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| Suisse: Le PS veut alléger les primes de la classe moyenne | switzerland | Le Temps (27.02.2019) La gauche se bat pour limiter le fardeau des primes maladie à 10% du revenu disponible d’un ménage. Selon elle, il n’y a qu’à suivre le modèle du canton de Vaud |
Le PS a lancé ce mardi son initiative pour limiter la charge des primes maladie à 10% du revenu disponible, qui coûtera entre 3 et 4 milliards de francs par an. «Cet argent est disponible. La Confédération vient d’annoncer un bénéfice de 2,9 milliards de francs pour 2018. Ce n’est donc |
Financing | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/ps-veut-alleger-primes-classe-moyenne | dfabbri | |||
| Annotated Bibliography | Future of Work | Version 2.1 - February 2019 The following is an annotated bibliography of reports on the future of work, produced by the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC). The annotated reports are from a variety of sources, with an emphasis on Canadian studies. To ensure relevance, LMIC focuses… |
https://lmic-cimt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-02-LMIC-Annotated-Bibliogr… | pmassetti | |||||||
| España: El Gobierno renuncia a hacer cambios en pensiones por decreto y demora los ajustes de la reforma laboral | spain | El País (26.02.2019) Este viernes el Gobierno no tiene previsto aprobar decretos con cambios en la reforma laboral ni en el sistema de pensiones. Hoy estaba planeada una reunión con sindicatos y empresarios para abordar los cambios en el mercado de trabajo. Pero finalmente el encuentro se ha… |
Este viernes el Gobierno no tiene previsto aprobar decretos con cambios en la reforma laboral ni en el sistema de pensiones. Hoy estaba planeada una reunión con sindicatos y empresarios para abordar los cambios |
Pensions | managing reforms | Published_SS_Monitor | https://elpais.com/economia/2019/02/26/actualidad/1551181887_130043.html | dfabbri | ||
| France: Assurance chômage - le gouvernement veut réduire les allocations des cadres | france | La Tribune (26.02.2019) Pour faire des économies, le gouvernement envisagerait de réviser les règles des allocations chômage des cadres supérieurs, révèlent nos confrères des Echos ce lundi 25 février. Deux pistes seraient à l'étude : réduire d'un tiers le plafond des indemnités des cadres ou… |
Le gouvernement entend réviser les règles des allocations chômage des cadres supérieurs pour réaliser une part des économies de sa réforme de l'Unédic, révèlent nos confrères des Echos dans |
Unemployment | managing reforms | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/assurance-chomage-le-gouvernement-veut… | dfabbri | ||
| EU’s civil society consultative body votes in favour of EU-supported decent minimum income for all EU citizens in need | european union | Europa (25.02.2019) On 20 February, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted the opinion "For a European Framework directive on a Minimum Income" in which it asked the European Commission to introduce a binding EU framework establishing an adequate minimum income across Europe,… |
On 20 February, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted the opinion "For a European Framework directive on a Minimum Income |
Social assistance | basic income | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/press-releases/eus-civil-society-consu… | dfabbri | ||
| Oman:16,676 active firms covered by social insurance system | oman | menafn (24.02.2019) Statistics issued by the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) till the end of January 2019 showed an increase in the number of active establishments covered by the social insurance system to 16,676. This was reflected in increase in the number of active insureds… |
Statistics issued by the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) till the end of January 2019 showed an increase in the number of active establishments covered by the social insurance system to 16,676. This was reflected in increase in the number of active insureds working in the pri |
Published_SS_Monitor | https://menafn.com/1098163897/Oman-16676-active-firms-covered-by-social-insuran… | dfabbri | ||||
| Right fiscal reforms, policies can help meet social protection agenda in Asia and Pacific: ADB | Asia | FT Online (14.02.2019) Countries in Asia and the Pacific have a good chance of achieving the social protection agenda under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if the right fiscal reforms and policies are in place, says a new study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The report… |
Financing | Published_SS_Monitor | http://www.ft.lk/opinion/Right-fiscal-reforms--policies-can-help-meet-social-pr… | pmassetti | ||||
| Asia’s Fiscal Challenge: Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals | Asia | Asian Development Bank (October 2018) This book focuses on the analysis of fiscal requirements to achieve the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals. |
Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing—considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the Asian De |
Financing | https://www.adb.org/publications/asia-fiscal-challenge-social-protection-agenda | pmassetti | ||||
| German bill to tackle undeclared work and child benefit fraud | germany | EurActiv (21.02,2019) Some foreign workers in the German construction sector live in dreadful conditions, toiling away during the day for a few euros and then sleeping in a dump at night. Being given staff and powers should allow German customs officials to adopt a tougher line against… |
