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France: Macron - six réformes sociales en 18 mois monitor

Les Echos (06.06.2017) Code du travail, CSG, formation professionnelle, assurance-chômage, apprentissage et retraites… Emmanuel Macron et Edouard Philippe veulent mener six réformes sociales dans les 18 premiers mois du quinquennat. Explications.

managing reforms france
Ireland: Reports of social welfare fraud up 66% after publicity campaign monitor

irishtimes.com (03.06.2017) Reports made to the Department of Social Protection have increased by 66 per cent in the aftermath of the recently launched ‘Welfare Cheats Us All’ publicity campaign.

Error, evasion and fraud ireland
France: Les plateformes collaboratives, l’emploi et la protection sociale monitor

igas.gouv.fr (Mai 2017) Ce rapport est une première tentative, à l’initiative de l’IGAS, pour décrire et analyser, en France, l’impact des plateformes collaboratives (comme Uber, Airbnb, Blablacar ou LeBonCoin) sur le marché du travail, la sécurité sociale, l’assurance chômage….

digital platforms Employment, Technological transition, Social policies & programmes france
El drama del desempleo agobia a los argentinos monitor

El Tiempo (14.06.2017) La exclusión y el desempleo son las caras más visibles de la crisis argentina bajo el gobierno de Mauricio Macri. La primera se palpa ya en la orgullosa Buenos Aires, donde hay cada vez más personas viviendo en situación de calle, no solo individuos expulsados del sistema y en desgracia por adicciones.

poverty Unemployment argentina
Big Data’s Impact on Social Services ruggia

Big Data’s Impact on Social Services
By Lindsey Getz
Social Work Today
Vol. 14 No. 2 P. 28

The amount of data being produced and used on a daily basis has exploded, and that increasing volume has required new solutions for processing and managing it. Nicknamed “Big Data,” the generation of all this information and how to analyze it have implications that affect the social work profession.

 

big data Information and communication technology, Data management, Service quality United States
Poor punished by onerous car emissions standards ruggia

Think-tank says discouraging petrol and diesel vehicles risks creating divisions.

The rush by global policymakers to discourage the use of petrol and diesel cars risks punishing the poorest in society.

Increasingly onerous emissions standards as well as the promotion of ride-sharing and electric cars risks benefiting the wealthy and those in big cities at the expense of the poor and those in rural areas, according to a new report.

gender_and_inequality, poverty Inequalities united kingdom
Lyft to launch self-driving test in new Uber challenge ruggia

Ride-hailing company partners with nuTonomy in latest battle with US rival

Ride-hailing company Lyft, Uber’s chief US rival, will begin its first pilot programme for self-driving taxis in Boston later this year in conjunction with nuTonomy, the autonomous car start-up.

The partnership will present a new competitive challenge to Uber, which recently fired its top self-driving engineer and is in the middle of a trade secrets lawsuit from Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet.

San Francisco-based Lyft has taken a very different approach to autonomous vehicles than Uber by partnering with other companies rather than trying to develop its own technology in-house.

digital platforms Employment United States
Productivity, Employment, and Inequality | MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy ruggia

What will the workforce of the future look like, and how can we accelerate the transformation of institutions, organizations, and human skills to keep up with the quickening pace of digital innovation? The IDE helps businesses understand how the digital economy will improve job creation and wage equality in the years to come. Our research also seeks to create a better method of measuring the health of an economy in the context of the digital age.

digital platforms, digital economy, published Employment, Information and communication technology, Inequalities United States
More than 26 million unemployed in Latin America and the Caribbean: the need for new engines of growth monitor

ILOblog (23.05.2017) In 2017, labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean are marked by a new increase in unemployment and worsening working conditions. As the year progresses, the indicators and forecasts confirm that the labour situation is becoming more worrisome. The latest forecasts already announce a weak economic recovery this year after last year’s contraction. This slow economic growth, of barely 1.1 per cent for Latin America and the Caribbean, will not be enough to change the negative trends in the world of work.

Unemployment latin america
Under U.S. Republican bill, 23 million would lose health coverage: watchdog monitor

Reuters (24.05.2017) A bill passed by U.S. House Republicans would cause 23 million people to lose healthcare coverage by 2026 while de-stabilizing health insurance markets in some states and making it hard for sick people to buy insurance, a budget watchdog agency said on Wednesday.

Health
Prévention des risques professionnels, un investissement gagnant ! monitor

Le Matin (05.05.2017) La valorisation du collaborateur passe d'abord par l'instauration de mesures préventives pour renforcer sa sécurité. Des mesures qui permettent, selon l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), non seulement aux pays et aux entreprises de réduire les coûts et d’orienter leurs pertes astronomiques vers des investissements productifs, mais aussi d’augmenter la productivité. Pour ce faire, un système d’information fiable permettant de décrire avec précision l’état actuel de la situation en matière de prévention des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles s’impose.

