11 Amendments of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2014/2222(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the latest figures of 2013 portray long-term unemployment at a historically high level of 5.1% of the labour force in EU-28; Whereas long- term unemployment has crucial individual consequences throughout the life-cycle as well as can turn into structural unemployment in the EU;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to change the direction of economic policies and to introduce a much-needed, expansionary economic policy to boost smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and to create good quality jobs; stresses that low inflation is already increasing real interest rates as well as real public and private debt, which, together with high long-term, youth unemployment, depresses growth and increases poverty;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the development of a European framework to assure that investments under the Juncker Plan, which are excluded from national deficit targets, have a significant impact in terms of stimulating economic growth and creating quality jobs; calls on the Commission to include a specialist on social policies in the expert committee of the new European Fund for strategic investments that will approve projects to be funded;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that decisive investment plans for growth and job creation can only be fully realised if they are coupled with national reforms that enhance quality labour participation, boost productivity and develop human capital; believes that structural labour market reforms should introduce internal flexibility measures aimed at maintaining employment in times of economic disruption, ensure job quality and security in employment transitions, and provide unemployment benefit schemes that are based on activation requirements and linked to reintegration policies; emphasises that structural reforms such as reindustrialisation are much more important than labour market reforms;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets that the European Semester has not been sufficiently aligned with the Europe 2020 strategy; calls on the Commission and the Member States to bring economic measures implemented in the course of the European Semester in line with the social and employment targets of the Europe 2020 strategy and the social principles set out in the Treaties; calls for more determined efforts to guide and coordinate EU policies to boost smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and create good quality jobs;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Member States to restore investment in human capital to pre-crisis level, particularly to smoothen the transition between education and work for young people, to invest in vocational training as well as lifelong learning programmes.
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that decent wages are important not only for social cohesion, but also for maintaining a strong reconomvery and a productive labour forceeconomy; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a European framework for minimum wages with a view to reducing wage inequalities and limiting nominal imbalances in competitivenesensure that the European Semester in all recommendations and policy instruments respects and supports collective bargaining and its coverage as well as wage floors in the form of decent minimum wages with the aim to ensure price stability, to fight deflation, to stop the competitive race to the bottom on wages, to support aggregate demand and economic recovery, and to reduce wage inequalities;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Urges the European Commission to go above and beyond the March 2014 Council recommendation on a quality framework for traineeships and to propose a new Quality Framework with a view to preventing discrimination and exploitation of young workers
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Recalls on the Commission that employment and social policies to promote the European Social Acquis should govern all European policies, under Article 9 TFEU; requests the Commission to fulfil its obligation to link the European Semester with the objectives of the EU2020 Strategy;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes the Commission objective ‘to make EU law lighter, simpler and less costly for the benefit of citizens and enterprises’; stresses that this removal of regulatory barriers should undermine neither the European social acquis, the ILO core conventions nor the European Social Charter in fields such as occupational health and safety or information and consultation of workers, nor the ILO core conventions nor the European Social Charter, and should respect the autonomy of social partners as foreseen in the Treaty;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a European minimum income, as announced by its President during the investiture debate, with the aim of reducing poverty in EU, in this sense, reiterates its call for progress towards an EU Framework Directive;