8 Amendments of Edite ESTRELA related to 2011/2066(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Turkey does not provide for any kind of paid parental leave, which is an essential instrument to ensure that parents share rights and responsibilities as regards their children’s care and for the reduction of gender inequality in the labour market;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas Turkey recently improved their maternity leave legislation, from twelve to sixteen weeks paid at 66% of the worker’s salary;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the only legal obligation for providing childcare services to employed families, within the Turkish Labour Law, is based only on the number of female employees (minimum of 150 women), reflecting a discriminatory approach which considers child-rearing a responsibly of women only;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Turkish Government, in order to increase women’s participation in the labour market, to envisage more efforts to guarantee that the parental leave provisions better complement the existing maternity leave act, allowing also fathers to fulfil their equal responsibility in childcare. Considering the experiences from other countries, unless parental leave is on a paid basis or have a non- transferable component, fathers taking care leave will not be effective;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Stresses that the recent extension of the maternity leave legislation, from twelve to sixteen weeks, should be followed by a pay rise, in order to better guarantee that families and women are not financially penalised for having children;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Is deeply concern about the lack of progress in the provision of childcare and pre-school education services. Highlights that, even if there is no official data available, it is estimated that the preschool enrolment rate for children between 0 and 3 years old is less than 1%;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Stresses the importance of the Turkish Government amend their regulation on childcare centres obligations for enterprises, as it should be based on the "total number of female and male workers" and not only on the number of women (currently, "workplaces with more than 150 women are obliged to provide free-of-charge crèches for their female employees");
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Emphasises the importance of the Turkish Government and Political Parties revise the current Election Law, to contribute to an equal and democratic participation of men and women in politics, including a more gender balanced representation of women in electable ranks on the election ballots;