ECLAC (August 2017) Digital work platforms are transforming labor markets around the world. Firms that own, manage and deploy these work platforms have reframed employer–worker relations by defining their core business as the provision of the technology that enables certain services to be provided rather than the provision of those services, and offering their workers independent contractor arrangements rather than employee contracts. This has significant consequences in terms of wages, jobs security and other working conditions.

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (13.03.2018) The Action Plan will implement the UN Convention that entered into force in summer 2016. The aim is to strengthen the rights of persons with disabilities and to improve their opportunities for participation.

The G7 Future of Work Forum is a platform where you can find strategies, good practices and experiences of G7 countries in addressing emerging labour market challenges. The Forum was adopted in 2017 by G7 Labour and Employment Ministers under the Italian Presidency and launched under the Canadian Presidency at the G7 Employment Ministerial meeting in March 2018. The Forum is hosted and managed by the OECD.

 La Nouvelle Tribune (18.04.2018) La cérémonie d’inauguration de la 15e Conférence internationale de l’Association international de la sécurité sociale (AISS) portant sur les Technologies de l’information et de la Communication dans le domaine de la sécurité sociale, qui a lieu les 18, 19 et 20 avril 2018, s’est déroulée sous la présidence du ministre du Travail et de l’insertion professionnelle, Mohammed Yatim, et de M. Saïd Ahmidouch, Directeur Général de la CNSS.

Aujourd'hui le Maroc (18.04.2018) La Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale (CNSS) organisera du 18 au 20 avril à Casablanca la 15ème édition de la conférence internationale de l’Association internationale de la sécurité sociale (AISS).

Trend (18.04.2018) Sozialversicherung und Sozialpartner wappnen sich für die Reform der Sozialversicherung. Bei einer Veranstaltung der Wirtschaftskammer Wien warnten Experten Dienstagabend vor Verschlechterungen bei der Gesundheitsversorgung. Der Vorsitzende des Hauptverbandes der Sozialversicherungsträger, Alexander Biach, forderte im APA-Gespräch, dass eine Reform "gemeinsam mit den Sozialpartnern" erfolgen muss.

sdg.iisd.org/news (12.04.2018) The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has updated its Social Protection Toolbox, an online platform for policy makers to share experiences and good practices in providing healthcare and income security. The refreshed platform offers over 100 examples of good practices from around the world, and users can apply an online assessment tool to identify gaps in social protection coverage by country and population group. The toolbox was initially developed by ESCAP’s Social Development Division, in cooperation with other UN regional commissions, and was promoted in 2014 and 2015 for policy makers and planners.

El Observador (17.04.2018) La flexibilización del acceso a las jubilaciones a partir de la ley 18.395 de 2008 dio lugar a un incremento tanto en el stock como en las altas jubilatorias que se sostuvo hasta 2014.

Daily Times (17.04.2018) A social protection model presently being implemented through the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) across Pakistan is meant to effectively support and empower women, children and poorest segments of the society.

Le Figaro (16.04.2018) Dimanche soir, Emmanuel Macron a évoqué la possibilité de repenser la prise en charge des personnes âgées dépendantes. Parmi ses propositions, la création d'un «cinquième risque» couvert par la Sécurité sociale a été mise sur la table. Mais de quoi parle-t-on exactement?

New technologies make access to services easier and more convenient. Guangdong provides a model in China’s efforts to develop a national integrated social security information system

ZAWYA (16.04.2018)  Research investigates key concerns, insurance awareness levels and remittance habits of low-income migrant workers in the country

Franceinfo (11.04.2018) Le gouvernement japonais incite les retraités à retourner travailler. Ils le font par goût du travail ou par précarité. 

OpenGovAsia (12.04.2018) To ensure that everyone can benefit from new technologies, policymakers will need to pursue education reforms that promote lifelong learning, maintain labour market flexibility, strengthen social protection systems, and reduce income inequality, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) issued its latest report yesterday on the impact of technological advances on labour markets in Asia.

EurActiv (12.04.2018) Vingt-quatre pays de l’UE se sont engagés à se regrouper pour adopter une « approche européenne » vis-à-vis de l’intelligence artificielle, afin de concurrencer les géants technologiques américains et asiatiques. Les ministres ont signé une déclaration le 10 avril dans laquelle ils déclarent qu’ils envisageront de financer la recherche publique dans le domaine de l’intelligence artificielle, sans toutefois promettre un montant spécifique d’investissements.

ladocumentationfrancaise.fr (Mars 2018) Le rapport aborde successivement différentes facettes de l'IA : politique économique, recherche, emploi, éthique, cohésion sociale. Cinq annexes insistent par ailleurs sur des domaines d'intérêt particulier : éducation, santé, agriculture, transport, défense et sécurité.

lacapital. (31.03.2018) En la sede central de la Ansés, su director ejecutivo, Emilio Basavilbaso, presentó el libro "Análisis y propuestas de mejoras para ampliar la Asignación Universal por Hijo" (AUH), junto con el representante del Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef, por sus siglas en inglés) en la Argentina, Roberto Benes, y la secretaria ejecutiva del Consejo Nacional de Coordinación de Políticas Sociales (Cncps), Gabriela Agosto.

Le Monde (31.03.2018) Hausse du minimum vieillesse, de la prime à la naissance et des allocations aux familles monoparentales ou nombreuses et modestes, baisse de l’allocation aux parents de jeunes enfants… Voici les principaux changements à compter du 1er avril 

The Herald (12.04.2018) Government has encouraged stakeholders to ensure that occupational safety and health management systems are ingrained within the industries to promote hazardous free working environment

ILO SocPro (April 2018) Men, women and children from indigenous peoples are estimated
to represent 4.5 per cent of the world’s population (World Bank, 2011).1 They constitute more than 5,000 different groups with distinct cultures, forms of social organization, livelihood strategies, practices, notions of poverty and wellbeing, values, and beliefs profoundly embedded in their collective relationship with the lands and territories that they occupy or use, which is at the heart of their distinct identities. The vast majority, approximately two-thirds of the global indigenous
population, live in Asia (UN, 2014).

Development Pathways (24.10.2017) Biometric technology presents a huge opportunity to social protection programmes, in particular the potential to ensure that only eligible programme beneficiaries receive payments. But to fully realise the benefits of biometrics, social protection programmes need to work closely with national identity agencies who are better placed to provide individuals with a unique identity record and can match people with those records, writes Richard Chirchir.

Europa (05.04.2018) The Commission proposes to limit workers' exposure to five cancer-causing chemicals, in addition to the 21 substances that have already been limited or proposed to be limited since the beginning of this mandate. Estimates show that today's proposal would improve working conditions for over 1,000,000 EU workers and prevent over 22,000 cases of work-related illness.

Pravda (10.04.2018) About 2.8 million people die every year worldwide in the workplace, representatives of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) said. Economic losses, according to experts, reach up to four percent of global GDP.
 

Corporate Wellness Magazine (29.03.2018) A study recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published this month in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine has associated high cholesterol and high blood pressure with loud noise at the workplace. Nobel Prize Winner Robert Koch said in 1910 that “One day man will have to fight noise as fiercely as cholera and pest” and studies are beginning to prove this statement right

socialeurope (10.04.2018) The integration of migrants from outside the EU into society is one of the key challenges that the Union must address to maintain social cohesion and equality. This blog piece looks at how well migrants and their descendants have integrated into the labour markets of EU Member States.