Activities of Lívia JÁRÓKA related to 2022/0165(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 51 #
Recital 2
(2) The Union is to combat social exclusion and discrimination, and promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men mostly for providing equal opportunities for minorities, solidarity between generations and the protection of the rights of the child as well as the Child Guarantee as laid down in Article 3 TEU. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against poverty and social exclusion, a high level of education and training and protection of human health as laid down in Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
Amendment 100 #
Recital 11
(11) Discrimination in all its forms should be tackled, gender equality and equality among minorities and generations ensured and employment of young people supported. Access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion, including that of children and Roma people, should be reduced, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and adequate, fair and inclusive social protection systems32, and by removing barriers to inclusive and future-oriented education, training and labour-market participation, including through investments in early childhood education and care, and in digital and green skills. Timely and equal access to affordable long-term care and healthcare services, including prevention and healthcare promotion, are particularly relevant, also in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 and in a context of ageing societies. The potential of persons with disabilities to contribute to economic growth and social development should be further realised. As new economic and business models take hold in workplaces throughout the Union, employment relationships are also changing. Member States should ensure that employment relationships stemming from new forms of work maintain and strengthen Europe’s social model. __________________ 32 Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self- employed, 2019/C 387/01
Amendment 110 #
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 1
Member States should actively promote a sustainable social market economy and facilitate and support investment in the creation of quality jobs, also taking advantage of the potential linked to the digital and green transitions, in light of the 2030 EU headline target on employment. To that end, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, foster responsible entrepreneurship including, among others, among women, marginalised and Roma people, especially among the young Roma population, and genuine self-employment, and, in particular, support the creation and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to finance, particularly in the agricultural and food industry sectors. Member States should actively promote the development and tap the full potential of the social economy, foster social innovation and social enterprises, and encourage those business models creating quality job opportunities and, generating social benefits and equal terms and conditions at local level, in particular in the circular economy and in areas most affected by the transition to a green economy due to their sectoral specialisation.
Amendment 119 #
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to educational institutions switching to digital education, and for the protection of families, the European Union should consider the promotion of programmes facilitating the development of digital education, and any digital tool needs of employees and students participating in education, in line with equal opportunities; it must support the possibility for the most vulnerable social groups to participate in digital education.
Amendment 129 #
Annex – Guideline 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Increasing the involvement of women living in poverty, Roma and other excluded groups in launching small and medium-sized enterprises to integrate members of these groups into the economic cycle of the Member States is in the EU’s common interest; the Commission and the Member States should therefore promote tendering opportunities that specifically encourage the comprehensive support of the above- mentioned groups from start-up, to mentoring and monitoring; to maintain and enhance market dynamism, targeted and focused tender support programmes must be established for the Member States to enable the poorest to access various agricultural and other agricultural support schemes for the production of animal, plant and food products; furthermore, the Commission encourages the bold and agile step of offering Member States financially supported opportunities to specifically help employers in the SME sector hire and retain disadvantaged workers.
Amendment 168 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
In the spirit of our common value of subsidiarity, the active involvement in the various acts of policy-making of local employee advocacy groups and community leaders – familiar with and able to reflect on the local conditions of the regions – must be encouraged at both EU and Member State decision-making levels.
Amendment 177 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
There is a need to promote the sharing of good practices on employment between Member States, the role of translating them into practice in Member States, and to illustrate through multiple perspectives the integration of people from the most disadvantaged communities and peripheries into the labour market, including through reskilling and upskilling opportunities that facilitate access to work for the under-skilled, the excluded and other disadvantaged minorities; there is additionally a call for its Member States to include in this cycle the civil society organisations that – as employers – represent the issues of different social groups, and to support them with funding through tendering to ensure long-term development and sustainability.
Amendment 183 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
A system of financial support for mobility opportunities must be established within the Member States, including alternatives for housing, healthcare and education benefits; the unemployment rates of disadvantaged micro-regions are very high, by means of conscious attempts to reduce such rates, our Member States must encourage the creation or maintenance of workplaces that explicitly favour employees from the above- mentioned peripheral groups.
Amendment 184 #
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 4 b (new)
The institutions of the EU shall encourage the launch of calls for applications that can guarantee jobs and reskilling and upskilling for Roma girls and women in the business sector; support initiatives specifically aimed at enabling women from disadvantaged backgrounds to become role models for integration into the labour market by developing them into middle and senior managers.