Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2013/2158(INI)
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Amendments (10)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas youth unemployment rates have reached unprecedented levels, averaging 23 % for the EU as a whole, and whereas in some Member States the unemployment rate among young people aged 16 to 25 is higher than 50 %; whereas the labour market situation is particularly critical for young people, regardless of their level of education, who often end up either unemployed or with precarious employment contracts or unpaid traineeships; whereas in 2011 the economic loss due to the disengagement of young people from the labour market was estimated at EUR 153 billion in the Member States, corresponding to 1,2 % of EU GDP1;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it regrettable that the employment and social indicators proposed by the Commission are insufficient to cover the Member States’ employment and social situations comprehensively; calls for the scoreboard to include additional indicators, in particular child poverty levels, employment rate without mini-jobs, a decent work index and a European living wage index, in order to allow proper assessment of the social situation in the EU;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that, while structural reforms may bear fruit in the medium to long term, the need to stimulate the EU’s internal demand requires the Commission and the Council to put in place, as a matter of urgency, an ambitious, coordinated investment plan in order to sustain growth and quality jobs in the short term and enhance potential in the medium term; notes that the main objectives have already been defined in the Europe 2020 strategy and in the Compact for Growth and Jobs agreed in June 2012, but that financing must be stepped up; encourages Member States therefore to set up an investment package amounting to 2 % of EU GDP in order to bring about a significant improvement in the short-term economic situation and in the state of affairs on the labour markets of the Member States as was recited in the Parliament resolution of 11 September 2013 on tackling youth unemployment: possible ways out (2013/2045(INI));
Amendment 129 #
22. Calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of reducing pressure on wages through minimum-wage schemes, which can be different in each country so as to reflect median wage ratios and differing levels of productivity, and/or through strengthening collective bargaining and in this course the role of social partners at all relevant levels; points out that such a measures may make it possible to reduce deflation risks and inequality and to limit nominal imbalances in competitiveness and current accounts;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Stresses the importance of active, comprehensive and inclusive labour policies in the current context; is deeply concerned that several Member States, despite rising unemployment rates, have reduced budget allocations to finance active, comprehensive and inclusive labour policies; calls on the Member States to increase the coverage and effectiveness of active labour market policies, in close cooperation with the social partners;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Notes with satisfaction that these funds can be used during the first two years of the next financial framework; recalls, however, that this amount is insufficient to combat youth unemployment in a lasting manner and should form an initial tranche with which to combat youth unemployment; emphasises that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has calculated that EUR 21 billion is needed to implement an effective programme to combat youth unemployment in the eurozone alone compared to an economic loss due to the disengagement of young people from the labour market at an estimated amount of EUR 153 billion in the Member States in 2011, corresponding to 1,2 % of EU GDP; calls on the Commission to make the Youth Guarantee a priority and to increase the available budget in the promised mid-term review of the MFF;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to build on the European Job Mobility Portal (EURES) by intensifying and broadening its activities and, in particular, by promoting youth mobility; calls for a specific strategy to be drafted to this end, in conjunction with the Member States; also observes, however, that mobility must remain voluntary and must not limit efforts to create jobs and training places on the spot in order not to increase the problem of 'Brain Drain', which has already occurred in the Member States most hit by the crisis;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Stresses the importance of taking effective steps to fight undeclared work, false self-employment, tax fraud and tax fraudevasion, particularly in the current context of fiscal consolidation, in order to protect workers and revenues and maintain public confidence in the fairness and effectiveness of tax systems;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 a (new)
Paragraph 54 a (new)
54 a. Stresses that the sustainability of pension schemes relies much more on the dependency ratio than on the mandatory retirement age; calls therefore on Member States to launch activating labour market policies;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Stresses that all labour market reforms should be based on reinforced coordination of social dialogue at EU level as well on national and, where appropriate, on regional and local level;