance of the Porto Social Commitment which states that all necessary resources ought to be mobilised to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy, based on sustainable and inclusive growth, decent work and social justice; reiterates the importance of the EPSR as a guiding compass to a more social Europe; stresses that implementing the principles and action plan of the EPSR are necessary steps to achieve the headline targets for 2030 set out by the Commission and endorsed by the Council on employment, skills and poverty are insufficient to ensure its full implementation; stresse; highlights that the EPSR is a powerful tool to ensure that the European project can act as a powerful shield protecting the health, safety and living conditions of its people and can move towards increased social convergence;
Amendment 46 #
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Council to take measures to mitigate the impact of the cost of living criseis on Member State labour markets in order to keep employment rates high; calls therefore on the Commission, the Member States and EU social partners to commit to reaching collective bargaining coverage of at least 80 % by 2030, with a view to improving living and working conditions in the EU, which will contribute to and boosting the uptake of upskilling and reskilling programmes, which will contribute to well-being at work, increased labour force’s competitiveness, upward social convergence and, reduceing in-work poverty, social exclusion and wage inequality and limiting the problem of brain drain affecting many regions across the EU;
Amendment 62 #
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the above-mentioned conclusions of the 2021 Porto Social Summit; welcomes the adoption of the Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU3 and the soon-to-be adopted directive on pay transparency4 ; urges the Council to agree on a general approach concerning the directive for platform work5 in order to improve worker protec's working conditions in the platform economy and to create fair competition; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to occupational health and safety in the workplace; welcomes the Commission’s commitannouncement to follow up with a legislative proposal after the adoption of Parliament’s resolution of 2 February 20236 in case social partners do not come up with an agreement; welcomes the launch of a two-stage consultation of EU social partners; __________________ 3 Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, OJ L 275, 25.10.2022, p. 33. 4 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 March 2021 to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms (COM(2021)0093). 5 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 December 2021 on improving working conditions in platform work (COM(2021)0762). 6 European Parliament resolution of 2 February 2023 with recommendations to the Commission on Revision of European Works Councils Directive, Texts adopted, P9_TA(2023)0028.
Amendment 71 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 72 #
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 79 #
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to put forward a legal framework for an effective and enforceable ban on unpaid internships, traito ensure that internships, traineeships and apprenticeships are adequately paid and based on quality criteria, especially in terms of learning content and experience ; welcomes the European Year of Skills and underlines the opportunity it offers to better disseminate the initiatives of the European Skills Agenda, develop additional skills partneerships and apprenticeships; welcomes the European Year of Skills and in core industrial ecosystems and learn from best practices on how to anticipate and respond to new skills demands; calls on the Commission, in the context of the European Year of Skills, to establish a mapping of the sectors and workers facing a lack of training opportunities; highlights the importance of access to training and reskilling for workers in industries and sectors that need to undergo fundamental changes in order to achieve the green and digital transitions, ensuring no one is left behind; recalls on the Commission to consider a directive on adequate minimum income in order to ensure the reintegration of people absent from the labour market, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, the specificities of national social protection systems and the competences of the Member States; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to presenting a proposal, by the end of 2023, on the creation of an EU disability card to be recognisedessential role that social partners need to play in promoting the uptake of reskilling and upskilling programmes and prioritising such aspects in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to integrate the initiatives of the European Year of Skills into all Member States; welcomes the ongoing negotiations of the social partners on the right to disconnect, with a view to putting forward a legally binding agreement implemented via a directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal for a European social security pass to provide national authorready existing instruments such as the reinforced Youth Guarantee, the Gender Equality Strategy and the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, such as labour and social security inspectorates, and social partners involved in labour and social security inspections with a real-time instrument to effectively enforce national and EU lawo that people who need it most, including young people, women and people with disabilities, can effectively access the initiatives of the European Year of Skills;
Amendment 92 #
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to consider a directive on adequate minimum income in order to ensure the reintegration of people absent from the labour market, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, the specificities of national social protection systems and the competences of the Member States; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to presenting a proposal, by the end of 2023, on the creation of an EU disability card to be recognised in all Member States; welcomes the ongoing negotiations of the social partners on the right to disconnect, with a view to putting forward a legally binding agreement implemented via a directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal for a European social security pass to provide national authorities, such as labour and social security inspectorates, and social partners involved in labour and social security inspections with a real-time instrument to effectively enforce national and EU law, limit unfair competition and promote fair labour mobility across the EU;
Amendment 95 #
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to use social innovation as a key driver for addressing socio- economic challenges, not least by boosting the support to social entrepreneurs and further promoting the social economy sector and urges them to take into account the recommendations of its Resolution on the EU action plan for the social economy1 in the upcoming Council Recommendation on developing a social economy framework; _____________________ 1 P9_TA(2022)0288
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that principle 11 on childcare and support to children requires further action; urgently reminds the Commission and the Member States about Parliament’s repeated call to urgently allocate more funding to the European Child Guarantee, with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion; to break the generational cycle of poverty and boost social mobility; believes that all children under the age of 3 should have access to affordable, quality, full-day early childhood education and care services to foster early childhood development; welcomes the High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU’s recommendation for Member States to provide capacitating services for vulnerable families with children to prevent child poverty6a; urgently reminds the Commission and the Member States of their commitment to reduce child poverty by at least 5 million compared to 2019 and of Parliament’s repeated call to urgently allocate more funding to the European Child Guarantee, with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion; calls on all Member States to ensure that their national action plans are effectively implemented and respond to the key principles of the Council Recommendation 2021/1004 establishing a European Child Guarantee; __________________ 6a High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, final report, January 2023, European Commission.
