Ireland:Two weeks of paid paternity leave to be made law
IrishTimes(26.01.2016)The Government will today agree to legislate to allow for fathers to take two weeks’ paid paternal leave.
IrishTimes(26.01.2016)The Government will today agree to legislate to allow for fathers to take two weeks’ paid paternal leave.
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MaltaToday (26.01.2016) A study into Europe’s healthcare systems has ranked Malta in the 23rd place, up four places over 2014.
Irish Examiner (26.01.2016) The Department of Social Protection expects to have saved close to €500m through fraud control measures last year, while almost 600 people are before the courts on charges related to suspected welfare fraud.
Reuters (26.01.2016) An extended period of low interest rates will create significant challenges to the resilience of EU defined benefit occupational pensions, the EU's insurance and pensions watchdog EIOPA said on Tuesday.
includeplatform.net (26.01.2016) Applying a gender lens to social protection policies is necessary to reduce inequality between men and women and make development more inclusive. This is the main message from a new paper by Julie Newton for INCLUDE, ‘Making Social Protection Gender Sensitive for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’.
The Department of Social Security (DSS) in Malta falls under the responsibility of the Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity (MFSS). The DSS has continuously strived to find new ways to simplify and streamline its operations to offer a better service level to its customers. The payment of means-tested Children’s Allowance (CA) and Supplementary Allowance (SPA) were two processes identified during 2015 as processes requiring simplification. The processes supporting both non-contributory benefits were inefficient and time consuming for the department as well as beneficiaries.
Over 270 million occupational accidents happen each year. These cause high costs and losses in work time. An active therapy management approach is therefore important The Weller system offers a comprehensive model for accident insurer case handlers. The Weller guide contains 170 principal diagnoses with over 450 diagnosis templates ordered by degree of seriousness. ? There are standard prognoses for the length of time a person will be unable to work for each injury type This takes account of the type of activity.
The web page "Safety and Work" (www.safety-work.org) - developed as part of the working programme for small and medium-sized enterprises of the ISSA’s Special Commission on Prevention - is currently operated and maintained by 21 international partners from seven different countries under the auspices of the BGN. It has been online since 2011 and is available in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. The partners involved are from non-commercial organisations such as, for example, statutory insurers, employer and employee organisations and welfare organisations.
The Social Security Institution (ZUS) employs certifying physicians (1st instance) and physicians who are members of medical committees (2nd instance) who issue certificates stating incapacity for work in order to determine the right to social security benefits and who control the correctness of issued medical certifications of work incapacity. These physicians specialize in different fields of medicine as Poland has no specialization in medical certification and all postgraduate courses have no single curriculum.
Vie-publique (25.01.2016) Le rapport 2015 de l’Inspection générale des affaires sociales (Igas), remis en janvier 2016 au président de la République, au Parlement et au gouvernement, a pour thème la protection sociale des 11 millions de jeunes de 16 à 29 ans.
La Tribune de Genève (25.01.2016) Ces médicaments restent près de deux fois plus chers en Suisse qu’à l’étranger. Alain Berset veut agir.
Le Monde (20.01.2016) Lors de ses vœux « aux acteurs de l’entreprise et de l’emploi », lundi 18 janvier, au Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CESE), François Hollande a joué une nouvelle carte contre le chômage. Le président a présenté un plan massif de nouvelles formations pour 500 000 demandeurs d’emploi.
The economic benefit of rehabilitation was examined in a study. Improvements in fitness for work two years after an accident revealed an average net benefit of CHF 534,000 per case and an average cost-benefit ratio of 1:15.5. This means that one franc of rehabilitation costs yields 15.5 francs in pension benefit savings The effects of occupational rehabilitation measures was all the greater the earlier these were carried out. They were also greater in SUVA clinics than in non-SUVA clinics.
EurActiv (22.01.2016) ETUI Senior Researcher Aida Ponce talks to ETUC Confederal Secretary Esther Lynch about the priorities and gender challenges that employees face at their workplace.
Thanh Nien Daily (21.01.2016) New data released by health officials in Ho Chi Minh City this week have once again laid bare the problem of poor working conditions in Vietnam and how they are debilitating the workforce.
Medical Daily (21.01.2016) The issue of universal health care has loomed over the U.S. for years. But with rising health care costs, the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as Obamacare ), and an increasingly tense presidential race, the debate is becoming inescapable. Despite the country’s ever-divided political stance, the fact is the U.S. is one of the only developed nations without a universal health care system. And while most of the population believes this is because health care is primarily privately funded, they’re wrong.
The project “Classes with ZUS” is addressed to secondary schools. It aims to raise awareness of young Poles on the role of social security in their lives.
The project presents: social solidarity principles, practical knowledge on the functioning of the system, obligations of employers towards ZUS, employer-friendly solutions - e-ZUS.
The project includes 4 lessons with the materials for teachers and for students (multimedia presentations, videos, exercises and texts to deepen the knowledge):
The Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) is by law obliged to prepare forecasts of the spending and revenues of the Social Insurance Fund (FUS) (i.e. the pension fund, the disability fund, the sickness fund and the work injury fund). A cohort model built to fulfil this requirement was sufficient to forecast aggregate spending and revenues, but, being based on average cohort values, it does not provide information on the benefits’ structure.
Le Monde (22.01.2016) Le conflit qui oppose depuis des mois une partie des médecins libéraux à la ministre de la santé, Marisol Touraine, pourrait bien se solder par un match nul. Saisi par les parlementaires d’opposition, le Conseil constitutionnel a invalidé, jeudi 21 janvier, une partie du dispositif du tiers payant généralisé, la mesure phare du projet de loi de santé qui prévoyait, d’ici à fin 2017, une dispense d’avance de frais intégrale pour les consultations chez un médecin généraliste ou un spécialiste.
latribune.fr (19.01.2016) "Ubérisation", économie "collaborative"... comment gérer la protection sociale demain ? Par François Charpentier
El País /07.01.2016) La pregunta no es si la cobertura médica universal es valiosa, eso ya lo sabemos, sino cómo convertirla en realidad
The Guardian (21.01.2016) Britain’s spending on its health service is falling by international standards and, by 2020, will be £43bn less a year than the average spent by its European neighbours, according to research by the King’s Fund.
Europa/News (14.01.2016) Across the EU, the number of older people is increasing – particularly fast, when it comes to people over 80 – and the number of young and working-age people is decreasing. Many regard this as a problem, particularly if they see older people as a burden.