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REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States PDF (220 KB) DOC (353 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 93 #
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) The realisation of the Europe 2020 strategy in the employment and social area remains a key objective of Member States’ employment policy.
Amendment 108 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 1
Member States should facilitate quality job creation, reduce barriers for business to hire people, promote entrepreneurship and in particular support the creation and growth of small enterprises in order to increase the employment rate of women and men. Member States should also actively promote green, white and blue jobs and the social economy and foster social innovation.
Amendment 116 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 2
The tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation that are less detrimental to employment and growth, for instance to environmental pollution, capital or consumption, while protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth enhancing expenditures. Reductions in labour taxation should be aimed at the relevant components of the tax burden and at removing barriers for employers and disincentives to labour market participation, in particular for those furthest away from the labour marketcluding jobs that are not adapted to people with disabilities and difficulties in reconciling work and private life, in particular for those furthest away from the labour market, while duly respecting existing protection standards and labour law.
Amendment 127 #
Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Member States should work on cutting red tape in order to ease the burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, as they contribute significantly to job creation.
Amendment 148 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 2
High unemployment should be tackled and long-term unemployment prevented. The number of long-term unemployed should be significantly reduced by means of comprehensive and mutually reinforcing strategies, including the provision of specific active support to long-term unemployed to return to the labour market. The youth unemployment needs to be comprehensively addressed, including not only investments, but also by equipping the relevant institutions, for instance public employment services, youth organisations and educational and vocational training institutions, with the necessary means to fully and consistently implement their national Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans.
Amendment 151 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Member States should take into consideration local and regional disparities in drawing up and carrying out measures against unemployment and work together with local employment services.
Amendment 157 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Member States should gear their training systems more closely to the labour market with a view to better transition from training to employment. In particular in the context of digitisation, and in terms of new technologies, green jobs and health care, that is essential.
Amendment 162 #
Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 4
Barriers to labour market participation should be reduced, especially for women, older workers, young people, the disabled and legalpersons with a disability and migrants. Gender equality including equal pay must be ensured in the labour market as well as access to affordable quality early childhood education and care.
Amendment 182 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 1
Member States should reduce labour market segmentation. Employment protection rules and institutions should provide a suitable environment for recruitment while offering adequate levels of protection to those in employment and those seeking employment or working part-time or employed on temporary contracts, atypical contracts or independent work contracts. Quality employment should be ensured in terms of socio-economic security, education and training opportunities, working conditions (including health and safety) and work-life balance. In order to make labour markets function better, Member States should also tackle undeclared working.
Amendment 194 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 2
Member States should closely involve National Parliaments and social partner, social partners, civil society representatives and national, regional and local authorities in the design and implementation of relevant reforms and policies, in line with national practices, while supporting the improvement of the functioning and effectiveness of social dialogue at national level.
Amendment 205 #
Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 4
Mobility of workers should be ensured with an aim ofcouraged in order to exploiting the full potential of the European labour market to the full, including by enhancing the portability of pensions and the recognition of qualifications, social protection and the elimination of red tape. Member States should at the same time guard against abuses of the existing rules and social dumping. In border regions in particular, Member States should make use of the EURES network in order to encourage worker mobility.
Amendment 214 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – title
Ensuring fairnesssocial justice, combatting poverty and promoting equal opportunities
Amendment 223 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 1
Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide effective, efficient, and adequate protection throughout all stages of an individual’s life, ensuring fairness and addressing inequalities. There is a need for simplified and better targeted social policies complemented by affordable quality childcare and education, training and job assistance, housing support and accessible health care, access to basic services such as bank account and Internet and for action to prevent early school leaving and fight social exclusion and poverty, including extreme forms of poverty such as, for example, homelessness.
Amendment 230 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 3
The pension systems should be reformed in order to secure their sustainability and adequacy for women and men in a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, including by linking statutory retirement ages to life expectancy, by increasing effective retirement ages, and by developing complementary retirement savingwith reforms providing for consolidation of the three pillars of retirement savings systems, but taking account of differences and disparities in life expectancy and working conditions between occupations.
Amendment 243 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 4
Member States should improve the accessibility, affordability, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare and long term care systems and welfare services, while safeguarding fiscal sustainability.
Amendment 245 #
Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Member States should make a full use of European Social Fund and other Union funds support in order to fight poverty, social exclusion and discrimination, improve accessibility for persons with disabilities to promote equality between women and men and improve public administration.