Amendment 103 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines that Member States should continue the roll-out of the reinforced Youth Guarantee and should provide an adequate allowance for youth from low-income families that enables them to continue their training and studies after compulsory schooling;7a __________________ 7a High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, final report, January 2023, European Commission.
Amendment 104 #
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Believes that periods of care giving where the carer shifts to part time working arrangements or gives up paid employment should count towards pension purposes;8a __________________ 8a High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, final report, January 2023, European Commission.
Amendment 106 #
Paragraph 8
8. Warns that, for the correct implementation of principle 12, adequate social protection needs to be expanded in order to covertake account of the risks associated with the unequal impact of climate change and environmental degradation on different income groups, as well as the social consequences of the transformation of our societies towards climate neutrality; calls on the Commission and Member States to propose an European Action Plan for Social Protection that will take into account the risks of social exclusion due to climate change and environmental decline and that will contain concrete proposals for mitigating the green wave and social and labour transformation ensuing from it, leaving no-one behind and protecting those who are more vulnerable from these changes or who live in regions that are most at risk; calls on the Member States to build upon the Social Climate Fund and lay the foundations for the development of green social protection schemes at national level with EU support;
Amendment 113 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 115 #
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that, according to principle 19, access to social housing or housing assistance of good quality should be provided for those in need; urges the Commission to develop an ambitious action plan to achieve accessible and green social housing to meet the housing needs of all EU citizens, to put an end to energy poverty and to progressively eradicate homelessness by 2030; reiterates its call to adopt a Housing First principle to foster access to housing, and notes that said housing should be based on ‘universal design’ principles to ensure accessibility;
Amendment 130 #
Paragraph 10
10. Expresses its concern about the lack of access to essential services (principle 20), which have come under additional stress; urges the Commission to present a revision of the services of general and economic interestnational, regional and local authorities to better tap into the potential of the specific provisions for services of general economic interest in the EU State aid regulation; calls on the Commission to assess if stronger social provision in such regulation is necessary to improve the access to essential services;
Amendment 141 #
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its call that, in the light of the framework of the Green Deal industrial plan, EU funding, including State aid, should be conditional on public policy objectives, in particular social requirements, in order to offer high-quality jobs, promote collective bargaining, respect EU labour rights and standards and ensure improved working conditions; calls on the Commission and the Member States to enforce the social clause in the existing Directive on public procurement7 and to revise the directivepossibly consider a revision of the directive, based on a comprehensive analysis on which social rights are not respected, in order to further strengthen social clauses in public contracts to require economic operators and subcontractors to fully respect the right of workers, including the right to collective bargaining, to account for the recently adopted Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU; __________________ 7 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC, OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65.
Amendment 156 #
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that, in order to make a fair and social Europe a reality and to ensure the highest levels of social protection in the green and digital transitions, it is necessary to ensure a sustainable, fair and inclusive Europe where social rights are fully protected and safeguarded to at least the same level as economic and environmental standards; stresses the need to take steps to reinforce the role of the EPSR to ensure the equal treatment of at social aspects are put on an equal footing withe economic, and environmental and social standardones and to ensure that social standards and social rights in Europe are placed at the centre of the EU’s forthcoming political practiccies and that social convergence is one of the EU’s top political priorities; notes that, consequently, social investment, including investment in human capital, will be needed for the implementation of the EPSR in upcoming funding initiatives and the revision of the multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 158 #
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on Member States to promote targeted incentives to facilitate a gradual transition to retirement, and at a later age, by inter alia, supporting flexible working- time arrangements and making suitable adjustments to workplaces; believes that, in parallel, Member States should ensure that minimum pensions are high enough to prevent poverty in old age;
Amendment 159 #
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to lead the work on a United Nations Convention on the Rights of Older Persons to codify the rights of older persons in a single document, with a view to protecting these populations and combating against ageism and discrimination;
Amendment 161 #
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to present a governance framework to anticipate and manage changes related to the green and digital transitions in the world of work, focusing first on the importance of safeguarding jobaccompanying workers through labour market transformations, especially in the event of job losses, including access to adequate training, and second, on the involvement of social partners in decision- making processes; reiterates its call on the Commission to propose a directive to regulate teleworking conditions across the EU and ensure decent working and employment conditions ;