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Draft report (2025/2039(INI)) 2025-09-30

Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

Amendment 178

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;	1. Highlights that in the EU around 53 million people 11 provide informal long-term care in their family or social environment, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of all care work12; stresses that around 45% of the EU population provides unpaid care, whether childcare and long-term care, with one in ten juggling multiple caregiving roles at once; 12a
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11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.	11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.
12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.	12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.
	12a Unpaid care in the EU, Eurofound.

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Amendment 179

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;	1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11, mostly women, provide unpaid, informal care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12;
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11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.	11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.
12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.	12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.

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Amendment 180

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;	1. Highlights that 45% of the EU’s population provides some form of unpaid care, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12; notes that 48% of women provide unpaid care compared to 42% of men;
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11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.	11 Eurofound, 2025.
12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.	12 Eurofound, 2025.

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Amendment 181

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;	1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide informal care work for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12;
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11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.	11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.
12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.	12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.

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Amendment 182

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;	1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide informal and often unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;
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11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.	11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.
12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.	12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.

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Amendment 183

Emma Rafowicz, Maria Guzenina, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Carla Tavares, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Highlights that in the EU over 12 million people11 provide unpaid care for sick or elderly family members, or family members with disabilities, and that this use of informal care ranges between 30 % and 85 % of care work12 ;	1. Highlights that according to the World Health Organisation1a around 32 million European Women provide informal care to a family member, friend, or neighbour every week;
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	1a WHO Europe. Shining light on women’s contributions: celebrating their role in informal care, 2024.
11 Eurostat, Reconciliation between work and family life – statistics, 2019.
12 European Commission, long-term care report, 2021.

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Amendment 184

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. regrets that only 9 Member States have ratified the ILO Convention No189 on domestic workers that aims to provide legal recognition for domestic work, extend rights to all domestic workers, especially women, in the informal economy, and prevent violations and abuses; Calls on EU and all MS to urgently ratify and ensure compliance with the articles of this ILO Convention;

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Amendment 185

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. Highlights that in the EU, around 6.8 million people work as undeclared paid care workers, in the personal and household services (PHS) sector, of which 90% are women, and the majority of whom are middle-aged, and migrants 13a and therefore not encompassed by labour rights or social security;
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	13a Eurofound, Undeclared care work in the EU: Policy approaches to a complex socioeconomic challenge, Eurofound research paper, Publications Office of the European Union, 2025.

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Amendment 186

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. Highlights that the gender earnings gap in the EU was estimated at 38% in 2024; observes that the gender pension gap among persons aged 65 years or over in the EU was 24.5% in the EU;

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Amendment 187

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. Highlights that in the EU, around 6.8 million people work as undeclared paid care workers, in the personal and household services (PHS) sector, of which 90% are women;

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Amendment 188

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13, who provide on average 17 hours of unpaid work per week; notes that an estimated 32 million of unpaid carers are women providing informal care every week2b;
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	2b https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/08-03-2024-shining-light-on-women-s-contributions--celebrating-their-role-in-informal-care
13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 189

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that 76 % of care work is carried out by women13, and that paid professions are often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;
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13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 190

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that 76 % of informal care work is carried out by women13, and that paid care work is often unrecognised, characterised by low wages, physical and emotional strain and precarious working conditions;
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13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 191

Emma Rafowicz, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Carla Tavares, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13, who provide on average 17 hours of unpaid work per week according to the World Health Organisation and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions, with women earning on average 20% less than men, expecting the transposition into national law of the pay transparency directive to compare the salary of care workers to work of equal value;
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13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 192

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that care work is heavily segregated and gendered as 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13, and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;
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13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 193

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13, and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13, on the basis of the principle of women being ‘natural carers’, and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;
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13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 194

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions;	2. Underlines that 76 % of unpaid care work is carried out by women13 , and that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions; calls for the transposition and implementation of the pay transparency directive into national laws of the Member States which will allow to identify and address discrimination and occupational segregation, ensuring equal pay for equal work or work of equal value;
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13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.	13 International Labour Organization, report on care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, 2018.

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Amendment 195

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2 a. Stresses that paid care work is often characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions, with wages 21% below average in long-term care and other social services2c, and women earning on everage 20% less than men2d;
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	2c https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/wages-long-term-care-and-other-social-services-21-below-average#overview
	2d https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/08-03-2024-shining-light-on-women-s-contributions--celebrating-their-role-in-informal-care

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Amendment 196

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
3. Observes that the economic value of unpaid domestic and care work represents 10 % to 39 % of gross domestic product (GDP) worldwide14 , with women carrying out the majority of this work;	3. Observes that the economic value of informal domestic and care work represents 10 % to 39 % of gross domestic product (GDP) worldwide14 , with women carrying out the majority of this work;
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14 2021, UN on the care economy: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/redistribute-unpaid-work#notes.	14 2021, UN on the care economy: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/redistribute-unpaid-work#notes.

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Amendment 197

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	3 a. Recognizes that the value of domestic duties and family care is immeasurable and irreplaceable, and therefore priority should be given to a family member providing such care, whenever possible and desired;

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Amendment 198

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	3 a. Notes that the unequal division of unpaid care work, reflects an unequal division of paid work, notes that 44% of women are in full time employment, opposed to 58% of men;

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Amendment 199

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
4. Highlights that women represent 76 % of the 49 million carers in the EU15 and account for 93 % of childcare workers and teaching assistants16 , 86 % of personal care workers in health services and 95 % of domestic cleaners17 ;	4. Highlights that women represent 76 % of the 49 million professional carers in the EU15 and account for 93 % of childcare workers and teaching assistants16 , 86 % of personal care workers in health services, in households and 95 % of domestic workers17;
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15 European Policy Centre (EPC) study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.	15 European Policy Centre (EPC) study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.
16 Eurostat, ‘Childcare workers and teachers’ aides in the EU in 2020’.	16 Eurostat, ‘Childcare workers and teachers’ aides in the EU in 2020’.
17 EPC study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.	17 EPC study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.

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Amendment 200

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
4. Highlights that women represent 76 % of the 49 million carers in the EU15 and account for 93 % of childcare workers and teaching assistants16 , 86 % of personal care workers in health services and 95 % of domestic cleaners17 ;	4. Highlights that women represent 76 % of the 49 million formal carers in the EU15 and account for 93 % of childcare workers and teaching assistants16 , 86 % of personal care workers in health services and 95 % of domestic cleaners17 ;
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15 European Policy Centre (EPC) study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.	15 European Policy Centre (EPC) study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.
16 Eurostat, ‘Childcare workers and teachers’ aides in the EU in 2020’.	16 Eurostat, ‘Childcare workers and teachers’ aides in the EU in 2020’.
17 EPC study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.	17 EPC study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.

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Amendment 201

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
4. Highlights that women represent 76 % of the 49 million carers in the EU15 and account for 93 % of childcare workers and teaching assistants16 , 86 % of personal care workers in health services and 95 % of domestic cleaners17 ;	4. Highlights that women represent 76 % of the 49 million carers in the EU15 and account for 93 % of childcare workers and teaching assistants16, 86 % of personal care workers in health services and 95 % of domestic cleaners17; estimates that up to 53 % of all care workers are undeclared workers, and one out of every six care workers is either a third-country national or an EU mobile worker;
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15 European Policy Centre (EPC) study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.	15 European Policy Centre (EPC) study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.
16 Eurostat, ‘Childcare workers and teachers’ aides in the EU in 2020’.	16 Eurostat, ‘Childcare workers and teachers’ aides in the EU in 2020’.
17 EPC study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.	17 EPC study entitled ’Gender equality: Who cares? Do you?’, 2022.

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Amendment 202

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	4 a. Notes that Eurofound findings show that when it comes to long-term care, for both women and men, there is a noticeable shift towards higher care intensity over time, with a growing proportion of unpaid carers reporting more than 20 hours of care per week in 2024 compared to 2014. This trend is particularly evident in the highest care intensity category (51+ hours per week), which shows a marked increase for both genders. Women consistently report higher levels of care intensity compared to men across all time periods, reflecting their disproportionate involvement in unpaid caregiving;

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Amendment 203

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	4 a. Highlights that up to 53% of all care workers are undeclared workers; notes that one out of six care workers is either migrants workers or an EU mobile worker;

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Amendment 204

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that the long-term lack of investments into public care systems is among the main barriers to accessible quality care and closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18; believes that the increasing privatisation and commodification of care exacerbates economic, social, territorial and gender inequalities;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 205

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that inadequate access to and poor quality of care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 206

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18;	5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18, notes that very often social infrastructure – kindergartens, day-care facilities, care services for the elderly – is often insufficient or costly, which leads to women withdrawing from, or scaling down their participation in, the labour market, lower incomes, and thus lower pensions at the end of their careers, and to their having fewer opportunities for personal and professional development;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 207

Emma Rafowicz, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18; emphasises the role of employers to address working conditions to make full-time-employment compatible with care responsibilities, through flexible time models or other types of work organisation, and to favour a work climate that promotes paternity leave fostering an equal distribution of care tasks between couples;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 208

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 as well as addressing the question of undeclared workers; emphasises the role of employers to address working conditions to make full-time-employment compatible with care responsibilities, through flexible time models or other types of work organisation, and to favour a work climate that promotes fostering paternity leave and a more balanced distribution of care tasks between couples;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 209

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18; regrets that lack of proper investment into public care systems are a massive challenge to accessing high-quality care and to ending gender gaps in employment;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 210

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18, as well as addressing the question of women operating as undeclared workers;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 211

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18 ;	5. Notes that inadequate care systems are among the main barriers to closing gender gaps in labour markets worldwide18, as well as addressing the question of undeclared workers;
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18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.	18 World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

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Amendment 212

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	5 a. Affirms that the objectives of a health care system should be to ensure quality care for those in need, provide support for caregivers to perform their tasks adequately, guarantee good working conditions and accessible training for care professionals, recognize and respect their work, promote a positive image of care tasks, encourage and incentivize all people in these professions, and express societal gratitude for those fulfilling this essential vocation.

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Amendment 213

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Notes that public expenditure on long-term care is expected to rise to 1.7 % of GDP by 2050 from 0.8 % of GDP in 202219 ;	6. Notes that public expenditure on long-term care is expected to rise to 1.7 % of GDP by 2050 from 0.8 % of GDP in 202219; underlines that sustainable funding must be ensured without creating excessive burdens on future generations;
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19 Commission staff working document accompanying the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation on access to affordable high-quality long-term care, 2022.	19 Commission staff working document accompanying the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation on access to affordable high-quality long-term care, 2022.

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Amendment 214

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 a. Notices that family breakdown is one of the causes of a lack of care attention, leading to an absence of affection, loneliness, and the negative consequences that this entails;

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Amendment 215

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;	7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20, which will, together with other factors like the increasing prevalence of non-communicable disease driven by disability result in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;
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20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.
21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.

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Amendment 216

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;	7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;
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20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.
21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.

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Amendment 217

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;	7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021, which underlines the urgent need to recognise, support and invest not only in professional care services but also in the contribution of informal carers and Personal and Household Services (PHS) workers, who are predominantly women and often in precarious employment conditions;
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20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.
21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.

