MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on making the employers of non-EU nationals contribute to the training of EU citizens and jobseekers
30.8.2018
Dominique Martin
B8‑0354/2018
Motion for a European Parliament resolution on making the employers of non-EU nationals contribute to the training of EU citizens and jobseekers
The European Parliament,
– having regard to Rule 133 of its Rules of Procedure,
A. whereas, as of June 2018[1], there were 17 million jobseekers in the EU who would find it easier to find employment if they acquired skills;
B. whereas Eurostat[2] estimates that on 1 January 2016, there were 35 million people living in the EU who had been born outside the EU, 21 million of whom had kept their original nationality;
C. whereas 2.7 million citizens of third countries immigrated to the EU in 2015[3] alone;
D. whereas, in France in 2016, the rate of employment for people born outside the EU was 54%;
E. whereas funds for the training of citizens and jobseekers residing in Europe already exist;
1. Calls on the Commission to ring-fence one such fund solely for EU citizens;
2. Calls on the Commission to offer businesses employing non-EU nationals the chance to sign up to this fund voluntarily by 1 July 2019, with the obligation to contribute to it in the subsequent 18 months, according to how many non-EU national staff they employ.