Activities of Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP related to 2022/2171(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. having regard to the UN General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015 ‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’1a, _________________ 1a A/RES/70/1 (http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.as p?symbol=A/RES/70/1)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-A a. having regard to European Parliament resolution of 27 April 2017 on the EU flagship initiative on the garment sector,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-A b. whereas the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textile contains green ambitions but falls short regarding other key aspects of the sector such as workers’ rights or the gender perspective;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women account for approximately 80 % of the global garment workforce1 and comprise the majority of low-w, are disproportionately represented in low-wage jobs in the lower tiers of the sector’s supply chain and consistently lag behind men in terms of pay1a ; whereas low wages, coupled with low or non-existent social protection make these women and children particularly vulnerable to exploitation; whereas wages of women working on this sector of activity are set at well below the living wage, a sum which allows workers to provide for their basic needs and those of their family (such as housing, health care, food, education, transportation and savings); whereas according to the Fair Wage Networkers, the minimum wages in textile producing countries are two to five times lower than the living wage; whereas the employment of women in the garment sector in developing countries contributes significantly to household incomes and poverty reduction; _________________ 1 Briefing entitled ‘Textile workers in developing countries and the European fashion industry: Towards sustainability?’, European Parliament, Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services, 24 July 2020. 1a Moving the Needle: Gender Equality and Decent Work in Asia’s Garment Sector, ILO, 2021.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas jobs that are traditionally labelled as “women’s work” or that are in highly feminized sectors, such as the garment sector, tend to be under-valued; whereas women generally have access to a narrow range of jobs and tasks, face horizontal and vertical occupational segregation, concentrated in the lowest- skilled and lowest-paid tasks, as well as direct and indirect discrimination based on gender, including pregnancy-based discrimination ; whereas they also suffer occupational diseases and lack of access to appropriate and much needed healthcare;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas many of the human rights violations in the textil and garment sector concern labour rights, including poverty wages, arbitrary dismissals, unsafe workplaces, gender-based violence and harassment or precarious work and work conditions; whereas, because of the feminization of the sector, those violations have a high gender impact; whereas despite the widespread violation of human rights, current remedial actions generally remain rare and victims face multiple obstacles to access judicial remedies, including procedural obstacles on admissibility and disclosure of evidence, often prohibitive litigation costs, absence of clear liability standards for corporate involvement in human rights abuses, and lack of clarity on the application of EU rules of private international law in transnational civil litigation;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas widespread abuse of female garment workers has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic mainly due to fashion brands’ response;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
A d. whereas voluntary frameworks to protect women garment workers from violence and exploitation in the workplace in countries involved in textile subcontracting have proven ineffective; whereas binding measures have to be put in place to adress these violations of these human rights;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. Calls on the Commission to mainstream the gender perspective, particularly regarding women's rights, in the implementation of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textile; believes that this initiative should promote non- discrimination and address the issue of violence and harassment in the workplace, as already envisaged by European and international commitments;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Regrets that the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textile does not recognize the value of the industry´s labour, in particular of the role of women workers;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Member States to ratify the relevant International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and implement its recommendations, especially those intended to reduce the scale of precarious work and protect workers from the harmful effects of chemicals, as well asnd from violence and harassment in the workplace as well as those related to home work as it is prevalent in the textile and garment supply chain;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Demands to allow women workers’ unions to be freely established and operated and asks to respect the right to collective bargaining;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for employers in the textile sector to facilitate the training and upskilling of low-wage textile sector workers, in particular woHighlights that skilling, upskilling and re-skilling in the textile sector play a key role to reduce the gender gap in employment; underlines the importance for corporate investment to ensure that women access quality lifelong learning and training, particularly after periods of absence for care reasons, taking strong measures to overcome the lack of timen and other marginalised groups, during working hoursresources and addressing gender bias and gender stereotypical choices; highlights the need to inform female workers about their rights, labour legislation and safety and health issues, as well as the need to provide training to male managers on gender equality and non-discrimination;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt strong measures to ensure women’s access to a fair and inclusive digital and green transition in the textile sector;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recalls that women who work in textile and garments manufacturing are exposed to health risks due to the presence of hazardos substances used in textile products and highlights the urgency to adopt measures regarding health and safety at work that include a gender-sensitive approach;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Regrets that the proposal for a Sustainable Corporate Due Diligence Directive is gender-blind and calls for the incorporation of the gender perspective in the text;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the proposal for an ecodesign regulation covering textiles, the review of the Textile Labelling Regulation3 and the potential introduction of a mandatory disclosure of information that should be gender-sensitive; calls for the inclusion of social and labour standards in both the proposed ecodesign regulation and under labelling requirements; _________________ 3 Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products and repealing Council Directive 73/44/EEC and Directives 96/73/EC and 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. OJ L 272, 18.10.2011, p. 1.