41 Amendments of Ilda FIGUEIREDO related to 2007/0300(CNS)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a decision
Title
Title
Council Decision on guidelines for the employment policies guidelines of the Member States for good work and social progress (under Article 128 of the EC Treaty)
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 – introductory part
Recital 2 – introductory part
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 – indent 1
Recital 2 – indent 1
- attractingreducing unemployment and retaining more people in quality employment, increasing labour supply and modernisimproving social protection systems,
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 1
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 1
– Full employment: Achieving full employment with proper rights and decent wages, and reducing unemployment and inactivity, by increasing the demand for and supply of labour through an integrated flexicurity approach is vital to sustain economic growth and reinforce social cohesion and social advancement. This requires policies that address simultaneously the flexibility of labour markets,improvement of work organisation and labour relations, and employment security and social security.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 – indent 2
Recital 2 – indent 2
- improving adaptability of workers and enterpriseenterprises and improving security for workers, and
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 3
Annex – subparagraph 1 – indent 3
– Strengthening social and territorial cohesion: Determined action is needed to strengthen and reinforce social inclusion, fight poverty - especially child poverty and poverty amongst women -, prevent exclusion from the labour market, support integration in employment of people at a disadvantage, and to reduce regional disparities in terms of employment, unemployment and labour productivity, especially in regions lagging behind. Strengthened interaction is needed with the Open Method of Coordination in Social Protection and Social Inclusion.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – guideline 17 – title
Annex – guideline 17 – title
Guideline 17. Implement employment policies aiming at achieving full employment, improving the quality and productivity at workthe security of employment, and also strengthening social and territorial cohesion and promoting a comprehensive approach encompassing problems relating to unemployment amongst women, women's working conditions, women's limited participation in the employment market and the unequal distribution of unpaid domestic tasks and chores.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
Recital 3
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – guideline 18 – indent 2
Annex – guideline 18 – indent 2
- resolute action to increase female participation and reduce gender gaps in employment, unemployment and pay, pay, vocational training and career advancement,
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – guideline directrice 18 – indent 3
Annex – guideline directrice 18 – indent 3
- better reconciliation of work and private life and, including in particular the provision of support to single-parent families through the promotion of an equitable division of family responsibilities, through investment in and the use of public services and by offering parents (both men and women) the possibility of opting for part-time working without suffering any kind of discrimination vis-à-vis their full-time colleagues; the provision of accessible and affordable high-quality childcare facilities for 90% of compulsory- school-age children in all the Member States by 2010, and care for other dependants,
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − paragraph 1 − indent 1
Annex − paragraph 1 − indent 1
- Full employment: Achieving full employment, and reducing unemployment and inactivity, by increasing the demand for and supply of labour through an integrated flexicurity approachjob and growth-friendly macro-economic policies, facilitated by the ´Good Work Agenda´, as promoted by the informal meeting of the Ministers for Employment, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection in Berlin on 18 to 20 January 2007, is vital to sustain economic growth and reinforce social cohesion. This requires policies that address simultaneously the flexibility of labour markets,active labour market policies, improvement of work organisation an, good labour relations, and employment security andjob protection legislation and improvement in social security systems.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − paragraph 1 − indent 2
Annex − paragraph 1 − indent 2
- Improving quality and productivity at work: Efforts to raise employment rates go hand in hand with improving the attractiveness of jobs, quality at work, labour productivity growth, reducing segmentation andby improving supportive measures for easier access to work, stepping stones to assist progress into stable and legally secure employment, by promoting upward social mobility concerning transitions both in work and between jobs and reducing the proportion of working poor. Synergies between quality at work, productivity and employment should be fully exploited.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − Guideline 17
Annex − Guideline 17
Guideline 17. Implement active employment policies aiming at achieving full employment, improving quality, security and productivity at work, and strengthening social and territorial cohesion. Policies should contribute to achieving an average employment rate for the European Union (EU) of 70 % overall, of at least 60 % for women and of 50 % for older workers (55 to 64) by 2010, and to reduce unemployment and inactivity. Member States should consider setting nat, reduce the proportion of working poor and ensure that more people are in stable and permanent labour contracts. Member States should consider setting quantitative and qualitative, national and regional employment rate targets.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – paragraph following Guideline 17 – indent 1
Annex – paragraph following Guideline 17 – indent 1
- attracreducing unemployment and retaining more people in quality employment, increaseing labour supply and moderniseimproving social protection systems,
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – paragraph following Guideline 17 – indent 2
Annex – paragraph following Guideline 17 – indent 2
- improving the adaptability of workers and enterprises,enterprises and security for workers, and
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex –- Section 1 – title
Annex –- Section 1 – title
1. AttracReducing unemployment and retaining more people in high-quality employment, increaseing labour supply and moderniseimproving social protection systems
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – Title
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – Title
Guideline 18. Promote a lifecycle approach to workDirect the employment policy to the needs of people during different stages of life through:
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 1
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 1
- a renewed endeavour to provide young people with high-quality and individually appropriate education and vocational training in order to build employment pathways for young people and reduce youth unemployment, as called for in the European Youth Pact,
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 2
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 2
- resolute action to increase female participation and reduce gender gaps in employment, unemployment and pay and promoting of gender equality,
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 18 –- indent 3
Annex – Guideline 18 –- indent 3
- better reconciliation of work and private life and the provision of accessible and affordable high-quality childcare facilities for 90 % of the children to mandatory school age and care for other dependants,
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 4
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 4
