What is the Action Plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights? (easy-to-read version)

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This Action Plan explains 
how the European Pillar of Social Rights
will improve your life.

The European Union’s Action Plan
has 3 main areas with targets
to reach in each of them by 2030:

• Creating more and better jobs 
  for everyone.
  
  TARGET: a majority of all people
  should have a job.
  A majority means more than half.
  We will focus on women and young people.

• Making sure everyone has a fair chance
  to get the skills they need.
  
  TARGET: a majority of all people
  should get some training
  and have basic computer skills.

• Including people, so that everyone 
  is able to take part in the world around them
  and no one is left out.
  
  TARGET: reduce the number of people,
  especially children who could become very poor
  and are not involved in daily life.

The European Union is creating more work 
in new technology and green jobs.

New technology means new ways of working 
using computers, phones and the internet.

Green jobs are jobs 
that help protect the environment
and help to reduce pollution.

In the future there will be many more jobs
for people in community organisations 
and health and social care organisations.

The European Union has set up:

• many initiatives to help young and older people
  get the skills they need to get good jobs;

• ways for companies to work
  and trade more easily.

The European Union
wants to improve all workers’ lives,
including people who work for themselves
or work from home.

The European Union:

• makes sure all workers 
  are healthy and safe;

• makes it easier for everyone to change jobs
  or look for new work;

• makes it easier for people to go
  to other European Union countries to work.

We want everyone
to get a better education 
and learn new skills
to have more opportunities.

The European Union:

• helps universities 
  to give training to organisations;

• helps people to carry on learning 
  throughout their lives;

• looks to bring in new workers with skills 
  from outside the European Union;

• helps to give everyone a fair chance 
  to get a good job;

• makes sure women
  get the same opportunities as men;

The European Union wants women and men 
to get the same pay for the same work.

The European Union helps people who can’t afford 
the basic things they need to live.

The European Union wants to make sure everyone: 

• has a good-quality, affordable place to live;

• gets access to water, healthcare, electricity,
   banking and the internet.

The European Union makes sure
that children from the poorest families 
have the same opportunities 
as children from richer families.

All European Union countries should have laws 
that make sure all workers are paid fairly.

The European Union improves the ways
we support people who don’t have a job.

All European Union countries
should have health and care services 
that can deal in the future 
with difficult or unexpected situations 
like the Coronavirus.

All 27 countries in the European Union
must work together
to follow this Action Plan.

There is money available 
to help European Union countries
to ensure that all citizens benefit
from the European Pillar of Social Rights.

We will keep talking together to make sure
everyone is following the Action Plan,
and that the plan is working.

The European Union also works 
with other countries in the world
to help them to make life fair for their people.

In 2025, we will review the Action Plan.
We will decide if anything needs to be changed 
​to achieve our targets by 2030.

If you have questions, you can EMPL-C3-UNITec [dot] europa [dot] eu (send us an email).

This easy to read information was produced 
by the European Commission and easy-read-online.co.uk

The content was checked by self-advocates
from Mencap Liverpool and Sefton,
​including Emma Geraghty and Soph Gallagher,
and the facilitator, Jo Bruce.

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