Verbatim report of proceedings

Thursday, 15 December 2011 - Strasbourg

9.1. Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application EGF/2009/019 FR/Renault from France) (A7-0396/2011 - Barbara Matera) (vote)

– Before the vote on paragraph 7:

  Estelle Grelier (S&D). – (FR) Madam President, we wish to table an oral amendment. After contact was made on numerous occasions, the management of Renault and the French Government have so far refused to take into account the situation of company workers who, in 2009, agreed to leave the company and are affected by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) application and who, since then, have seen their rights eroded and their income reduced through the application of the reform of the French pension system.

The amendment is as follows:

Paragraph 2a: calls on Renault and the French Government to commit themselves formally to take the necessary legal and financial measures to restore all rights and pension benefits, while granting work exemption under equivalent conditions to workers whose pension benefits were affected by reforms having entered into force since their dismissal.

(The oral amendment was not accepted)