17 Amendments of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2013/2045(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas in January 2013 23 % of active young people were jobless, with the rates ranging from 15 % or less in Austria, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands to over 55 % in Greece and Spain, indicating marked geographical differences, including within individual Member States;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas in 2011 7.5 million young people aged 15-24 and 6.5 million aged 25- 29 were not in education, employment or training (NEETs), among them members of vulnerable groups such as young people with health problems or disabilities and single mothers, a development entailing serious personal and social consequences such as poor or insecure future employment prospects or even mental and physical dysfunctions; whereas these problems are likely to increase in the near future, and whereas they have serious financial implications for European welfare systems;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas young people are particularly disadvantaged during economic crises, more so than most groups; whereas for many young people current unemployment can be expected to turn into long-term unemployment, which brings risks of social exclusion; whereas this has alarming consequences for young individuals, lowering their self-esteem, leaving their ambitions unrealised, and delaying their assumption of an independent adult life including starting a family, and consequently also for society, negatively impacting on the social, economic and demographic situation in Europe; and increasing the likelihood of them experiencing poverty in old age as a result of their failure to make social security contributions throughout their working lives;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the economic crisis which began in 2008 has negatively affected both demand and supply on the labour market, thus dramatically increasing uncertainty over job prospects and making it essential for all unemployed people to be better informed about employment prospects and training and further training;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the policy measures implemented by Member States need to be diversified and should tackle all potential obstacles in young people’s pathway to sustainablegood quality employment, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups that are more likely to suffer from multiple disadvantages;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including training and education providers, individual employers, public and private employment services, social partners, third-sector organisations, and health and other authorities, – for example, in a round-table format – is essential for the successful implementation of a variety of measures fostering youth employment and employability in an integrated fashion; emphasises that measures must be flexible so as to meet the continuously evolving needs on the labour market; stresses that early careers guidance for young people, well before they finish basic secondary schooling, is particularly valuable and that it necessitates measures for developing the capacity of parents and schools to help throughout the process of career choice; notes the cultural sensitivity of families from a migration background and considers that they should receive specific support in their mother tongue so as to facilitate the young people’s career start;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including training and education providers, individual employers, public and private employment services, social partners, third-sector organisations, and health and other authorities, is essential for the successful implementation of a variety of measures fostering youth employment and employability in an integrated fashion; emphasises that measures must be flexible so as to meet the continuously evolving needs on the labour market;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the decision of the EPSCO Council on 28 February 2013 to agree on a Council recommendation on implementing a Youth Guarantee; recommends extending eligibility to graduates aged under 30; stresses that the success of this measure will be highly dependent on other factors, e.g. the infrastructure and capacity of public and strengthened private employment services, the availability of student places, the provision of training and, apprenticeships, and the transferability and implementation of successful experiences from other Member States; stresses that the Youth Guarantee must be integrated within the broader framework of active labour market policies while ensuring high quality standards;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages the Member States to boost their support for enterprises, cooperatives and third-sector organisations wishing to participate in Youth Guarantee schemes in close cooperation with public and private employment services, including through tax incentives, subsidies for fixed employment costs, and the possibility of accessing funding for on- site training, which will support enterprises in providing high-quality employment and training offers, and will represent an investment in young people’s potential in an effective and targeted way;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes, in the context of promoting self-employment among young people, the proposed successor to the Progress Microfinance Facility included in the Programme for Social Change and Innovation for the period 2014-2020, in order to better meet demand, also among young people; stresses that the three axes of the Programme for Social Change and Innovation, namely the Progress axis, the EURES axis and the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis, provide ways of combating youth unemployment;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for an ambitious holistic policy approach which looks at education, training, quality employment and self- employment initiatives, for all young people at all the various levels, in an integrated way;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to ensure high-quality frameworks for traineeships, backed up by financial support and mandatory monitoring, as well as a common quality standard for traineeships and work placements, in order to establish clear rules forbidding the exploitation of trainees as cheap substitute labour; stresses that active promotion and awareness-raising in respect of such programmes is needed among entrepreneurs;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that the Alliance for Apprenticeship should also support European and nation, national, regional und local campaigns for changing perceptions of vocational education, and should organise a regular forum for discussions on the monitoring of the European apprenticeship strategy with all relevant European and nation, national, regional and local stakeholders; stresses that incentives should also be provided to facilitate funding for crossborder training activities enabling companies and social partner organisations to become involved in establishing dual education systems;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to introduce reforms to EURES with the aim of proactively matching jobseekers and job-changers to existing vacancies, and where necessary, to reform public employment services so as to better target their activities and approaches on young people; stresses that raising of awareness of EURES is needed so as to increase its visibility and availability, as a career advice system that supports students in becoming more aware of their aspirations and capabilities, as well as of existing job opportunities; stresses that EURES mobility programmes must only provide high-quality and sustainable job placements;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Urges the Commission and Member States to identify and prevent negative effects of geographical mobility on individual Member States or specific economic sectors; stresses that mobility programmes should contain measures facilitating the employment market re- entry of young people in their countries of origin so as to halt the harmful ‘brain drain’ and discourage the mass exodus of the skilled workforce;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to develop personalised career counselling and guidance, as well as placement services tailored to individual needs, starting already during secondary school, with the aim of enabling young people to make well-informed choices about their higher education, while introducing mechanisms that can monitor the opportunities offered and assess the success rate of those young people’s subsequent transition to work;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the need to introduce a system encouraging all undertakings reaching a certain size to offer traineeships under a dual training scheme unless they are in major financial difficulty and recruit trainees at the end of their traineeships; stresses the need to introduce rules on recruitment conditions for young people specifically applicable to undertakings receiving public funding;