12 Amendments of Luigi COCILOVO related to 2007/0300(CNS)
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – paragraph 1 – indent 3
Annex – paragraph 1 – indent 3
– Strengthening social and territorial cohesion: Determined action is needed to strengthen and reinforce social inclusion, fight poverty – especially child poverty –, 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, by promoting a policy of territorial justice in terms of wages and fairer distribution of income. Strengthened interaction is needed with the Open Method of Coordination in Social Protection and Social Inclusion.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – paragraph 2
Annex – paragraph 2
Equal opportunities and combating discrimination are essential for progress. Gender mainstreaming and the promotion of gender equality should be ensured in all action taken. Particular attention must also be paid to significantly reducing all gender -related gaps in the labour market, focusing especially on unequal pay, in line with the European Pact for Gender Equality. This will assist Member States in addressing the demographic challenge. As part of a new intergenerational approach, particular attention should be paid to the situation of young people, implementing the European Youth Pact, and to promoting access to employment throughout working life. Particular attention must also be paid to significantly reducing employment gaps for people at a disadvantage, including disabled people, as well as between third- country nationals and EU citizens, in line with any national targets.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 1
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 1
Raising employment levels is the most effective means of generating economic growth and promoting socially inclusive economies whilst ensuring a safety net for those unable to work and providing incentives for companies by financing their additional costs so as to enable them to compete on equal terms with their market rivals. Promoting a life cycle approach to work and modernising social protection systems to ensure their adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs in society are all the more necessary because of the expected decline in the working-age population. Special attention should be paid to tackling the persistent employment gaps between women and men, further increasing the employment rates of older workers and young people, as part of the new intergenerational approach, and theo promoting active inclusion of those most excluded from the labour market. Intensified action is also required to improve the situation of young people in the labour market and to significantly reduce youth unemployment, which is on average double the overall unemployment rate.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 2
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 2
The right conditions must be put in place, not least through the necessary development of human capital and the social working environment, to facilitate progress in employment, whether it is first -time entry, a move back to employment after a break or the wish to prolong working lives. The quality of jobs, including pay and benefits, working conditions, access to lifelong learning and career prospects, are crucial for a flexicurity approach, as are support and incentives stemming from social protection systems. To enhance a life cycle approach to work and to promote reconciliation between work and family life policies towards childcare provisions are necessary. Securing coverage of at least 90 % of children between 3 years old and the mandatory school age and at least 33 % of children under 3 years of age by 2010 is a useful benchmarks. The increase in the average employment rate of parents, especially single parents, requires measures to support families. In particular, Member States should take account of the special needs of single parents and families with many children. Furthermore to prolong working lives, the effective average exit age from the labour market by 2010 would require a five -year increase at EU level (compared to 59.9 in 2001). Member States should also enact measures for health protection, for prevention and for the promotion of healthy lifestyles with the goal of reducing sickness burdens, increasing labour productivity and prolonging working life.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 2
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 2
The right conditions must be put in place to facilitate progress in employment, whether it is first time entry, a move back to employment after a break or the wish to prolong working lives. The quality of jobs, including pay and benefits, working conditions access to lifelong learning and career prospects, are crucial for a flexicurity approach, as are support and incentives stemming from social protection systems. To enhance a life cycle approach to work and to promote reconciliation betweena better combination of work and family life policies towards childcare provisions are necessary. Securing coverage of at least 90% of children between 3 years old and the mandatory school age and at least 33% of children under 3 years of age by 2010 is a useful benchmarks. The increase in the average employment rate of parents, especially single parentsHowever, particular efforts must be made in response to regional differences within the countries giving special attention to less-favoured mountain and remote areas and islands. The increase in the average employment rate of parents, especially single parents, and those with many children and with other dependent family members, who are generally at greater risk of poverty, requires measures to support families. In particular, Member States should take account of the special needs of single parents and families with many children. Furthermore to prolong working lives, the effective average exit age from the labour market by 2010 would require a five year increase at EU level (compared to 59.9 in 2001). Member States should also enact measures for health protection, for prevention and for the promotion of healthy lifestyles with the goal of reducing sickness burdens, increasing labour productivity and prolonging working life.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 3
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph 3
The implementation of the European Youth Pact, the European Gender Equality Agreement and the European Alliance for Families should also be a contribution to a lifecycle approach to work in particular by facilitating transition from education to the labour market. Individual measures should be taken to provide young people who have had fewer opportunities with an equal chance of social and vocational integration.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 18 – indent 1 a (new)
- measures to enable persons who lose their job later in life to get back to work, and action to eradicate age-based discrimination, aimed in particular at the over-40s and including forms of self- employment and self-organisation;
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph following Guideline 18
Annex – Section 1 – paragraph following Guideline 18
Active inclusion policies can increase labour supply and strengthen society’s cohesiveness and are a powerful means of promoting the social and labour market integration of the most disadvantaged. Every person becoming unemployed must be offered a new start in a reasonable period of time. In the case of young people this period should be short, e.g. at most 4 months by 2010; for adult people at most 12 months. Policies aiming at offering active labour market measures to the long- term unemployed should be pursued, taking into consideration the participation rate benchmark of 25 % in 2010. Activation should be in the form of training, retraining, work practice, a job or other employability measure, combined where appropriate with on-going job search assistance. Facilitating access to employment for job seekers, preventing unemployment and ensuring that those who become unemployed remain closely connected to the labour market and employable are essential to increase participation, and combat social exclusion. This is also in line with a flexicurity approach. Attaining these objectives requires removing barriers to the labour market by assisting with effective job searching, facilitating access to training and other active labour market measures, ensuring affordable access to basic services and providing adequate levels of minimum resources to all. This approach should, at the same time, ensure that work pays for all workers, as well as removeing unemployment, poverty and inactivity traps. Special attention should be paid to promoting the inclusion of disadvantaged people, including low-skilled workers, in the labour market, including through the expansion of social services and the social economy, as well as the development of new sources of jobs in response to collective needs. Combating discrimination, promoting access to employment for disabled people and integrating immigrants and minorities are particularly essential; and best practice on the ground, the experience of social cooperatives, and all forms of corporate social responsibility should be turned to account to achieve those ends.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 20 – indent 2 a (new)
Annex – Section 1 – Guideline 20 – indent 2 a (new)
- promoting stakeholder partnership models to enhance the local and regional potential to be tapped in local entities, employing open, participatory forms of organisation,
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 2 – paragraph following Guideline 21
Annex – Section 2 – paragraph following Guideline 21
To maximise job creation, preserve competitiveness and contribute to the general economic framework, overall wage developments should be in line with productivity growth over the economic cycle and should reflect the labour market situation. The gender pay gap should be reduced. Particular attention should be given, with a view to narrowing the pay gap between the sexes, to the low level of wages in professions and sectors which tend to be dominated by women and to the reasons which lead to reduced earnings in professions and sectors in which women become more prominent. Efforts to reduce non-wage labour costs and to review the tax wedge may also be needed to facilitate job creation, especially for low-wage employment.
Amendment 147 #
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 challenges at all relevant levels and to avoid gender pay gaps, taking into account the relationship between real wage and prices,
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 24 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex – Section 3 – Guideline 24 – indent 1 a (new)
- enabling educational techniques and teaching content to be passed on through succeeding generations of teachers,