15 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2019/2169(INI)
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to amend Directive 2006/54/EC by including a binding definition of ‘work of equal value’ across all occupational sectors which incorporates the gender perspective;present proposals for better implementation and revision of the Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast); Strongly recommends the Member States to implement the Commission’s 2014 Recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency (2014/124/EU);”
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call on the Commission to present a legal instrument on gender paWelcomes the commitment of the Commission to take a strong action to address the gender pay gap - and the resulting pension gap - by championing the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women; welcomes the recent elaboration of a new European Gender Equality Stransparency as soon as possible; tegy to close the gender pay gap, including through binding pay transparency measures,”;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the feminisation of poverty in all its forms, particularly by factoring gender into pension entitlements in order to eliminate the getake a strong action to address poverty in all its forms, including old age poverty concerning in particular women; urges to effectively address barriers women face in the labour market, so that they make pension contribution securing their economic inder pension gap, and bydence in old age; calls to strengthen collective bargaining to improvinge the working conditions, including in feminised sectors; points out the importance of addressing the cultural undervaluation of jobs dominated by women and the overrepresentation of women in atypical forms of work; emphasises the need and professions; reiterates that in order to combat the risk of poverty among older women, Member States should ensure that adequate provision is made for older women, including measures such as credits for care periods, adequate minimum pensions, survivor’s benefits and family leave entitlements for men in order to prevent the feminisation of poverty; calls on the Commission to estrengthen collective bargaining in order to foster stable and quality employment; ablish a gender pension gap indicator, reflecting the gender pay gap, work duration and intensity, and to regularly monitor it within the strategy as it assesses accumulating inequalities experienced by women throughout their lives;”
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to put forward a Care Deal for Europe to cover all care needs throughout the lifecycle; calls on the Member States to ratify ILO Convention No 189 on domestic workers and to fully implement and go beyond the Barcelona care targets, ensuring the coverage of those needs through quality universal public care services; urgesEmphasises the importance of ensuring access to affordable, good quality care facilities, including for children, elderly persons, and persons with long-term needs, thus empowering women, and increasing opportunities in the workplace; stresses that while responsibility for the organisation and content of early childhood education and care systems as well as provision for long- term care rests with the individual Member States, cooperation at European level together with the efficient use of EU funds, can contribute to the development of quality care services by supporting and complementing measures taken at regional and national level as well as helping Member States to address common challenges; calls on the Commission to take a comprehensive approach towards all types of care services and to strengthen the provisions for efficient and synergistic use of relevant EU financial instruments in the fields of lifelong learning, research and infrastructural development; encourages Member States to prioritise funding for childcare and long-term care using the European Structural and Investment Funds, without prejudges for the negotiation of the next MFF; calls to collect quality data on the provision of care available for children, older persons, persons with disabilities and other dependents through public and private financing which could feed into a study analysing the contribution of informal work provided by women and shortages with regards to care, thereby paving the way for research identifying the need for an EU framework on the care economy / a possible European carers’ programme; calls on Member States to effectively and fully implement the recently adopted Work-Life Balance Directive1 and invites them thus ensuring uptake of the benefits outlined in it (including by fathers); calls on the Commission, as part of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, to further coordinate the work on better reconciling work and family and supporting parents throughout their careers; invites Member States to go beyond the Directive’s minimum standards; ”; __________________ 1 OJ L 188, 12.7.2019, p. 79. 1
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, and to sex and relationshipage-appropriate sex education, as well as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, are essential to achieving gender equality;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas 46 million women and girls with disabilities live in the European Union; whereas this figure represents nearly 60% of the overall population of persons with disabilities; whereas most of disabilities are acquired with age;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is deeplyExpresses its worrieds about the nature, extent and gravity of violence and harassment in the world of work; callwelcomes oin the Commission to propose a directive on a holistic approach toat regard the recently adopted ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment at work and calls on Member States to ratify and implement it as soon as this is possible; Calls on the European Union and the remaining Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women; calls on Member States to ratify and i and domestic violence, which also tackles harassment as well as assistance for victims of violence in finding empleoyment the Istanbul Convention and ILO Convention