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Amendment 218

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20, resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021;	7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20, resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021; stresses that an ageing population requires a universal, public European care framework that guarantees sufficient staffing, decent wages and rights for all workers in the sector;
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20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.
21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.

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Amendment 219

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;	7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 and meeting current needs already poses a challenge; highlights that one in five persons in need of long-term care cannot access such services due to affordability constraints;
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20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.
21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.

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Amendment 220

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;	7. Highlights that by 2070, almost 30 % of the EU population will be aged 65 or over20 , resulting in increased demand for care services and significant pressure on already strained and understaffed health and welfare systems, while the number of people requiring long-term care is expected to increase from 30.8 million in 2019 to 38.1 million in 205021 ;
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20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	20 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.
21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.	21 European Commission, 2021 Ageing Report.

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Amendment 221

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	7 a. Highlights that in the EU, around 6.8 million people who work as undeclared paid care workers, in the personal and household services (PHS) sector, are predominantly women and often migrants1a; highlights that around 32 million European women provide informal care to a family member, friend, or neighbour every week1b;
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	1a https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/undeclared-care-work-eu-policy-approaches-complex-socioeconomic-challenge
	1b https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/08-03-2024-shining-light-on-women-s- contributions--celebrating-their-role-in-informal-care

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Amendment 222

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Romana Tomc, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Loucas Fourlas, Giusi Princi, Pascal Arimont, András Tivadar Kulja, Miriam Lexmann, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Liesbet Sommen, Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	7 a. Stresses that only half of EU’s 42.8 million working-age persons with disabilities are employed; and that women with disabilities are particularly affected, with only 21% of them in full-time employment1a;
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	1a European Union \| Disability \| Work \| Intersecting inequalities \| 2024 \| Gender Equality Index \| European Institute for Gender Equality

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Amendment 223

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Romana Tomc, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Loucas Fourlas, Giusi Princi, Pascal Arimont, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Liesbet Sommen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	7 b. Highlights that in the EU, around 6.8 million people work as undeclared paid care workers, in the personal and household services (PHS) sector, of which 90% are women, and the majority of whom are middle-aged, and migrants1b;
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	1b Eurofound, Undeclared care work in the EU: Policy approaches to a complex socioeconomic challenge, Eurofound research paper, Publications Office of the European Union, 2025.

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Amendment 224

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Calls on the Commission to develop harmonised definitions and indicators to assess accessibility, quality and efficiency of care services for children, persons with disabilities and elderly on the EU level, taking into account gender differences in care needs and responsibilities, as women are often primary caregivers and may face unequal access to high-quality services;

Or. en

Amendment 225

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 2 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of these gender-responsive indicators and promote corrective action where and when needed;

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Amendment 226

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women and within the family, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender complementarity in care responsibilities through, in particular, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

Or. fr

Amendment 227

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; Supports genuine gender equality in care responsibilities, ensuring that women are fully supported in their choice to start a family and have children, without being penalised in their professional careers;

Or. fr

Amendment 228

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports recognising the central role of families and encourages the Member States to support carers, respecting personal life choices, through sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

Or. fr

Amendment 229

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care, both formal and informal, and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports equality between men and women in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace including flexible arrangements;

Or. en

Amendment 230

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions, support in the workplace and systems to facilitate hiring and declared support for homecare work; and offers women the opportunity to enter or remain in the labour market through adequate support at home through personal and household services (PHS);

Or. en

Amendment 231

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the vital role of care across the life-cycle and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, access to quality, affordable and accessible care services, parental leave, equal pay, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace, and systems to facilitate hiring and declare support for homecare work;

Or. en

Amendment 232

Emma Rafowicz, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care “formal” as well as “informal” mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care as well as “informal” caregiving provided to a sick or dependant relative; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

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Amendment 233

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Romana Tomc, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Loucas Fourlas, Giusi Princi, Pascal Arimont, András Tivadar Kulja, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Liesbet Sommen, Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, access to quality, affordable and accessible care services, parental leave, flexible work options as well as adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 234

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, access to quality, affordable and accessible care services, parental leave, flexible work options, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

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Amendment 235

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care, professional and informal, mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 236

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, flexible work options, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 237

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace, and systems to facilitate hiring and declared support for homecare work;

Or. en

Amendment 238

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace. Stresses that the construction of a care society must be based on universal access to high-quality public care services and the creation of sustainable, well-paid jobs in the sector;

Or. en

Amendment 239

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace; calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a universal, public European network of care services, with minimum quality standards and sufficient public funding;

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Amendment 240

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace;	8. Considers that a care society recognises the central role of care and integrates it into its policies, including all types of care mostly carried out by women, early childhood education and care and long-term care; supports gender equality in care responsibilities through equal sharing of care, parental leave, adequate work conditions and support in the workplace, along with flexible workplace policies, which enable a fairer sharing of time between family and career;

Or. ro

Amendment 241

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	8 a. Recognises that the formal long-term care sector still relies mainly on residential care, while home and community-based care better support the right of people in need of care to live independently; it is urgent to prioritise a person-centred and rights-based approach that enables people to receive care at home and participate fully in society, in line with the UN CRPD;

Or. en

Amendment 242

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	8 a. Recognizes that every family should have the right to decide how caregiving duties are shared within the household, with particular emphasis on early childhood, where secure attachment is crucial for the healthy development of the child ;

Or. en

Amendment 243

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	8a. Stresses that every family must remain free to organise the division of domestic and educational tasks according to their own choices, without external pressure;

Or. fr

Amendment 244

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities must be divided freely by the families concerned;

Or. fr

Amendment 245

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women;

Or. fr

Amendment 246

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women; stresses, however, that the irreplaceable role of mothers in the education of children must be recognised and valued; calls on the Member States to promote specific measures to support families, rather than imposing uniform ideological task-sharing models;

Or. fr

Amendment 247

Irmhild Boßdorf, Petar Volgin, Christine Anderson

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities can be taken by women or men and that individuals should make their own decisions about sharing employment and care roles, without EU or national coercion;

Or. en

Amendment 248

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and care for older people, as well as care for family members with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 249

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and care for older people, as well as care for family members with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 250

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should ensure equal participation by men and women in childcare and long-term care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 251

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and and long-term care, as well as informal care responsibilities for family members with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 252

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities must not fall disproportionally on women and that the Member States should promote and provide for equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 253

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women – which is indicative of a very great disparity – and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;

Or. ro

Amendment 254

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities; calls for awareness campaigns targeting men to take up an equal share of caregiving, thereby reducing the disproportionate burden on women and enabling stronger female labour market participation;

Or. en

Amendment 255

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities; highlights the necessity to overcome the lack of sharing of unpaid domestic work and care responsibilities mainly performed by women and strengthen the fight against gender stereotypes, as well as to introduce family-friendly working arrangements, such as adaptable working hours and the possibility of teleworking, in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life;

Or. en

Amendment 256

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities, through education and awareness-raising measures, such as promoting workplace cultures that value and support the sharing of care responsibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 257

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities;	9. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities through awareness campaigns, incentives and binding measures in parental leave policies;

Or. en

Amendment 258

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Calls upon the Member States and the Commission to investigate the impact of social media on the perception of the division of care and household tasks, and take measures against glorification of gender stereotypes on social media, as well as the amplification and monetisation of such stereotypisation; and counter the influence of “tradwife” and “manosphere” content through public education, positive role models and gender equality campaigns aimed at both men and women;

Or. en

Amendment 259

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9a. Considers it necessary and worthwhile to conduct awareness-raising campaigns that promote models of men as carers and combat stereotypes, and believes that closing the gender gap in this area is a prerequisite for a fair and sustainable society;

Or. ro

Amendment 260

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Highlights that access to care is a fundamental social right; stresses that investing in universal, free and high-quality public care services is essential to ensuring equal access;

Or. en

Amendment 261

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Observes that informal care responsabilities may limit the ability of the caregiver to attend their own preventive health appointments, such as cancer screenings recommended by EU guidelines, calls therefore on the Member States to pay a special attention to caregivers in the early detection and prevention programmes;

Or. en

Amendment 262

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of family-friendly measures and policies to support carers and employment, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy; considers that, in the context of the negotiations on the 2028-2034 MFF, particular attention should be paid to the care sector, in particular the early childhood sector, in order to provide mothers and families with concrete solutions;

Or. fr

Amendment 263

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Reiterates that work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment, including care strategies, lie within the competences of Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 264

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the crucial importance of full and consistent implementation of work-life balance and pay gap measures and policies in all the Member States, including the enforcement of existing legal frameworks, periodic evaluation of their effectiveness to ensure that both public and private employers comply with the standards for parental leave, flexible working arrangements, and care-related entitlements to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;

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Amendment 265

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of effective work-life balance measures and policies to support informal carers and women’s employment and to eradicate the gender care gap together with the measures provided under the European care strategy; notes the importance of developing policies that simultaneously strengthen the professional care sector, ensure access to high-quality community-based and public formal care services, and promote equal pay and support for the (re)integration of informal carers—particularly women—into the labour market;

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Amendment 266

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies, to be implemented by Member States, to support carers and women’s employment, alongside the measures provided under the European Care Strategy;

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Amendment 267

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support families, carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, which also includes access to high quality community-based services, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;

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Amendment 268

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support informal carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;

Or. en

Amendment 269

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy. Highlights that work-life balance measures need to be accompanied by fair wages, secure contracts, and strong social protection for care workers in order to guarantee quality employment.

