5 Amendments of Mara BIZZOTTO related to 2014/2222(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas high unemployment levels, heavy austerity politics, excessive focus on wage depression to regain competitiveness, and a decline in spending on social protection in almost all Member States, have led to significant reductions in household gross disposable incomes, leaving millions of European families at risk of exclusion, and have increased inequalities alarmingly; whereas one in four Europeans are at risk of poverty; whereas underemployment and precariousness has peaked and, for 50 % of all job seekers, securing employment is not enough to lift them out of poverty;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that while SMEs constitute the backbone of job creation in the EU, they are overtaxed and continue to face major difficulties in gaining access to financing, and they are worryingly over-indebted; welcomes the Commission’s new recommendations on SME’s access to finance, involving a new approach to insolvency and business failure; calls for further efforts to improve debt- restructuring schemes as a means to this end;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that decisive investment plans for growth and job creation can only be fully realised if they are coupled with national reforms that enhance quality labour participation, boost productivity, decrease taxation and develop human capital; believes that structural labour market reforms should introduce internal flexibility measures aimed at maintaining employment in times of economic disruption, ensure job quality and security in employment transitions, and provide unemployment benefit schemes that are based on activation requirements and linked to reintegration policies;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to design tailor-made policies to support quality job creation for the long-term unemployed, senior unemployed people, women and other priority groups hit especially hard by the crisis, such as immigrants or people with disabilities;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the reduction in youth unemployment rates, but points out that theyIs concerned that youth unemployment rates are still alarming; stresses that job insecurity and underemployment have also risen, and that 43 % of the young find themselves working under precarious conditions, on involuntary part-time contracts or as bogus self-employed;