Type: Acts of the European Union: European Parliament Resolution on a European Pillar of Social Rights

Authority: European Authorities - European Union: European Parliament

Date: 01/19/2017

Subject: The European Parliament calls on the Commission to build on the review of the social acquis and of EU employment and social policies as well as on the outcomes of the 2016 public consultation by making proposals for a solid European Pillar of Social Rights that is not limited to a declaration of principles or good intentions but reinforces social rights through concrete and specific tools (legislation, policy-making mechanisms and financial instruments), delivering a positive impact on people’s lives in the short and medium term and enabling support for European construction in the 21st century by effectively upholding the Treaties’ social objectives, supporting national welfare states, strengthening cohesion, solidarity and upward convergence in economic and social outcomes, ensuring adequate social protection, reducing inequality, achieving long overdue progress in reducing poverty and social exclusion, facilitating national reform efforts through benchmarking and helping to improve the functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union and of the EU’s single market

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination - Solidarity - Art. 27 Worker’s rights: information - Art. 28 Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective agreements - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective actions - Art. 29 Free placement service - Art. 31 Working conditions: healthy - Working conditions: safe - Working conditions: dignified - Art. 32 Youth protection - Art. 33 Family protection - Art. 34 Social security - Art. 35 Preventive health care - Art. 36 Access to services of general economic interest

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