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Amendment 270

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy; insists that these policies fall primarily within the competence of the Member States, which alone are able to adapt their arrangements to national and local realities;

Or. fr

Amendment 271

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to eliminate the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;

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Amendment 272

Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to eliminate the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;

Or. en

Amendment 273

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to reduce the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;	10. Stresses the importance of work-life balance measures and policies to support carers and women’s employment and to end the gender care gap, together with the measures provided under the European care strategy;

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Amendment 274

Emma Rafowicz, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Calls therefore on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, addressing both formal and informal carers (both mostly women), equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in and ensuring universal access to affordable and high-quality childcare, educational after-school programmes and long-term care services; reiterates that the Care Deal should be a rights-based approach to care, and the financing of care infrastructure should be done through progressive taxation and public provision; emphasises the need for EU and national policies for informal carers aiming for financial support and respite, training, inclusion in pension and health systems in order to mitigate the adverse effects of caregiving on women’s careers and economic independence; calls on the Commission to increase investments to improve working conditions well as health and safety in the care sector, in which the majority of workers are women; calls on the Commission to set specific quantitative targets under the European Care Deal, including a goal of dedicating at least 2% of EU GDP to care services by 2030, with binding national objectives and regular monitoring to ensure progress towards accessible, affordable and publicly funded and high-quality care services, with specific attention paid to low-income households and single-parent families;

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Amendment 275

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Notes that performing informal care can lead to a loss of income, aggravation of gender-based discrimination, such as the gender pay and pension gaps, old-age poverty and the feminisation of poverty; stresses that these detrimental effects are closely associated with the intensity of care provided and highlights the need to better share unpaid domestic and care work mainly performed by women and strengthen the fight against gender stereotypes, as well as to introduce working arrangements respecting work-life balance;

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Amendment 276

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Stresses the need for childcare to meet parent’s needs for care during their working hours and school holidays; highlights the importance of developing affordable early childhood education and care to facilitate parent’s return to work, especially women, and to strike a good work-life balance; calls on the Member States to respect a minimum duration for maternity and paternity leave;

Or. en

Amendment 277

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Stresses the importance of measures and policies at Member State level that promote family care, providing flexibility to choose whether to be active in the labor market, and offering social protection incentives equivalent to having been employed;

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Amendment 278

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Recognises the importance of providing families, through a member-state fiscal system, with the option to hire support in a responsible and transparent way to share care responsibilities;

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Amendment 279

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Recognises the importance of providing, through a member-state fiscal system, the option to hire support in a responsible and transparent way to share care responsibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 280

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Calls on all Member States to provide proper, living-wage remuneration for informal carers, such as through a “carer’s allowance”;

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Amendment 281

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 b. Notes that women and girls in rural, remote and disadvantaged areas face higher risks of care poverty and lack of access to services; calls for tailored measures, such as mobile childcare and eldercare services, digital solutions, and incentives for care professionals to remain in or return to rural areas;

Or. en

Amendment 282

Irmhild Boßdorf, Petar Volgin, Christine Anderson

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a caring society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve the dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being of those being cared for, including through intergenerational living situations;

Or. en

Amendment 283

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models by public providers, private providers, self-employed caregivers, or caregivers directly employed by households. It promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care, through investing in the development of personal and household services, to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach, while maintaining the right to choose by care receivers;

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Amendment 284

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care and community-based services to preserve dignity of both carers and persons in need of care, their autonomy, independence and well-being;

Or. en

Amendment 285

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models, giving the flexibility to each person to choose the best option to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;

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Amendment 286

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence, well-being and inclusion in the community, through a rights-based approach and taking into account the needs and aspirations of care recipients;

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Amendment 287

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being and inclusion in the community, through a rights-based approach; stresses that quality and dignity of care should be ensured regardless of the model chosen;

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Amendment 288

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models, such as public providers, private providers, self-employed caregivers, or caregivers directly employed by households and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach, while ensuring adequate and personalised support for informal carers, predominantly women;

Or. en

Amendment 289

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models: by public providers, private providers, self-employed caregivers, or caregivers directly employed by households and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;

Or. en

Amendment 290

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models such as by public or private providers, self-employed caregivers, or caregivers directly employed by households and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care through investing in the development of personal and household services, to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;

Or. en

Amendment 291

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, life, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;

Or. fr

Amendment 292

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach; stresses the need to promote home-based care, community centres and care models that guarantee such dignity and rights-based approach, as a complementary alternative to macro-residential institutions;

Or. en

Amendment 293

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach; explicitly aligned with CEDAW and the Istanbul Convention, ensuring protection against gender-based violence in care settings;

Or. en

Amendment 294

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based approach;	11. Highlights that a care society integrates various care models and promotes the deinstitutionalisation of care to preserve dignity, autonomy, independence and well-being, through a rights-based and good faith approach;

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Amendment 295

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise the crucial role of grandparents—especially grandmothers but also grandfathers— who regularly care for grandchildren, thereby enabling parents, particularly mothers, to engage in full-time employment. Such inter-generational contributions should be acknowledged as socially valuable and could be considered when calculating pension entitlements prior to retirement. While institutional childcare remains essential, supporting family-based solutions reflects cultural traditions in many regions and can help create a more secure environment for young women and men to start families;

Or. en

Amendment 296

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Nikola Bartůšek, Mathilde Androuët

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Stresses that, taking into account care needs and the interests of those receiving support – particularly in the process of phasing out large residential institutions – it is crucial not only to ensure the availability of the present and future care workforce, but also to establish a comprehensive social and service network that surrounds and supports the individual, enabling independent living while addressing personal, mental health, social, and other needs, with particular attention to those who face difficulties in maintaining social relationships;

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Amendment 297

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Stresses the importance of closing gender gap based on complementarity between work-life balance policies and accessible, affordable and high-quality care services for children and older people, and persons with disabilities; notes that without such infrastructure work-life balance remains unevenly distributed and further reinforce gender inequalities;

Or. en

Amendment 298

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote trauma-informed and mental health–supportive approaches in care provision, recognising the psychosocial risks for both workers and recipients;

Or. en

Amendment 299

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Urges all Member States not to devalue the work of informal long-term carers by “means testing” any renumeration or financial support given against income earnings;

Or. en

Amendment 300

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 b. Calls on Member States to implement a “Home First” approach to care and the establishment of a public-funded statutory home care scheme, stressing that people should be supported to age in their homes wherever possible;

Or. en

Amendment 301

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skilling, upskilling and reskilling programmes and support for (re)integration in the labour market for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving and household responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development, return to and and equal opportunities in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 302

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted upskilling and reskilling programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 303

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes and support for (re)integration in the labour market without any form of discrimination against women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 304

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes and support for re-integration in the labour market for caregivers who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 305

Giusi Princi, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market; further stresses that women who have interrupted their professional careers due to care responsibilities possess valuable transferable skills for entrepreneurship in the sector; calls for specific programmes to valorise these skills through certification schemes and business creation support, thereby facilitating their reintegration into the labour market as entrepreneurs and job creators;

Or. en

Amendment 306

Emma Rafowicz, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market; underlines the importance of a fair distribution of parental leave and care responsibilities between parents, through non-transferable father quotas and its effect for a gender equal society;

Or. en

Amendment 307

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market; underlines the importance of a fair distribution of parental leave and care responsibilities between parents, through non-transferable father quotas and its effect for a gender equal society;

Or. en

Amendment 308

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market;	12. Emphasises that targeted skill-enhancement programmes for women who have experienced career interruptions because of their caregiving responsibilities are essential to support their continuous professional development and equal opportunities in the labour market and to eliminate social barriers with a short- and long-term impact;

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Amendment 309

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Stresses that the childcare gap remains one of the most pressing challenges new parents across Europe are facing today; notes that this gap arises following the birth of a child, when well-paid parental leave has been exhausted, but access to state-supported full-time early childhood education and care is not yet available; points out that during this critical window, families are left navigating the complexities of childcare without adequate support, often facing difficult decisions about work, finances, and caregiving responsibilities; Highlights that only five EU countries guarantee parents the right to place their children in full-time ECEC immediately after well-paid parental leave ends1a;
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	1a Factsheet on Childcare gap in the European Union \| COFACE Families Europe

Or. en

Amendment 310

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Acknowledging that care work is an essential part of the green and sustainable economy, as it contributes to resilient, inclusive and low-carbon societies by prioritising wellbeing over resource-intensive growth; recognising that transforming unpaid care work into decent, paid employment represents a key pathway for women’s economic empowerment and gender equality; further underlines that investing in the care sector also responds to Europe’s unemployment crisis by creation of quality jobs;

Or. en

Amendment 311

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Underlines that targeted measures to facilitate flexible work arrangements and tailored support for carers whose careers have been disrupted by health challenges are crucial for their reintegration, financial independence, well-being, and for closing the persistent gender gap;

Or. en

Amendment 312

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Recognises that women who have undertaken caregiving duties should be recognized for the professional development such experiences entail, fostering skills such as organisation, leadership, flexibility, empathy, maturity, reliability, and confidence, among many others;

Or. en

Amendment 313

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Highlights that training for women re-entering the labour market after caregiving must be adequately funded by EU and national schemes, with simplified access and strong links to quality employment opportunities;

Or. en

Amendment 314

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Stresses that reducing the gender care gap, as well as promoting social protection systems where care periods contribute to pension and welfare entitlements, are needed to close the gender pay and pension gap;

Or. en

Amendment 315

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Stresses the need to combat gender discrimination in the labour market, ensuring that women are never penalised or excluded because of motherhood or their choice to have children;

Or. en

Amendment 316

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Mathilde Androuët, Nikola Bartůšek, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Considers the importance of supporting robotics and automation solutions to both assist care work and support independent living at home;

Or. en

Amendment 317

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 3

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
Care at the heart of the economy	Care at the heart of society

Or. en

Amendment 318

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 3

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
Care at the heart of the economy	Care at the heart of society

Or. en

Amendment 319

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, associations specialising in care services, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. fr

Amendment 320

Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22; stresses that access to care is a universal right and public good; therefore encourages Member States to facilitate public spending in the provision of care services; underlines the importance of easy accessibility and affordability to care by limiting profit-making from care services by implementing rigorous EU and national regulatory frameworks;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 321

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22; stresses that access to care is a universal right and public good; therefore encourages Member States to facilitate public spending in the provision of care services; underlines the importance of easy accessibility to care by limiting profit-making from care services by implementing rigorous EU and national regulatory frameworks;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 322

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22; underlines the role of families as the first place where care is provided; notes, furthermore, the contribution of personal and household services to the wider care economy and the need to ensure appropriate recognition and support for these activities;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 323

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental and non-for-profit organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households through informal carers, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 324

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, community and non-for-profit organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 325

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental and not-for-profit organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households through informal carers, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services 22 ;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 326

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental, charitable and church-based organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 327

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social, charity and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 328

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;	13. Considers that the care economy encompasses care work delivered through the public and private sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises such as cooperatives, non-governmental organisations, the social and solidarity economy, and households, including care providers and recipients, as well as employers and institutions offering care services22 ;
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22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.	22 International Labour Organization, https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/care-economy.

Or. en

Amendment 329

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Notes that the the economic costs of the gender care gap in providing informal care could reach an estimated €147-€220 billion a year, representing about a third of the gender earnings gap while simultaneously research demonstrates that investments in the formal care sector could generate positive economic returns, at least €4 for every €1 invested in childcare or long-term care;
	23 European Parliamentary Research Service, Addressing the gender care gap: Potential European added value, 2025;

Or. en

Amendment 330

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13a. Considers it worthwhile to support flexibility in work through the promotion of flexible working hours and job-sharing, as well as collective agreements that support work-life balance for women and the introduction of equal and non-transferable leave for fathers and mothers, including the introduction of financial incentives for fathers to enable then to avail of such leave;

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Amendment 331

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Notes the Personal and Household Services sector is a key sector to recognise and develop, as it encompasses all care work taking place in households, such as direct care (childcare, long-term care, live-in care for the elderly and people with disabilities) and indirect care (cooking, ironing, cleaning, gardening, remedial classes);

Or. en

Amendment 332

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Notes the Personal and Household Services sector is a key sector to recognise and develop, as it encompasses all care work taking place in households, such as direct care (childcare, long-term care, live-in care for the elderly and people with disabilities) and indirect care (cooking, ironing, cleaning, gardening, remedial classes);

Or. en

Amendment 333

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Notes the Personal and Household Services sector is a key sector to recognise and develop, as it encompasses all care work taking place in households, such as direct care (childcare, long-term care, live-in care for the elderly and people with disabilities) and indirect care (cooking, ironing, cleaning, gardening, remedial classes);

Or. en

Amendment 334

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Notes the Personal and Household Services sector is a key sector to recognise and develop, as it encompasses all care work taking place in households, such as direct care (childcare, long-term care, live-in care for the elderly and people with disabilities) and indirect care;

Or. en

Amendment 335

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Emphasises the importance of recognising the Church’s role in nurturing and sustaining a culture of care, which continues to inspire and guide societal approaches to supporting those in need;

Or. en

Amendment 336

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Stresses that the care economy must be recognised as a public good and a pillar of upward social convergence, supported through stable public investment and quality job creation.

