USA: Le système de retraites américain menacerait de s'effondrer

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RFI (19.05.2017) Après la crise de subprimes immobilières, les Etats-Unis vont-ils connaitre une crise des retraites des fonctionnaires ? Les fonds de pension des collectivités locales états-uniens seraient sous financées de plusieurs milliers de milliards de dollars. Une situation explosive qui pourrait provoquer une nouvelle crise économique.

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Pensions
Financing

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Accidents du travail - une centaine de décès en Tchéquie en 2016

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Radio Prague (13.06.2017) Environ 40 000 employés ont été blessés et 104 personnes ont perdu la vie dans des accidents du travail en 2016. Une situation que décrit un article du journal en ligne Denik Referendum. Selon l’auteur de ce texte, le nouvel amendement au Code du travail, actuellement discuté par les parlementaires, pourrait permettre de mieux garantir la santé des travailleurs.

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czech republic
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Occupational accidents and diseases

Ireland: Department of Social Protection earns €300m by reviewing Dublin social welfare claims

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Dublin Live (11.06.2017) New figures show the Department of Social Protection netted billions investigating social welfare fraud when Ireland was in the midst of recovering from economic collapse.

Regions / Country
ireland
Topics
Error, evasion and fraud
Governance and administration

cipsocial.org | Home

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The Information Center on Social Protection (CIPS) is a website that provides information in Portuguese on the social protection area (www.cipsocial.org).

Its main purpose is to, on the one hand, respond to the knowledge needs of the Portuguese Speaking Countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tome and Principe, Timor-Leste. On the other hand, make available information on the existing social protection realities of these countries.

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angola
cabo verde
mozambique
brazil
portugal
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Employment
Extension of coverage
Family benefits
Pensions
Social assistance

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Universal basic income: Budgeting for utopia

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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?”

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Extension of coverage