Emerging-Europe (19.05.2018) The labour market is tightening, meaning that attracting the right talent will become an increasingly important issue for businesses. Many factors are affecting the demand for jobs and skills, such as the digital revolution, globalisation and demographic changes (including high migration flows). Besides, the financial and economic crisis crushed the Lisbon Strategy’s willingness to increase the EU’s employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010.
The Times of Central Asia (19.05.2018) There are about 100 thousand Kyrgyz labor migrants in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan’s State Migration Service says. Some of them work legally in the regions closer to Kyrgyzstan — the South-Kazakhstan, Karaganda and Almaty oblasts and Almaty city.
.journaldunet (30.04.2018) La journée de solidarité est une journée de travail supplémentaire non rémunérée pour les salariés et une contribution financière pour les employeurs en faveur des personnes âgées ou handicapées. Initialement fixée au lundi de Pentecôte, la journée de solidarité peut désormais être déterminée par les entreprises elles-mêmes selon différentes modalités.
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WHO/Europe (May 2018) What are “public health services”? Countries across Europe understand what they are, or what they should include, differently. This study describes the experiences of nine countries, detailing the ways they have opted to organize and finance public health services and train and employ their public health workforce.
francetvinfo.fr (09.05.2018) Le gouvernement prévoit de rationaliser les prestations sociales, de modifier leur mode de calcul, de surveiller leur cumul, quitte à verser une allocation unique.
ILO (11.05.2018) Maternity Protection is a fundamental right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is defined in ILO international labour standards. Listen to why maternity protection is everyone’s business
ReliefWeb (02.95.2018) The report has been prepared as commissioned by the Government of Madagascar (Ministry of Population, Social protection and Women’s Promotion and the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management) in coordination with the members of the emergency cash group and with UNICEF’s funding and technical support. The results of this report have been presented and discussed with the Government and the members of the emergency cash group.
OpenGovAsia (19 april 2018) This is part of the Ministry of Health's new Licensing Experimentation and Adaptation Programme which seeks to enable new and innovative healthcare models and services to be developed and refined in a safe and controlled environment.
MILE (08.05.2018) The First Meeting of the BRICS Labour and Employment Working Group (LEWG) took place in Mbombela, Mpumalanga Province from 7th-10th May 2018. Hosted by the Department of Labour and facilitated by the Municipal Insitutute of Learning (MILE), the theme for the Working Group Session was “BRICS in Africa: Developing Countries for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the New Industrial Revolution.
OECD (March 2018) Key facts about the risk of job automation in OECD countries
oecd.org (May 2018) Non-standard work is not a marginal phenomenon: one in six workers is self-employed across the OECD on average, and a further one in eight is on a temporary contract. The number of online platform workers, while still small overall, is growing rapidly.
Le Figaro (02.05.2018) La coalition gouvernementale des conservateurs et de l'extrême droite au pouvoir à Vienne a présenté mercredi une réforme diminuant les allocations familiales versées pour certains enfants vivant à l'étranger, qui touchera notamment la main d'oeuvre des pays de l'Est travaillant en Autrich
The National (15.05.2018() Safety and wellness should be at the top of the list of every executive and head of human resources when it comes to talent attraction, care and retention.
McKinsey & Company (April 2018) An analysis of more than 400 use cases across 19 industries and nine business functions highlights the broad use and significant economic potential of advanced AI techniques.
La DH (15.05.2018) Le transfert effectif des matières comme l'aide aux personnes âgées et aux personnes atteintes d'un handicap, les maisons de repos et de soins, les soins de première ligne, les allocations familiales, etc. au nouvel Organisme bruxellois d'Intérêt Public (OIP) Iriscare, est lancé.
ipe.com (May 2018) President Emmanuel Macron’s promised pension system reform is a work in progress
WirtschaftsWoche (03.05.2018) Wir haben eine Vorstellung davon, wie die Digitalisierung und neue Technologien Geschäftsmodelle verändern. Nun gilt es darüber nachzudenken, wie unsere Arbeitswelt aussehen wird und welche Rolle Menschen darin spielen.
El presente documento es un examen del panorama de la migración internacional en la subregión del Caribe, y es uno de los insumos que la CEPAL entrega como contribución al Pacto Mundial para una migración segura, ordenada y regular (PMM). Junto con una delimitación necesaria de la subregión, se abordan primero los aspectos destacados y tendencias de la migración internacional, con información sobre “stocks” y sobre algunos flujos.
En este documento e analizan las tendencias migratorias de América del Sur en el contexto de distintos factores determinantes y según diversas fuentes de información. Se establecen los grandes patrones migratorios y algunas de sus especificidades, teniendo presente los cambios en las dinámicas migratorias. Se destaca que en los países de esta subregión la protección de los derechos de los migrantes constituye un horizonte normativo que adquiere vigencia y centralidad en la agenda política así como en la institucionalidad migratoria.
Le Figaro (02.05.2018) La coalition gouvernementale des conservateurs et de l'extrême droite au pouvoir à Vienne a présenté mercredi une réforme diminuant les allocations familiales versées pour certains enfants vivant à l'étranger, qui touchera notamment la main d'oeuvre des pays de l'Est travaillant en Autriche.
OECD (June 2016) This paper was prepared as a contribution to the background report of Panel 4.1 “New Market and New Jobs” of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy, 21-23 June 2016, Cancún (Mexico). It provides new evidence on the development of online platform markets, discusses opportunities and challenges of new forms of work in platform service markets, developments of non-standard work in OECD countries, and policy issues related to new forms of work.
(Oct 2017) The biennial OECD Digital Economy Outlook examines and documents evolutions and emerging opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. It highlights how OECD countries and partner economies are taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet to meet their public policy objectives.