Or. en

Amendment 337

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Nikola Bartůšek, Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Stersses the importance of the involvement and support of reserachers developing affordable and efficient care services based on innovation and technology;

Or. en

Amendment 338

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 b. Emphasises that care workers provide vital support to children, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and those facing illness or chronic diseases and played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic or other health emergencies;

Or. en

Amendment 339

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 b. Considers that European funding instruments could be mobilised to support the creation of new, quality jobs in the care sector, particularly in rural and peripheral regions facing depopulation and labour shortages;

Or. en

Amendment 340

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23 ;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, the majority of whom are women23, with an 8 million new jobs projection; emphasises the potential for employment and economic growth represented by the professional care sector and that investment in care frees up informal carers to be more integrated in the labour market, improving their social outcomes and generating taxes and social contributions;
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23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

Or. en

Amendment 341

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23; and that the fair sharing of these burdens would bring benefits to society as a whole: greater economic participation, strengthening of family relations and promotion of fair and democratic values;
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23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

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Amendment 342

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23 ;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23; emphasizes community-based and intergenerational approached to care that promote solidarity, reduce social isolation and foster resilience in families and neighbourhoods;
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23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

Or. en

Amendment 343

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23 ;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23, and explicitly recognise and compensate the economic invaluable contribution made by informal carers, who are mostly women as well;
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23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

Or. en

Amendment 344

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23; stresses that investment in the care economy should not entail a burden on low and middle-income households;
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23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

Or. el

Amendment 345

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23 ;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23 with an 8 million new jobs projection 1d;
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	1d The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, 2021.
23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

Or. en

Amendment 346

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Stresses that a care economy recognises care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23 ;	14. Stresses that a care economy recognises professional care work as being vital to Europe’s resilience, contributing 11 % to the EU’s GDP and employing over 6 million people, most of whom are women23;
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23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.	23 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, ‘Care workers: skills opportunities and challenges (2023 update), ’ https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/data-insights/care-workers-skills-opportunities-and-challenges-2023-update.

Or. en

Amendment 347

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 a. Highlights the importance of social economy enterprises and cooperatives in providing care services in areas or for populations that are underserved by the traditional public or private providers, especially when profit motives are low;

Or. en

Amendment 348

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 a. notes that gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting needs to be implemented to ensure adequate care investments and monitor gender-related effects of measures, or lack of measures in particular in times of public austerity;

Or. en

Amendment 349

Emma Rafowicz, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 a. gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting needs to be implemented to ensure adequate care investments and monitor gender-related effects of measures, or lack of measures in particular in times of public austerity;

Or. en

Amendment 350

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 a. Stresses the need of ensuring the participation of care workers and their representatives in all stages of policymaking including the design, implementation and evaluation of policies affecting them;

Or. en

Amendment 351

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 b. Whereas the European Commission proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028–2034 risks constraining the resources available for social investment, including long-term care, childcare, and community-based services; calls on the Commission to allocate sufficient means and resources to these at a time when at a time when demographic trends and labour shortages demand strengthened support for people in need of care and for those providing it ;

Or. en

Amendment 352

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, in particular in regard to recognising vocational education and training diplomas, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;

Or. en

Amendment 353

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, awareness for the risk of neglect and abuse in care and health and safety, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;

Or. en

Amendment 354

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers including informal care providers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;

Or. en

Amendment 355

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip formal care workers as well as informal carers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;

Or. en

Amendment 356

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip professional care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;

Or. en

Amendment 357

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in health, digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;

Or. en

Amendment 358

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth. Calls for EU-wide minimum standards for care training curricula, ensuring recognition of qualifications, portability of rights, and career pathways for workers;

Or. en

Amendment 359

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth, in particular in the area of home-based hospitalisation, which should be encouraged and supported through national public health policies;

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Amendment 360

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth;	15. Considers that future investments are required to equip care workers with training, including targeted upskilling, especially in digital and interpersonal skills, as well as to deliver quality, person-centred care; considers, furthermore, that certification should be promoted to meet evolving needs, ensuring jobs with long-term prospects that foster inclusion and growth and ensure decent working conditions for all care workers;

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Amendment 361

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	15 a. Notes that Europe is suffering from skills gaps across the economy, reinforced by a declining labour force; notes additionally that any of the skills gaps can be traced back to the underuse of existing talent, as witnessed by deep gender gaps in some occupations.
	26 Mario Draghi, The future of European competitiveness, 2024.

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Amendment 362

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	15 a. Emphasises that mental health issues associated to long-term care provision relate to a prevalence of anxiety and depression among informal carers, mostly women, noting that two-thirds of nurses and personal care workers are exposed to risks to their mental health, compared to 43% of all employees1a;
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	1a https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2023/06/beyond-applause-improving-working-conditions-in-long-term-care_4523ea50/27d33ab3-en.pdf

Or. en

Amendment 363

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	15 a. Encourages Member States to develop local and regional care strategies, creating quality and sustainable jobs in rural and peripheral areas, thereby strengthening territorial cohesion and reducing labour market inequalities;

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Amendment 364

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	15 a. Stresses the need for targeted measures in rural, depopulated and outermost regions, where access to formal care services is particularly scarce, often increasing the unpaid care burden on women;

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Amendment 365

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the numerous challenges faced by informal carers, predominantly women, who provide informal care with minimal or no social protection, insufficient formal care infrastructure and whose contributions need targeted support; Notes that these challenges include mental health issues; social isolation; employment difficulties with impacts on their social security and pensions in later life, financial strain and increased complexity of care tasks; Specifically emphasise that the mental health issues associated to long-term care provision relate to a prevalence of anxiety and depression among informal carers is 20% higher than among non-carers , and that 66% of formal carers workers face mental health risks; Notes that this is a significant disparity compared to the broader workforce, where 43% report similar issues;

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Amendment 366

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited little or no social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support; recognising that many informal carers face mental health problems, social problems including loneliness, poverty, difficulties accessing employment which affects pensions and creates social and financial problems;

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Amendment 367

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Recognise that unpaid care work, disproportionately carried out by women, has a social and an economic impact; underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;

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Amendment 368

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, insufficient formal care infrastructure, inadequate mental health support and whose contributions need targeted support and recognition;

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Amendment 369

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, insufficient formal care infrastructure; and whose contributions need targeted support and recognition;

Or. en

Amendment 370

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support; calls on the initiatives providing psychological support and respite services to informal carers and exchange of best practices in this regard;

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Amendment 371

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support; calls for targeted financial support and respite services for informal carers, including pension credits and mental health assistance, to prevent poverty and social exclusion;

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Amendment 372

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support; stresses that these circumstances dramatically increase the risk of poverty of female carers in the old age;

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Amendment 373

Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support;	16. Underlines the challenges faced by informal carers, mostly women, who provide unpaid care with limited social protection, and whose contributions need targeted support; stressing that these circumstances dramatically increase the risk of poverty in age for female carers;

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Amendment 374

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Emphasises that in order to close the gender care gap, cultural barriers and traditional gender roles need to be addressed in different areas of life simultaneously; notes that at the workplace level, traditional gender roles can be challenged through measures aimed at encouraging the equal uptake of parental, paternity and carer’s leave by men, while actively encouraging a culture of non-discrimination, of equal representation of women, and flexibility at work; stresses that this need to be accompanied by the social and cultural destigmatisation of formal care, especially childcare;

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Amendment 375

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Denounces that many care and domestic workers are facing a highly precarious situation and experiencing intersectional discrimination due to their race or ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and nationality and that many of these workers are mostly women who do not have an official job contract, are thus more vulnerable to exploitation and often lack access to their rights in particular to decent work and social protection;

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Amendment 376

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16a. Considers it necessary to launch awareness-raising and education campaigns and school curricula that promote gender equality, since inequality is based on deep-rooted cultural stereotypes that associate women with the role of ‘natural carers’, and to develop and implement media campaigns with models of men as carers;

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Amendment 377

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Highlights that caregiving for a relative with a degenerative disease such as cancer or dementia is often prolonged, intensive and emotionally difficult, especially at end of life, placing significant strain on informal carers; emphasizes the need of informal carers taking care of relatives with long-term illness to be closely involved and supported by health care professionals;

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Amendment 378

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Highlights that all support targeted at informal carers must be done recognising the rights of carers, psychological support, respite services, health services, flexible work arrangements (leave, hours, telework, without losing pay or entitlements) to balance caring responsibilities and employment;

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Amendment 379

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Stresses that special recognition should be given to mothers of children with disabilities, who face compounded barriers to labour market participation and financial independence due to their long-term care responsibilities, the same goes for carers for parents with disabilities;

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Amendment 380

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Underlines the challenges faced by caregivers of children with serious illnesses and calls for legal recognition and support to ensure that such children can be accompanied by their caregivers in all necessary activities and spaces, safeguarding their health and rights;

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Amendment 381

Galato Alexandraki, Emmanouil Fragkos

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16a. Calls on the Member States to introduce ‘care credits’ in their pension systems so that pension rights are accrued for periods of informal care;

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Amendment 382

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 b. Insists on the central role of up-skilling and reskilling in lifelong career management, as care professions changes with the evolutions of practices, technologies or even organization of care such as with the increase in outpatient care; considers that the accumulation of experience should be better valued through better recognition of the expertise and qualification acquired and more opportunities of continuing education;

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Amendment 383

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 b. Stresses that adequate and targeted support for informal carers should comprise recognition of carers’ role and rights, support services such as respite care, counselling, and peer support, financial help and compensation to reduce poverty risk, flexible work arrangements (leave, hours, telework) to balance care and employment, training and information to equip carers with skills and meaningful participation in policy development;

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Amendment 384

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 b. Urges that all support targeted at informal carers must be done recognising the rights of carers, psychological support, respite services, health services, flexible work arrangements (leave, hours, telework, without losing pay or entitlements) to balance caring responsibilities and employment;

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Amendment 385

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that significant efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers and to address the workforce shortages in the care sector, including through fair wages, career development paths, upskilling and better working conditions; highlights that the development of national and local social dialogue structures can ensure adequate representation of the care sector in collective bargaining;

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Amendment 386

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers with binding minimum wages based on collective agreements, and better working conditions, which contribute to reducing the gender care gap and helps to close the gender pension gap;

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Amendment 387

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through tailored solutions to encourage declared work, fair wages, career paths and better working conditions and recognition of their role, as well as stronger social dialogue and collective bargaining agreements, since reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;

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Amendment 388

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers and solutions to tackle undeclared work fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as well as stronger social dialogue and collective bargaining agreements, since reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pay gap and pension gap;

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Amendment 389

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through tailored solutions to tackle undeclared work, fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;

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Amendment 390

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap; stresses the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining in that regard; underlines that, without undermining the need for informal care, investing in formal care services can significantly relieve the pressure on informal carers, notably women, and avoid some of the detrimental effects on their work-life balance and career prospects, therefore contributing to gender equality;

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Amendment 391

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap; calls for particular attention to be paid to the ongoing training of medical staff, particularly in rare, orphan and autoimmune diseases, in order to ensure a high level of quality and innovation;

Or. fr

Amendment 392

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap;	17. Highlights that more efforts are needed to strengthen the professional status of care workers through fair wages, career paths and better working conditions, as reducing the gender care gap helps to close the gender pension gap; highlights that adequate pay, collective bargaining, and stable working conditions in the care sector are essential to prevent exploitation and to close the gender pay and pension gaps;

Or. en

Amendment 393

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	17 a. Highlights that strengthening long-term care services can help reduce outward migration by providing decent wages and stable employment opportunities, ensuring that workers are not forced to leave their communities in search of better opportunities abroad;

Or. en

Amendment 394

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	17 a. Notes that women often face a “triple working day” combining paid work, unpaid domestic tasks and the care of dependants, which leaves little time for rest or leisure; stresses that this overload has a direct impact on women’s physical and mental health;

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Amendment 395

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	17 a. Stresses that many care workers, especially migrant and domestic workers, lack access to occupational health and safety standards, mental health support and sick leave, and calls for the full application of EU labour rights to the sector;

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Amendment 396

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24 ;	18. Emphasises the importance of ensuring access to adequate psychosocial and educational support for young informal carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24;
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24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.	24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.

