39 Amendments of Marc ANGEL related to 2020/2084(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015, in specific its preamble “Urging Parties, in implementing their policies and measures, to promote a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities and strategies”
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to the ILO conventions and recommendations, in particular the Labour Inspection Convention of 1947 (No 81), the ILO Centenary Declaration (2019), and the ILO Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the ILO Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all of February 2016
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas sustainable development is a fundamental objective of the European Union; whereas the social market economy is based on two complementary pillars, namely the enforcement of competition and robust social policy measures. to guarantee social justice by correcting negative outcomes and bolster social protection;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas the EU entered the deepest economic recession in its history, economic activity in Europe dropping at an unusually fast speed; whereas according to the Summer2020 Economic forecast, EU GDP is forecast to contract by about 8.3% and the euro area by 8.7% in 2020;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
A d. whereas reducing inequalities is a shared responsibility between the EU and the Member States; whereas Member States do not have the same fiscal space to reduce inequalities through public policies and public investment;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
A g. Whereas Eurofound research reveals the complexity of the social dimension of the European Union and suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the European Pillar of Social Rights with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
A h. whereas decisive measures and investment are needed for a speedy recovery that should focus on mitigating the economic and social effects of the pandemic, restart the economic activity, foster sustainable development, the green transition, the digital transformation and implement the principles of the EPSR in order to achieve more effective and stronger welfare states;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy was launched in 2010 for the promotion of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; whereas it has been implemented and monitored in the context of the European Semester – framed by the general goals of pursuing growth, competitiveness and productivity – in a political context of public spending cuts, debt consolidation and deficit contention; whereas despite the words ‘sustainable’ and ‘inclusive’, the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy gave priority to growth above most other objectives; whereas data suggests that the strategy has had mixed results in delivering on its main social objectives; whereas the lack of progress in the reduction of poverty and in further social inclusion shows that social welfare systems are not resilient and robust enough in order to cushion and absorb social shocks during crises;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas, according to Eurofound, collective bargaining has come under pressure and the recession of2008 resulted in a decentralisation of collective bargaining; whereas while every sixth worker in the EU is estimated to be covered by a collective wage agreement, there is difficulty to get good evidence on more in-depth bargaining coverage data and collective agreements across the EU;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
C e. whereas taxation can help to tackle challenges related to inequality and social mobility; whereas the progressivity of the tax system refers to how the tax burden is shared across taxpayers, taking into account all types of taxes; whereas according to Commission study, evidence suggests that the role of fiscal redistribution in offsetting increases in market income inequality has weakened in recent decades, amongst others due to a reduction of the overall progressivity of tax systems; whereas progressive taxation is a necessary precondition to reduce overall inequality and finance well- functioning welfare states;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. Whereas the number of single- person households and older people living alone is increasing and single-person households are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion and particularly older women are at higher risk of poverty than older men if they live alone; whereas lone parent households are at high risk of poverty and deprivation, and have difficulties budgeting due to single incomes and lower employment rates; whereas an increasing number of young adults rely on the parental home to protect them from poverty, but 29% of households with three generations are at risk of poverty and 13% are severely deprived;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. Whereas there is hardly transition from fixed-term to permanent employment contracts; whereas 60% of workers is captured involuntarily in fixed- term employment; whereas transition rates are particularly low in countries with high levels of fixed-term employment;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. Whereas the gap in employment participation among men and women was11.7% in 2019; whereas this differential has a huge economic cost for the European Union corresponding to EUR 320 billion per year, or 2.37% of EU GDP;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
F c. whereas Eurofound research on ‘new forms of employment’ shows that emerging and increasingly important employment forms, deviating from traditional employer-employee relationships and/or characterised by non-traditional work organisation and work patterns, tend to be less covered by social protection, social dialogue and collective bargaining; whereas, as such,employment forms are also found to be more intensively used during economically challenging time, interventions should be considered against the expected labour market crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 71 #
G. whereas the unemployment rate is over 7 % and the youth unemployment rate has risen to 17 % and is expected to increase further due to COVID-197 ; whereas the euro area unemployment rate is expected to increase from 7,5 % in 2019 to about 9,5 % in 2020, with substantial differences among Member States; whereas according to Eurofound’s Living, Working and COVID19 survey, the COVID-19 crisis had a dramatic impact on the labour market with 8% of employees and 13% of the solo self- employed becoming unemployed since the onset of the pandemic; whereas the impact of the crisis was also felt by those who remained in the labour market with a considerable decrease in worked hours, which was reflected in loss of income and concerns over future labour market participation and financial insecurity; _________________ 7Unemployment statistics: Eurostat, July 2020
