12 Amendments of Silvana KOCH-MEHRIN related to 2012/2046(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete steps towards a further deepening of the market for services in order to develop its significant jobs potential and to allow workers, both men and women, to benefit from the flexible working conditions specific to many jobs in this sector (with a view, for example,enabling thus to reconcilinge workers work and care duties)private life, while ensuring decent working conditions with respect to, inter alia, payequal pay for equal work principle, health and safety standards, career prospects, further training, social security and lifelong learning;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas the take-up rate of flexible working time arrangements by women is higher than by men and flexible working time arrangements, including teleworking, part-time or home-office are still largely considered as a 'female' way of organising working time;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Points out that according to the 5th European Working Conditions Survey of April 2012, 18% of workers reported having a poor work–life balance; across the EU as a whole, 19% of women and 7% of men work 'short' (fewer than 20 hours a week) part-time. Only 3% of men aged 35–49 are on 'short' part-time hours compared with 18% of women in that age group; notes also that part-time jobs are found mostly in particular sectors: more than 38% of part-time workers (both 'short' and 'substantial' (between 20 and 34 hours a week)) are in the education, health and social services, other services, and retail and wholesale sectors; Calls therefore on the Member States to adopt appropriate policies which would enable to reconcile work and private life, including those on part time work in order to encourage both parents to actively participate in reconciliation measures and rectify thus the existing gender imbalance in this regard;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the importance of swiftly reaching an agreement on the Programme for Social Change and Innovation in order to enable workers and entrepreneurs in the service sector to benefit from its Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis, stresses in this regard that there are considerable possibilities for women entrepreneurs as generally, women continue to choose their training in the service sector, which is also where they have their commercial experience and knowledge of the trade;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. Whereas creating a balance between work and family life is essential if women are to findfor both women and men working in the service sector;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for all workers in the service sector to have access to up-skilling and further training programmes in order to improve the mismatch between skills and work duties;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of combating stereotypes in the service sector, where there is an assumption that there are male and female jobs, and that the latter are associated with the work that women do in theat home and are considered as an extension of these (clothing and textiles, teaching, nursing, cleaning, etc.);
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the fact that part-time employment (19.2 % of total employment in the EU in 2010) is still a predominantly female domain; in the EU, in 2010, 31.9 % of the female workforce was in part-time employment compared to just 8.7 % of the male population, in other words, 78 % of part-time work is carried out by women; stresses the fact that active participation and involvement of men in reconciliation measures, such as part-time is crucial for reaching the work-life balance, since both women and men could benefit from family-friendly employment policies and from equal sharing of unpaid work and of responsibilities in the household;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that a flexible working hours arorganisation of working time supports the brecoming more commonplace: weekend work, irregular and unpredictable working hours and adding to them, and given that the demand for flexibility is greatest amongst part-time workers, who are mostly women, this means that more women than men suffer changes in their working hours from week to week, making it even harder for women to find a balance between work and family lifenciliation of work and private life; therefore the framework of flexible working time arrangements should be designed carefully in order to take the preferences of the employees into account; it should include the option of a flexible start and end of working day and the possibility to fully determine personal working schedules in order to encourage both parents to actively participate in reconciliation measures;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need for appropriate policies to reconcile work and family life and in particular calls for an adequate provision of affordable child care services and care for other dependents compatible with the flexible working hours that are being imposed in the service sector;