29 Amendments of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2015/2330(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)
Citation 27 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 23rd October 2015 on "reducing inequalities with a special focus on child poverty"(2014/2237(INI))
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital - A a (new)
Recital - A a (new)
- A a. Whereas the economic recovery in the EU is under way but remains uneven between and within Member States and is partly driven by temporary factors, such as low oil prices and unconventional monetary policies showing therefore that the EU can do more to boost the economic and social recovery so as to make it more sustainable in the medium term;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas unemployment rate has been diminishing sinceslowly and unevenly diminishing since the second half of 2013, thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms there has been a distribution of the working time through the increase in precarious work and, in many countries, this reduction has also caused the decrease of the labour force; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed and over 10% in the Euro area, being still well above the figures of 2008;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas, as stated by the European Commission1 a , employment and social divergences within and between Member states persists and social developments still point to further divergence across the EU hindering growth, employment and cohesion; whereas societies which are characterised by a high level of equality and investment in people do better in terms of growth and employment resilience. __________________ 1a Joint employment report 2016 page 2
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skills while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required skills although this is also linked to their unwillingness to offer long-term contracts, whereas low educational level is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the discrimination of long- term unemployed job seekers is unfortunately very common: whereas such practices are based on the psychological stigma associated with unemployment and result in employers to perceiving jobless and older applicants as less competent and less hireable than employed individuals; whereas there is a need for employers to train human resource managers to overcome their biases against unemployed workers and older workers and to focus on qualifications and experience rather than the current employment status.
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas undeclared work hasdoes not only have serious budgetary implications and leads to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions, as itit also produces negative effects on employment, productivity and quality of work, skills development and lifelong learning, as well as on the acquisition of pension rights and access to healthcare; whereas there is a need for more efforts to turn undeclared work into declared work
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the most precarious work involves the inability of individuals to enforce their rights, where social insurance protection is absent, where health and safety is put at risk and where work does not provide sufficient income to enable people to live decently; whereas Insecurity is another key element of precariousness and it encompasses work uncertainty, income insufficiency, lack of protection against dismissal, an unknown length of employment and where there is uncertainty about future employment
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay more attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustmentnational, stability and reform programmes, adding three socialemployment indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism ReportMacroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP); notes, however, that the inclusion of these variables into the scoreboard do not have any legal implications or change the focus of the MIP; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itself; therefore highlights the importance of quality of employment, poverty and inequality indicators and stresses that employment and social considerations should be put on equal footing with the economic ones;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments in terms of improving the employability of young people; stresses, therefore, the importance of creating a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge, especially those acquired via voluntary activities; insists in the implementation of the lifelong learning framework approach towards a flexible education path recognizing formal, but also non formal and informal learning to foster equity and social cohesion and allowing employment opportunities for more vulnerable groups.;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to enhance the Youth Guarantee at national, regional and local level, and stresses its importance for school-to-work transitions; stresses the need to guarantee suitable forms of collaboration between public and private employment services; regrets that the financing of the Youth Guarantee has not been enough to effectively address the issue and the lack of coordination on the use that Member States have done with the funding; reiterates its continuous call for a European framework for introducing minimum standards for the implementation of Youth Guarantees;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed but it is worried about the plight of long-term unemployed in Europe, representing more than 12 million unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to the unemployed;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms that reduce inequalities and promote quality jobs, sustainable growth and social investment and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for businesspath towards more cohesion and upward social convergence with a view to creating more quality jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategythrough adequate investment in people and through more adequate sustainable social systems and integrated solutions to support people and make them even more resilient and prepared to face the challenges;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Is concerned that labour market reforms in many Member States have mainly promoted precarious jobs; observes that 50% of the jobs created in 2014 were temporary jobs; notes that, according to the Commission, in-work poverty persists; in this context, calls for a wage increase not only to guarantee decent income, but also which serves to consolidate the economic recovery through the strenghtening of the internal demand;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Draws attention to the urgent need to fight undeclared work, which jeopardises workers’ access to social protection systems ands well as national public finances and creates unfair competition between European enterprises; calls on the Member States to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and to design measures to enable workers in the grey economy to have access to employment protection regimesincrease their efforts to turn undeclared work into declared work; encourages Member States to implement rates of taxation related to the degree of stability and the quality of diverse forms of employment relationships, as one of the incentives for stable contracts;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Is concerned about the increase in income inequalities linked partially to inefficient labour market reforms; calls on the Commission and Member States to implement measures improving job quality in order to reduce labour market segmentation combined with measures raising minimum wages to a decent level and strengthening collective bargaining and workers position in wage-setting systems in order to reduce wage dispersion; warns about the fact that in recent decades, corporate management have been taking a greater share of the economic share while workers' wages have stagnated or have been reduced; considers that this excessive dispersion in wages increases inequalities and damages productivity and competitiveness of companies.