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Amendment 397

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24;	18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24, and subsequently their careers;
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24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.	24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.

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Amendment 398

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24 ;	18. Emphasises its support for young informal carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24 and future careers;
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24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.	24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.

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Amendment 399

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24 ;	18. Emphasises its targeted support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose caregiving responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24;
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24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.	24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.

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Amendment 400

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24 ;	18. Emphasises its support for young carers, who make up 4-10 % of children in the EU and whose responsibilities affect their education, mental health and social development24. Urges the creation of dedicated EU programmes to support young carers, including psychosocial support, educational counselling, and financial assistance to avoid school or labour market dropouts;
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24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.	24 European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, In-depth policy briefing: ‘The situation of young carers in Europe’, 2024.

Or. en

Amendment 401

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Emphasises its support for older women suffering from financial insecurity due to pension gaps from under-remunerated care labour and disrupted careers;

Or. en

Amendment 402

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 403

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; stresses that the decision to recruit workers from outside the EU must remain the sole competence of each Member State, based strictly on verified labour-market needs, and that any such recruitment should include comprehensive pre-departure language and professional training and safeguards to preserve Europe’s cultural identity and social cohesion, while first prioritising domestic solutions, including better pay, training opportunities and improved working conditions, to attract and retain domestic care workers, particularly women and young people;

Or. en

Amendment 404

Galato Alexandraki, Emmanouil Fragkos

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that a significant portion of care is provided by women; underlines that closing skills gaps should be based primarily on national training policies, improved working conditions and decent pay, rather than structural reliance on imported labour.

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Amendment 405

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that this immigration puts downward pressure on wages in these jobs, thereby devaluing them in comparison to their real importance;

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Amendment 406

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; calls on the Member States to enhance their own human resources by supporting the training and employment of European citizens in the care sector;

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Amendment 407

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Nikola Bartůšek, Mathilde Androuët

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Takes note that in many Member States a large proportion of care work is already carried out by women from non-EU countries; believes that Member States should voluntarily coordinate talent-attraction policies based on expected unmet demand, in order to maximise the benefits of care work, ensure legal and public safety safeguards, and prevent brain-drain effects within the Union;

Or. en

Amendment 408

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; expresses concern that reliance on migration to fill care labour shortages may perpetuate systemic undervaluation of care work and create dependency on precarious migrant labour; questions whether well-managed legal migration alone can adequately address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps without addressing underlying structural issues; urges Member States to critically assess talent attraction policies and migration pathways to ensure they do not exploit migrant workers or undermine domestic labour markets;

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Amendment 409

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that the Member States should align talent attraction policies to maximise the benefits for care work;

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Amendment 410

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work; stresses however that challenges to cross-border care remain and that care drain can worsen situations of labour shortages, weakening the ability to provide timely access to care in emigration regions or countries; calls for the protection of the social security rights of all migrant and mobile care workers and care receivers, as this contributes to both dignified working conditions and reducing the propensity toward undeclared work; encourages the development of cross-border training, notably in cross-border regions, in order to share best practices for care staff and facilitate cross-border care;

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Amendment 411

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that domestic and homecare services are carried out by women, middle-aged, originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with safe migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work; Emphasises the potential of the care economy to provide training, transition to the formal labour market, inclusion and improved personal and economic outcomes of migrant workers or workers currently performing undeclared paid care work;

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Amendment 412

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges the increasing demand for qualified care workers; stresses that labour and skills shortages in the care sector should primarily be addressed through investment in education, training and improved working conditions; recognizes that a significant share of care workers are women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can represent a complementary way to address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;

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Amendment 413

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that better working conditions and adequate wages can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with improving workers’ rights in the sector to maximise the benefits for care work;

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Amendment 414

Emma Rafowicz, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledge that while a significant part of care work is carried out by EU nationals, a share is also carried out by women originating from non-EU countries ; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work; stresses the need for legal regulations and oversight of brokering institutions, such as employment agencies, to improve the living and working condition for migrant carers abroad;

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Amendment 415

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work; stresses the need for legal regulations and oversight of brokering institutions, such as employment agencies, to improve the living and working conditions of migrant carers;

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Amendment 416

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work; underlines the need for legal protection, equal wages, collective rights and freedom of unionisation for migrant care workers;

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Amendment 417

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Acknowledges that most care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care work;	19. Acknowledges that most paid care work is carried out by women originating from non-EU countries; considers that well-managed legal migration can address evolving care labour needs and skills gaps, and that the Member States should align talent attraction policies with migration pathways to maximise the benefits for care sector;

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Amendment 418

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as part of building a resilient European Care Society, to collect and publish harmonised time-use statistics to monitor the gender care gap, to expand affordable and high-quality early childhood education and long-term care services—particularly in rural regions—to introduce well-paid, non-transferable parental and carers’ leave for fathers to encourage an equal sharing of care responsibilities, to integrate concrete targets for reducing the gender care gap into the European Semester and national Recovery and Resilience Plans, and to launch EU-wide awareness campaigns that revalue care work and challenge traditional gender stereotypes;

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Amendment 419

Emma Rafowicz, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Acknowledges that, according to the European Labour Authority (ELA), up to 53 % of all care workers are undeclared workers. Emphasises that undeclared work in the care sector severely undermines workers’ rights and social protection, and highlights that combating precariousness in this sector requires strong European public policies ensuring fair working conditions, dignity at work and the effective enforcement of labour rights, in particular through decisive action against undeclared work;

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Amendment 420

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. regrets that the Commission proposal for the MFF 2028–2034 does not sufficiently safeguard or prioritise social spending and the necessary resources for care services, which are essential for social cohesion, gender equality, public health, and territorial balance; stresses that reductions or insufficient allocations in this area would risk undermining the implementation of the European Care Strategy, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Union’s commitment to upward social convergence;

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Amendment 421

Giusi Princi, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Recognises that women entrepreneurs in the care sector face systemic barriers in accessing credit and investment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop dedicated support programmes for female entrepreneurship in the care sector, including specific guarantee funds, women-focused mentoring schemes, and preferential criteria in EU calls for proposals for women-led enterprises innovating in the care economy;

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Amendment 422

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Stresses the need to close the gender employment gap by addressing discrimination in hiring and building family-supportive workplaces; notes that indicators on work-life balance and gender equality should be monitored closely by companies to implement strategies which enhance flexible working arrangements and reduce barriers for fathers to use parental leave; 24a
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	24a Gender norms and parents’ employment characteristics in Europe - paths2include: https://paths2include.eu/publications/gender-norms-and-parents-employment-characteristics-in-europe/

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Amendment 423

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Stresses that investments in the formal care sector can generate substantial economic returns—at least €4 for every €1 invested in childcare or long-term care—while also advancing gender equality, strengthening the social rights of care providers and recipients, creating new employment opportunities, and boosting women’s participation in the labour market;

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Amendment 424

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Emphasises the need for strengthening of long-term care services, particularly home-based, community-based care and development of automated digital health monitoring technology, to meet the growing needs of older women, highlighting that in 2023, life expectancy at birth in the EU was 84.0 years for women, compared to 78.7 years for men1a;
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	1a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Mortality_and_life_expectancy_statistics

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Amendment 425

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Recognises the importance of day services and community-based activities, both for service users and as a form of respite for long-term informal carers;

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Amendment 426

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 b. Highlights the need to support the development of online services, the training to increase digital competencies of the cared and their carers, predominantly women, and improving of internet access and connections to improve the quality of care and to benefit from technology in offering quality care;

Or. en

Amendment 427

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 b. Recognises that access to quality health care, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, is vital for affording everyone a good quality of life;

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Amendment 428

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 c. Acknowledges that female migrant domestic workers such as cleaning ladies, nannies and carers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation1a;
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	1a https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2015-severe-labour-exploitation_en.pdf

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Amendment 429

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 d. Underlines the widespread prevalence of undeclared work in care sectors, particularly in home care, largely due to the lack of visibility of both workers and user-employers, combined with minimal or absent administrative and financial support for households employing caregivers;

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Amendment 430

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Calls for a European Care Deal, with a strong gender dimension, that takes a holistic and life-long approach to care while envisaging specific measures and actions for both formal and informal carers as well as for unpaid care work and sustanaible quality social services; calls on Member States to examine and exchange best practice on how best to support societal groups with particular care needs as well as best practices on how to reflect periods spent on care responsibilities in pension schemes, with a view to contributing to closing the gender pension gap;

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Amendment 431

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	deleted

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Amendment 432

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Member States, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to share best practice and address this gap;

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Amendment 433

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, disaggregated by sex, migrant status, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation and socioeconomic situation;

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Amendment 434

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to regularly collect statistics and to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, and to regularly assess the impact of public policies on gender equality in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap with a view to ensuring fair representation;

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Amendment 435

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap and undeclared work, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address these issues;

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Amendment 436

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap and undeclared care work, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap; stresses in particular the need for detailed, gender-responsive EU-wide data on the Personal and Household Services (PHS) sector; encompassing the economic impact of the care sector and the scale of public investment, to fully capture its contribution to growth, employment, and social cohesion;

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Amendment 437

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and eliminate this gap;

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Amendment 438

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap also through time use surveys, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;

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Amendment 439

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap;	20. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate, accessible and comparable data measuring the gender care gap, in order to enable the Member States and public authorities to share best practice and address this gap; Stresses that this data collection should also encompass the economic impact of the care sector and the scale of public investment, to fully capture its contribution to growth, employment, and social cohesion;

