Activities of Sylvana RAPTI related to 2009/2221(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promoting youth access to the labour market, strengthening trainee, internship and apprenticeship status (short presentation)
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 (26)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the economic crisis has caused a massive rise in unemployment rates in the EU Member States; whereas young people have been disproportionately affected by this trend; whereas the rate of youth unemployment is rising more sharply in relation to the average unemployment rate; whereas more than 5.5 million young people in the EU under 25 were unemployed in December 2009, equivalent to 21.4 % of all young people, creating the paradox that while young people, owing to the ageing of the population, constitute a cornerstone of the social security systems, at the same time they remain on the economic margin,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the transition from education to work and between jobs is a structural challenge for young people all over the EU; whereas apprenticeships have a largely positive impact on young people's access to employment; whereas a considerable number of public and private employers hire apprentices with a view to replacing them subsequently with others and not to recruiting them definitively and facilitating their smooth transition on to the labour market,
Amendment 14 #
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; whereas young women are more likely than young men to face unemployment and poverty than young men; whereas disabled young people face even greater obstacles to their integration into the labour market,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas decent work shifts young people from social dependence to self- sufficiency, helps them escape poverty and enables them to actively contribute to society, economically and socially; whereas discriminative legislation in some Member States, such as the minimum wage for young people in the UK, the Revenu minimum d'insertion in France and the reduced employment benefits for young people in Denmark, prevent young people from entering into an adult, independent life,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Title on paragraph 2
Title on paragraph 2
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites Member States to create efficient incentives, such as employment subsidies or insurance contributions for young people up to the age of twenty-five or for young people in their first three years of work, for public and private employers to hire young people, to invest in quality job creation for young people and to support entrepreneurship among youth; also through mobility programmes for young professionals, particularly in fields such as environmental development and the social economy,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to establish inclusive and targeted labour market policies that secure the respectful inclusion and meaningful occupation of young people, e.g. through the setting-up of inspirational networks, trainee arrangements, international career centres and youth centres for individual guidance; on matters such as collective organisation and knowledge of legal aspects relating to their traineeship,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to establish inclusive and targeted labour market policies that secure the respectful inclusion and meaningful occupation of young people, e.g. through the setting-up of inspirational networks, trainee arrangements, international career centres and youth centres for individual guidance;
Amendment 56 #
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, and also to review the effectiveness and added value of programmes, such as 'Youth in Action', in terms of job opportunities for young people; urges the Member States to improve their targeting of youth;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to intensify efforts to reduce early school leaving in order to achieve the Lisbon goal of no more than 10 % of early school leavers by 2012; invites the Member States to make use of a wide range of measures to fight early school leaving and illiteracy, e.g. lowering the number of students in each class, introducing mentors at all schools, establishing an immediate follow up of early school leavers; points to Finland which has succeeded in reducing the number of early school leavers; invites the Commission to coordinate a project on best practices;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to improve links between the educational system and the world of work and devise means of predicting demand for skills and abilities;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for more and better traineeships and mobility arrangements, as well as local and regional funding; calls on the Commission and the Council to set up a European Quality Charter on Traineeships to ensure their educational value and avoid exploitation; ·
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to establish a European system for the certification and recognition of knowledge and skills acquired though apprenticeships and traineeships, which will help to increase young workforce mobility;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Urges the Member States to provide young people in traineeship, work experience or apprenticeship schemes with full workplace and social security entitlements, subsidising where appropriate a part of their contributions;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises that, in times of crisis, young people seek education and should be encouraged to do so; calls on all Member States to secure equal access to education for all by guaranteeing a minimum right of 12 years free, including both the compulsory 12 years free education and further education, providing assistance for pupils who cannot afford to complete their compulsory education and securing financial support for young students, and invites Member States to invest further in education and training, even if fiscal constraints are present, to adopt the European Qualifications Framework and, where necessary, to establish national skills frameworks;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to expand EU programmes that support education and up- skilling, such as Lifelong Learning, the European Social Fund, the Marie Curie and Erasmus Mundus Actions and the Science Education Initiative;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop lifecycle-based policies and strategies, in which education and employment are better integrated, in which safe transition is a key point and in which there is a constant vocational up- skilling of the labour force providing them with the key competences required by the labour market;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission to revise the flexicurity strategy, together with the social partners, in order to place transition security at the top of the agenda while creating mobility and easier access for young people; underlines that flexibility without social security is not a sustainable way of combating the problems young people face on the labour market;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 12 – point c a (new)
ca. effective labour mobility mechanisms,
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 12 – point d a (new)
da. effective monitoring mechanisms to guarantee labour rights,
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States and the social partners to secure quality work to avoid young people falling into the ‘precariousness trap’; and calls on the social partners,Member States and the social partners, on the basis of existing national laws and in cooperation with the Commission, to establish and implement minimumbetter standards protecting those who work in insecure or low-quality jobs;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission for a review of existing national legislation affecting youth in each Member State to verify its compatibility with the Employment Equality DirectiveDirective 2000/78/ΕC on equal treatment in employment with regard to religion, belief, disability, age or sexual orientation;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for Member States to introduce affirmative action measures for young people in those areas of the labour market where youth is under-represented, so as to overcome the consequences of previous age discrimination and achieve a truly diverse workforce, making reasonable accommodation as appropriate for young people with disabilities; points to good experience as regards affirmative action in combating discrimination;
Amendment 139 #
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 for them the possibility of creating an independent adult life; the Member States should adopt policies to ensure that all young people are entitled to the income that results from general and collective labour agreements;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Suggests that the Council and the Commission come forward with a European Youth Guarantee securing the right of every young person in the EU to be offered a job, an apprenticeship, additional training or combined work and training after a maximum period of 6 months’ unemployment, in proportion to demand on the labour market and provided that suitable review mechanisms are introduced to monitor developments in occupations;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Council and the Commission to agree to and deliver on new improved governance and internet information tools for the work on youth employment;