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas women are more affected than men by the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the employment sectors in which they are prevalent and the care of the elderly and children which still weighs particularly heavily on their shoulders;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas, research based on the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey shows that twice as many regular teleworkers report working in excess of the 48 hours stipulated in EU legislation and resting for less than11 hours between working days compared to those working on the employers’ premises; whereas almost 30% of such teleworkers report working in their free time every day or several times a week, compared to below 5% of ‘office’ based workers; whereas regular teleworkers are also more likely to report suffering from work related stress, being affected by sleep disorders and struggling to reconcile work and family responsibilities;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
I c. whereas the crisis is resulting in rising urban poverty, creating new groups of people are at risk of poverty, is leading to a deepening of territorial inequalities, exacerbating social disadvantages in deprived urban areas and the unequal access to public services, generating an increasing demand for social services and social infrastructure at local level at a time that municipal budgets are overstretched;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. calls for the introduction of a EU Social Imbalances Procedure to complement the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. calls upon the Commission and Member States to better target EU funds, such as cohesion funds, as well as the easing of fiscal rules and competition law to detach social investment from other types of expenditure, allowing for further investment in social and affordable housing;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the announcement of an EU Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Schemthe President of the European Commission to present an EU Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Scheme; calls for this instrument to protect all types of workers, reduce pressure from external shocks on public finances and safeguard national unemployment benefit systems during crises that lead to a sudden rise in expenditure;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned that in the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, the need to tackle child poverty will become imminent in the coming years; underlines that Member States should allocate at least 5 % of the European Social Fund (ESF+) resources under shared management to support activities under the European Child Guarantee; insists that a separate budget line under ESF+ needs to be created for the European Child Guarantee, with an allocation of EUR 20 billion and complemented by a comprehensive Anti-Poverty Strategy including measures ensuring affordable housing and tacking homelessness; recalls that any strategy to eradicate child poverty must take into account the reality of single parenthood, given that single- parent households are among vulnerable groups in society;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on the Commission, within the revision of the public procurement directive, to strengthen the social clause and to exclude tenders from companies who have engaged in criminal activities, social dumping, unionbusting or refused to engage in collective bargaining, ensuring that public money is used to invest in those engaged in Just Transitions, with an aim to promote collective agreements and increase trade union densities;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Urges the Commission to come up with a targeted revision of EU competition law to allow for collective price setting for precarious self-employed, in order to ensure a better balance in bargaining power and a fairer internal market;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on Eurofound to contribute to the measurement of job quality of men and women in different contractual and employment settings and to provide policy relevant analyses to assist the improvement of job quality and make work sustainable;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to commit to eliminating work-related deaths by 2030; urges the Commission to with come up with ambitious new Occupational Health and Safety strategy in order to achieve this aim, including to urgently complete the promised list and introduce stricter limit values on harmful substances, such as carcinogenics and mutagenics, the revision of the health and safety framework directive in order to protect workers during emergency situations like pandemics, and to come up with ambitious legislative proposals on musculoskeletal and stress-related disorders, in cooperation with social partners; calls on the Commission to present a strategic EU carers’ agenda as a step further in qualitatively empowering the healthcare sector in the EU, including personal and household services workers;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls for a Directive on binding human rights due diligence and responsible business conduct - including workers’ rights such as right of association and collective bargaining, health and safety, social protection and working conditions - establishing mandatory due diligence covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, including supply and subcontracting chains; stresses this Directive should ensure the full involvement of trade unions and workers’ representatives in the whole due diligence process and guarantee the right to bargain collectively at the relevant levels on the due diligence policies; underlines that both national labour inspectorates and the ELA must be able to conduct inspections throughout the chain, are open to file complaints, and can offer mediation, on all EU companies and companies wanting to access the internal market; calls upon the Commission to insist on ratification of ILO Conventions 81 (labour inspection)and 129 (labour inspection in agricultural sector) by all trading partners of the EU;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21 b. Encourages the European Commission to take into account the specificity of social economy enterprises, which are proving to be very important for society during the pandemic, and to evaluate the development of specific programs and financial instruments; underlines that everyone should be enabled to do fulfilling work; calls on the Commission and Member States to invest in subsidised work schemes for people on a distance to the labour market;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. calls on the Commission to introduce concrete measures applying to both public and private sectors with due account taken of the specificities of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as the clear definition of criteria for assessing the value of work, gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, gender pay audits and reports to guarantee equal pay, workers’ entitlement to request full pay information and right to redress, and clear targets for companies’ equality performance; Calls furthermore for improved access to justice and the introduction of stronger procedural rights to combat pay discrimination; calls on the Commission to promote the role of the social partners and of collective bargaining at all levels (national, sectoral, local and company) in the upcoming pay transparency legislation; calls on the Commission to include strong enforcement measures for those failing to comply, such as penalties and sanctions for employers that violate the right to pay equality;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Recalls that in the EU, workplace discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, disability, ethnic or racial origin, religion or belief, or sexual orientation, is banned and that everyone is