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Amendment 440

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Calls on the Commission to put in place a European Care Deal, as announced during the 2024 Parliamentary Hearings; calls for this deal to include a set of policies, programmes and recommendations, combined with an specific care investment package, aiming at fostering a transition towards a care economy that recognises care as a right and value it as the backbone of our society; calls in this sense for the creation of a dedicated stream of funding under the 2028-2034 Multiannual financial framework to rollout services to support informal carers;

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Amendment 441

Galato Alexandraki, Emmanouil Fragkos

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20a. calls on the Commission to set up a European digital information platform for carers, with unified access to information on rights, available services, training programmes and funding tools, and to develop a European ‘Care & Equality’ index measuring Member States’ progress as regards access to care services, reducing the gender gap and recognising informal work;

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Amendment 442

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Calls on the Commission to put in place a European Care Deal, as announced during the 2024 Parliamentary Hearings; Calls for this deal to include a set of policies, programmes and recommendations, combined with an specific care investment package, aiming at fostering a transition towards a care economy that recognizes care as a right and value it as the backbone of our society;

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Amendment 443

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Emphasises the need to consult all relevant stakeholders during the preparation of the announced care deal, at both EU, national and local levels, including informal carers representatives and patientspatients' organisations, to avoid silo policies and to take into account the diversity of situations and needs;

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Amendment 444

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Calls for the inclusion of data on wages, working time, social protection coverage, and contractual status of care workers in EU monitoring of the gender care gap;

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Amendment 445

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 b. Calls on Member States to invest in a care economy and ensure sustainable and adequate funding, at all levels of government, of public services, and ensure that procurement prioritises equality, wellbeing and sustainability, above lowest financial cost; calls on the Commission to set new ambitious targets for funding and ensuring access to universal care services, including targets for the availability, accessibility and quality of long term care;

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Amendment 446

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 b. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to strengthen their support for non-profit social economy enterprises and organisations with appropriate financial and taxation enabling frameworks; encourages Member states to facilitate access to funding and enhancing the visibility of social economy actors as highlighted in the Social Economy Action Plan 2021;

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Amendment 447

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 b. Stresses that the role of caregivers should be, above all, to take care and therefore considers necessary to cut unnecessary red tape and avoid as much as possible assigning them administrative task which can be managed by administrative assistants or suitable digital tools;

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Amendment 448

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 c. Highlights the pivotal role of the multiannual financial framework in guiding investment decisions at the national and local levels and stresses the importance to have a post 2027 MFF that integrates the priorities of the work-life balance Directive and the European care strategy, not least through relevant budget earmarking in the national and regional partnership plans, a dedicated budget to the implementation of the European Child Guarantee and relevant thematic concentration under the upcoming European Social Fund;

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Amendment 449

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 c. Calls for the adoption of EU guidelines on the ethical recruitmnet of migrant domestic workers in the care sector; calls on Member States to urgently remove existing barriers to healthcare and care for all, including for undocumented migrant and with special attention to women facing intersectional discrimination;

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Amendment 450

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 d. Calls for systematic collection of gender-disaggregated data on care responsibilities, pay, pensions, and time use, with particular attention to the situation of women and girls providing informal care to relatives; urges the application of gender budgeting to ensure that spending on care services directly reduces inequalities faced by women and girls;

Or. en

Amendment 451

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	deleted

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Amendment 452

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation on the European Child Guarantee and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;

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Amendment 453

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping, and to provide ironclad guarantees on direct access to all these services;

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Amendment 454

Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and strategies to encourage more men into the sector progress mapping;

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Amendment 455

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the Council recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;

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Amendment 456

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping, together with budgetary allocations, outcome indicators, and gender impact assessments, to be published annually and subject to a debate in the European Parliament;

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Amendment 457

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping; calls for the establishment of binding national targets for public investment in care of at least 2% of GDP, aligned with the EU Care Strategy.

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Amendment 458

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Romana Tomc, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Loucas Fourlas, Giusi Princi, András Tivadar Kulja, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Liesbet Sommen, Gabriella Gerzsenyi, Isabelle Le Callennec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping;	21. Calls on the Member States to implement the recommendation regarding childcare and long-term care under the EU care strategy, and for their implementation reports to include the identification of good practices, gaps and progress mapping; In particular, according to the Council’s call to Member States to address undeclared care work, implementation reports on long-term care should integrate this issue, identify the main drivers and propose tailored solutions;

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Amendment 459

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21 a. Calls, on the Commission to establish a structured dialogue on care and to establish an annual Care Platform, which would bring together all relevant stakeholders, such as academics, Member States, associations of persons using care, informal carers, social, for-profit, public and not-for-profit providers of care and trade unions to assess progress, exchange on innovative practices to improve attainment of the objectives of the EU Care Strategy, and design the continuation of its implementation;

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Amendment 460

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21 a. Calls on the Commission to establish the European Child Guarantee as a standalone EU funding instrument in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), with a dedicated budget and clear objectives, priorities, and implementation modalities;

Or. en

Amendment 461

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21 a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to ensure proper public investment to guarantee universal, equal and effective access to quality care services for early childhood, older-age care and persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 462

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21 a. Calls on Member States to implement family support policies that facilitate care duties and responsabilites , promote work–family balance, and enable families, especially women, to provide care according to their needs;

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Amendment 463

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt an intersectional approach addressing the compounded discrimination faced by women of colour, LGBTIQ+ carers, and women with disabilities in the care sector;

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Amendment 464

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21a. calls on the Member States to implement educational campaigns to combat gender stereotypes and to incorporate measures to prevent and combat gender-based violence into all care policies;

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Amendment 465

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	deleted

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Amendment 466

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, by improving care conditions for persons with disabilities through a human-rights-based and person-centred approach, reflecting the ongoing shift in care provision towards services that respect autonomy, dignity and inclusion across all life stages, and by ensuring access to quality, affordable and accessible care services, while also promoting innovation, inclusivity and employment; stresses that only half of EU’s 42.8 million working-age persons with disabilities are employed and women with disabilities are particularly affected, with only 21% of them in full-time employment1e;
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	1e European Gender Equality Index, European Institute for Gender Equality, 2024.

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Amendment 467

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the Care Strategy should be aligned and strongly connected with the EU Strategy for the rights of persons with disability, as they address common challenges in different sectors of the care economy, including on the care conditions for persons with disabilities, the support to family and informal carers, education and training innovation, inclusivity and workforce and employment;

Or. en

Amendment 468

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities through a human-rights based and person-centred approach, reflecting the ongoing shift in care provision towards services that respect autonomy, dignity and inclusion across all life stages, access to quality, affordable and accessible care services, innovation, inclusivity and employment;

Or. en

Amendment 469

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through increased compensation for companions, especially in the case of women who interrupt their careers to care for people with disabilities, improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;

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Amendment 470

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovations including the use digital solutions while maintaining the human-centric approach, inclusivity and employment;

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Amendment 471

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment. Insists that disability-inclusive care systems must be publicly funded, ensure equal access to employment in the sector, and be designed with the participation of persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 472

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Romana Tomc, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Loucas Fourlas, Giusi Princi, András Tivadar Kulja, Miriam Lexmann, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Liesbet Sommen, Gabriella Gerzsenyi, Isabelle Le Callennec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment;	22. Emphasises that the care strategy should be aligned with and take into account the disability strategy, through improving care conditions for persons with disabilities, innovation, inclusivity and employment; Stresses that particular attention should be given to mothers who provide long-term care to children with disabilities, by ensuring adequate financial support, full social security and pension coverage and access to respite and counselling services;

Or. en

Amendment 473

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	22 a. Stresses the need to significantly improve the financial and human resources of professional care services so that high-quality home-based care for persons with disabilities is available, reducing the disproportionate burden often placed on women and girls within families, and avoiding unnecessary institutionalisation. Calls for humane, small-scale, high-standard residential options where the person concerned cannot make decisions independently and where families lack the expertise, time or financial means to provide adequate care, ensuring dignity for both the individual and their relatives;

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Amendment 474

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	22 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage and train caregiver employees to support the integration of persons with disabilities into the labour market and regular working conditions. Emphasises that people with disabilities, including women and girls must be fully informed of their rights, be able to decide where and with whom they live, and have the opportunity to form families and raise children. Cohesion policy should promote independent living—rather than institutionalisation wherever possible—through accessible transport, public and private buildings, sports and tourism facilities, and simplified, digitalised administrative procedures;

Or. en

Amendment 475

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	deleted

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Amendment 476

Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls on the Member States not to legislate on intra-family organisation, so as to safeguard individual freedoms;

Or. fr

Amendment 477

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the extension of maternity leave in order to better protect the health of mothers and children, while guaranteeing the right to return to work, and calls on the Member States to put in place appropriate support schemes for young parents;

Or. fr

Amendment 478

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be implemented without additional constraints for Member States, respecting their social and family organisation;

Or. fr

Amendment 479

Emma Rafowicz, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the full and effective implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive, including robust enforcement, monitoring and annual reporting mechanisms, as well as infringement proceedings where necessary. Stresses the need to strengthen the Directive by extending and equalising paid maternity and paternity leave across Member States, ensuring adequate minimum pay for parental and carers’ leave, and increasing the number of non-transferable months. Urges the Commission to improve incentives for the second parent to take parental leave, to adopt measures redistributing caregiving responsibilities within households and with the state, and to propose EU-level binding quality standards for long-term care services, including staffing, training and quality assurance;

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Amendment 480

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented, evaluated and strengthened; Calls on Member States to go beyond the minimum standard set by the Work-Life Balance Directive, to guarantee a higher common minimum number of days off, to upgrade the status of informal caregivers through appropriate remuneration and access to respite care services to better support current informal caregivers but also to help achieve the directive’s initial objectives of encouraging more men to become involved in providing care; Calls for an extension of the duration of the maternity and paternity, carers leave and to facilitate take-up of family leaves by including a longer and higher minimum pay level for parental, paternity and carers leaves and increasing the number of non-transferable months in parental leave; Stress the need to progressively advance towards fully paid and equal length maternity and paternity leaves;

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Amendment 481

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the parental and carer's leave in that regard to be considered, calls on the European Commission to carefully monitor the implementation of the Directive and to increase its enforcement power towards Member States who fail to apply it in its entirety;

Or. en

Amendment 482

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the co-parental, parental and carers’ leave as well as an adequate minimum pay level in that regard to be considered;

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Amendment 483

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of an equal and paid maternity and paternity leave to promote genuine shared responsibility;

Or. en

Amendment 484

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard;

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Amendment 485

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered, along with a flexible working schedule, including in collective labour agreements in support of work-life balance for women;

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Amendment 486

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered; encourages the extension of paternity leave provisions to actively promote men’s participation in caregiving and improve gender equality in labour market outcomes;

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Amendment 487

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered; calls for the extension off full paid, non-transferable, and mandatory parent leave for both parents and for the recognition of single-parent families with double entitlements; calls furthermore for flexible working arrangements for parents;

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Amendment 488

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered; Urges that employees, in particular women, who make use of their leave in order to provide care to their family members are effectively protected from dismissal or any discriminatory treatment related to their care responsibilities;

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Amendment 489

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered;	23. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented and for an extension of the maternity and paternity leave in that regard to be considered; stresses that implementation should be carried out with full respect of Member States’ social models;

Or. en

Amendment 490

Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	23 a. Calls on the Member States to implement the systematic personal assistance services, tailored to the particular needs of persons with disabilities, as a support model that adapts help to the individual requirements of a given person in order to enhance their independence and participation in social life. Systemic means that the support is organized at an institutional level (by the state or local government) in a stable and predictable manner, rather than ad hoc or occasional;

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Amendment 491

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	23 a. Urges Member States to adopt adequately paid, non-transferable parental leave for each parent, to prevent women from being disproportionately burdened with caregiving; underlines that improving men’s take-up of leave is crucial for shifting norms and ensuring women’s equal participation in the labour market and to mitigate a negative intergenerational effect on girls;

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Amendment 492

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	23 c. Call for the Commission to present a directive on the right to disconnect to protect all workers and particularly parents and caregivers;

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Amendment 493

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote, recognise and support the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care and health systems across Europe; calls for concrete supportive actions, such as awareness-raising, accessible respite and psychosocial support, voluntary pathways to skills recognition and targeted information services for carers; stresses that such measures should be designed in consultation with carers, social partners and civil society, while avoiding disproportionate administrative burdens on families and fully respecting Member States’ competences;

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Amendment 494

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to formally recognise the status of informal carers as a distinct category, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and the sustainability of care systems across Europe, and to ensure their access to social protection systems, including eligibility for healthcare, unemploymrent benefits, paid leave and pension entitlements in order to mitigate the adverse effects of caregiving on women's careers and economic independence while ensuring at the same time that women are not pushed out of the formal labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 495

Irmhild Boßdorf, Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe; further urges Member States to align payments made to family care givers to align with salaries paid to professional carers - both men and women;

Or. en

Amendment 496

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;

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Amendment 497

Emma Rafowicz, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;

Or. en

Amendment 498

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote, recognise and support the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;

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Amendment 499

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of health and care systems across Europe;

Or. en

Amendment 500

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion, facilitating access to social protection and training, and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;

Or. en

Amendment 501

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe; calls for the implementation of care and pension credits to protect those taking a break from employment to provide care to a family member or someone else in need of care;

Or. en

Amendment 502

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe;	24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote the recognition of the role of informal carers, acknowledging their vital contribution to social cohesion and helping with the sustainability of care systems across Europe and the social inclusion of people receiving such care;

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Amendment 503

Galato Alexandraki, Emmanouil Fragkos

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24a. calls on the Commission to create a European ‘carer’s card’ giving recognised carers access to social services, discounts for basic health and transport services, as well as priority in training and reintegration programmes.

Or. el

Amendment 504

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 a. Highlights that sparsely populated, rural, or remote areas face greater challenges in identifying, recognising, and supporting informal carers, as well as in providing affordable care services, and therefore require specific measures and adaptations to guarantee equal access to rights;

Or. en

Amendment 505

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 a. Calls on the Commission to promote a positive image of care and affectionate relationships, as they occur within the family, highlighting them as vital for healthy relationships and as the foundation of a healthy society.

Or. en

Amendment 506

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 a. Calls for the development of EU guidelines on minimum respite periods for informal carers, ensuring their physical and mental well-being and enabling continued participation in employment;

Or. en

Amendment 507

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 a. Calls on the Commission to put in place a European Care Deal, as announced during the 2024 Parliamentary Hearings;

Or. en

Amendment 508

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 a. Points out that providing universal high quality childcare service would reduce unpaid care work;

Or. en

Amendment 509

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 b. Urges the Commission to present to the Council for approval a European Carers’ Programme that provides a comprehensive, gender-responsive framework to identify and recognise the different forms of informal care across Europe; stresses that carers, who are predominantly women, must be guaranteed financial support, flexible work arrangements, care leave, and access to adequate, supplementary care services, as well as counselling, peer support and rehabilitation both for the carer and the person being cared for; underlines the importance of securing carers’ legal right to adequate free own personal time and encouragement for self-development and freedom of choice by personal budgeting and community-based care;

Or. en

Amendment 510

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 b. Calls the Member States to explore ways to redistribute unpaid care work throuhg implementing policies aimed to change workplace cultures and to encourage fathers to take leave, such as individual leave entitlements;

Or. en

Amendment 511

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24 c. Urges the Commission and the Council to instruct all Member States to establish these gender-responsive, informal care programmes tailored to national needs;

Or. en

Amendment 512

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care and support sector by ensuring fair remuneration, secure contracts and access to continuous training and safe working environments, adequate staffing levels and social protection, including healthcare, sick leave, pension rights and collective bargaininig rights while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;

Or. en

Amendment 513

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration with attention given to the enormous physical and psychological demands connected to care giving, as well as access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;

Or. en

Amendment 514

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;

Or. en

Amendment 515

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair and equal remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, including prevention of all forms of violence and harassment at work, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives and the development of social dialogue structures; calls for the development of specific strategies to encourage men to enter and remain in the care sector;

Or. en

Amendment 516

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair and equal remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments - including prevention of all forms of violence and harassment at work, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives and the development of social dialogue structures;

Or. en

Amendment 517

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, as well as solutions to tackle undeclared work in these sectors, which are predominantly carried out by women, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;

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Amendment 518

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, as well as solutions to tackle undeclared work, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives and the development of social dialogue structures;

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Amendment 519

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments with collective bargaining agreements, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;

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Amendment 520

Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair and equal remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;

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Amendment 521

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives and the strengthening of social dialogue; stresses the importance of discouraging undeclared work and of promoting standardisation of care work, notably through better opportunities for declared care workers but also by formalizing means of covering expenses, for example via social vouchers; highlights that adressing the prevalence of undeclared or under-declared care work are important to ensure decent working conditions and avoid negative impact on the right and well-being of workers as well as of care recipients;

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Amendment 522

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives; calls on Member States to guarantee a minimum salary for care workers that at least equals the national average salary;

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Amendment 523

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives;	25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve working conditions in the formal care sector, focusing on ensuring fair remuneration and access to continuous training and safe working environments, while promoting the attractiveness of care professions through long-term perspectives and regular, fully or partially subsidised, educational programmes;

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Amendment 524

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	25 a. Stresses that care professions, overwhelmingly staffed by women, continue to be undervalued and underpaid contributing directly to women’s economic vulnerability; highlights the importance for member states to properly transpose and implement the pay transparency directive, no least to establish calls for pay structures that reflect the skill, responsibility and social value of these roles, alongside clear pathways for women to progress to leadership and decision-making positions within the care sector;

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Amendment 525

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	25 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise the essential role of EU mobile workers and migrant workers in the care sector; emphasises their vulnerability, especially women and girls, to suffer exploitation, human trafficking and to end up performing undeclared work; urges the regularisation of undeclared workers in the care sector;

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Amendment 526

Galato Alexandraki, Emmanouil Fragkos

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	25a. Calls for the establishment of European burnout prevention programmes for care workers, with psychological support, counselling and occupational health measures.

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Amendment 527

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	25 a. Highlights that improving working conditions in the care sector requires addressing the widespread use of zero-hour contracts, bogus self-employment, and undeclared work;

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Amendment 528

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	25 b. Calls for the establishment of an EU-wide monitoring system for recruitment agencies in the care sector, to prevent exploitation of migrant women and ensure compliance with fair recruitment standards;

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Amendment 529

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process;	26. Calls on the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process;

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Amendment 530

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process;	26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further invest in high-quality vocational education, training and strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process; and mechanisms for cross-border recognition of qualifications;

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Amendment 531

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process;	26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through formal and informal caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process; underlines that skills are not only acquired in formal education and that policy frameworks must acknowledge and validate alternative pathways to skills development;

Or. en

Amendment 532

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process;	26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process; reminds that skills are not only acquired in formal education thus policy frameworks must acknowledge and validate alternative pathways to skills development;

Or. en

Amendment 533

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process;	26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the recognition of skills acquired through caregiving by integrating these skills into lifelong learning and upskilling policies, while also considering a certification process as skills are not only acquired in formal education thus policy frameworks must acknowledge and validate alternative pathways to skills development;

Or. en

Amendment 534

Giusi Princi, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	26 a. Stresses the importance of supporting women in the transition from informal caregivers to entrepreneurs in the care sector; urges the Member States to provide tailored entrepreneurial training pathways, simplified administrative procedures for the establishment of women-owned micro-enterprises in the sector, and facilitated access to dedicated micro-credit, recognising the economic and social value of such professional transition;

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Amendment 535

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	26 a. Encourages the adoption of digital health tools to enable independent living and improve care quality, alongside boosting the digital skills of care workers so they can effectively use these tools and facilitating cross-border data sharing which can enhance cooperation between Member States and provide better and more consistent care;

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Amendment 536

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	26 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise young carers as a distinct group whose needs are often overlooked and to develop targeted support measures, including flexible education arrangements, counseling services and respite care, to prevent negative impacts on their health, education, and future employment;

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Amendment 537

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	26 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to collect data on young carers to better understand their situation and tailor interventions effectively ;Calls on the Commission to develop EU-wide guidelines and best practices to help Member States identify and support young carers in schools, communities, and healthcare systems;

Or. en

Amendment 538

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 539

Irmhild Boßdorf, Christine Anderson

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 540

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Considers that it is not for the European Union to impose a single carers’ statute, which would risk eroding national specificities and complicating existing arrangements; calls on the Member States instead to adapt their own schemes for recognising family carers, ensuring better financial and social support for them;

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Amendment 541

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European informal and formal carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition and making informal carers an explicit target group in the post-2027 European Social Fund;

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Amendment 542

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute, which addresses the particular needs of informal carers, care workers, personal and household services, user-employers and institutional care through a common EU framework and definition;

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Amendment 543

Emma Rafowicz, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European formal and informal carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;

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Amendment 544

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition, which would guarantee minimum standards of recognition and protection for carers across Member States and reduce inequalities between them;

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Amendment 545

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition, along with the exchange of good practices that can also be applied in other Member States, in order to help eliminate gender inequality and generate broader social and economic benefits for women;

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Amendment 546

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition, which addresses the particular needs of informal carers, care workers, young carers, personal and household services, user-employers and institutional care;

Or. en

Amendment 547

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition;	27. Calls for the creation of a European carers’ statute through a common EU framework and definition that guarantees social protection, pension entitlements, and recognition of skills acquired through care work;

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Amendment 548

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	27 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to legally recognise unpaid carers, the majority of whom are women, by ensuring access to social protection, pension credits, respite services and financial support; stresses the need to progressively reduce unpaid care work borne by women and girls with solutions that redistribute burdens such as investment in affordable childcare, elder care and disability services, and the promotion of men’s equal participation in care;

Or. en

Amendment 549

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	27 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to align the EU Health Strategy with the EU Care Strategy and foster synergies between EU4Health and other financing opportunities for the care sector in order to connect healthcare and social care systems to provide seamless support, especially for chronic conditions among the most vulnerable individuals;

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Amendment 550

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	27a. Stresses, in particular, that the family carer, usually a mother or a close relative, performs a fundamental solidarity mission, which must be fully recognised through enhanced social rights;

