Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States

Tabled by Séverine Werbrouck, Balázs Orbán, Marie Dauchy, Mélanie Disdier, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Member States should promote a sustainable Removed: social Added: and highly competitive market economy. They should facilitate Removed: and support investment and foster innovation-led growth Added: investment, innovation and productivity growth Removed: for Added: to support quality job creation, Removed: notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Added: particularly in strategic sectors. They should reduce unnecessary administrative burdens on businesses, especially SMEs, while respecting workers' rights and fostering entrepreneurship. Member States should Removed: pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. Added: make greater use of public procurement and industrial investment policies to support European production and employment, including through European preference criteria in strategic public procurement, in accordance with applicable law, in order to strengthen industrial sovereignty and preserve skilled jobs in Europe.

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.338