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12 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2012/2097(INI)

Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that future key drivers for ‘scaling up’ CSR will include an emphasis on global CSR instruments, fresh momentum from leading businesses among their peers, the use of appropriate regulation, a robust impact analysis of existing CSR initiatives, and increasing recognition within both the business community and wider society of the scale of global social and environmental challenges;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly supports the recognition, in the Commission communication, that ‘helping to mitigate the social effects of the current crisis’ is part of the social responsibility of enterprises; calls on businesses to undertake initiatives for youth job creation as a practical example of their commitment;deleted
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Invites the Multi-stakeholder Forum to consider possible courses of action in response to the growing casualisation of employment, enforced part-time working in place of full-time employment, the rise in exploitative work through increased sub-contracting and the resurgence of the informal sector, all of which are a result of the economic crisis;deleted
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Believes the financial crisis has shaken employee confidence in company obligations to meet long-term private pension entitlements; calls on companies to take action to redress the imbalance in the eyes of many employees, who believe that their pension entitlements have been disproportionately cut;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Endorses the emphasis given in the Commission communication to strengthening and implementing international standards, and – in view of the 2011 update of the OECD Guidelines and agreement of the UN Guiding Principles – believes that a major emphasis of EU action must now be on the full implementationsupport of those guidelines and principles;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission, in particular its DG Justice, to put forward proposals for better facilitating extraterritorial jurisdiction in EU courts for egregious cases of human rights violation by EU-based businesses or their subsidiaries or business partners;deleted
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that CSR iscan be an important tool in helping the EU to support the implementation of ILO conventions; supports the provision of funding to enable European trade unions to undertake pilot projects on the OECD Guidelines and other international CSR standards with a view to building capacity in third countries;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Endorses the view, dating from the June 2004 report of the Multi-stakeholder Forum, that public authorities can make a significant contribution by using convening, and incentivising and regulatory roles to advance CSR, and calls on the Member States to give major new impetus to these efforts;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Fully supports the Commission’s intention to put forward a legislative proposal on ‘non-financial disclosure’ by businesses; warns that use of the term ‘non-financial’ should not disguise the very real financial consequences for business of social, environmental and human-rights-related impact; calls for an ambitious proposal which places the EU right among the many current international initiatives on mandatory corporate sustainability reporting and squarely within the objective of making Integrated Reporting, as being developed by the IIRC, the global norm by the end of the decade;deleted
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Underlines that CSR is led by business and that companies must be able to report in a way which is appropriate and relevant for their particular situation;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recognises that the Laeken Declaration in 2001 points out that the EU institutions need to be brought closer to the Unions citizens;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Supports the development of the 'Solidarité proposal' for an inter- institutional human resources programme in the EU Institutions to facilitate the involvement of the Institutions' staff and trainees in community engagement through benevolent humanitarian and positive social activities, both as part of staff training and volunteering in their own time.
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL