Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2015/2116(INI)
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Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission’s application report1 states that all 28 Member States have transposed the Directive into national legislation, but legislation alone is not enough to ensure full equality and must be combined with appropriate policy action; whereas policy measures such as the Directive on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures have already been adopted by Parliament, and whereas such measures have the potential to help bring about greater equality for women within employment and improve women's access to management positions; whereas similar appropriate measures to strengthen women in corporate middle management appear to be necessary too; __________________ 1 COM(2014)0002
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the application and transposition of Directive 2006/54/EC have been assessed and Parliament, in its report dated 25 June 2015, set out its serious misgivings concerning the implementation of the Directive's provisions on putting into practice the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women are mostly the ones with the primary responsibility for taking care of the children, family and household; whereas these responsibilities have a direct effect on women’s careers, and negatively affect their conditions of employment and, women in many instances are involuntary part-time workers or are pushed into precarious forms of employment, and all these factors produce pay and pension gaps;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas single-parent families, primarily single mothers, can be found much more frequently among the working poor and all measures adopted should focus on single parents;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with concern the absence of case- law providing an interpretation of ‘indirect discrimination’ in certain Member States, as well as the difficulty that its definition posed for the transposition of the Directive in certain Member States; suggests that the Commission should provide advice for Member States on such interpretation difficulties;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to strengthen their equality bodiesdesignate an equality body covering the areas of the Directive and to strengthen their equality bodies and ensure they are independent and adequately funded, as these bodies should take on a leading role in improving complaint mechanisms and organising awareness campaigns as regards women’'s rights on the labour market;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States, in particular by also making active use of gender budgeting, to pursue the implementation of equal treatment in employment policies and measures that would encourage the employment of women and, reduce pay and pension gaps and, in general, improve the position of women on the labour market; calls on the Commission to promote exchanges of best practices in gender budgeting.