11 Amendments of Lina GÁLVEZ related to 2020/0310(COD)
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The European Social Charter establishes that all workers have the right to just conditions of work. It recognises the right of all workers to a fair remuneration sufficient for a decent standard of living for themselves and their families, contributing to reduce the existing pay gap between men and women. Article 4 of the Charter recognises the role of freely concluded collective agreements as well as of statutory minimum wage setting mechanisms, to ensure the effective exercise of this right.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6 a) According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the purpose of minimum wages is to protect workers against unjustifiably low pay, which is predominant in the care sector. Policy to improve working conditions and access to high-quality jobs in long-term care has a gender dimension, and extending minimum wages to cover care workers can extensively contribute to reducing inequality.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31 a (new)
Recital 31 a (new)
(31 a) The process towards convergence on adequate and fairer minimum wages should go hand-in-hand with the Commission's legislative proposal for wage transparency measures. The Pay Transparency Directive is an important step needed for closing the gender pay gap.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Women, young and low-skilled workers and persons with disabilities have a higher probability of being minimum wage or low wage earners than other groups. During economic downturns, such as the Covid-19 crisis, the role of minimum wages in protecting low-wage workers becomes increasingly important and is essential to support a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery. Addressing minimum wage contributes to gender equality, closing the gender pay and pension gap as well as elevating women out of poverty. Ensuring equal pay and facilitating a good work-life balance, including for men, are vital to sustainable economic growth and development, productivity, and long-term fiscal sustainability in the Union.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the services sector and small firms, which both have a high share of minimum wage earners. In addition, minimum wages are also important in view of the structural trends that are reshaping labour markets and which are increasingly characterised by high shares of non-standard and precarious work. These trends have led to an increased job polarisation resulting in an increasing share of low-paid and low- skilled occupations in most Member States, as well as to higher wage inequality in some of them. The COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to reassess the adequacy of wages in some low-paid, mostly female-dominated, sectors that have proven to be essential and of great social value during the crisis.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States where collective bargaining coverage is less than 70% of the workers defined within the meaning of Article 2 shall in addition provide for a framework of enabling conditions for collective bargaining, either by law after consultation of the social partners or by agreement with them, and shall establish an national action plan to promote collective bargaining. These national action plans should upward wage convergence and establish most appropriate measures and mechanisms for wage setting and increasing coverage at national level, also in order to close the gender pay gap and to reduce inequalities and discrimination. The action plan shall be made public and shall be notified to the European Commission.
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall establish consultative bodies to advise the competent authorities on issues related to statutory minimum wages. These constitutive bodies shall: - Aim at gender parity in their composition - Apply a gender perspective in all their analysis - Provide gender-sensitive evaluation on a regular basis
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the social partners are involved in a timely and effective manner in statutory minimum wage setting and updating, including through participation in consultative bodies referred to in Article 5(5) guaranteeing anti- discrimination and gender equality trainings for social partners and state authorities and notably as concerns:
Amendment 774 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall task their competent authorities with developing effective data collection tools, disaggregated by gender and with an intersectional approach, to monitor the coverage and adequacy of minimum wages.
Amendment 847 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Article 10 – paragraph 5
5. On the basis of the report issued by the Commission, the Employment Committee set up in accordance with Article 150 TFEU shall carry out every year an examination of the promotion of collective bargaining on wage setting and of the adequacy of minimum wages in the Member States. The European Parliament and the Council may submit observations on that report. The report shall take into account a gender perspective.