Activities of Nadja HIRSCH related to 2009/2221(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on promoting youth access to the labour market, strengthening trainee, internship and apprenticeship status PDF (225 KB) DOC (144 KB)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Culture and Education on University Business Dialogue: a new partnership for the modernisation of Europe’s universities (2009/2099(INI)),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas younger generations will have to reduce the gigantic public debt caused by the present generation,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas young people often face discrimination on the grounds of their age when entering the labour market and when jobs are being cut back; whereas young women are more likely than young men to face unemployment and poverty than young men,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas as a result of demographic change after 2020 a massive shortage in skilled labour will seriously affect the European economic area and this trend can be countered only by adequate education, training and retraining,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Commission and the Member States to take a rights-based approach to youth and employment. The qualitative aspect of decent work for young people must not be compromised, and the core labour standards and other standards related to the quality of work, such as working time, the minimum wage, social security, and occupational health and safety, must be central considerations in the efforts that are made;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the provision of traineeships to complement the school curriculum, giving pupils the opportunity to gain work experience, thus facilitating their future labour market insertion; stresses the educational function of traineeships and points out that they should not replace jobs;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the universities to make contact with employers at an early stage and provide students with the opportunity to acquire skills needed for the employment market;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Hopes for a successful take-up of microloans by young people; considers that the founders of start-ups must receive consistent and professional advice;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to promote the skills of early school-leavers and prepare them for employment by means of innovative projects;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Member States to include early cooperation between school and employers in their plans to redesign training schemes; considers that communes and local authorities must be included in the planning of education and training as they have the network contacts with employers and know what employers need;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to expand financial capacity for the European Social Fund, to earmark a minimum of 10 % of this fund for projects targeting young people and to ease access to the fund; urges the Commission and the Member States not to jeopardise the running of small and innovative projects with excessive control and red tape; urges the Member States to improve their targeting of youth;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on Member States to take all measures to combat the high drop-out rate among pupils, thereby enabling them to gain additional qualifications and facilitating their future labour market insertion;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Member States to cut back excessive child-protection regulation when this prevents employers from taking on young people;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for more and better traineeships; calls on the Commission and the Council to set up a European Quality Charter on Traineeships to ensure their educational value and avoid exploitation; calls on the Member States to lay down rules specifying that unpaid traineeships should last no more than six months;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to assess the long-term consequences of youth unemployment and fairness between generations;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Urges the Member States to absorb the impact of youth unemployment on the pension rights of that generation and by taking generous account of the time spent in education give young people an incentive to continue their education for a long period;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission for a review of existing national legislation affecting youth and young employees in each Member State to verify its compatibility with the Employment Equality Directive;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on Member States and the Commission to provide adequate and better childcare opportunities for young parents, thus facilitating the possibility for young mothers to participate in the labour market;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the various branches of industry to set up generation partnerships in businesses and organisations and in this way generate an active exchange of knowhow and productively combine the experience of different generations;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recognises the importance of young people being able to be financially independent and calls for Member States to ensure that all young people are individually entitled to a minimum level of income that secures financial support that affords them the possibility of creating an independent adult life;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Member States to keep young people at school or in education until the age of 18 if they have not successfully completed any vocational training;