entitled to equal treatment in recruitment, working conditions,promotion, pay, access to training and occupational pensions; calls on the Commission to present a strategy to prevent labour market segregation of ethnic minorities as well as to present a Communication on guidelines and standards for discrimination-free recruitment policies for Member States and employers, including recommendations for the adoption of equality plans at company level and in sectoral collective agreements and the implementation of diversity taskforces in the workplace, including tackling stereotypes, prejudice and negative attitudes, preventing discrimination in recruitment, promotion, pay and access to training; highlights that these equality action plans should be also used to promote ethnic and cultural diversity at the workplace, to develop internal regulations against racism, related discrimination and harassment in the workplace, to monitor and review recruitment, progression and retention of workforce by equality strand in order to identify direct or indirect discriminatory practices and to adopt corrective measures to reduce inequality in each of these areas and, to this effect, collect equality data in respect of privacy and fundamental rights standards;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. insists that gender equality is taken into account in the allocation of RRF resources;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28 b. Calls on the Commission to explore a framework for the establishment of stress tests practices on the European for social welfare systems in Europe, in order to verify their degree of resilience when they undergo shocks with different degrees of severity, and to study in what way they can be made more resilient and robust to resist future crises;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)
Paragraph 28 c (new)
28 c. is concerned about the imbalances of healthcare quality and access across the EU that the Covid-19 crisis has laid bare, by conducting a study to minimum standards for the quality, reliability, efficiency and universality of the Member States’ healthcare systems;
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Stresses that the EU and its Member States have an obligation towards citizens to ensure their universal access to decent and affordable housing in accordance with fundamental rights such as articles 16, 30 and 31 of the European Social Charter and the European Pillar of Social Rights; highlights that investments in social and affordable housing are crucial in order to ensure and improve the living quality for all EU citizens; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise efforts of investing in affordable housing to cover the housing needs of the low and middle-income groups (the three bottom quintiles), ensuring that at least 30 % of all newly built houses constitute affordable housing for both of these income groups, and to eliminate energy poverty by 2030; through supporting energy efficiency investments by low- income households; calls on the Commission to include the model of housing cost neutrality (entailing rents, energy costs and local taxes) in all Renovation Wave proposals, to combine social and climate goals and to prevent ‘renovictions’ (evictions by renovation), thereby ensuring that any rent increases through renovations are fully balanced by energy-savings; urges the Commission to come up with an ambitious action plan tackling homelessness, including a European-wide ‘Housing First’ approach; insists the Commission comes up with minimum standards for decent housing of cross-border and seasonal workers, which is non-deductible from the worker’s remuneration, with tenancy rights;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. is concerned at the way the pandemic has further deepened the vulnerability, isolation, risk of poverty and social exclusion of the elderly population; calls on the Commission to present a plan to ensure the mental health, dignity and wellbeing for people, including the elderly, by supporting adequate public quality healthcare and care services, investing in community based services, decent housing and infrastructure, privileging social economy projects including cohousing and cooperative housing, health and wellness programs, adult day care and long-term care and protecting the role and working conditions of caregivers, and by fostering inter-generational solidarity;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to revise the Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Directive in order to establish a legal framework to ensure decent working conditions and equal treatment for intra-EU seasonal workers and mobile workers on fixed-term contracts with temporary work agencies or any other type of labour market intermediary, including recruiting agencies; stresses that this legal framework should include: a ban on labour market intermediaries who do not comply with the TWA Directive operating in the single market, a guaranteed minimum wage, a guaranteed minimum number of hours per week/month that the employer cannot deduct under any heading from the minimum wage, no deductions from the wage in the case of part-time contracts, guaranteed equal treatment for any person who, in the Member State concerned, is protected as a worker working in the same company/sector, a requirement that all temporary work agencies operating in the internal market are listed on a European register and are certified to operate in the single market, and sanctions on companies using fraudulent recruitment practices and trafficking people for labour exploitation; calls upon the Commission and Member States to end direct payments under the Common Agriculture Policy to beneficiaries who do not comply with national, European labour law, ILO Conventions and applicable collective bargaining agreements;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Welcomes the establishment of the European Labour Authority (ELA); calls for the ELA to be fully operational as soon as possible; calls the ELA for continuous exchange of information on best practices with the respective labour authorities of the Member States and enforcement of tentative inspections; Stresses that in order for the European Labour Authority (ELA) to be effective in combating social dumping and the exploitation and abuse of workers, it should be given the ability to carry out controls and impose sanctions and penalties on non-compliant companies; underlines that this also necessitates a broadened mandate of the Authority, covering EU legislative acts such as e.g. the 2008/104 Temporary Work Agency Directive, the 2014/36 Seasonal Workers Directive, the 2009/52Employer Sanction Directive and including relevant EU legislation on occupational safety and health; urges the Commission to include this in the evaluation of the ELA’s mandate;
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34 b. Invites the Commission to put forward, following a proper impact assessment, a proposal for a digital EU social security number, as announced by the Commission in 2018, which also has the potential of establishing a control mechanism for both individuals and relevant authorities to ensure that workers are covered and social security is paid in accordance with obligations; believes moreover that every worker must have access to information about the employer/s and their salary and working rights, in accordance with the sectorial collective agreement or national legislation where applicable;