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has presented a bill for German customs to be given more employees and powers. EURACTIV Germany’s media partner Der Tagesspiegel |
Error, evasion and fraud | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/gegen-schwarzarbeit-und-kind… | dfabbri | |||
| Social Protection for Older Women | HelpAge (20.02.2019) While women's disadvantage in older age is mainly a result of discrimination throughout the life-course, the design of gender-sensitive pension systems is essential. Gender equality and women's empowerment are increasingly prominent themes on the international policy agenda… |
Gender equality and women's empowerment are increasingly prominent themes on the international policy agenda. The empowerment of women is essential for realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, agreed by all countries at the United Nations in 2015. Also at the forefront |
Pensions | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.helpage.org/blogs/florian-juergens-32033/social-protection-for-olde… | dfabbri | ||||
| Côte d'Ivoire: début de cotisation pour la Couverture maladie universelle le 1er avril | côte d'ivoire | afrique.latribune (10.02.2019) Le 1er avril prochain démarreront les cotisations pour la couverture maladie universelle en Côte d'Ivoire. Cette annonce vient confirmer les propos du ministre ivoirien de l'emploi, Pascal Abinan Kouakou, qui a annoncé le démarrage effectif de la Couverture maladie… |
Extension of coverage | universal health care | Published_SS_Monitor | https://afrique.latribune.fr/afrique-de-l-ouest/cote-d-ivoire/2019-02-10/cote-d… | dfabbri | |||
| Brazil pension reform to boost economic growth: chief of staff | brazil | Reuters (09.01.2019) The Brazilian government’s proposed social security reform will introduce individual contributions into private funds to ensure the pensions of future generations and help boost growth, Presidential Chief-of-Staff Onyx Lorenzoni said on Wednesday. |
Pensions | Proposition_SS_Monitor | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics/brazil-pension-reform-to-boo… | pmassetti | ||||
| Germany needs a quarter of a million migrant workers a year | germany | EurActiv (20.02.2019) Germany is dependent on migrant workers but a decreasing number of them will be EU citizens in the future. In the long term, about 146,000 immigrants from outside of the EU will have to be integrated into the German labour market every year, according to a recent study.… |
Germany is dependent on migrant workers but a decreasing number of them will be EU citizens in the future. In the long term, about 146,000 immigrants from outside of the EU will have to be integrated into the German labour market every year, according to a recent study. EURACTIV Germany reports. |
Employment | labour markets | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/germany-needs-a-quarter-of-a… | dfabbri | ||
| Schweiz: Prämienverbilligung: Gesundheitskommission fordert Systemwechsel | switzerland | NZZ (07.02.2019) Der Kantonsrat will Ungerechtigkeiten bei der Prämienverbilligung ausmerzen –darüber sind sich die Parteien einig. Das ursprünglich geplante Sparvorhaben ist zudem vom Tisch, zur Debatte steht vielmehr, ob der Kanton noch mehr Geld ausschütten soll. |
Auf den Sorgenbarometern ist das Thema jeweils zuverlässig zuoberst auf der Liste: die steigenden Krankenkassenprämien. Entsprechend intensiv setzen sich denn auch die Zürcher Kantonsräte damit auseinander. Über der Revision des Krankenversicherungsgesetzes hat die vorberatende Kommission gut 2 J |
Financing | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/praemienverbilligung-gesundheitskommission-fordert-s… | dfabbri | |||
| Long-term Care - OECD | The OECD Health Division has an ongoing programme of work to support countries in developing long-term care systems that can meet the needs of their populations now and in the future. Key issues in long-term care policy As people get older, it becomes more likely that they will… |
Health promotion, Long-term care | http://www.oecd.org/health/long-term-care.htm | rruggia | ||||||
| Affordable Daycare and Working Moms: the Quebec Model | canada | citylab.com (31.12.2018) With more than two decades behind it, the Quebec program that spawned an affordable child care model has some lessons for the rest of the world. |
Family benefits | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/affordable-daycare-subsidized-child-care… | pmassetti | ||||
| India: The road to social protection, beyond jobs | india | Hindustan Times (19.02.2019) The changing nature of work is upending traditional employment globally, and with it, social protection systems. Take for instance, insurance, made possible through mandatory contribution and payroll taxes on formal wage employment. |
What do the flower seller on the corner of your street, the food app-based delivery man, the person tasked to pick up garbage from your home, and the growing army of professional freelancers, have in common? Two things: One, they are all unorganised or informal workers — a labour force which does |
Difficult-to-cover groups | brics, poverty | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-road-to-social-protection-beyond-… | dfabbri | ||