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Warns about the fact that despite the fact that labour reforms have reduced the payments or damages for unfair dismissal and have lowered taxes or given tax incentives for permanent employment creation, new jobs have been mainly temporary contracts.
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. underlines that according to Art. 153 (5) TFEU interference in wage setting mechanism by the European Union is not foreseen; emphasizes that wage setting is a core responsibility of mandated social partners in the Member States; demands therefore that the Commission ceases to interfere in national wage setting mechanisms and rejects the establishment of National Competitiveness Boards; underlines that wages are an important factor to increase domestic demand and economic growth; calls therefore on relevant actors in high-surplus countries to support faster wage increases enabling higher domestic demand.
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Stresses the fact that, in order to be effective, EFSI investments must be focused on creating new investments in areas where investor appetite is subdued rather than on substituting investments that would have been produced elsewhere or focusing on highly profitable investments that would have occurred in any case; reiterates its call on the importance of investments in human capital and other social investments, such as healthcare, childcare or affordable housing and on the need of the effective implementation of the Social Investment Package;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Calls on the Commission, in the framework of the midterm review of the MFF, to study the possibility of increasing the funding of the ESF to ensure the adequacy of its objectives and the new challenges that have been incorporated, such as long-term unemployment or the integration of refugees. Calls also for the establishmen of an specific programme to those European subregions whose unemployment rates exceed 30%;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on the Commission to propose an integrated rights-based anti-poverty strategy in the EU to tackle the multidimensionality of poverty for all groups, especially the most vulnerable ones, integrated active inclusion, underpinned by rights to quality social protection and linked to thematic strategies for all at-risk groups. In this sense, reiterates its call on the Commission to propose an initiative to promote the introduction of minimum incomes in the Member States, for example, through an EU framework for adequate income throughout the life cycle stressing that it is up to each Member State to set minimum income levels and that these should be commensurate to the specific socioeconomic situation in the country in question;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26 c. Is extremely worried about the child poverty rates in the EU; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to introduce a child guarantee;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take adequate measures to help refugees settle and integrate, as well as ensuring that public services are sufficiently resourced and early anticipation of the requirements to facilitate their smooth transition to the labour market. Local authorities and social partners should play a key role in facilitating the integration of migrants and preventing them from suffering from labour abuse;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, ensuring that EU since the free movement of workers is a fundamental right in the EU, ensuring that no worker is left uncovered by social and labour rights protection, including mobile workers, are not treated abusivelynd guaranteeing the principle of equal treatment while safeguarding wages and social standards;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. States that social dialogue is a key instrument for improving working conditions and that in order to ensure the best conditions possible for the dialogue between social partners, a precondition in this context is the existence of strong trade unions, the participation of employees in company matters and a strengthening of collective agreements; calls on the Commission and Member States to boost the quality of social dialogue also at the European level ensuring timely and meaningful social partner consultations, allowing for the necessary analysis and integration of proposals in decision making processes.
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30 b. calls for the promotion of a socially just corporate governance framework at the European level as a way to reducing inequalities, focusing on promoting greater economic democracy putting in place and strengthening legislation requiring employee representatives on company boards and remuneration committees, systems of tax advantages to employee owned companies, cooperatives and mutuals, as well as funds providing loans to assist employee-buy outs.
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30 c. calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce their efforts to tackle social and wage dumping in the EU, which causes significant harm to the workers affected and to Member State welfare systems; calls, furthermore, for the social partners to be included at all levels in these efforts;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31 b. Calls on the Commission to present as soon as possible the proposal for a Pillar of Social rights, as a way to guarantee social and labour rights and to foster upward economic and social convergence in order to tackle the economic and social disparities between Member States and within societies;