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
Topics
Occupational accidents and diseases

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Suisse: Uber doit aussi payer les cotisations sociales, selon la Suva

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RTD (30.01.2017) La firme Uber est un employeur comme un autre qui ne peut se soustraire aux obligations patronales. Selon la Suva, la plate-forme en ligne doit ainsi payer les cotisations aux assurances sociales.

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switzerland
Topics
Occupational accidents and diseases
Extension of coverage

A Climate Resilient Approach to Social Protection

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Global Development Institute Blog (20.06.2017) Climate change is one of the biggest environmental and development challenges of the 21st century. But we will not all face this challenge in the same way, as the impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed; people that are marginalised in society are especially vulnerable to climate change because of intersecting social processes that create multidimensional inequalities.

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Social policies & programmes
Shocks & extreme events

Travailleurs détachés - que propose la France et pourquoi elle joue l’apaisement à Bruxelles

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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.

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france
european union
Topics
Employment
Migration

[Report] Shame, Poverty and Social Protection

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Institute of Development Studies (06.06.2017) Despite long-standing conceptual considerations of shame in understanding poverty and debates about its moral, social and emotional qualities, the role of shame in poverty reduction policies remains largely unexplored. Notions of shame or mechanisms leading to shame – such as stigma or lack of dignity or respect – feature in many studies and policy evaluations, yet few studies have considered the interaction between shame, poverty and policy as its core

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.

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ireland
Topics
Error, evasion and fraud
Governance and administration

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