Le Monde (15.06.2017) Les ministres européens des affaires sociales sont réunis jeudi à Luxembourg. Le gouvernement français espère parvenir à un accord sur cet épineux dossier à l’automne.
Forbes (26.01.2016) There are 53 million freelancers in America today. By 2020, 50% of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers (this does not mean they are all full-time freelancers, but one of every two workers will be freelancers in some capacity). This on-demand work, instant gig economy is moving more and more into independent professionals that are using mobile and technology to create ecosystems of work they enjoy. Who says you can’t drive an Uber in the morning, design websites all afternoon, and cater your own food company at night?
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.
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….
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.
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.
The Freelancers Union “53 million” report contains data results of the most comprehensive survey of the U.S. independent workforce in nearly a decade. Here are a few of the main stats from the report:
lemonde.fr (09.05.2017) La dernière évaluation prospective du cabinet McKinsey sur l’impact du numérique sur le marché du travail est relativement optimiste pour la France.
El País (15.05.2017) La idea de asegurar a toda la población un ingreso suficiente para cubrir las necesidades del día a día emerge como alternativa a unas políticas públicas ineficaces contra la pobreza