| BM: Paraguay está entre los países con mayor nivel de empleo informal | paraguay | ultimahora (19.02.2019) Con un índice del 71%, se lidera el ránking entre economías emergentes de ingreso mediano alto. La falta de protección social para trabajadores se mantiene entre las principales preocupaciones. |
Paraguay se ubica este año entre los países con el mayor nivel de empleo informal entre las economías de ingreso mediano alto, al presentar una tasa del 71% en este indicador. Esto revela el |
Difficult-to-cover groups | labour markets, poverty | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.ultimahora.com/bm-paraguay-esta-los-paises-mayor-nivel-empleo-infor… | dfabbri | ||
| Conference on VISION ZERO inaugurated for promoting safety and health at work | india | devdiscourse (18.02.2019) The concept of ‘Vision Zero’ is fast gaining international acceptance and is expected to leverage the efforts of the Government of India to raise the occupational safety and health standards in the country so as to improve the occupational safety and health situation.… |
Shri Heeralal Samariya, Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment inaugurated the three days Conference on the VISION ZERO and its relevance to Occupational Safety and |
Prevention of occupational risks | OSH | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/health/386379-conference-on-vision-zero-in… | dfabbri | ||
| France: Le chômage en légère baisse depuis l’arrivée de Macron à l’Elysée | france | Le Monde (18.02.2019) Le chômage poursuit sa décrue. Selon le dernier bilan de l’Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee), le niveau de l’emploi a retrouvé son niveau de 2009. Au dernier trimestre 2018, 8,8 % de la population active française était sans emploi,… |
Le chômage poursuit sa décrue. Selon le dernier bilan de l’Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee), le niveau de l’emploi a retrouvé son niveau de 2009. Au dernier trimestre 2018, |
Unemployment | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2019/02/14/le-chomage-en-legere-ba… | dfabbri | |||
| Pakistan: Govt working to address poverty, Lodhi tells UN | pakistan | Gulf Times (18.02.2019) Pakistan has told the United Nations that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is pursuing a number of people-centric policies designed to eliminate poverty by boosting sustainable economic growth of the country. |
Pakistan has told the United Nations that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is pursuing a number of people-centric policies designed to eliminate poverty by boosting sustainable economic growth of the country. |
Conditional cash transfers | poverty | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.gulf-times.com/story/622538/Govt-working-to-address-poverty-Lodhi-t… | dfabbri | ||
| OIT: Sistema de pensiones debe incluir a informales | La Republica (15.02.2019) Previsional. En informe se invita a garantizar una protección social universal. Además, sugiere que los gobiernos pueden "ampliar margen fiscal" para atender este problema. Según cifras de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (… |
Según cifras de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), hoy existen 2.000 millones de personas en el mundo que trabajan en la informalidad. Obtienen ingresos para garantizar su vida en el presente; pero estarán desprotegidas e |
Employment | Published_SS_Monitor | https://larepublica.pe/economia/1413655-oit-sistema-pensiones-debe-incluir-info… | dfabbri | ||||
| France: Santé - Quand les déserts médicaux innovent | france | Alternatives Economiques (14.02.2019 Les déserts médicaux sont au programme du projet de loi sur la santé. En attendant, les initiatives se multiplient pour pallier le manque de professionnels de santé dont souffrent certains territoires. Et préfigurent pour beaucoup la médecine de… |
Health promotion, Medical care, Human resource management, Extension of coverage | extending coverage, service intermediaries , universal health coverage | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/deserts-medicaux-innovent/00087398?fbcl… | gfilhon | |||
| Rwanda Revisits Social Protection Scheme | rwanda | KT Press (15.02.2019) Rwanda has started a process to revise social protection scheme (ubudehe) after recurrent complaints of citizens who blame local government authorities for ‘being corrupt’ in classification of citizens according to their social economic means. |
wanda has started a process to revise social protection scheme (ubudehe) after recurrent complaints of citizens who blame local government authorities for ‘being corrupt’ in classification of citizens according to their social economic means. According to this classification which started |
managing reforms | Published_SS_Monitor | https://ktpress.rw/2019/02/rwanda-revisits-social-protection-scheme/ | dfabbri | |||
| [Report] ILO: World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2019: Poor working conditions are main global employment challenge | ILO (14.02.2019) Progress in reducing unemployment globally is not being matched by improvements in the quality of work, says the International Labour Organization’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2019 report. |
Poor quality employment is the main issue for global labour markets, with millions of people forced to accept inadequate working conditions, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO). |
Unemployment | poverty | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_670171/lang--en/ind… | dfabbri |