The requirement that all Cambodian employers register their enterprises and employees with the National Social Security Fund is one of a number of changes introduced in recent months as part of the implementation of the health care insurance scheme.

The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Tr

Une Suisse florissante, des prévisions de croissance plus souriantes encore, une création d’emplois soutenue, le tout dans un contexte international solide. Les dernières prévisions de la Banque nationale suisse, il y a une semaine, confirment que tout va bien pour les Suisses sur le plan économi

“Life has dramatically changed in Yemen since the conflict started,” said Naji Saeed, a day laborer in the Taiz governorate. The construction work that was the source of Saeed’s livelihood has all but ended as a result of the conflict. “I lost my job like millions of Yemenis and I don’t know what

igration is a complex global challenge. An estimated 258 million people currently reside outside their country of birth—a number that has almost tripled in the past 50 years. This has policy implications across myriad dimensions, ranging from border management to 

The United National Population Fund (UNFPA) has called on the Botswana government to prioritise economic reform and investment to urgently accelerate creation of jobs and improve livelihoods for the country’s youth, APA learnt here on Wednesday.In a report that was launched by incoming Deputy Pre

ASEAN member countries are planning to create occupational health guidelines for industries by risk factor, to provide preventive measure recommendations for workers' health in Laos and the region, local daily Vientiane Times reported on Wednesday.

Occupational health and safety is one of

OVER one million Irish people will see an increase in their social welfare benefits from next week.Several weekly payments wil

More than nine million people in China have been barred from buying plane tickets and another three million from buying business-class train tickets because of their poor "social credit" ratings, according to deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission. 

Under China

In February last year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration had renewed interest in the policy and that it was being reviewed by his Cabinet.

Holness said then that the aim was “to build a society where older people cont

El cambio climático, tantas veces relegado a un segundo plano en favor de debates de corto plazo y escaso recorrido, es el gran reto económico y social del siglo XXI. Es una amenaza existencial, como alerta la directora general del

Lors d’une réunion avec les huit organisations syndicales et patronales représentatives, le directeur de cabinet de la ministre du travail a présenté, lundi 19 mars, les principaux points de la réforme de l’assurance-chômage.

Une nouvelle échelle de sanctions. Selon

Comment travaillera-t-on dans vingt ans? Ou plutôt, travaillera-t-on encore d’ici à deux décennies? Les robots se montrent toujours plus efficaces, accomplissent des tâches toujours plus compliquées et, de façon encore plus cruciale, deviennent capables d’apprendre et de développer leurs compéten

The ILO has launched a new web application  to highlight its achievements in promoting decent work in 2016-2017.

The app points to significant decent work results in 130 countries. With a few simple clicks, users can access detai

The premise of occupational safety and health – my field of specialization — is that work should do no harm to health and in the best of worlds, should support it. But discerning whether technology and new forms of work are doing harm or doing good can often be tricky.

Let me give a

IoT’s potential for improving social protection

IoT technology can provide benefits for both government agencies and the people they serve. The public sector can use IoT to gather and process data with the goal of running its agencies better and improving services. IoT technology p

Canada is at its best and all of society benefits when everyone is included,” said the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities. “By bringing together academics, professionals and disability stakeholders from all over the world to share the

“Right now measuring poverty is hard, time consuming, and expensive,” the World Bank states. “By building better models, we can run surveys with fewer, more targeted questions that rapidly and chea

Mónica Titze y Augusto Iglesias, parte de la campaña presidencial de Sebastián Piñera, están encargados de elaborar el documento.

Diario Financiero

A pesar de que no fue parte de uno de los cinco grandes acuerdos a los que convocó el presidente Sebastián Piñera en su discurso del

Against a backdrop of ageing societies and the associated increase in long-term conditions such as dementia, long-term care is growing in importance in all European countries. Socio-demographic changes, including family formation patterns, the geographical location of family members and changes i

Le président de la Mutualité française, Thierry Beaudet, a défendu samedi l'idée d'une assurance obligatoire pour la prise en charge de la dépendance, qui serait incluse dans les complémentaires santé "à partir d'un âge à définir".

"Aujourd'hui la complémentaire santé s'est généralisée, p

Prior to the spread of neoliberal policies in the 1980s, the standard arrangement in most of the MENA region was for the state to provide stable employment and extensive social welfare in exchange for acquiescence in the political arena. Although it stifled political dissent and participation, th

We look at some of the people who have been most affected by the introduction of Aadhaar, an identity system that is as large and diverse as India itself. It’s so vast in scope and ambition that, inevitably, there have been cracks that people have fallen through.

When you’re

In 2005, the Government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), promising to re-imagine primary healthcare and address the under-served needs of rural areas. The thrust of the mission was to establish a fully functional, community owned, decentralised health delivery system wi

Less well known is the looming $400 trillion retirement crisis highlighted in the Forum’s 2017 paper, We’ll live to 100 – how can we afford it?. This post explores the intersection of these two issues an