Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights

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7.3.2025 B100143/1

Amendment 1

Rudi Kennes, Pasquale Tridico

on behalf of The Left Group

Motion for a resolution B100143/2025

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights

Motion for a resolution

Recital I

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
I. whereas it is important to move towards the decarbonisation of road transport, which must be achieved in such a way as to limit job losses in the car industry, and to include all stakeholders and social partners in the transformation process; whereas affected workers should be supported by providing upskilling, reskilling and training opportunities and relevant safety nets in the event of temporary unemployment;	I. whereas it is important to move towards the decarbonisation of road transport and the promotion of sustainable mobility, which must be achieved in such a way as to limit job losses in the car industry and at the same time support the transition of any excess workers to the production of mass public transport systems, ensuring that all stakeholders and social partners are included in the transformation process; whereas affected workers should be supported by providing upskilling, reskilling and training opportunities and relevant safety nets in the event of temporary unemployment;

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7.3.2025 B100143/2

Amendment 2

Rudi Kennes, Pasquale Tridico

on behalf of The Left Group

Motion for a resolution B100143/2025

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Recognises that the EU needs to reform its economy in order to maintain its competitiveness and achieve the green and digital transitions, including through a European industrial policy; welcomes the establishment of a European Competitiveness Fund, as envisaged by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen; reiterates its call for the economic governance framework to be strengthened by a common investment instrument16 at EU level in order to achieve the EU’s current and future priorities, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights; believes that such an instrument should ensure that the necessary resources are available in all relevant sectors for developing an industrial policy and for policies that support the protection and creation of quality jobs and that contribute to upward social convergence; reiterates its previous call on the Commission and the Council to reinforce the European instrument for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency instrument (SURE) to support short-time work schemes, workers’ income and workers who would be temporarily laid off in the context of the green transition, while taking into account the outcome of the final evaluation report and considering that SURE saved 40 million jobs17; _____________ 16 European Parliament position of 23 April 2024 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97, Texts adopted, P9_TA(2024)0311. 17 Commission report of 2 June 2023 on the European instrument for Temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) following the COVID-19 outbreak pursuant to Article 14 of Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672 – SURE after its sunset: final bi-annual report (COM(2023)0291).	2. Recognises that the EU needs to reform its economy in order to maintain its competitiveness and achieve the green and digital transitions, including through a European industrial policy; welcomes the establishment of a European Competitiveness Fund, as envisaged by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen; reiterates its call for the economic governance framework to be strengthened by a common investment instrument16 at EU level in order to achieve the EU’s current and future priorities, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights; believes that such an instrument should ensure that the necessary resources are available in all relevant sectors for developing an industrial policy and for policies that support the protection and creation of quality jobs and that contribute to upward social convergence; reiterates its previous call on the Commission and the Council to reinforce the European instrument for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency instrument (SURE) to support short-time work schemes, workers’ income and workers who would be temporarily laid off in the context of the green transition, while taking into account the outcome of the final evaluation report and considering that SURE saved 40 million jobs17; welcomes SURE-like funds subject to social and environmental conditionalities as an effective tool to mitigate job losses in crisis-hit industries, particularly the automotive sector; recalls that saving manufacturing jobs also means preventing the dispersion of the competencies and capabilities needed to build a competitive and dynamic industrial system; recalls that public funds should be a driver of improvement of working conditions; _____________ 16 European Parliament position of 23 April 2024 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97, Texts adopted, P9_TA(2024)0311. 17 Commission report of 2 June 2023 on the European instrument for Temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) following the COVID-19 outbreak pursuant to Article 14 of Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672 – SURE after its sunset: final bi-annual report (COM(2023)0291).

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