23/05/2007: The plenary session of the European Parliament approved, with a large majority, the report of Greek MEP Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou on promoting decent work for all. The main objective of the report is to express the opinion of the European Parliament on the Commission Communication on 'Promoting decent work for all - the EU contribution to the implementation of the decent work agenda in the world'. Apart from the core labour standards, the agenda includes the promotion of creating new jobs, guaranteeing social rights at work, including the conditions of health and safety at work, extending social protection, promoting social dialogue and conflict resolution on the basis of information and consultation. The European Parliament, like the European Council (2767 Employment Council meeting on the 1/12/2006), endorses the meaning of 'decent work' which was proposed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 2000 and approved by the UN Summit of Heads of State and Government (September 2005), the high-level segment of the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the European Commission (May 2006).
Speaking in the debate, the rapporteur mentioned, among others, that the countersigning of the social objectives by the European Union is particularly significant within a period that the rules of globalisation follow a logic of increased liberalisation in all the spheres of economic and social policies and drive towards a segmented global labour market.
Mrs Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou pointed out that human dignity is a basic value which every economic and development policy should promote at national, European and global level. The productive and full employment under conditions of guaranteeing equal pay and social protection as well as the promotion of social dialogue under conditions of good governance where there is no corruption, should be an integral part of the internal policies of the Member States and the trade and development policies of the EU. The achievement of the above objectives will depend on a roadmap engraved by all European Institutions and the social partners taking into account the need to ensure fair competition for all to establish a social dimension of globalisation and contribute to its transformation into an opportunity of a global well-being.
For further information:
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou MEP, Tel: +32-2-2847447, Fax: +32-2-2849447
E-mail: marie.panayotopoulos@europarl.europa.eu
Speaking in the debate, the rapporteur mentioned, among others, that the countersigning of the social objectives by the European Union is particularly significant within a period that the rules of globalisation follow a logic of increased liberalisation in all the spheres of economic and social policies and drive towards a segmented global labour market.
Mrs Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou pointed out that human dignity is a basic value which every economic and development policy should promote at national, European and global level. The productive and full employment under conditions of guaranteeing equal pay and social protection as well as the promotion of social dialogue under conditions of good governance where there is no corruption, should be an integral part of the internal policies of the Member States and the trade and development policies of the EU. The achievement of the above objectives will depend on a roadmap engraved by all European Institutions and the social partners taking into account the need to ensure fair competition for all to establish a social dimension of globalisation and contribute to its transformation into an opportunity of a global well-being.
For further information:
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou MEP, Tel: +32-2-2847447, Fax: +32-2-2849447
E-mail: marie.panayotopoulos@europarl.europa.eu
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