No 190 on violence and harassment, while reminding the difficulty in gathering accurate comparable data in that area at European Union’s level and thus awaiting for the new survey that will start this year; Stresses the importance of establishing formal procedures on reporting sexual harassment in the workplace and of dedicated training and campaigns raising awareness as a way to enforce the principle of dignity at work and implementing zero tolerance approach as a norm;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to adopting an aAction pPlan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights; underlines in that regard the need to ensure gender sensitive rights using an intersectional approach in line with Principles 2 and 3 of the Pillar; cCalls on the Commission, to that end, to develop and include a Gender Equality Index in the European S and the Member States to ensure that the EU legislation on indirect and direct gender discrimination is properly implemesnter to monitor gender effects of macroeconomic policies as well as of the green and digital transitions. d and its progress systematically monitored and possibly revised in order to tackle women’s labour market participation and the gender pay gap; Women remain underrepresented in leading positions, including EU’s largest companies where only 8% of CEOs are women. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address horizontal and vertical labour market segregation, including poor presence of women in STEM and digital sector;
Amendment 187 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Asks for the Commission and the Member States to approach the COVID crisis impact on equal access to labour market for women;
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Requests the measures regarding gender pay gap, pension gap and care gap to explicitly address the needs of parents, and especially mothers of children with disabilities; requests the consideration of the development of measures for the full and effective participation in the labour market of women with disabilities, who face greater difficulty in finding work with appropriate conditions; in order to eliminate the discrimination and prejudices they face, it calls for initiatives that provide women with disabilities with flexibility and support in both job search and employment performance, as well as the promotion of opportunities in occupational centres to make the transition towards employment regimes such as supported employment, special employment centres and the open labour market, as well as to evaluate the informal work of carers of persons with disabilities, as many of these women carers are also women with disabilities and their informal work should be taken into account in order to reduce the pension gap;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the scope and impact of violence and harassment in the workplace; points out that informal carers, domestic workers and farm workers in particular lack protection and therefore calls on the Member States to adopt International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions 190 and 189, in order to strengthen the rights of workers, especially women, in the informal economyworkers in the most vulnerable sectors lack protection, [...];
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on the Commission to collect data on the provision of different types of care (childcare, care for older people and persons with disabilities or persons requiring long term care), feeding into a study examining the care gap to inform an initiative for a European Care Strategy; notes that the strategy in question has to respect the competences of the Members States as laid in the Treaties but would aim to improve the cooperation and coordinator of all measures which could be beneficial for the EU informal carers and the people they are taking care of; stresses that cooperation at European level together with the efficient use of EU funds can contribute to the development of quality, accessible and affordable care services;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Urges the need to further incorporate the gender perspective in the upcoming Disability Equality Strategy 2021, with due attention to improved access to the labour market through targeted measures and actions;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Reiterates the need for a regular exchange between Member States and the Commission on gender aspects in health, including guidelines for comprehensive sex and relationshipage-appropriate sex education, gender- sensitive responses to epidemics and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission to include SRHRsexual and reproductive health in its next EU Health Strategy, and to support Member States in providing high-quality and low-threshold access to healthcare services;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges that disability be included as an aspect in all general gender equality initiatives promoted in the European Union; urges that disabled victims of gender violence who are wards of court or in any other limited legal capacity scheme are guaranteed protection, urging for this purpose effective access to justice for this group of persons and training and capacity-building for professionals in the special services that act in these proceedings (such as criminal justice or health professionals); urges the establishment of an accessible education system free of stereotypes that allows girls and women with disabilities to choose the fields they study and work in in light of their own wishes and talents, without being restricted by inaccessibility, prejudice and stereotypes; supports the involvement of women with disabilities as models for change in gender equality and women's rights movements; urges the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities, including those in institutions, in all breast and cervix cancer prevention plans in the EU Member States, as well as the inclusion of this group in all anti- HIV/Aids programmes and other programmes to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases; urges that all indicators and data collected on gender equality issues be broken down by age, disability and gender.