27 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2017/0305(NLE)
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developingdevelop and deliver a coordinated strategy for employment and particularly for promoting a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce and the well-being of all workers in inclusive labour markets which are responsive to economic, social and environmental change, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress set out in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union. Member States, taking into account national practices related to the responsibilities of management and labour, are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and coordinate their action in this respect within the Council.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The Union is to combat poverty, social exclusion and discrimination and promote social justice and protection, as well as equality between women and men. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against poverty and social exclusion, and a high level of education and training.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Union has developed and implemented policy coordination instruments for fiscal, macroeconomic and structural policies which have a strong impact on the social and employment situation in the Union. As part of these instruments, the present Guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States, together with the Broad Guidelines for the Economic Policies of the Member States and of the Union set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184, form the Integrated Guidelines for Implementing the Europe 2020 strategy. They are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated European and national policies and reforms are to constitute an appropriate overall economic and social policy mix which should achieve positive spill-over effects.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) To ensure a more democratic decision-making process in the context of the Integrated Guidelines, which affect people and labour markets across the Union, it is important that both the employment guidelines and the broad economic policy guidelines are decided upon by both the European Parliament and the Council.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The European Union’s recovery from the economic crisis is supporting positive labour market trends, but important challenges and disparities in economic and social performance remain between and within Member States as in certain countries economic growth does not automatically resulted in higher employment.. The crisis underscored the close interdependence of the Member States' economies and labour markets. Ensuring that the Union progresses to a state of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and job creation is the key challenge faced today. This requires coordinated, ambitious and effective policy action at both Union and national levels, in accordance with the TFEU and the Union's provisions on economic governance. Combining supply- and demand-side measures, such policy action should encompass a boost to investment, a renewed commitment to appropriately sequenced, balanced and socially responsible structural reforms that improve productivity, growth performance, social cohesion and economic resilience in the face of shocks and the exercise of fiscal responsibility, while taking into account their employment and social impact.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Reforms to the labour market, including the national wage-setting mechanisms, should follow national practices of social dialogue and allow the necessary opportunity for a broad consideration of socioeconomic issues, including standards of living, equality, improvements in competitiveness, job creation, life-long learning and training policies as well as real incomes.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Member States and the Union should also address the social legacy of the economic and financial crisis and aim to build an inclusive society in which people are empowered to anticipate and manage change, and can actively participate in society and the economy, as also outlined in the Commission recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market6 . Inequality should be tackled, non-discriminatory access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion (including of children) properly and progressively reduced, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and efficient social protection systems and by removing barriers to education/ training and labour- market participation. As new economic and business models take hold in EU workplaces, employment relationships are also changing. Member States should ensure that new employment relationships maintain and strengthen Europe’s social model. _________________ 6 COM/2008/0639 final COM/2008/0639 final
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The Integrated Guidelines should form the basis for country-specific recommendations that the Council may addresses to the Member States. Member States should make full use of the European Social Fund and other Union funds to foster employment, social inclusion, lifelong learning and education and to improve public administration. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Employment Committee and the Social Protection Committee should monitor how the relevant policies are implemented in the light of the guidelines for employment policies, in line with their respective Treaty-based mandates. These committees and other Council preparatory bodies involved in the coordination of economic and social policies should work together closely and also with the European Parliament to ensure democratic accountability,
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 1
Member States should facilitate and invest in the creation of quality jobsustainable and quality jobs across all skill levels and labour market sectors, including by reducing the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, by promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment and, in particular, by supporting the creation and growth of micro and small enterprises. Member States should actively promote the social economy and foster social innovation.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 2
Member States should encourage innovative forms of work, which create high-quality and/or proper job opportunities for all in a responsible manner.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 3
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 3
The tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation that are less detrimental to employment and growth, taking account of the redistributive effect of the tax system, while protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure, including targeted investments in the public service.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 4
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 4
Member States should, in line with national practices and respecting the autonomy of social partners, encourage transparent and predictable wage-setting mechanisms, allowing for the responsiveness of wages to productivity developments while ensuring fair wages that provide for a decent standard of living in a sustainable, responsible way. These mechanisms should take into account differences in skills levels and divergences in economic performance across regions, sectors and companies. Respecting national practices, Member States and social partners should ensure adequate minimum wage levels, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, job creation and in-work poverty.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – title
Annex I – part 2 – title
Guideline 6: Enhancing labour supply: and improving access to employment, skills and competences
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 1
In the context of technological, environmental and demographic change, Member States, in cooperation with social partners, should promote sustainability, productivity and employability through an appropriate supply of relevant knowledge, skills and competences throughout people's working lives, responding to current and future labour market needs and opportunities including through the targeted promotion of training in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics sectors. Member States should make the necessary investment in both initial and continuing education and training as well as lifelong learning opportunities for older workers. They should work together with social partners, education and training providers and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in education and training systems, to provide quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning. They should ensure the transfer of training entitlements during professional transitions. This should allow everyone better to anticipate and adapt to labour market needs and successfully manage transitions, thus strengthening the overall resilience of the economy to shocks.
