Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (A8-0247/2016 - Laura Agea)
Mike Hookem (EFDD), in writing. ‒ UKIP voted against this consultation procedure vote, which is technically non-legislative. It is written in to the treaties (TFEU Article 148) that the EU should coordinate employment policy between all Member States and this is a procedure that is voted on every year. The proposal creates vague goals without specific actions as to what the Member States should be focussing on. This proposal includes things like ‘increasing labour participation and reducing structural employment’ and ‘develop a skilled workforce’. This all sounds ok, but ultimately it is the EU trying to control Member States and tell them what their employment policies should be. The only people that should decide these things are our elected and accountable national governments, not EU bureaucrats in Brussels.