Occupational accidents and diseases morocco
Danish government drops plan for pension age increase monitor

IPE (23.05.2017) Denmark’s prime minister has definitively retreated from his plan to increase the state pension age by six months, after admitting he was unlikely to win broad political support for the move.

denmark
EC recommends higher retirement age for Poles monitor

Radio Poland (23.05.2017) The European Commission has said that Poland should take steps to increase the effective retirement age and encourage women and elderly people to participate in the workforce.

poland
China: Shanghai Revises Minimum Wage, Social Insurance Contribution Rates monitor

China Briefing News (12.05.2017) The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Human Resources & Social Security recently released its annual minimum wage adjustments for 2017, as well as the associated changes to employeeenefits.
The adjustments, which came into effect on April 1, affect minimum wages, medical insurance, social insurance, pensions, and other forms of employee compensation.

managing reforms china
France: Quelle réforme pour sauver notre système de santé ? monitor

Le Figaro (15.05.2017) L'Institut Montaigne lance son simulateur de l'Assurance maladie, qui permet aux internautes de mesurer l'impact des différentes réformes du système sur la dette de l'Assurance maladie.

managing reforms Health france
Mali : Biométrie et optimisation de l’AMO : ICP-Mali et CANAM pour un partenariat fécond monitor

maliactu.net (20.05.2017) Les échanges ont porté sur la nouvelle carte biométrique AMO qui a fait son entrée dans le système d’exploitation de la Canam.

biometric Health, Information and communication technology mali
UK: Reality Check: The fight over women's state pensions monitor

BBC News (29.05.2017) During the election campaign politicians have been keen to pledge support for women born in the 1950s who have been angered by raises in the age at which they qualify for a state pension.

family_gender_society Pensions, Inequalities united kingdom
Madagascar: Protection sociale – Mise en place d’un registre unique monitor

L'Express de Madagascar (19.05.2017) Un registre unique serait en voie de réalisation dans le cadre de la protection sociale à Madagascar. « Le registre unique des bénéficiaires doit être réalisé au plus tard au mois d’octobre de cette année. Ce registre permettra de faire le suivi des bénéficiaires et d’uniformiser tous les programmes d’activités sur la protection sociale à Madagascar », explique Hanta Baraka Charlotte, secrétaire générale au sein du ministère de la population, de la protection sociale et de la promotion de la femme (MPPSPF).

Governance and administration madagascar
All roads should lead to universal healthcare,’ says new WHO chief monitor

United Nations News Centre (24.05.2017) The newly-elected head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlined his priorities for journalists at the agency’s headquarters today in Geneva, where he stressed the need for Member States to provide healthcare for all and to implement international health regulations.

Argentina: Buscan acordar una ley de prevención de accidentes laborales monitor

clarin (23.05.2017) Hoy se inició el camino hacia la elaboración de una ley de Protección y Prevención laboral, que busca evitar los accidentes de trabajo. La norma que deberá cristalizarse en tres meses en un borrador definitivo que llegue al Congreso.

managing reforms Occupational accidents and diseases argentina
Deutschland: Arbeitsschutz - Mutterschutz für alle monitor

Zeit Online (12.05.2017) Nach 65 Jahren wird der Mutterschutz erstmals reformiert – und flexibler gestaltet. Auch Schülerinnen, Studentinnen und Praktikantinnen profitieren künftig davon.

Family benefits germany
Tchad: Le gouvernement veut instaurer une couverture sanitaire universelle monitor

alwihdainfo (30.05.2017) Le gouvernement réfléchi à un système de protection sociale au Tchad, qui permettrait de garantir une couverture de santé à des millions de tchadiens qui en sont dépourvus.

extending coverage Extension of coverage chad
Universal basic income: Budgeting for utopia monitor

ft.com (26.05.2017) Universal basic income is receiving ever wider attention. The OECD has now weighed in with a simple but extremely useful analysis of the feasibility of UBI in its member countries. The titular question of its policy brief is well posed: “Basic income as a policy option: can it add up?”

universal-basic-income Extension of coverage
Suisse: Après une année 2016 difficile, le 2e pilier reste sous forte pression monitor

Le Temps (09.05.2017) Le rapport annuel de la Commission fédérale de surveillance dresse un tableau alarmant aussi bien pour les institutions de prévoyance que pour les retraités

Financing switzerland
Vietnam: Social insurance contribution rate cut for employers monitor

VietNamNet (09.05.2017) The rate of compulsory social insurance contribution by the employer to the fund for occupational accidents and diseases will be reduced by half a percentage point from June 1, 2017