Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 34Rejected

   Annex I – paragraph 1

   Tabled by Laurence Trochu, Elena Donazzan, Nikola Bartůšek +6 · ECR

   Member States should promote a Added: competitive and sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster … the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative Added: and regulatory burden, and in scaling up, Added: in particular by applying the ‘one in, one out’ approach and by avoiding any gold-plating of Union legislation, especially for SMEs, and foster responsible Removed: entrepreneurship Added: entrepreneurship, freedom to conduct a business and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social …

2. Amendment 36Rejected

   Annex I – paragraph 11

   Tabled by Laurence Trochu, Elena Donazzan, Nikola Bartůšek +6 · ECR

   As a complementary solution to Removed: tapping Added: tapping, as a priority, the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States Removed: should Added: may attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration Removed: pathways, Added: pathways strictly targeted at the proven needs of their labour market, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Added: In accordance with Article 79(5) TFEU, Member States retain the right to determine volumes of admission of third-country nationals coming to their territory in order to seek work. Admission for employment purposes should be conditional upon a job offer or an employment contract corresponding to a proven labour shortage. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals … legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated Removed: professions. Added: professions, while maintaining quality standards. Any cooperation with third countries on labour mobility should be conditional upon their effective cooperation on the readmission of their nationals who are staying illegally. Member States should Removed: further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. Added: put in place a demanding integration policy, based on learning the language of the host country and on respect for its laws and for the values of the Union, and should be able to make access to certain support measures conditional upon effective participation in integration programmes. Member States should step up the fight against illegal employment of illegally staying third-country nationals, in particular through the effective application of Directive 2009/52/EC.

3. Amendment 39Rejected

   Annex I – paragraph 1

   Tabled by Séverine Werbrouck, Balázs Orbán, Marie Dauchy +2 · PfE

   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.

4. Amendment 40Rejected

   Annex I – paragraph 11

   Tabled by Séverine Werbrouck, Balázs Orbán, Marie Dauchy +2 · PfE

   Removed: As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should Removed: attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications Added: prioritise the employment, training and reskilling of their national workforce, particularly young people, the long-term unemployed and economically inactive persons, before resorting to the admission of third-country nationals Removed: in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. Added: for the purpose of employment, subject to temporary and time-limited residence and work authorisations. Labour shortages should primarily be addressed through better wages, improved working conditions and investment in domestic skills. Decisions on labour migration and access to national labour markets must remain under the control of Member States, while ensuring respect for applicable labour rights.

5. Amendment 41Rejected

   Annex I – paragraph 23 a (new)

   Tabled by Séverine Werbrouck, Balázs Orbán, Marie Dauchy +2 · PfE

   Added: Demographic decline and persistently low birth rates represent a structural challenge to the sustainability of national labour markets and social protection systems. Member States should develop ambitious family policies supporting parenthood, access to housing, childcare and the reconciliation of family and professional life. Labour immigration cannot substitute long-term policies addressing demographic decline.