- support for active ageing, including appropriate working conditions, improved (occupational) health status and adequate incentives to work and discouragement of early retirement,
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 4 a (new)
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 4 a (new)
- promoting new social rights with a view to a work-life balance approach, including the right to training and care leave, temporary working-time reduction and guaranteed right to return to full-time employment afterwards, long-term sabbaticals, and the guarantee of youth apprenticeships, training or employment 6 months after finishing full-time education;
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 5
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 5
- modernimprovement of social protection systems, including pensions and healthcare, ensuring their social adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, so as to support participation and better retention in employment and longer working lives,
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − Section 1 – Guideline 18 − indent 5 a (new)
Annex − Section 1 – Guideline 18 − indent 5 a (new)
- strengthening transitional security based on good job protection by enhancing social rights and social protection to prevent income risks and ensure, inter alia, the maintenance and acquisition of pension rights and health care coverage during employment transitions as well as leave periods (e.g. care for dependent persons, further training and education, sabbaticals) during the course of a person's life;
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − Section 1 –Guideline 19 − indent 2
Annex − Section 1 –Guideline 19 − indent 2
- continual review of the incentives and disincentives resulting from the tax and benefit systems, including the management and conditionality of benefits and a significant reduction of high marginal effective tax rate, with a view to phasing out activation measures that force the unemployed into 'bad job traps' (subject to low pay, low quality, low social protection and low perspectives) and to keep the benefit system sufficiently generous, notably for those with low incomes, whilst ensuring adequate levels of social protection,
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − Section 1 –Guideline 19 − indent 3
Annex − Section 1 –Guideline 19 − indent 3
- development of new sources of jobs in services for individuals and businesses, the not-for profit sector and the social economy, notably at local level.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Title
Annex – Section 2 – Title
2. Improve adaptability of workers and enterpriseenterprises and provide good security of workers
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex − Section 2 − Guideline 21 − title
Annex − Section 2 − Guideline 21 − title
Guideline 21. Promote flexibility combined with employment securitythe Good Work Agenda with enhanced workers' rights (e.g. good job protection legislation) and reduce labour market segmentation, having due regard to the role of the social partners, through:
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 1
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 1
- the adaptation of employment legislation, reviewing where necessary the different contractual and working time arrangepromoting stable and secure contractual arrangements based on permanent full- time employment as the EU's norm established by the social acquis, taking action against abusive labour practices especially in certain non-standard contracts in order to phase out precarious employment and poverty in work, and promoting upward social mobility by facilitating transitions into stable and secure high-quality employments,;
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 3
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 3
- better anticipation and positive management of change, including economic restructuring, notably changes linked to trade opening, so as to minimise their social costs and facilitate adaptation,
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 4
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 4
- the promotion and dissemination of innovative and adaptable forms of work organisation, with a view to improving quality and productivity at work, including health and safety,
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 5
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 21 – indent 5
- support factive labour market policies to support transitions in occupational status, including training, self-employment, business creation and geographic mobility.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 1
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 1
- encouraging social partners within their own areas of responsibility to set the right framework for wage bargaining in order to reflect productivity and labour market challengper compensation for productivity increases, inflation and a redistributive component in wage increases at all relevant levels and to avoid gender pay gaps,
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 1 a (new)
- since real wage moderation discourages firms to increase productivity, which leads to a slowdown of productivity growth, stopping repeated calls at a European level for wage moderation, which disrespects the responsibilities of social partners and only leads to a downwards spiral in salaries and purchasing power and to growing inequalities,
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 2
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 2
- reviewing the impact on employment of non-wage labour costs like exorbitant company profits and top incomes and where appropriate adjust their structure and level, especially to reduce the tax burden on the low-paid.which can lead to a redistribution and greater share for wages especially the low paid with a view and to establish a system of progressively rising social security contributions or taxes of the employers, according to the principle ‘the lower the employment status (short period, weak perspectives, high risks), the higher contributions to social security’, in order to discourage insecure forms of employment,
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 2 a (new)
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – indent 2 a (new)
- fighting poverty and precarious employment by introducing an EU norm for the level of minimum incomes for social inclusion (60 % of the respective national GPD per capita) and the level of minimum wages (60 % of the respective average national wage).
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – last paragraph following second indent
Annex – Section 2 – Guideline 22 – last paragraph following second indent
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 23 – indent 3
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 23 – indent 3
- efficient lifelong learning strategies open to all in schools, businesses, public authorities and households according to European agreements, including appropriate incentives and cost sharing mechanisms, financing, rights and entitlements to lifelong learning, with a view to enhancing participation in continuous and workplace training throughout the life-cycle, especially for the low-skilled and older workers.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 24 – indent 1
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 24 – indent 1
- raising and ensuring the attractiveness, openness and quality standards of education and training, broadening the supply of education and training opportunities and ensuring flexible learning pathways and enlarging possibilities for mobility for students and trainees, guaranteeing, through the social partners and public authorities, investment in lifelong learning by agreeing on a 2 % benchmark as a percentage of the GPD (total public and private spending),
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 24 – indent 2
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 24 – indent 2
- easing and diversifying access for all to education and training and to knowledge by means of working time organisation, family support services, vocational guidance and, if appropriate, new forms of cost sharing,