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Driving toward security: How Singapore’s Platform Workers Act empowers platform workers to plan their financial future

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ntuc.org.sg (06.06.2025) A young Grab driver preparing for marriage experiences how Singapore’s groundbreaking Platform Workers Act is transforming financial security for thousands of platform workers through CPF contributions, work injury protection, and formal representation.
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singapore
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Platform workers
Digital plateform workers
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Jobs in MENA: How transforming pension systems can boost inclusion, equity, and prosperity

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worldbank.org (29.05.2025) Pension systems globally have faced challenges in fulfilling their commitment to providing adequate financial security for individuals in their old age. In developing countries, pension coverage is often low, and benefits frequently fall below the poverty line. The design of the pensions systems, among other factors, tend to exacerbate informality, with only a fraction of formal workers receiving pensions. The low coverage and the little redistribution leads low wage workers to end up subsidizing high wage workers.
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arabic countries
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Pensions
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Work injury compensation for Platform Workers: Complete guide to Singapore’s new protection system

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ntuc.org.sg (30.05.2025) Platform workers in Singapore now receive mandatory work injury compensation coverage under the Platform Workers Act 2024 – here’s all you need to know about the new protections.
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Platform workers
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Au Danemark, l’âge de la retraite passera à 70 ans en 2040

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lemonde.fr (22.05.2025) Le Parlement danois a adopté, jeudi, une loi relevant l’âge légal de départ à la retraite, aujourd’hui à 67 ans. Depuis la réforme de 2006, celui-ci est indexé sur l’espérance de vie et révisé tous les cinq ans.
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Pensions
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Ghana : SSNIT bets on mobile money to drive accessibility

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The Social Security and National Insurance Trust is betting on the widely used mobile money to improve pension accessibility and convenience, as it deepens its digital transformation strategy to reach a broader base of contributors. With mobile money transaction volumes and values surging to record highs in 2024, SSNIT is integrating mobile money platforms into its service delivery model.
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ghana
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E-services
Service delivery

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US: Morningstar study on long-term care costs gets pushback from think tank

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investmentnews.com (21.05.2025) A new Morningstar report warns that long-term care expenses could dramatically undermine the financial readiness of American retirees.But the study expert, who argues the analysis exaggerates households' actual exposure to those costs. "The Overlooked Cost: How Long-Term Services and Supports Impacts Retirement-Income Adequacy" Morningstar researchers Spencer Look and Jack VanDerhei used a proprietary model to simulate the retirement outcomes of American households under two conditions: one that includes long-term services and supports, or LTSS, and another that
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United States
Global challenges
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Long-term care
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In Rapidly Aging South Korea, the Economy Is Slow in Creating “Age-Friendly” Jobs

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stanford.edu (19.05.2025) Despite the nation’s rapidly aging demographics, South Korea's economy has not adapted as well as the United States, a new study finds. The researchers, including Stanford health economist and director of the Asia Health Policy Program at APARC Karen Eggleston, show that age-friendly jobs attract a broad range of workers and that structural barriers in the labor market influence which groups can access these roles.
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korea, Republic of
Global challenges
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Old-age pensions
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Le Maroc sous le choc après le piratage de la Sécurité sociale : « Bienvenue en enfer où tout le monde sait combien gagne son voisin ! »

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lemonde-fr (14.04,2025) Dès 2020, un journal local avait rapporté l’existence d’une « inquiétante faille de sécurité » au sein de la CNSS, dont les dispositifs de protection n’ont pas su empêcher le vol et la diffusion, le 8 avril, des attestations de salaire d’environ 2 millions d’affiliés.
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morocco
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Information and communication technology
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