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 2
Member States should foster equal opportunities in education, including early childhood education based on early screening and recognition services, and raise overall education levels, particularly for the least qualified and learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. They should ensure quality learning outcomes, reinforce basic skills, reduce the number of young people leaving school early, enhance the labour-market relevance of tertiary degrees, improve skills monitoring and forecasting, and increase adult participation in continuing education and training. Member States should strengthen work- based learning in their vocational education and training systems, including through quality and effective apprenticeships, make skills more visible and comparable and increase opportunities for recognising and validating skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training. They should upgrade and increase the supply and take-up of flexible continuing vocational training. Member States should also target support for low skilled adults to maintain or develop their long term employability by boosting access to and take up of quality learning opportunities and working opportunities and vocational training, through the establishment of Upskilling Pathways, including a skills assessment, a matchingn offer of education and training matching labour market opportunities and the validation and recognition of the skills acquired.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 3
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 3
High unemployment and inactivity should be tackled, including through timely, integrated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job-search, training, and requalification. To that end, a coordinated approach to social and employment services is needed, meaning close cooperation between employment services, social services and local authorities. Comprehensive strategies that include in- depth individual assessment as early as possible and at the latest after 18 months of unemployment should be pursued with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long-term and structural unemployment. Youth unemployment and the high rates of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs), should continue to be addressed through a structural improvement in the school-to-work transition, including through the full implementation of the Youth Guarantee8 . _________________ 8 OJ C 120, 26.4.2013, p. 1–6
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 4
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 4
Tax reforms to shift taxes away from labour should aim to remove unjustified barriers and disprovide incentives to participation in the labour market, in particular for those furthest away from the labour market. Member States should support an adapted work environment for people with disabilities, including targeted financial support actions and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society as a whole.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part 2 – paragraph 5
Barriers to participation and career progression should be eliminated to ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including through equal pay for equal work. The reconciliation of work, private and family life should be promoted for all people, in particular through access to long-term care and affordable quality early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family leavesand care leaves, affordable and early childhood education and care and flexible working arrangements in order to balance work and private life, and promote a balanced use of these entitlements between women and men.
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 2
Policies should aim to improve and support labour-market matching and transitions. Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market. Member States should strengthen the effectiveness of active labour-market policies by increasing their targeting, outreach, coverage and better linking them with income support, based on the rights and responsibilities for the unemployed while actively to seek workseeking work. This includes working with the social partners and other relevant stakeholders. Member States should aim for more effective public and quality employment services by ensuring timely and tailor- made assistance to support jobseekers, supporting labour- market demand and implementing performance-based management.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 3
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 3
Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of reasonable duration, in line with their contributions, available skills included, and national eligibility rules. Such benefits should not constitute a disincentive to a quick return to employment.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 4
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 4
The mobility of learners and workers should be promotedensured as a fundamental right and as a matter of free choice with the aim of enhancing employability skills and exploiting the full potential of the European labour market. Internal mobility should also be promoted. Barriers to mobility in education and training, in occupational and personal pensions and in the recognition of qualifications should be removed within the EU. Mobile workers should be supported including by improving their access to and awareness of rights at work. Member States should take action to ensure that administrative procedures are not a blocking or complicating factor for workers from other Member States in taking up active employment. Member States should also prevent abuses of the existing rules and address potential ‘brain drain’ from certain regions. They should do so by increasing and supporting investment in sectors that have a real potential of generating high-quality employment opportunities such as the green and circular economy or the digital and care sectors.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part 3 – paragraph 5
In line with national practices and with the partnership principles, and in order to achieve more effective social dialogue and better socio-economic outcomes, Member States should ensure the timely and meaningful involvement of social partners and civil society organisations in the design and, implementation and evaluation of economic, employment and social reforms and policies and at all stages of the process, including by providing support for increased capacity of social partners and civil society organisations. Such involvement has to go beyond the mere consultation of stakeholders. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, respecting fully their autonomy and the right to collective action.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 1
Member States should promote inclusive labour markets, open to all, by putting in place effective measures to promote equal opportunities for under-represented groups in the labour market. They should ensure equal treatment regarding employment, social protection, education and access to goods and services, regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, in cooperation with local and regional authorities, should put in place effective measures to fight all forms of discrimination and to promote equal opportunities for all people to participate in society. Such measures should include those promoting inclusive labour markets, open to all, including through measures that counter discrimination in access to and on the labour market, to support those who are currently discriminated or under- represented. They should ensure equal treatment regarding employment, social protection, education and access to goods and services, regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. To that end, particular measures to support certain people in vulnerable situations, such as mobile European workers or ethnic minorities are necessary, and need to be backed by adequate funding to prevent any potential competition for resources between the beneficiaries concerned.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 2
Member States should modernisimprove social protection systems to provide effective, efficient and adequate social protection throughout all stages of an individual's life, fostering social inclusion and upward social mobility, incentivising labour market participation and addressing inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems. The modernisImprovements and innovation ofs in social protection systems should lead to better accessi, availability, sustainability, adequacy and quality, including a barrier-free environment for persons with disabilities.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 5
Member States should ensure the right to timely access to affordable and accessible health care and long-term care of good quality, while safeguarding sustainability over the long run.
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 6
Annex I – part 4 – paragraph 6