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Amendment 551

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	27 a. Calls on Member States to guarantee free access to early childhood education and care for all children from the age of one, as a measure to reduce the gender care gap and promote equal opportunities;

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Amendment 552

Emma Rafowicz, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Stresses that unpaid informal care work, which is predominantly carried out by women, must be duly recognised in order to address the gender pension gap; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to explore solutions such as the introduction of ‘care credits’ in pension schemes, treating periods of informal care as assimilated periods for the calculation of pension rights; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;

Or. en

Amendment 553

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of informal caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents; calls on the Member States to explore measures for a gradual and flexible (re)integration to the labour market after the end of care duties;

Or. en

Amendment 554

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems and future EU initiatives on pension and social security systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women are financially disadvantaged by dedicating significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;

Or. en

Amendment 555

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to first recognise the status of carers and secondly protect those carers, predominantly women, who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents; underlines that such provisions should aim to prevent poverty;

Or. en

Amendment 556

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems in the same way as maternity or co-parental leave; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents, to the detriment of their income, physical and mental health;

Or. en

Amendment 557

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;

Or. en

Amendment 558

Estrella Galán

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;

Or. en

Amendment 559

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension and social security systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;

Or. en

Amendment 560

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents; calls, in particular, for periods devoted to raising children or supporting a dependent relative to be fully recognised in the calculation of pension entitlements, so as not to penalise women who invest in the family;

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Amendment 561

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents;	28. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that periods of unpaid caregiving are fairly recognised in pension systems; encourages, furthermore, the Member States to explore fair and sustainable solutions to protect the predominantly women who dedicate significant parts of their working lives to caring for dependents and sick relatives; calls on the Member States to facilitate the labour market reintegration of workers who took a long career break to provide care to relatives, including through up-skilling and re-skilling;

Or. en

Amendment 562

András Tivadar Kulja

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	28 a. Stresses that pension credits for unpaid care periods must be designed to reduce the gender pension gap and ensure financial security in old age for carers;

Or. en

Amendment 563

Beatrice Timgren

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 564

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for family-supportive tax and social policies, including allowances adapted to the number of children, increased support for single parents and the possibility for families to freely choose childcare arrangements;

Or. fr

Amendment 565

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan that contributes to closing the gender care gap and to supporting carers, formal and informal; therefore calls to support single parents and families in vulnerable situations; including those facing intersectional discrimination and facing compounded care needs and/or high intensity demands; focusing on social protection coverage, affordable and high quality childcare, improved work-life balance; affordable and high quality long-term care services, better working conditions in the care sector; and the promotion of equality;

Or. en

Amendment 566

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved working conditions;

Or. el

Amendment 567

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support, improved work flexibility and care for people dependent on drugs or alcohol;

Or. fr

Amendment 568

Benedetta Scuderi

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training - including training for digital skills that are increasingly needed in the care sector, childcare, personal and household services, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;

Or. en

Amendment 569

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, quality care infrastructure including childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;

Or. en

Amendment 570

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility; calls for an action plan to be run in cooperation with the Member States to establish community centres for elderly people in which students can be involved and can benefit from a range of services in return for their spending time in the company of the elderly from whom they can learn;

Or. ro

Amendment 571

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility;	29. Calls for a European action plan to support single parents and vulnerable families, focusing on access to employment and training, childcare, psychosocial support and improved work flexibility, as well as healthcare access, housing support and minimum income schemes;

Or. en

Amendment 572

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	29 a. Notes that proper access to reproductive health & abortion services can help parents negate stress of unexpected pregnancies and contribute to family planning, calls on MS to provide affordable access to such services;

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Amendment 573

Galato Alexandraki, Emmanouil Fragkos

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	29a. calls on the Commission to consider the creation of a European ‘care voucher’ scheme for single-parent families, with which part of the cost of childcare or long-term care would be covered through European funds.

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Amendment 574

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	29 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a European framework for the recognition of unpaid care work, including its inclusion in pension schemes, social protection and time credits;

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Amendment 575

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	29a. Stresses the importance of specific policies to support large families, whose demographic and social contribution is essential for Europe’s future;

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Amendment 576

Benedetta Scuderi, Katrin Langensiepen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Commission to promote the use of EU Funds and Member States to fully utilise them to develop and support accessible, affordable and high-quality and person-centered care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities; calls therefore for a dedicated, reinforced funding stream for social and care-related investments within the future MFF, supported by cohesion policy, ESF+, EU4Health, InvestEU and other instruments, to ensure sustainable, person-centred and community-based care provision across all Member States and regions;

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Amendment 577

Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people, persons with disabilities and people dependent on drugs or alcohol;

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Amendment 578

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services and facilities across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities while also addressing and reducing undeclared work in the care sector;

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Amendment 579

Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Romana Tomc, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Loucas Fourlas, Giusi Princi, Pascal Arimont, Miriam Lexmann, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Liesbet Sommen, Isabelle Le Callennec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds, including the Recovery and Resilience Facility, EU4Health, ESF+, and ERDF, to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 580

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities; stresses in this regard that, as obligation stemming from the UN Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), the Union must systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities through all programmes in the MFF post-2027 by developing a methodology to track spending that benefits persons with disabilities including women and girls, and by verifying that all programmes and EU-funded projects guarantee equal opportunities and accessibility to EU funding for persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 581

Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities; calls on the Commission to set clear targets and indicators, including impact assessments, and to include in pay gap calculations a subdomain comparing women without children and mothers, in order to adequately reflect the motherhood penalty;

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Amendment 582

Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Elena Donazzan, Georgiana Teodorescu

on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Chiara Gemma

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities; emphasises the increasing recognition that care must be provided through a human-rights based and person-centred approach, reflecting the ongoing shift in care provision towards services that respect autonomy, dignity and inclusion across all life stages; underlines the need to integrate the term ‘support’ alongside ‘care’, so as to fully capture the diversity of services and the rights-based perspective that guide them;

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Amendment 583

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities; stresses, in particular, the importance of ensuring access to childcare services in rural and peripheral areas, which are too often forgotten by European policies but are essential for social cohesion;

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Amendment 584

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities;	30. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities; stresses that care needs to be delivered through a human-rights and person-centred approach, at all times prioritising autonomy, dignity and inclusion;

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Amendment 585

Emma Rafowicz, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Lina Gálvez, Alessandra Moretti, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote fairer and more equitable tax systems by eliminating tax arrangements that penalise second earners, which predominantly affect women, as they create disincentives to labour market participation and negatively impact employment outcomes;

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Amendment 586

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 a. Calls therefore on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal , addressing both formal and informal carers, equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in and ensuring universal access to affordable and high-quality childcare, educational after-school programmes and long-term care services ; reiterates that the Care Deal should be a rights based approach to care and the financing of care infrastructure should be done through progressive taxation and public provision ; emphasizes the need for EU and national policies for infomal carers aiming for financial support and respite, training, inclusion in pension and health systems;

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Amendment 587

Katrin Langensiepen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 a. Calls on the Commission, together with the relevant agencies, to provide accurate high-quality, comparative data, including granular, regional-level data, that would systematically monitor the amount of care family member provided to their relatives and whether or how these care responsibilities affect their working lives; stresses the importance of also collecting data relevant to the situation of migrant workers and children who provide care in the informal care sector with special regards to legality of work, pay, and development opportunities;

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Amendment 588

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop strategies for carers in low-population regions, including training, psychosocial support, and financial incentives, to promote inclusive care models and gender equality, in order to support rural and remote areas and outermost regions that face significant barriers to accessing healthcare and social care services, where women often provide informal care without professional support or recognition and adequate replacement services;

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Amendment 589

Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Elena Kountoura, Hanna Gedin, Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 a. Calls on the Member States to fully utilise EU funds to develop accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across all age groups, from early childhood to long-term care for older people and persons with disabilities, with special attention to rural and remote areas, ensuring territorial equity in access to services;

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Amendment 590

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 a. Highlights that greater investment in public health and social care including workers’ wages and training is essential to improve recruitment and retention in order to secure quality jobs that increase the attractiveness of working in the care sector;

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Amendment 591

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission dedicate specific funding to expanding care services that reduce women’s unpaid workload, increase women’s labour market participation, and guarantee girls’ equal access to education free from care responsibilities;

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Amendment 592

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Estelle Ceulemans, Isilda Gomes, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 b. Calls on the Commission to use the Union of Skills to boost education, training and life-long learning in sectors with EU-wide labour market shortages, including care work, ensuring upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all professional care workers;

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Amendment 593

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 b. Urges the Commission to monitor the use of EU funds invested in formal care services in the context of the next multiannual financial framework;

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Amendment 594

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 c. Calls on the Commission to establish a direct link between the country-specific recommendations of the European Semester and the use of EU funds at the national and local level so that member states and regions with an insufficient care offer prioritise investment in that area;

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Amendment 595

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 d. Calls for public procurement in care services to ensure that price alone is not the determining factor but incorporates the quality of the service as a rewarding criteria in order to promote quality, social and environmental considerations that are crucial for the well-being of both the caregivers and carers;

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Amendment 596

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux, Hristo Petrov, Abir Al-Sahlani, Grégory Allione, Martin Hojsík, Jana Toom, Lucia Yar, Billy Kelleher

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	30 e. Looks forward to the European Care Deal announced by the European Commission and stresses the importance for the Deal to encompass all relevant care related priorities into one coherent package;

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Amendment 597

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	31 a. Calls on Member States to effectively implement national family caregiver programmes in accordance with the 2022 EU Care Strategy, ensuring that these programs are adequately funded, inclusive, gender-responsive and accessible;

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Amendment 598

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	31 b. Calls on Member States to ensure the provision of sufficient, affordable, and inclusive public services in the sectors of health, childcare, schooling, and social services, recognising that access to such services is essential to alleviate the disproportionate unpaid care burdens carried by women;

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Amendment 599

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	31 c. Calls on Member States to promote and strengthen collective work agreements and collective bargaining in the care sector; underlines that such mechanisms are crucial for ensuring fair wages, decent working conditions, social protection, and recognition of care work, which is predominantly carried out by women;

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Amendment 600

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	31 d. Calls on Member States to formalize Personal and Household Services (PHS) worker systems to protect the PHS workers who are predominantly women, for example by utilising service vouchers, to ensure that all workers have access to social security, occupational health and safety, continuous training, and the possibility to certify and formalise their skills, negotiate common sectoral collective agreements to guarantee fair and predictable working conditions, and to prevent precarious bilateral contracts between individual families and care workers; underlines that Member States should regulate and monitor platform-based care services to prevent the misclassification of workers as “self-employed entrepreneurs,” which undermines the responsibility of platforms to provide social protection, labour rights, and fair remuneration;

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Amendment 601

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	31 e. Calls on the Member States adopt targeted measures to protect migrant women working in domestic and care roles from exploitation by ensuring fair wages and decent working conditions; strengthening labour inspections in private households; decoupling residence permits from single employers to reduce dependency; guaranteeing access to social protection, healthcare and complaint mechanisms; and providing safe reporting channels and legal assistance for victims of abuse, regardless of migration status;

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